I’d like to meet Stan Lee.
I want to hug Big Bird. Or any Muppet at this point, really.
Now, I did get to meet Carrol Spinney (Big Bird) last year and take a pic with him. I even started crying because I was just so damn happy.
But, it’s still different to meet A MUPPET. And to interact with one. Most Muppets you’re not going to run in to in public, unless they’re a walking version of themselves which is obviously not the same thing (when you’re older than 4). However, Big Bird is always a walking around Muppet and I suspect the version of Big Bird at Sesame Place is pretty much the same as Big Bird on TV. And he’s there, always, in the greater Philadelphia area, available for me to hug him at any time.
Alas, I never went to Sesame Place as a kid. And I begged my brother when he had kids for us to go there. No dice. I begged my friends. No dice. Nobody is in to Sesame Street anymore (and/or nobody wants to take their kids on a 8-hour car ride for me to meet Big Bird).
Now most of the kids I know are already past Sesame age. It’s going to be on me, as an adult, to just get my ass out there and do it. I actually talked to a guy about my age while I was waiting in line to meet Carroll Spinney and he said he goes to Sesame Place all the time as an adult and of course they let you in. It’s a-ok. But by this point I feel weird about it and was kind of weirded out by the guy I met.
But still…I’ve got to make it out to hug Big Bird some day.
I hear you - that’s what I mean, too - exposing yourself. Jacquernagy, I appreciate the vote of confidence. I wish I could describe what I mean that makes it more bucket-listy. I have sung in bands for 30+ years, so it’s not just getting up and singing - I have that down just fine. But I am the “guy character voice” for songs like Love Shack or Blister in the Sun. My voice is not great sounding, can be pitchy, etc. I have a TON of fun doing it - but, that’s not the same as belting our a true “vocalist’s song” and owning the audience. That’s what I am talking about.
I’ve had a hankering for a while to be amongst the crowd around 30 Rockefeller Plaza during the Today show. The rational part of me says that it’s probably pretty boring, and would involve hours of standing and doing nothing. But I’ll do it one day.
I want to see a live platypus. Doesn’t matter if it’s in the wild or in a zoo, it seems I’d have to go to Australia to do so. But they’re my favorite animals, and I would really love to see one that’s not on a video, or stuffed and mounted.
Also, to be in the audience (and potentially get called to “Come on down!”) for an episode of The Price is Right.
Almost the same for me, but I want to see a kangaroo. I feel like if went to Australia and did not see a kangaroo in the wild, the trip would be a failure. I am told it’s not that hard, fortunately.
I’d like to enter a bodybuilding contest.
I’ve been threatening to do this for years, and have never committed.
Maybe when I’m 60 (2 years from now), and I can do an “Ultra Masters.”
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Kangaroos, at least, are not hard to find in American zoos.
Oh, another one - I’d like to be a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade.
On any road leading out of the capital cities you will see more dead 'roos lying on the roadside. But yeah, they’re prolific as all buggery.
And I’ve lived in Aus all my life, and have never seen a platypus in the wild.
Odd, we were just talking about this yesterday. Mine are based on not having much time left.
If I don’t have a lot of time left I’d try drugs I’ve always been curious about: heroin, crack, ayahuasco, and so on. I wouldn’t have time left to get really addicted and if I died it wouldn’t be tragic.
I’d finance an amazing car and motorcycle and drive them in amazing ways.
I’d do a bunch of bungee-cord type daredevil stuff.
I’d free my 401k and brokerage and spread the wealth around stealthily ($1000 tips, new car for struggling neighbors, donation to cat and dog societies, endow generous scholarships and so on).
I would screw up an evil person who did very bad things to me and a lot of other people and got away with it. Things that would mess his life up for decades. (I’m not clear on how is do this, but with enough money could probably hire an expert in the field).
It doesn’t sound pointless but I really want to finish my pilots license and own a Sport Cruiser Light Sport Aircraft plus a few vintage planes. I got in 2 more hours of training last week in Texas and, at that rate, I could finish in about another decade or I could just go there again and finish in about a week of intensive training weather permitting. The problem is that there is no practical purpose to it for me and it is expensive as hell. That is what I have always wanted to do though so it has to happen.
Skydiving with my coworkers in Newport, RI is coming up in about a month and that is basically free in comparison. I also want to learn to scuba dive but I don’t think that would be that hard for me.
I have already done most everything else that I want to do. If I dropped dead tonight, it wouldn’t be a complete waste except I still want a large log cabin in the woods with a runway, fancy heirloom garden, a couple of goats and some big, lazy dogs plus some fancy show chickens.
Set foot in every country. I’ve been to about 100 - and have about 100 to go.
I want to chop down a tree with an axe.
Become a cam model; then you can do it in the shower in front of an audience. :o
Check out Ultrasignup.
:mad: :mad: :mad: The race I thought I was going to do this summer has been moved up; it’s in three weeks. Ain’t no way I’m in shape to even consider it. 
I’ve talked to a friend for years about being studio audience for SNL. You (at least used to) need to waste a lot of time on line to be able to get in, though.
Ride a motorcycle from Fort Kent, Maine to Key West, Florida, all along US 1, stem to stern, top to bottom.
We were in Australia a couple months ago and that was one of our major goals. The folks I was with saw one from the train. I was nodding off at the time and was the only one who missed it.
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Or a cartoon. Cartoon platypuses can be quite problematic:
Hmm, I can’t think of any really silly things on my bucket list; some big, some mundane, but nothing particularly silly.
You may know this already, but you’re going to have to narrow it down quite a bit. In Germany, both “beer” and “sausage” are practically their own food groups. Whatever town you end up in, just add “er” to the end of it and that should take care of the sausage part of the equation.
I want to take a long train ride, like the one across Canada. Then stay in those huge old hotels built for the train traveler a hundred years ago.