All These Things I've Done
Hey, I still want answers to my corset question below, so check that one out, too.
Tonight I just am not in the mood for anything big, so I'm going to subtly reach into my bosom and pull out a meme. Don't groan. At least I'm giving you SOMETHING. Thanks, Neil, for making me feel less pure than you. Though I will admit that I've never tried beef jerky, so you've got me on that one.
I'm pretty well satisfied with this list. Happily, I've done most of them and many of the ones left over are ones I'd never want to have to check off (broken a bone, seen someone die). It's nice to know one's life is actually full of tiny experiences...and EVIL.
Feel free to do yours in my comments. If you do it on your own blog let me know so I can check it out. You may also ask me questions about anything I've checked off (or not) if you want. I promise to answer them. If I want to. Heh.
Fill in what you’ve “done”:
(X) Smoked a joint
( ) Done cocaine
(X) Been in love (-ish)
( ) Had a threesome
(X) Been dumped
(X) Shoplifted
( ) Had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back
(X) Been arrested
(X) Made out with a stranger
(X) Gone on a blind date
(X) Had a crush on a teacher
(X) Been to Europe
(X) Been to Canada
(X) Been to Mexico
( ) Seen someone die
( ) Thrown up in a bar
(X) Met a celebrity
(X) Met someone from the internet in person
(X) Been moshing at a concert
(X) Gone backstage at a concert
(X) Lain outside in the grass and watched cloud shapes go by
(X) Made a snow angel
(X) Flown a kite
( ) Cheated while playing a game
(X) Been lonely
(X) Fallen asleep at work (only if you count a business trip as being "at work," though)
( ) Fallen asleep at school
( ) Used a fake ID (never had to, I always got let in or bought for)
(X) Been kicked out of a bar (only if you count staying past closing and being forced to leave as "kicked out")
( ) Felt an earthquake
(X) Touched a snake
(X) Slept beneath the stars
(X) Been robbed
(X) Won a contest
(X) Run a red light
( ) Been suspended from school
( ) Had braces
(X) Felt like an outcast
(X) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Had deja vu
(X) Totaled a car
( ) Stolen a car
(X) Hated the way you look
(X) Witnessed a crime
( ) Been to a strip club
( ) Been to the opposite side of the world (?? which opposite side?)
(X) Swum in the ocean
(X) Felt like dying
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
( ) Sung karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t
(X) Made prank phone calls
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(X) Had a bonfire on the beach
(X) Crashed a party
(X) Seen a tornado (from the inside!)
(X) Had a wish come true
( ) Gone bungee jumping
(X) Screamed in public
(X) Told a complete stranger you loved them
( ) Had a one night stand
(X) Kissed a mirror
( ) Had a dream that you married someone
(X) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
( ) Been a cheerleader (yeah, right.)
(X) Sat on a roof top
( ) Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours straight
(X) Stayed up all night
(X) Not taken a shower for three days
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
( ) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
( ) Gone streaking
( ) Been skinny dipping
( ) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
(X) Had sex in a public or semi-public place
(X) Been kissed by a complete stranger
( ) Broken a bone
(X) Caught a butterfly
(X) Mooned/flashed someone
(X) Had someone moon/flash you
(X) Cheated on a test
(X) Forgotten someone’s name
(X) Slept naked
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My mom's less likely to read it if I put it over here.
(X) Smoked a joint
(X) Done cocaine
(X) Been in love
(X) Had a threesome
(X) Been dumped
( ) Shoplifted
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back
( ) Been arrested
(X) Made out with a stranger
( ) Gone on a blind date
(X) Had a crush on a teacher
(X) Been to Europe
( ) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
( ) Seen someone die
(X) Thrown up in a bar
(X) Met a celebrity
(X) Met someone from the internet in person
(X) Been moshing at a concert
(X) Gone backstage at a concert
(X) Lain outside in the grass and watched cloud shapes go by
(X) Made a snow angel
(X) Flown a kite
(X) Cheated while playing a game
(X) Been lonely
(X) Fallen asleep at work
(X) Fallen asleep at school
(X) Used a fake ID
(X) Been kicked out of a bar
(X) Felt an earthquake
(X) Touched a snake
(X) Slept beneath the stars
(X) Been robbed
(X) Won a contest
(X) Run a red light
( ) Been suspended from school
(X) Had braces
(X) Felt like an outcast
(X) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Had deja vu
( ) Totaled a car
( ) Stolen a car
(X) Hated the way you look
(X) Witnessed a crime
(X) Been to a strip club
( ) Been to the opposite side of the world
(X) Swum in the ocean
(X) Felt like dying
( ) Cried yourself to sleep
( ) Sung karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t
(X) Made prank phone calls
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(X) Had a bonfire on the beach
(X) Crashed a party
( ) Seen a tornado
(X) Had a wish come true
( ) Gone bungee jumping
(X) Screamed in public
(X) Told a complete stranger you loved them
(X) Had a one night stand
( ) Kissed a mirror
( ) Had a dream that you married someone
( ) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
( ) Been a cheerleader
(X) Sat on a roof top
( ) Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours straight
(X) Stayed up all night
(X) Not taken a shower for three days
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
( ) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
( ) Gone streaking
(X) Been skinny dipping
(X) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
(X) Had sex in a public or semi-public place
(X) Been kissed by a complete stranger
(X) Broken a bone
(X) Caught a butterfly
(X) Mooned/flashed someone
(X) Had someone moon/flash you
(X) Cheated on a test
(X) Forgotten someone’s name
(X) Slept naked
1. Posted by Ray on October 10, 2006
(X) Smoked a joint
( ) Done cocaine
(X) Been in love (unrequited, sigh)
( ) Had a threesome
( ) Been dumped
( ) Shoplifted
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back
( ) Been arrested
(X) Made out with a stranger
(X) Gone on a blind date
( ) Had a crush on a teacher
( ) Been to Europe
(X) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
( ) Seen someone die
( ) Thrown up in a bar
(X) Met a celebrity
(X) Met someone from the internet in person
(X) Been moshing at a concert
(X) Gone backstage at a concert
(X) Lain outside in the grass and watched cloud shapes go by
(X) Made a snow angel
(X) Flown a kite
(X) Cheated while playing a game
(X) Been lonely
( ) Fallen asleep at work
(X) Fallen asleep at school
( ) Used a fake ID
(X) Been kicked out of a bar
( ) Felt an earthquake
(X) Touched a snake
( ) Slept beneath the stars
(X) Been robbed
(X) Won a contest
(X) Run a red light
( ) Been suspended from school
( ) Had braces
( ) Felt like an outcast
(X) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Had deja vu
( ) Totaled a car
( ) Stolen a car
( ) Hated the way you look
( ) Witnessed a crime
(X) Been to a strip club
( ) Been to the opposite side of the world
(X) Swum in the ocean
( ) Felt like dying
( ) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Sung karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t
(X) Made prank phone calls
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe
( ) Had a bonfire on the beach
(X) Crashed a party
( ) Seen a tornado
(X) Had a wish come true
( ) Gone bungee jumping
( ) Screamed in public
( ) Told a complete stranger you loved them
( ) Had a one night stand
( ) Kissed a mirror
(X) Had a dream that you married someone
( ) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
(X) Been a cheerleader
( ) Sat on a roof top
( ) Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours straight
( ) Stayed up all night
(X) Not taken a shower for three days
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
(X) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
( ) Gone streaking
( ) Been skinny dipping
(X) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
( ) Had sex in a public or semi-public place
(X) Been kissed by a complete stranger
( ) Broken a bone
(X) Caught a butterfly
( ) Mooned/flashed someone
(X) Had someone moon/flash you
( ) Cheated on a test
(X) Forgotten someone’s name
( ) Slept naked
2. Posted by notcarrie on October 10, 2006
Ray's never been arrested? Wow.
I'm just posting the nots.
( ) Gone on a blind date
( ) Used a fake ID
( ) Slept beneath the stars
( ) Been suspended from school
( ) Sung karaoke
( ) Seen a tornado
( ) Gone bungee jumping
( ) Kissed a mirror (well, licked, yes, but see #2)
( ) Been a cheerleader (Been? Does 'done' count?)
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
( ) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
( ) Gone streaking
3. Posted by Elvis on October 10, 2006
(X) Smoked a joint
(X) Done cocaine
(X) Been in love (-ish)
( ) Had a threesome
(X) Been dumped
(X) Shoplifted
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back
( ) Been arrested
(X) Made out with a stranger
(X) Gone on a blind date
(X) Had a crush on a teacher
(X) Been to Europe
(X) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
(X) Seen someone die
(X) Thrown up in a bar ( not exactly sure, but I have bound to have done it )
(X) Met a celebrity
( ) Met someone from the internet in person
( ) Been moshing at a concert ( been to many where moshing was happing, but don't care for it.
(X) Gone backstage at a concert
(X) Lain outside in the grass and watched cloud shapes go by
( ) Made a snow angel
(X) Flown a kite
( ) Cheated while playing a game
(X) Been lonely
(X) Fallen asleep at work
(X) Fallen asleep at school
( ) Used a fake ID
( ) Been kicked out of a bar
( ) Felt an earthquake
(X) Touched a snake
(X) Slept beneath the stars
(X) Been robbed
( ) Won a contest
(X) Run a red light
( ) Been suspended from school
( ) Had braces
(X) Felt like an outcast
( ) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Had deja vu
( ) Totaled a car
( ) Stolen a car
(X) Hated the way you look
(X) Witnessed a crime
(X) Been to a strip club
( ) Been to the opposite side of the world
(X) Swum in the ocean
(X) Felt like dying
( ) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Sung karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t
(X) Made prank phone calls
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(X) Had a bonfire on the beach
(X) Crashed a party
( ) Seen a tornado
(X) Had a wish come true
( ) Gone bungee jumping
(X) Screamed in public
( ) Told a complete stranger you loved them
(X) Had a one night stand
( ) Kissed a mirror
(X) Had a dream that you married someone
(X) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
( ) Been a cheerleader (yeah, right.)
(X) Sat on a roof top
( ) Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours straight
(X) Stayed up all night
(X) Not taken a shower for three days
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
( ) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
(X) Gone streaking
(X) Been skinny dipping
(X) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
(X) Had sex in a public or semi-public place
(X) Been kissed by a complete stranger
(X) Broken a bone
(X) Caught a butterfly
( ) Mooned/flashed someone
(X) Had someone moon/flash you
(X) Cheated on a test
(X) Forgotten someone’s name
(X) Slept naked
(X) Watched Edward Scissorhands at the theater on Acid
(X) Sat in my car, high on mushrooms, hiding pot, as an off-duty policeman who attended the party tried to make casual conversation through my window.
(X) Recently wore a borrowed bellhop's uniform through a hotel back to my room.
( ) Mistreated an animal.
(X) Dreamed about tornadoes made of fire
(X) Avoiding work as I make up new categories for this questionaire
4. Posted by ben on October 10, 2006
Girl, you been arrested?
(X) Smoked a joint
( ) Done cocaine
(X) Been in love
( ) Had a threesome
(X) Been dumped
(X) Shoplifted
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back ...I know, can you believe it? ;)
( ) Been arrested
(X) Made out with a stranger
( ) Gone on a blind date
(X) Had a crush on a teacher
(X) Been to Europe
( ) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico. Which is ridiculous, 'cause it's right there
( ) Seen someone die
(X) Thrown up in a bar
(X) Met a celebrity. I kicked a minor celebrity in the butt by mistake.
(X) Met someone from the internet in person
(X) Been moshing at a concert
(X) Gone backstage at a concert
(X) Lain outside in the grass and watched cloud shapes go by
(X) Made a snow angel
(X) Flown a kite
(X) Cheated while playing a game
(X) Been lonely
(X) Fallen asleep at work. I used to do this on a regular basis in Japan. There was a nice little cot in the women's changing room.
(X) Fallen asleep at school
(X) Used a fake ID
( ) Been kicked out of a bar
(X) Felt an earthquake. Twice, once in Tokyo, once in Kansai. Fucken disturbing.
(X) Touched a snake
(X) Slept beneath the stars
( ) Been robbed.
(X) Won a contest
(X) Run a red light
( ) Been suspended from school
( ) Had braces
(X) Felt like an outcast
(X) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Had deja vu
( ) Totaled a car
( ) Stolen a car
(X) Hated the way you look
( ) Witnessed a crime
( ) Been to a strip club
(X) Been to the opposite side of the world. I guess Asia counts.
(X) Swum in the ocean
(X) Felt like dying
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Sung karaoke. I'm Japanese, need you ask?
(X) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t
(X) Made prank phone calls
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe (sniffle)
( ) Had a bonfire on the beach
(X) Crashed a party
(X) Seen a tornado
(X) Had a wish come true
( ) Gone bungee jumping
(X) Screamed in public
( ) Told a complete stranger you loved them
(X) Had a one night stand
(X) Kissed a mirror
(X) Had a dream that you married someone
(X) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
( ) Been a cheerleader
(X) Sat on a roof top
( ) Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours straight
(X) Stayed up all night
(X) Not taken a shower for three days
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
(X) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
( ) Gone streaking
( ) Been skinny dipping
(X) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
(X) Had sex in a public or semi-public place
(X) Been kissed by a complete stranger
(X) Broken a bone
(X) Caught a butterfly
( ) Mooned/flashed someone
(X) Had someone moon/flash you
(X) Cheated on a test
(X) Forgotten someone’s name
(X) Slept naked
Rode a baggage claim conveyor belt, drank goat penis whiskey, jumped out of a plane...
5. Posted by Hiromi on October 10, 2006
Everyone's been robbed except Hiromi. That's depressing.
I want to know what everyone won in contests. I've won loads, though I can't remember them all. Quick off the top of my head: Pong game, free jeans and a radio-station carry-bag, round-trip ticket to the UK, Broadway show tickets.
Ray: I would PAY to see you do karaoke. That would kick ass, and amuse me to no end. C'mon, how much do you want?
NotCarrie Really? You've never been dumped? I didn't think anyone would be lucky enough to have entirely missed out on that. You are one lucky girl.
But you've never slept naked? You must try it. It's great.
Karl ElvisYeah, I thought Ray would at LEAST have been suspended or something. See, somewhere deep inside him he's a very nice boy.
You've had a dream you married someone? I thought that item was weird, but you're not the only one who checked it off--everyone did except me and Ray. I just can't imagine dreaming about that. Wouldn't even cross my mind. Hence, I guess, not my subconscious, either.
I think I need to go re-fix my fake ID one. It seemed like at some point, I MUST have borrowed someone's, but I really can't think of when. I never owned one personally.
Ben: You've been in "love-ish," too, or was that just left over from mine? I love, love, love the tornadoes made of fire dream. See, now THAT's a dream I can get behind. Dreaming about a wedding? Pfft.
Hiromi:
I say when we hang out, we go to a strip club together and check that one off our lists.
Yes, arrested, more or less. In short cross-section phrases: college, first time really crazy-ass drunk (I had an *incredible* tolerance back then, despite being a size 3), underage, trashed, open container (aka MASSIVE big gulp FULL of white russian, shrubbery, hidden cop car, drunken tossing of open container as cop car reveals itself, my age questioned, me lying about age while still giving underage number, grabbed away from friends, put into cop car, hauled into station, I act petualnt, report typed up, angry cop threats made, sudden drunken realization that acting girly and crying would be a good idea, tears activated, girlie apologies and helplessness statements offered, big bully asshole appeased, report ripped up, given traffic violation fine instead.
So I don't have an arrest record, but I consider being "hauled off downtown" in the backseat of a cop car as counting.
6. Posted by Miss Syl on October 10, 2006
Like Karl, it's easier by far to list the things I haven't yet done. And I'll do it here.
( ) Smoked a joint
( ) Been to Mexico
( ) Totaled a car
( ) Stolen a car
( ) Been a cheerleader
( ) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
( ) Gone streaking
( ) Broken a bone
That's it. The rest I've done. I've had pot brownies but I don't smoke anything; having put my wilder days behind me, the only thing left here that truly appeals is the streaking, which perhaps I will have to do. Maybe at the 2010 winter olympics here in Vancouver. 'cause any wimp can streak when it's warm.
7. Posted by Buck on October 11, 2006
OK, I'll play. Just posting the nots.
( ) Had a threesome
( ) Shoplifted
( ) Gone on a blind date
( ) Been to Europe
( ) Been to Mexico
( ) Seen someone die
( ) Been kicked out of a bar
( ) Been robbed
( ) Had braces
( ) Stolen a car
( ) Sung karaoke
( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe
( ) Gone bungee jumping
( ) Told a complete stranger you loved them
( ) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
( ) Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours straight
( ) Been a cheerleader (Been? Does 'done' count?)
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
( ) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
( ) Broken a bone
( ) Cheated on a test
8. Posted by Brandon on October 11, 2006
Buck: Very interesting in this day and age to come across anyone who's never smoked a joint at least once.
And yes, it takes a confident man to streak during a winter event. Which goes to show there aren't many confident men, because I don't think I've *ever* seen a winter-event streak.
Brandon I wonder when you and Karl are saying you've "done" cheerleaders, how close to the statement it actually is. Like, did you guys do a *former* cheerleader, one who was currently a cheerleader but in her street clothes, or one who was currently a cheerleader, and IN her little cheerleading outfit?
I suppose it's *possible* I might have slept with someone who was a former cheerleader, because i never thought to ask any of the guys I was with if they ever were. But then again...eh, probably not. I would be very surprised if any of them were.
9. Posted by Miss Syl on October 11, 2006
Actually, it shows that deep down inside, I know how not to get caught.
If it adds to my street cred any, I once aced a field sobriety test after drinking my weight in Belgian beer and then almost running over a pedestrian while a cop was watching me.
See? I don't get caught. Ever.
10. Posted by Ray on October 11, 2006
Ooh. This will be fun:
(X) Smoked a joint
(X) Done cocaine
(X) Been in love (-ish)
( ) Had a threesome
(X) Been dumped
(X) Shoplifted
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back
( ) Been arrested
(X) Made out with a stranger
(X) Gone on a blind date
(X) Had a crush on a teacher
(X) Been to Europe
(X) Been to Canada
(X) Been to Mexico
( ) Seen someone die
( ) Thrown up in a bar
(X) Met a celebrity
(X) Met someone from the internet in person
( ) Been moshing at a concert
( ) Gone backstage at a concert
(X) Lain outside in the grass and watched cloud shapes go by
(X) Made a snow angel
(X) Flown a kite
(X) Cheated while playing a game
(X) Been lonely
( ) Fallen asleep at work
(X) Fallen asleep at school
(X) Used a fake ID
(X) Been kicked out of a bar
(X) Felt an earthquake
( ) Touched a snake
( ) Slept beneath the stars
(X) Been robbed
(X) Won a contest
(X) Run a red light
( ) Been suspended from school
(X) Had braces
(X) Felt like an outcast
(X) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Had deja vu
( ) Totaled a car
( ) Stolen a car
(X) Hated the way you look
(X) Witnessed a crime
(X) Been to a strip club
( ) Been to the opposite side of the world
(X) Swum in the ocean
(X) Felt like dying
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
( ) Sung karaoke
( ) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t
(X) Made prank phone calls
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe
( ) Had a bonfire on the beach
( ) Crashed a party
( ) Seen a tornado
(X) Had a wish come true
( ) Gone bungee jumping
(X) Screamed in public
( ) Told a complete stranger you loved them
(X) Had a one night stand (several)
(X) Kissed a mirror
(X) Had a dream that you married someone
(X) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
( ) Been a cheerleader
(X) Sat on a roof top
(X) Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours straight
(X) Stayed up all night
( ) Not taken a shower for three days
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
(X) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time (I worked for Nine West - they were free)
( ) Gone streaking
(X) Been skinny dipping
( ) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
(X) Had sex in a public or semi-public place
(X) Been kissed by a complete stranger
( ) Broken a bone
( ) Caught a butterfly
(X) Mooned/flashed someone
(X) Had someone moon/flash you
(X) Cheated on a test
(X) Forgotten someone’s name
(X) Slept naked
11. Posted by Velvet on October 11, 2006
I've never smoked a joint or done a cheerleader.
But the unrequited love? I'm all over that one.
When you two go to the strip-club, can I come too?
:D
12. Posted by aag on October 11, 2006
Whoops.
I cut-and-pasted parts of mine, and noticed that I'd accidentally omitted the cheerleader one, so I cropped it back out of KE's comment.
That rejoinder belongs to him. :)
13. Posted by Brandon on October 11, 2006
Just curious...what did you (or anyone who checked it) shoplift? And please explain the tornado one. :)
14. Posted by Molly on October 11, 2006
( ) Smoked a joint
( ) Done cocaine
( ) Been in love
( ) Had a threesome
(X) Been dumped
(X) Shoplifted
(X) Had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back
( ) Been arrested
(X) Made out with a stranger
( ) Gone on a blind date
(X) Had a crush on a teacher
(X) Been to Europe
(X) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
( ) Seen someone die
( ) Thrown up in a bar
( ) Met a celebrity
( ) Met someone from the internet in person
(X) Been moshing at a concert
( ) Gone backstage at a concert
(X) Lain outside in the grass and watched cloud shapes go by
(X) Made a snow angel
(X) Flown a kite
( ) Cheated while playing a game
(X) Been lonely
(X) Fallen asleep at work
(XXXXXXXXX) Fallen asleep at school
( ) Used a fake ID
( ) Been kicked out of a bar
( ) Felt an earthquake
( ) Touched a snake
(X) Slept beneath the stars
( ) Been robbed
(X) Won a contest (SPELLING BEE!!)
(X) Run a red light
( ) Been suspended from school
(X) Had braces
(X) Felt like an outcast
( ) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Had deja vu
( ) Totaled a car
( ) Stolen a car
(X) Hated the way you look
(X) Witnessed a crime
( ) Been to a strip club
( ) Been to the opposite side of the world
(X) Swum in the ocean
(X) Felt like dying
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
( ) Sung karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t
(X) Made prank phone calls
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe :(
( ) Had a bonfire on the beach
(X) Crashed a party
( ) Seen a tornado
(X) Had a wish come true
( ) Gone bungee jumping
(X) Screamed in public
( ) Told a complete stranger you loved them
( ) Had a one night stand
( ) Kissed a mirror
(X) Had a dream that you married someone
(X) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
( ) Been a cheerleader (yeah, right.)
( ) Sat on a roof top
( ) Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours straight (maybe for four hours…)
(XXXXX) Stayed up all night
(X) Not taken a shower for three days (when I had knee surgery I wasn’t able to shower)
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
(X) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
( ) Gone streaking
( ) Been skinny dipping
( ) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
( ) Had sex in a public or semi-public place
(X) Been kissed by a complete stranger
( ) Broken a bone
(X) Caught a butterfly
( ) Mooned/flashed someone
(X) Had someone moon/flash you
( ) Cheated on a test
(X) Forgotten someone’s name
(X) Slept naked
15. Posted by Molly on October 11, 2006
I would totally kill to take the two of you to a strip club. But I doubt Ms. H can be talked into it.
16. Posted by Ray on October 11, 2006
Ray: I just use any old excuse to call you "nice boy," because it's amusingly cute to watch you get all rankled.
Hm, why wouldn't Hiromi go to a strip club? Social anthropological experiment and all. I bet she would.
Velvet: Heya, girl! Nice to meet you. Loooove your blog.
Hm, given yours is at least partially a dating blog, and I've read about some of the sorrier guys you've had to deal with, I'd say you qualify for checking off "touched a snake," even if it's kind of not what they meant. ;-)
AAG: But have you ever had unrequited love for a pot-smoking cheerleader?
And of COURSE you can come. (Um, heh, actually in any way that sentence is read--yes, you can.)
Brandon: That's okay, I hear cheerleaders are overrated. What you want is a gymnast. Or a contortionist. Or dual-torso-ed conjoined female twins.
Molly: Hi there, nice to meet you. My shoplifting story is very boring. I stole postcards (one of which, I still remember, was a cover of a Cramps album). Later, while still all flushed with the moment, a friend of mine who I showed my booty to berated me and made me feel like a shameful, heartless worm for having done it. So I got my karmic punishment quickly.
The tornado: I was inside a house with a lot of big glass windows when a freak tornado touched down in the neighborhood. I couldn't see anything for about five minutes; it was all black and violent rain and wind storms; so much so that I got nervous and left to go into the room with the fewest windows in it. Then it stopped just as suddenly. The phone rang, and it was a neighbor asking me if i was okay. I asked what she was talking about; she told me to look outside. The whole neighborhood was all fallen trees and power lines. There was a tree that had fallen into the house next to the one I was in; there was a tree that fell and missed my car by about a foot. And yet, my house and my car and myself were all perfectly untouched. So, I saw a tornado from the inside.
And girl, you've got a lot of blank spots on there yet. You'd better get to work!
17. Posted by Miss Syl on October 11, 2006
Ray, just make sure you get some pictures of that. I'll even fund a lap dance.
Molly, hell, what didn't i shoplift when I was a lad. Books, comics, booze, porn, lighter fluid.
Ray, next time I do crime, you're comin' with me.
18. Posted by Elvis on October 11, 2006
I'm too afraid of either the covers coming off and someone coming in or me dying in my sleep and someone thinking I'm a nympho freak or something;)
And no, I've never been dumped, but I also don't have many relationships to speak of so I guess it's a good and bad thing. My last relationship kind of just....ended.
19. Posted by notcarrie on October 11, 2006
Karl: Come down here and do crimes. Our police department is completely disfunctional, we can get away with pretty much anything.
Syl: I'll let her tell you her reasons, but I've already tried that angle and no dice.
20. Posted by Ray on October 11, 2006
X) Smoked a joint
( ) Done cocaine
(X) Been in love
( ) Had a threesome
(X) Been dumped
(X) Shoplifted
( ) Had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back
( ) Been arrested
(X) Made out with a stranger
(X) Gone on a blind date
( ) Had a crush on a teacher - I'm not into scholarly types
( ) Been to Europe
( ) Been to Canada
(X) Been to Mexico
(X) Seen someone die
( ) Thrown up in a bar
(X) Met a celebrity
(X) Met someone from the internet in person
( ) Been moshing at a concert
( ) Gone backstage at a concert
(X) Lain outside in the grass and watched cloud shapes go by
(X) Made a snow angel
(X) Flown a kite
( ) Cheated while playing a game
(X) Been lonely
( ) Fallen asleep at work
(X) Fallen asleep at school
( ) Used a fake ID (never had to, I always got let in or bought for) Same here.
( ) Been kicked out of a bar
( ) Felt an earthquake
(X) Touched a snake
(X) Slept beneath the stars
( ) Been robbed
(X) Won a contest
(X) Run a red light
( ) Been suspended from school
( ) Had braces
(X) Felt like an outcast
( ) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Had deja vu
(X) Totaled a car
( ) Stolen a car
( ) Hated the way you look
(X) Witnessed a crime
( ) Been to a strip club
( ) Been to the opposite side of the world
(X) Swum in the ocean
(X) Felt like dying
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Sung karaoke
( ) Paid for a meal with only coins
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t
(X) Made prank phone calls
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(X) Had a bonfire on the beach
(X) Crashed a party
(X) Seen a tornado
(X) Had a wish come true
( ) Gone bungee jumping
( ) Screamed in public
( ) Told a complete stranger you loved them
( ) Had a one night stand
( ) Kissed a mirror
( ) Had a dream that you married someone
(X) Gotten your fingers stuck together with super glue
(X) Been a cheerleader
(X) Sat on a roof top
( ) Talked on the phone for more than 6 hours straight
(X) Stayed up all night
(X) Not taken a shower for three days
( ) Made contact with a ghost while playing a Ouija board
(X) Had more than 30 pairs of shoes at a time
(X) Gone streaking (this & the next 2 cuz I grew up in the country)
(X) Been skinny dipping
(X) Been pushed into a pool/lake with all your clothes on
(X) Had sex in a public or semi-public place
(X) Been kissed by a complete stranger
( ) Broken a bone
(X) Caught a butterfly
(X) Mooned/flashed someone
(X) Had someone moon/flash you
(X) Cheated on a test
(X) Forgotten someone’s name
(X) Slept naked
21. Posted by TravelingMermaid on October 11, 2006
OH, miscellaneous comments:
Grew up in tornado alley - seen several.
Never been to a strip club - why? They're all gay anyway, what's the point?
Cheerleaders are as flexible as gymnists.
Totaled a car twice within 6 months because of #1
Really, really miss skinny dipping.
Any other questions?
22. Posted by TravelingMermaid on October 11, 2006
Uuuuhhh, strip clubs...
There's no nice way to put it. They're lowbrow. And full of humanity. That combo gives me the heebie jeebies.
They're challenging to me, but not necessarily in a good way.
23. Posted by Hiromi on October 11, 2006
See, H, it's the humanity i go for. All that lovely, sweaty, shiny humanity.
24. Posted by Elvis on October 11, 2006
NotCarrie: Someone running in? Do you have roommates? Yeah, then that might be more difficult, I suppose.
Though, on the other hand, once I was a guest staying over somewhere and the phone rang really, really late at night and it took the person who actually lived there a while to wake up and get it, so I started to get up to get the phone, because I thought it might be an emergency. As I swung open the door of the room I was sleeping in, he dashed to the phone to pick it up, all in the buff. He looked hot, all disheveled from sleep and all wiry and naked.
I quickly moved in and hit that, as they say, and we dated for many months.
So you never know. Perhaps your naked sleeping will bring you good luck!
Ray: Well, a girll's gotta do what a girl wants to do. But I would like to go, just to get an idea of what it's like on the inside. I've had friends who were strippers, but I felt odd suggesting going to watch them work. I mean, they don't come to my workplace and stare at me doing my job. That's just weird. I've tried for a while to get any of my male friends to bring me. No one ever will, though. Actually, though I'm curious, I don't expect to find it particularly arousing. I've seen male strippers at parties and I mostly just find the whole experience sad, not sexy. You never know of course, but...
However, I'm not *against* stripping as an art, a striptease by someone you like in private, or doing one for them, or a lap dance, or being stripped BY them...these things I like.
TM: Yeah, I have a question. Why don't you go skinny dipping anymore?
Hiromi: I have a fascination with the lowbrow; and I don't think "lowbrow" is necessarily a negative--just different. But then, I grew up in an extended family that loved professional wrestling and the Three Stooges.
I like investigating any world that's not completely open and public. But probably for other reasons than other people like these worlds. See comments to Ray above for more on my thoughts on the issue...
Karl: Yeah, we all know how you love shiny things.
All I gotta say is, Just remember, you've offered to pay for my lapdance. No take backs. You're buying me one. And then you can buy me a second one where you are the guinea pig and the dancer gives you one so that she can demonstrate to me all the good moves to use on a guy.
25. Posted by Miss Syl on October 12, 2006
I'm throwing down the gauntlet.
Lowbrow is bad. Even worse is the fear of criticizing that which is lowbrow for fear of being called "elitist."
If lowbrow were self-contained, I can overlook it. But it isn't. It metastasizes. It proliferates. I'm sick of living amongst dumbasses in a dumb culture, where a misplaced sense of egalitarianism has produced a nation of people unable to correctly identify on which coast the U.S. capital lies, but are able to correctly identify porn stars.
26. Posted by Hiromi on October 12, 2006
Ms Syl,
Because I have nowhere to dip!
BTW- the strip club thing? I,of course, thought of MALE stippers. As far as female, haven't been there either, not into girls, but for men to go doesn't bother me.
This isn't fair, I miss all the good conversations during the day because my work blocks your site. Damn.
Have a good day, babe!
27. Posted by TravelingMermaid on October 12, 2006
Hiromi: Okay, this is probably fodder for an entirely different post, but see, you're equating lowbrow with stupidity and I don't believe they are one and the same. There ARE people who ONLY enjoy lowbrow things and who CHOOSE to be ignorant and proud of it. I'd argue that there are ALSO people who ONLY enjoy highbrow things and who CHOOSE to be ignorant and proud of it. The immediate image that comes to my mind for that one is Paris Hilton, but there are many non-famous examples.
To me, you can eat caviar and you can eat a corn dog on a stick and they can be equally liked and appreciated despite one having "highbrow" and one having "lowbrow" associations. I think it's the same with cultural aspects other than food. This does not mean that there are no stupid or narrow lowbrow activities. But then again, so is foxhunting stupid and narrow.
I don't mean to imply anyone has to like all of them or any of them--it's a matter of personal taste. Any activity that is harmful or prejudiced or limiting deserves criticism. Pride in ignorance deserves crticism. But not everyone who enjoys lowbrow culture is also proud of being ignorant--and in fact they aren't all ignorant just because they enjoy it. Lowbrow simply can't be used as a measure of intelligence, any more than highbrow can. I'm not saying you were necessarily implying this part, but I have majojr issues with this area, probably due to my own family history. It bothers me that people are assumed to be not as intelligent merely because they didn't have the financial means or access to formal education or highbrow activities. Perhaps their experience is forcibly not so broad as it could be, therefore they don't know some things. But it doesn't mean they're unintelligent or unwilling to learn. Just because the person can only afford to go to NASCAR rather than Ascot and chooses to allow him/herself that outlet so he/she has SOMETHING to enjoy in his/her hard life doesn't mean he/she deserves to be treated with disdain and like he/she is an idiot.
Note, this is not a DEFENSE of all lowbrow activities or culture as all good. For instance, I wasn't saying in the case of the strip club I thought I would necessarily like that particular piece of lowbrow. I was only saying that I'd like to see it to know what it's about. This is the case with all things, low and high brow. I like experiencing things to see what they're about. This may come from being a writer. I can't write as accurately if I don't experience the things.
But it IS an acknowledgement that they are not all harmful, and they do not all bring us down into the gutter. And this is not because I'm afraid of being called elitist. I'm not standing outside of the lowbrow and looking down at it and saying, "let the poor folks have their trash, dear things." I'm saying there are reasons these cultural activities evolved as they did, and in many cases they DO contribute to the social fabric. Think jazz, for instance. NOW it's highbrow. It USED to be lowbrow.
28. Posted by Miss Syl on October 12, 2006
TM I don't read from work either. Have to wait till I get home to answer everyone (if I have time!) and/or post.
I think it was entirely valid to think of a male strip club. I thought of both. I've never been to either. I've seen male strippers at parties, but never in a club.
29. Posted by Miss Syl on October 12, 2006
Oh my...I've touched plenty of snakes! Hee hee. So thanks, I'll take that one as well!
30. Posted by Velvet on October 12, 2006
Sorry about the hijack, Syl, but it came up, so...
I think we're talking about two different things. I don't object to the mere presence of lowbrow-ness, nor do I object to people engaging in them, because that would be hypocritical.
What I object to is this:
We have a culture of "egalitarianism" that has equalized all things and all opinions. Everyone's opinion is given the same weight, despite the quality of said opinion.
This has evolved out of a (rightful) move away from prudery and censorship and the like. However, it's gotten out of hand.
I'm in no way advocating the elimination of these places. What I'm objecting to is the way that "egalitarianism" has allowed these places to become public, mainstream, and ubiquitous.
This matters to me because I don't want to live in that kind of country. I don't want to live somewhere that the commodification and homogenization of sex and its public consumption is acceptable. This is affecting the quality of our culture, just like the ubiquitization of pre-processed food is ruining our food culture.
This does not mean that I'm advocating a return to Victorian ideas about sex, that it's shameful and we need to put covers on piano legs forthwith, or that we need to revert to growing our own food. The choices aren't that stark.
31. Posted by Hiromi on October 12, 2006
I'm pausing, because I don't have my asbestos suit handy. And I'm not convinced I fully understand everything that's been written in the comments. But I suspect that Hiromi is in fact talking about two different things. because the lowbrow she threw down the gauntlet on wasn't the same as the egalitarian she argued in her later comment, based on what I've read.
Which drew me in, because I AM a hypocrite, and I loathe most forms of lobrau culture (and where's the umlaut key when you're trying to be ironic?) and was prepared to help defend that particular gauntlet. Yet, at the same time, I don't mind strippers. Which might not be as incidental here as I would like it to be.
"lowbrow" is an aesthetic term. It's been defined many times, including wikipedia if you care. Personally, I prefer Art history/philosophy prof Wendy Stiener's version. Either way, it's separate from the idea of social egalitariansim.
S.E. as applied to culture and specifically sexual mores leads to an (incidental) overlap with the concept of low brow culture. I seriously object to the idea of social egalitarianism as well, and I am an elitist, but that's beside the point (my point anyway).
The real point is the problem of lowbow culture itself. I'll grant Syl's argument that there's no correlation between culture preference and intelligence/ignorance/whatever yardstic of astuteness you wish to pick; Larry Flynt was an excellent example of an extremely smart guy with aesthetics that literally make my skin crawl. Likewise, Princes Phillip and Charles, both connosieurs of highbrow culture, both incredibly worthless individuals on the whole. But these are exceptions that prove the rule. On the whole, Low brow or "popular" culture promotes the idea of instant gratification of base desires without effort or consequence. There is no restraint. For most people, that turns out to be bad; it encourages intellectual (and moral) laziness.
For example, I could now continue this discussion and get into the whole porn star/stripper thing, but instead I'm gonna go and watch CSI Miami because that's how lazy lowbrow culture has made me. I should be spanked. No, really.
32. Posted by Buck on October 13, 2006