51 Responses to “The List”

1. geoffc Says:
   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.

2. SamR Says:
   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…

3. reuben Says:
   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

4. SamCohen Says:
   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…

5. reuben Says:
   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!!

6. SamCohen Says:
   June 20th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

   Even better would be if the campus newsletter was in romanian

7. reuben Says:
   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.

8. Arthur Says:
   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 )

9. marty Says:
   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

10. geoffc Says:
    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.

11. reuben Says:
    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.

12. marty Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    hah! I meant cigarettes…

13. Dave Miers Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 am

    hold geoffc’s hand all the way from MTC to newtown post office and back…

14. SamCohen Says:
    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.

15. reuben Says:
    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.

16. psychodougie Says:
    August 15th, 2008 at 1:15 am

    was #14 inspired by me in hebrew?

17. reuben Says:
    August 15th, 2008 at 1:24 am

    It’s in honour of you dougie …but Sam Cohen’s idea originally

18. Dave Miers Says:
    September 1st, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    come to watch the Central Coast Mariners play Adelaide United on the Central Coast.

19. reuben Says:
    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!!

20. Jacko Says:
    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

21. Jacko Says:
    September 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    I think you should also …

    Wear the same clothes every day to college for 2-weeks.

    Jacko

22. Alexis Says:
    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!

23. reuben Says:
    October 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    Thanks a lot lex!

    …fine i’ll add it. not feelin good about it though

24. Dave Miers Says:
    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…

25. reuben Says:
    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

26. Snoweeeee Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    Pass a subject without studying for the exam

27. Pezman Says:
    November 28th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    Lovin the idea of this list. Here’s a couple more suggestions: related to the Star Wars one, a movie marathon of all 6 Rocky’s. And obtaining Britney Spears’ entire back catalogue. This should help you out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Spears_discography

28. Matt C Says:
    December 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    Hey Reub’s,

    Hmmm, nice list.

    I was thinking:
    - Learn to ride a unicycle.
    - Combine unicycle with juggling (#30)

    Other more amusing antics would include some form of major publicity stunt, involving you, a chicken or gorilla outfit (or other suitable wacky outfit), sandwich boards, standing on a street corner at the beach, or better, next to Town Hall Station, and could have something to do with upcoming events at your church…
    or do you do this anyway??

    Catch ya round,

    Matt

29. reuben Says:
    December 8th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Thanks for the comments everyone, especially most recently Pez and Matt! I appreciate your attempts to make me look ridiculous

    I’m adding some of my own again too…

30. Steve Boxwell Says:
    April 11th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    10 few suggestions to fill your list:

    - Attend a Socialist Alternative meeting.
    - Make up theological word bingo cards and distribute them at the start of a doctrine class.
    - Nail theses to a door at College (preferably not a glass door)
    - Respond to 5 people’s status updates on FB or Twitter in rhyme
    - Watch your car odometre tick over some milestone distance.
    - Read a graphic novel
    - Offer a word of prophecy when David H asks if we have one in Philosophy.
    - Finish a Friday lunch wrap with a clean plate
    - high five a stranger
    - Take Devonshire Tea

31. reuben Says:
    April 11th, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    Gold steve. thanks! socialist alternative hey…? should be fun. or scary…or something

32. pezman Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 12:46 am

    Hey Reuben, great to see the list is growing It’s funny juggling is on your list, I tried to learn to juggle for a tute presentation I gave. I’m still practising, I’ve almost got it. Another one for the list: upload crazy video of yourself to youtube, bonus points for getting yourself on the home page. Perhaps film yourself doing something else on the list.

33. reuben Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 11:25 am

    thanks Pez – do you remember someone trying to teach juggling at a MADD camp? I was hopeless at it then but I am determined to have another go at it. What were you juggling?

34. pezman Says:
    April 21st, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    Juggling balls Actually, a girl in my tute group made them from balloons and bird seed à la MADD camp. We used it to demonstrate Vygotsky’s theory of equilibrium. (That probably means nothing to you.)

35. pezman Says:
    April 21st, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    Two more suggestions: Write a book, and have it published. Also you could make #29 more interesting by taping a weeks worth of Neighbours and having a Neighbours marathon with friends.
    More suggestions, I’m feeling creative today: Visit every state and territory in Australia, and preach a sermon in fancy dress. Maybe you could even incorporate juggling into a sermon?

36. Geoff Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 am

    Hey mate

    If I’m not wrong, you’ve just done #112 with your friends from Maroubra.

    And no, I’m not really reading your blog.

    And if I am it’s because the kids have kept me up late!

    Geoff

37. reuben Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 11:18 am

    busted geoff

    thanks i’ll cross it off!

38. kate Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    I’m quite looking forward to number 62 – During a sermon by John Woodhouse or Barry Webb at Friday chapel yell out with exclamation: “Preach it brother, 100%!”

    its quite the motivation to not miss chapel on a friday

39. reuben Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    yeah, we blame Jacko for that one, Kate! Maybe I’ll sit next to you, do it in a high voice then look disapprovingly at you

40. Dan Presland Says:
    July 5th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Wow there are a lot of comments and i havent read them so i am sorry if i have repeated something, but another to add is to watch the tour de france, everyday.
    Probably a little late to start as day 1 is over. But you could try a week of watching every minute of the tour.

    Also my blog has updated.
    I now blog at
    http://danpresland.wordpress.com/

    P.s. we need to get some pong in dude. We are going to smash those try hards gav and craig. they have nothing, we will beat them 21-0 twice so they have to do the nudy run through nextown!!!

41. reuben Says:
    July 5th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    Cheers, added. and i’ve changed my blog link (had it in my reader but not in the site!)

    bring on the pong. next term!

42. geoffc Says:
    August 3rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Are you trying to do number 7 right now Reub’s?
    Taking on Archie?
    I’ll be looking forward to the rest of the week…

43. geoffc Says:
    August 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    just noticed number 42. if you want a place to crash let me know, yolu have until the end of the year.

44. reuben Says:
    August 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    @geoffc- #7…no! I just didn’t get it!! I hope i wasn’t frustrating anyone, or wasting time… but since i’ve started the week with a disagreement, maybe i should just keep going

    With 42, that’d be great. Talk more, but maybe should set up a combo…redfern + one of the movie marathons or something.

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46. reuben Says:
    December 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am

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47. Steve Boxwell Says:
    February 1st, 2010 at 9:06 pm

    124. Make a Reuben Sandwich.

48. reuben Says:
    February 1st, 2010 at 11:14 pm

    nice.

49. Mark Says:
    March 6th, 2010 at 11:35 pm

    Dude. Well done knocking out #113. I just realised that #90 needs to be fulfilled.

    Let’s get onto it!

50. reuben Says:
    March 7th, 2010 at 10:17 pm

    Thanks Mark, let’s do it. check, 1, 2 etc i’m going to need some serious coaching thouhg …

51. Mark Says:
    March 7th, 2010 at 11:49 pm

    Oh, I’m way out of practise, so we’ll both be beginners again! Actually, I went to my old band’s gig the other night and they pulled me up on stage. Totally had forgotten how to do it, but it sure was fun!

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