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my 100 things to do before i die?

September 23, 2012 / / 2 Comments

Question by : my 100 things to do before i die?
1. Scuba license
2. Pilots license
3. Visit every continent
4. Three-some
5. Skydive
6. Bungee Jump
7. Base Jump after free climbing up a cliff side
8. Try out for American Idol
9. Learn to play the piano well
10. Get a six pack and maintain it
11. Surf and snowboard in the same day
12. Swim with sharks
13. Master a martial art (black belt)
14. Max 250
15. Handstand for 10 seconds in one spot
16. Handstand for 10 seconds in one spot while doing at least 2 push ups
17. Run a marathon
18. Do a triathlon
19. Learn another language fluently
20. Taste all the flavors of the rainbow
21. Travel to every state
22. Watch the sun rise, set, rise again, and set again from the same beach without sleeping
23. Go deep sea fishing
24. Catch a 200+ lb fish
25. Live in the wild for 3+ days with only a knife, flint, and rope.
26. Start on Hawaii and walk/swim from one end of the Hawaiian state to the other
27. Catch a wave on the North Shore
28. Set a world record
29. Own my own house
30. Walk on the Great Wall
31. Climb the Eifel Tower
32. Visit the Pyramids
33. See Big Ben
34. Go on an African Safari
35. Dig for WW2 items in Normandy
36. Eat sushi in Japan, Chou Main In China, Kangaroo in Australia, moose in Canada, éclair in France, Fish n’ chips in England, Bratwurst in Germany, Vegemite in New Zealand
37. Drink Vodka in Russia, Scotch in Ireland, Whiskey in Germany
38. Road trip down Route 66
39. Road trip down Route 101
40. Invent something and patent it
41. Go on a cruise
42. Go on a missionary trip
43. Climb Everest, K2 and Whitney
44. Ride in a blimp
45. Go to Oktoberfest in Munich
46. See a full lunar and solar eclipses
47. Ride the highest roller coaster in the US
48. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
49. Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
50. Go to a pro football game
51. Go to a legit rock concert
52. Visit the Taj Ma Hal, Western Wall, Dome of the Rock, and Mecca
53. See the 21 wonders of the world (original, mechanical, Natural)
54. Give the shirt off my back to someone in need
55. Go to a major sporting event (i.e. super bowl, world series, etc)
56. Chop down a tree in the woods
57. Look into a volcano
58. Graduate high school
59. Get a Bachelors Degree
60. Ireland for St Patrick’s day
61. Meet a celebrity
62. Swim the English Channel
63. Kill an elk
64. Bow hunt (and be successful)
65. Become and expert marksman in the military
66. Run a sub 6 minute mile
67. Run a sub 12 minute 2 mile
68. Run a sub 35 minute 5 mile
69. Drive on the Autobahn
70. Get my motorcycle license
71. Win a legit street race
72. Hunt with only a knife/ machete/ sharp object and be successful
73. Publish a book
74. High five a monkey
75. On a random day, go to the airport and get on the next available flight
76. Go to both summer and winter Olympics
77. Spend a week in the woods with no modern technology
78. Go cave diving
79. Enter a food eating contest
80. Enter a photography contest
81. Enter in a demolition derby
82. Have a legit bonfire party
83. Go to a celebrity party
84. Drive an official race car
85. Back flip off a wall
86. Back flip 360 off a wall
87. Do a standing back flip
88. Do a flip on a bike into a foam pit/lake
89. Go in a wind tunnel

what do u think? suggestions for the last 11 spots?
gee epzan did you miss the military one? the missionary one? the give the shirt off my back one? STFU. you have to live to make others happy yes but lifes too short to make just others happy you have to live fro yourself as well. which is why me and 8 other friends are making lists and were going to help each other out on them. and thank you chealse (sorry if i spelled that wrong)

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Answer by epzan
You are such a useless person. You just want to do what satisfies your wants. Better do things that are significant since it is the purpose of life. You make life more complicated.

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Now you know more than you did before!! ?

July 25, 2012 / / 3 Comments

Question by Jean18yahoo: Now you know more than you did before!! ?
Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand .

And ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t you?)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘MT. ? (Are you doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you’re going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to ‘do’ this one.)
There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You’re not doubting this, are you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’ (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e I o u)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that’s about what my memory span is.)

A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.!)
Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also)

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that.)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know more than you did before!!

O.M.G Who’s a clever boy!! Its only a bit of fun!! Rob

Thanks 😛

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Answer by (:P)
That’s amazing! I will not be starting a war against chickens anytime soon.

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Q&A: Do you know this Before – part 4?

May 24, 2012 / / 2 Comments

Question by ||| Romeo Boy |||: Do you know this Before – part 4?
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
“Stewardesses ” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right.
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of die! Sel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the l! Azy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.

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Answer by Tony M
Good one.

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Where do you want to travel before you die?

December 29, 2011 / / 3 Comments

Question by zeinox: Where do you want to travel before you die?
I want to go to jamaica and China, Japan. India and go to all the spiritual places. I definitely want to visit Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

I want to go take a cruise to alaska.
And New Zeland.
Egypt. The pyramids
All the haunted hot spots in the world.
and Africa. And tahiti

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Answer by Justin
I want to go somewhere dramatic like I was in a movie or something. That’s like: the desert, a really good beach resort, northern Alaska where it’s daylight for half the year and night the other half, the Amazon jungle, an ice cave, someplace where the sky is a different color for a long time, someplace new, really. Though I might never be in any movies it’s not stopping me from doing something cool.

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Q&A: What was life on the Yangtze River like before the Three Gorges Dam was built?

July 9, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Question by Hawk_Nelson_Rox: What was life on the Yangtze River like before the Three Gorges Dam was built?
I had already tried googling it and I couldn’t come up with anything. Only how life after it was built. Thanks. And try to give your source or give me a website that I can go and visit myself.

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Answer by James™
Before the dam was built, there many floods that drowned a nearby city with population of several million. In 1954, a flood killed 30,000 people and left one million homeless. But the dam prevents this sort of thing from reoccurring.

A long time before the Three Gorges Dam, the Yangtze River was used for transportation, a lot more than it does now. The large cargo ships would have raised the water level and caused even more floods. The dam has reduced the amount of transportation up/down the river helping considerably to reduce the flooding of the riverside towns and cities.

Hope this helps 🙂

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