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Okay, so two of my friends have got a book called “101 Things to do before you’re old and boring” (amazon.co.uk), Kevin has even pointed to a blog which had the list (and that persons answers)… so I present to you my answers:
1) Send a Message in a Bottle:
Cue Police.

2) Run up an Escalator the Wrong Way:
Who hasn’t.

3) Make an Origami Crane:
Tried, I don’t have good enough dexterity.

4) Learn How to Tell When Someone Has a Crush on You (and When They Don’t):
I really wish I could, to both.
5) Keep a Dream Diary:
Always meant to

6) Touch These Creatures:
(since I don’t have the book I don’t know)

7) Prepare Yourself for Fame:
No need

Learn to Play an Instrument:
Euphpnium, Guitar, Bass, One finger Piano

9) Play a Computer Game to the End:
You really don’t want an exhaustive list for this.

10) Have an Embarrassing Moment and Get Over It:
All the time.

11) Get Your School Involved in a World Record Attempt:
No longer relevant… until I get kids (as if)

12) Paint a Picture Good Enough to Hang on the Wall:
I have my own “gallery” at my parents, although by paint I am including digital painting.

13) Learn to Whistle (and Make Other Noises):
I can whistle… just

14) See a Ghost:
(hit head against wall)

15) Fart and Burp:
Ahem… yeah

16) Make a Swear Box:
yeah… moving on

17) Act in a Play:
Do sketches in Elphant and Castle count, or musicals?

18) Win Something:
I won a BMX stunt bike back in 1st/2nd year of High School… it was so small that when I had my photo taken I had to put it on my shoulders so it didn’t look stupid. I’ve came first at the Territoral Field Day in Chess (or was it Draughts). I’ve won other stuff as well.

19) Make a T-Shirt:
The Punisher t-shirt

20) Stay Up All Night:
I think my max has been 40 odd hours… I can’t remember it was kind of a blur

21) Sleep All Day:
Probably done it, see above

22) Invent a Secret Code:
I’m sure I’ve done this.

23) Learn to Do a Card Trick:
It sucked… I got it from Penn and Teller but could never do it well enough

24) Grow Something from a Seed:
It died

25) Start a Collection:
Numerous collections: music, dvd, card games, rpg’s

26) Help Save the Planet:
I try.

27) Turn Back Time:
If I could, I wouldn’t, I would want to, but too many variables.

28) Learn to Do a Party Trick:
Hmm… maybe

29) Climb to the Top of a Mountain:
I started to climb Ben Nevis (well 10 feet)

30) Make a One-Minute Movie:
I hear Flash calling

31) Host a Party:
Technically never have.

32) Visit…:
(since I don’t have the book I don’t know)
33) Learn to Bake a Cake:
Yup.

34) Hide a Treasure and Leave a Map for Friends to Find:
Now that sounds cool…

35) Learn How to Ask Someone out (and How to Dump Them):
Yeah… I really should get over the inability to ask a girl out, it has been over 10 years since that time.

36) Start Your Own Blog:
Your reading one

37) Write Lyrics for a Song:
Done, most recent one was based on “I’ll fight”… I think I posted it

38) Make a Time Capsule:
Meh… maybe

39) Be a Genius:
Depends on your definition.

40) Take Care of an Animal:
They all died.

41) Learn to Like These Foods:
(since I don’t have the book I don’t know)

42) April Fool Someone:
I’m sure I have… it probably didn’t work too well

43) Do Something Charitable:
Done.

44) Teach Your Grandparents Something New:
Can’t.

45) Invent a New Game:
I wrote my own role playing setting and system.

46) Go as Fast as You Can:
well i’ve been in a plane and trains, but in a car, with me driving… about 105mph

47) Make your Own Badges:
I made one at an open day in the Sally army tarining college

48) Watch These Films:
(since I don’t have the book I don’t know)

49) Read These Books:
(since I don’t have the book I don’t know)

50) Pretend to Be Sick Convincingly:
If its making the noise, then yes. Otherwise probably could.

51) Save Your Pocket Money for a Month and Spend it All at Once:
I think I saved a months pocket money once… I think… so hard to remember

52) Learn to Swim:
Yup.

53) Succeed at Something You’re Bad At:
I used to suck using the graphics tablet but I think I can call that one a success.

54) Be a Daredevil:
Not on your life, I do not suit skin tight nright red leather and billy-clubs

55) Invent a New Trend:
Sigh… I have been at the moment of creation but never the creator.

56) Know Who Your Friends Are:
I do… and I cherish it.

57) Plant a Tree (and Climb it When You’re Older):
Really should… the first part that is

58) Start a Band:
I have been involved in starting a couple of bands.

59) Camp Out in the Backyard:
Not my scene.

60) Learn to Live Without Something You Love for a Week:
I would like to think I could.

61) Join a Club:
Joined a few.

62) Cook a Meal:
Yup, and it is something that I really enjoy.

63) List the Things Your Parents Say They’ll Tell You When You’re Older:
Not enough paper

64) Make Your Bike or Skateboard Look Cool:
I tried to make my guitar look cool if that counts, and it made it worse.

65) Learn to Juggle:
I used to be able to do 3

66) Have a Snowball Fight and Fun in the Snow:
happy days.

67) Build the Ultimate Sandcastle and Have Fun in the Sun:
I’ve had fun in the sun (I know weird!) but I think an ultimate sandcastle would need planning permission

68) Take Part in a TV Show:
I had a card read out on John Michaels Cavalcade… if that counts

69) Make a Scene in a Public Place:

70) Spend Christmas in Another Country:
:’(

71) Do Something Nice Without Being Asked:
I would like to think I have, and will do

72) See Your Music Idol Perform Live:
A bit hard for a few of them, but I have seen a few, and hope to see more

73) Have a Sleepover:
Do the Divisional Kids Sleepovers count?

74) Become a Spy:
I am afraid I cannot answer that one or I will have to kill you.

75) Watch a Tadpole Grow into a Frog:
Does video count?

76) Learn to Say Useful Phrases in Other Languages:
a few… only a very small few…

77) Make Your Own Greeting Cards:
Done.

78) Hold a Yard Sale:
No thanks

79) Build an Igloo:
I REALLY want to.

80) Start Your Own Secret Society:
Again, I’m sure I did this as a kid.

81) Research Your Family Tree:
Did a little but since there is someone already doing it, I shall await her findings

82) Learn to Skip Stones:
I think I can

83) Dye Your Hair:
Never have, always wanted to

84) Lobby Your Local Congressman:
See previous answer

85) Write a Story and Get it Published:
Oooh if its wasn’t for the last bit

86) Sing in Front of an Audience:
As long as choirs count.

87) Learn to Use Long Words (and Drop Them Into Conversation):
Indubitably.

88) Blame Someone Else:
Yup.

89) Learn to Stick Up for Yourself:
If you say so…

90) Get from A to B Using a Map:
Occasionaly via C

91) Send a Valentine Card:
Yes.

92) Have Your Own Plot in the Garden:
Yup, but they withered all.

93) Build Your Own Web Site:
Yup… first one I built was for my 8th years studies project in Comp Sci

94) See Your Name in Print:
A few times.

95) Make a Unique Milkshake:
On the list

96) Glue Coins to the Floor:
Never have… thought about it many times

97) Learn to Take Great Photos:
I would like to think I can.

98) Drive Something:
Yup… although I really want to learn how to drive a huge lorry, ride a motorbike, and fly a plane

99) Be Vegetarian for a Week:
No chance.

100)Meet Someone Famous:
Technically ues… although famous is such a loaded phrase

101)Decide What You Want to Be When You Grow Up:
I have many times, and yet I never seem to grow up.