h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hmmmm, some of these things it seems you should do as thing number 100. Cos you probably won't make it through alive. Like speaking to a tiger up close. What are the chances it will answer back anyway?

Fly in a hot air balloon.

Well I’ve cuddled a tarantula, traveled on a steam train and been round a nuclear power station. I’ve diaboloed with fire and skinny dipped in the sea. I’ve slept out under the stars, rung in the New Year. Been body boarding and skied in real snow. I’ve shot various guns and fired a musket. I’ve held a golden eagle, and experienced total darkness in the depths of a cave system. I’ve watched a mare foaling and witnessed many lambings. I’ve hand reared chicks and watched badger cubs playing in the dusk.

For the future I want to :

Pass my bike test
Fly
I’d love to see wolves in the wild, but that’s rather unlikely.
I want to climb Snowdan
Learn how to light a fire without matches.
Canoe down a river (hopefully this summer)
Spend some time alone in an isolated place
Go to a match to try and understand why so many people are addicted to the game.
And many others……

Some goodies coming in.

Some I've thought of this morning:

Do a high dive
Look at the moon through a very powerful telescope
Arrange one last proper, refereed 90 minute football match with my mates (to say goodbye to our youth )
Have a singing lesson

Odo: use a lighter

No, no, I know I could, but I'd like to have a go/learn how to use a fire bow or light a fire with flint.

"Like speaking to a tiger up close. What are the chances it will answer back anyway?"

There's an interesting story about the 60s producer Joe Meek. One evening he was in a graveyard and convinced himself that a mewing cat was trying to communicate with him. He was carry a recorder and taped the ensuing 'conversation'. The tape is still in existence somewhere.

How honest are we getting here, because if we ARE getting honest, then I would really love to go to an orgy in my lifetime........

I mean a big, huge feck off no holds barred dozens of people kind of thing..........

oooeeerrrr missus!

(Exits before he completely lowers the tone)

Just out of interest, how would you go about finding people for one of those?

Doctor, one of my sayings is 'I don't wanna be on my deathbed regretting things I never did'.

Seagull, believe me, the right people are out there...

Never done the orgy thing, no more than 4 people in a bed.

Yet...

Well, you could find clubs for that sort of thing if you were so inclined.

Celebrate my 100th birthday.

Now I am just pig jealous, Bob the Farmer............and just WHERE are these people?

Typical, since I read the title of this thread I haven't been able to stop thinking about women. So no public contributions from me then.

Oh theres people about who will do just about anything with other consenting adults Not that' I'd know any of course I just went to the shop, and nearly got hit by a car again, and a cyclist as well this time been a few years now since I last got hit by a car Caving is something you shoudl do if you've not before is great fun, if a little on the cold side absailing into a cave system is good fun too, you just have no idea when the ground is going to jump up adn grab you by the badgers Oh, heres another, handcuff yourself to people in a pub randomly. and do something weird every day

I dunno where they are, all around...
Ive had a threesome with a mate and a girl and a threesome with a girlfriend and another girl...
Not bad for 22.

I once ended up in a very very very very rough pub by doing that "dice" thing. Not good.

However I'd add the following to the list:-
* Sleep outdoors in a genuinely wild place
* See the night sky without light pollution

Theres a book called "101 Things to do before yo die", you should check it out! One of the suggestions in that was

Save a life (you can do it by blood doning, only 6% of eligible people in the UK do...)

I'm not able to give blood

Sadly, neither am I able... O/wise I would.

New Scientist put out a book of 100 Things to do before you die, and 5 after. (the latter were things like doning your body to science.)

Things I want to do before I die:
Go travelling,
Get my degree
Get arrested
Tell someone I love how i feel (one in particular, god it's hard)
Sky dive
Get a scuba diving qualification
Learn to ski
Have a threesome
Take part in an orgy
Do something heroic
Take drugs
Live abroad
Write a novel
Perform in a west end show (except not a lot of talent )
Be an extra on a film
Get married
Have kids
Become a grandmother
Play 'Knock down Ginger' in downing street

Things I have done that I recommend:
Sleep rough
Scuba dive
On stage, getting 400 kids and their parents doing mexican waves at nine o clock on a saturday morning!
Going out in ur pyjamas for the day
Go to the top of the houses of parliament and stand next to big ben as it rings
Go for a wander in london to see where u end up
Visit the Somme battlefields
hold a koala
stroke a kangaroo