The List
I was inspired after hearing of a guy on Sunrise this morning - he compiled a list of 183 things to do before he turned 30. The one that got him on the TV was he caught a train to every station in Melbourne…
I like the idea…not necessarily the train thing, but the list. It sounds fun, so I have decided to start my own list: 129 things to do before I leave college (since I’ll be 29 at the time).
Leave your suggestions, and if i like it I’ll add it to the list!
first task: come up with 129 things to do!!!
| 1 | . Come up with 129 things to do |
| 2 | . Make an announcement at lunch |
| 3 | . Enter a ping-pong comp |
| 4 | . Do all the readings for a subject |
| 5 | . Hold Dave Miers’ hand walking from the caf to DBK |
| 6 | . No hot food for lunch for a month (ouch!) |
| 7 | . Try to disagree with the lecturer over one topic every lecture for a week (although i’m hesitant about this one…we’ll see if it stays!) |
| 8 | . Have a coffee at every cafe on King St |
| 9 | . Sit in every chair in DBK |
| 10 | . Sit next to John Woodhouse every day for a week at lunch |
| 11 | . Do walk up evangelism |
| 12 | . Drink/skull (for bonus points) a combo of every drink the espresso machines make at college |
| 13 | . Doorknock Mormons or JWs |
| 14 | . Attend an exam for a subject you are not taking |
| 15 | . Learn to recite the greek and hebrew alphabets backwards (quickly) |
| 16 | . Include a confrontation between ducks and gophers in an essay |
| 17 | . Create a greek font |
| 18 | . Surreptitiously place air freshners throughout classrooms, time how long before they start being removed |
| 19 | . Offer cigars around during a lecture |
| 20 | . Grow an orthodox priest style beard |
| 21 | . Begin a campus newsletter (which may include romanian), bonus points for upgrading to a zine |
| 22 | . Break all four limbs (or get them plastered) |
| 23 | . Be a part of a live studio audience |
| 24 | . Read a romance novel |
| 25 | . Spend new years eve doing something that is actually fun |
| 26 | . Travel to all stops on the Sydney ferries |
| 27 | . Engage a telephone solicitor in conversation for more than 10 minutes |
| 28 | . Attend a game of NRL |
| 29 | . Watch neighbours every day for a week (the TV show, not the neighbours…that’d just be creepy) |
| 30 | . Learn to juggle (at least 3 balls) |
| 31 | . Learn to surf |
| 32 | . Give blood |
| 33 | . Learn to ride a motorbike (+ get license??) |
| 34 | . Try Trappist beer |
| 35 | . Start a collection of “Choose your own adventure” books |
| 36 | . Shop at each local asian grocery with the word “happy” “lucky” or “OK” in the name. |
| 37 | . Drink and review teas from each of the four families of tea |
| 38 | . Attempt to compete on a tv show (wheel of fortune, ready steady cook etc) |
| 39 | . Make a model ship (bonus points for in a bottle) |
| 40 | . Be in the background of sunrise, bonus points for waving a sign saying marry me, Jodie |
| 41 | . Attend a Maroubra surf carnival |
| 42 | . Spend a night at redfern |
| 43 | . Check the letterbox, naked |
| 44 | . Eat a whole block of cheese during a lecture |
| 45 | . Write a fan letter to a celeb you don’t like |
| 46 | . Hold Geoffc’s hand all the way from MTC to newtown post office and back. |
| 47 | . Go to the home and away beach |
| 48 | . Stencil |
| 49 | . Attempt to cook chicken’s feet |
| 50 | . Compete in a pub trivia night |
| 51 | . Feature in a photo on sydneyanglicans.net |
| 52 | . Purchase the national dress of at least one minor european nation |
| 53 | . Wear aforementioned national dress while presenting something at college |
| 54 | . Challenge a world record |
| 55 | . Experimentally determine exactly why batteries should not be disposed of in fire |
| 56 | . Eat vegemite on three continents |
| 57 | . Build an 11 or 13 hour clock, and mount it in a public place |
| 58 | . Write a pamphlet on poetry |
| 59 | . Complete a Star Wars marathon (all 6 films) |
| 60 | . Visit at least 4 countries in a single day |
| 61 | . watch the Central Coast Mariners play Adelaide United on the Central Coast |
| 62 | . During a sermon by John Woodhouse or Barry Webb at Friday chapel yell out with exclamation: “Preach it brother, 100%!” |
| 63 | . Wear the same clothes every day to college for 2-weeks. |
| 64 | . Order CD collection into alphabetical order |
| 65 | . Audition for ‘So you think you can dance Or Australian Idol’ |
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June 18th, 2008 at 5:54 am
- Make an announcement at lunch
- Enter a ping pong competition
- Do all the readings for a subject (as if!)
- Hold Dave Miers hand walking from the cafeteria to DBK
- No hot food for a month at lunch
- try to disagree with the lecturer over one topic in every lecture for a week,and point it out to him during the lecture in front of everybody
- Have a coffee at every cafe on King St by the end of 4 years
- Make sure you’ve sat in every chair at DBK by the end of your 4 years
- Sit next to John woodhouse every day for a week at lunch
- do the walk up evangelism thing
I can’t think of much else, and I should be studying.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Hmm, not feeling particularly creative at the moment: brain is only coming up with ‘Outline a B.T of challenges…’
Here’s one though:
Drink, (or even scull) a concoction of every drink the dodgy espresso machines make. You might need a big mug…
June 18th, 2008 at 10:37 am
thanks boys…
@geoff… genius.
@sam… disgusting. but i’ll think about it. just the thought makes me feel dirty though!
keep em coming people
June 19th, 2008 at 4:50 am
A few ideas, take ‘em or leave ‘em:
- Find some Mormons/JWs and do doorknock evangelism
- Attend an exam for a subject you are not taking
- Learn to recite the greek and hebrew alphabets backwards (quickly)
- Write and submit an essay where confrontations between ducks and gophers are used as an illustration
- create your own greek font
- Surrepticiously place numerous air fresheners throughout classrooms, time how long it is until someone notices
- offer cigars around during a lecture
- place Lyndon Larouche literature in various places around the college
- grow an orthodox priest style beard
- begin a campus newsletter
- break all four limbs (or at least have each plastered)
more will come as they come to me…
June 19th, 2008 at 7:41 am
ahh, sam… I knew i could count on you for such zany ideas!
I like the plastered limbs. i imagine that would be quite inconvenient!!
June 20th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Even better would be if the campus newsletter was in romanian
June 21st, 2008 at 7:14 am
Well I’ve committed (most) suggestions so far and some of my own. It’s harder than I thought it would be!!
More additions soon.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 am
Don’t know why I’m just thinking of food…
- Buy a late night meal at the last kitchen to close on King St
- Create a list of all local Asian supermarkets with a word like ‘Happy’, ‘Lucky’ or ‘OK’ in the name, then shop around for groceries.
- Drink from each of the four/five families of tea (black, green, oolong, white) and review the flavours on your blog (see http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/ingred/tea/index.shtml )
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:47 am
don’t go too crazy, arthur.
my suggestions:
- Attempt to go on Wheel of Fortune (my cousin did it a few years ago). I know Jody is in the process of trying to get you on Ready Steady Cook.
- Attempt to get on Bondi Rescue
- Make a model ship
- Make a model ship in a bottle
- Write a college zine (much cooler than a newsletter!).
- Be in the background on Sunrise on Martin Place, with a huge sign saying “Marry Me, Jody”.
- Meet Larry Emdur, offer him a cigar
- Go to a Maroubra surf carnival
- Spend a night in Redfern
- Check the letterbox, naked.
- Eat a whole block of cheese during a lecture
- Write a fan letter to a celebrity you don’t like.
- Find a celebrity and follow them home.
- Go to the All Saints Hospital
- Go to the Home & Away beach.
- Become much more metrosexual and convince Jody you should worship lead because of it
- Give petrol vouchers in the offering
- Do some stencil graffiti
- Attempt to cook chicken feet/bring in to college for lunch/class
- Fail an exam because you attempt to answer all the essay questions when you only need to answer 2
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 am
“- Spend a night in Redfern”
Feel free to stay at our place, you can come to youth as well, check it out.
1 more idea, a bit more positive. you should offer to babysit a few times (as many couples as possible) so that a couple can go get a coffee and have some childfree time.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Thanks people! keep ‘em coming.
@Arthur - I have to admit ignorance that there were 5 families of tea!!
@Marty - gold. (i know you meant a few in jest, but i decided that the world is not ready for them just yet. consider yourself edited, young man!)
@Geoff - thanks for the generous offer! actually i’d love to check out your youth sometime…perhaps I’ll be in touch.
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
hah! I meant cigarettes…
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 am
hold geoffc’s hand all the way from MTC to newtown post office and back…
August 6th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Some more ideas:
- Purchase the national dress of at least one minor european nation
- Wear aforementioned national dress while presenting something at college
- Obtain every episode of a 1960’s comedy series on DVD, then tell everyone about it relentlessly for a week, after which you should never mention it again.
- Challenge a world record
- Set yourself up as an import/export merchant
- Build a cinema room in your house/shed/backyard
- Experimentally determine exactly why batteries should not be disposed of in fire
- Wear a large overcoat to college in the height of summer, and whenever asked about it, glare at people and tell them you are cold, and why are they trying to stop you getting warm?
- Reverse the above, but in Winter, and by wearing short shorts
- Eat vegemite on three continents
- Visit at least 4 countries in a single day
- Build an 11 or 13 hour clock, and mount it in a public place
- Write a pamphlet of poetry
- Complete a Star Wars marathon (all 6 films)
- Mount an atari/nes in a playstation 3/xbox 360 case, then use it.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Thanks Samo, you crazy box of list idea goodness. I added about every second one - and you jogged my memory. i gotta get onto completing some of these!!
short shorts didn’t make it for the sake of others…!
btw, your surname was part of the vocab for hebrew test last week. =priest. I think you might have told me that before. anyway there you go.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:15 am
was #14 inspired by me in hebrew?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:24 am
It’s in honour of you dougie
…but Sam Cohen’s idea originally
September 1st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
come to watch the Central Coast Mariners play Adelaide United on the Central Coast.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
sensational idea dave. there is still so much that I want to see on the central coast…including seeing United beat the mariners.
added. 61. we’re getting there!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Nice work Adrian!
Try this one for the list:
During a sermon by John Woodhouse or Barry Webb at Friday chapel yell out with exclamation: “Preach it brother, 100%!”
jacko
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I think you should also …
Wear the same clothes every day to college for 2-weeks.
Jacko
October 8th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Audition for ‘So you think you can dance Or Australian Idol’… I told you I’d submit it!
October 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Thanks a lot lex!
…fine i’ll add it. not feelin good about it though
November 11th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
maybe you should do 10 and 62 the same week… that way you can prep JWW for it over lunch…
November 11th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
yeah…hey are we allowed to sit at the special table or what? is that a 4th year only thing?
Looking forward to crossing some of these suckers off in the holidays. I’ve got not just a romance novel, but a *christian* romance novel (thanks lex!) sitting on my bed-side table which i’m just rearing to get into
November 13th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Pass a subject without studying for the exam