The "Have You Ever" Meme

Things I have done are in bold:

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain (Does Diamondhead count?)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone (a bath yes, but no candles.)
08. Said "I love you" and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa (the stairs were closed for renovations when I was there or I would have)
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne (Tipsy, but not drunk)
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse of the moon.
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe 
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs (my IPod has, but I haven't)
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie (Was an extra in the movie "Hair")
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice (I've been to Venice and I've ridden in a gondola at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas)
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert" (Once - as a mother of 3 young children trapped in the house for several days by a bad snowstorm.  I called up ABC news to report that our street hadn't been plowed and they sent a team in by 4-wheel drive to interview me.)
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (a BB gun)
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours (Not sure but I think I did after having surgery)
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
30. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey (I think I read one or the other for school.  Maybe both.  I don't remember)
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life

Comments

[Oceanguy]

Same question I asked Patti... #135 Who is the author?

[Gail]

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte.

[DRaftervoi]

An extra in HAIR? Did you get any actual screen time?

[Gail]

You know, I never even saw the movie (it bombed). They asked for students from George Washington U to be extras for a crowd scene, and I went down there with my husband and a few friends. They wanted us to just hang out, which we did. I don't actually know if we made it on camera.

By the time they made the movie in the late 70s, the whole hippy thing was passe. I remember that they wanted us to dress up in "groovy" clothing, and we didn't have anything except our jeans and t-shirts. No luv beads, no colored glasses, no peace sign necklaces, no Nehru jackets, etc etc.

[DRaftervoi]

Oh, jeez, you ought to rent it and see if you or your husband...or any of your friends... are visible. Of course, I'm asking you to endure a terrible film, but what is LIFE without SACRIFICE. Besides, if you WERE onscreen for a femtosecond, wouldn't you want to show your children? So...do it for the children, Gail. Endure "HAIR."

The film was notable to me because the lead singer of the Shirts, a nice little CBGBs new-wave band, had a role in it.

[Shirl]

I'm little miss echo: Hair????

[Gail]

Draftervoi: If we did make it onscreen, it would have been from a distance, and we would have blended in with everyone else. But now you've gotten me thinking and I am curious. I will rent it one of these days and have a look. I'll report back if I am visible.

Shirl: It was the 70s, I was a college student on a very limited budget, it was fun and it didn't cost anything. How could I resist?

[DRaftervoi]

Hey, as you know, I'm in the video of KILL THE POOR for all of, what? 1.15 seconds? A scuffle in the mosh pit with a couple of skinheads, and a quick pan across a VERY skinny DRaftervoi's ugly mug and there you go: how fleeting is fame.

But yeah, Gail, you ought to see it, if only to see how bad of a movie it was. On a conceptual level, making a movie of the iconic hippie Dawning Of The Age Of Aquariums stage play in 1979 was a bit out-of-sync. We weren't far away from the times for nostalgia to have kicked in, and the same goes for high camp...who, exactly, did they think the audience for that turkey was going to be? 1979 was still a few years shy of the Dawn of the Yuppie, but it was a long, strange trip(e) from 1968. By '79, no one really cared anymore. So they get nude on stage? So what?

But now, from the perspective of 2006, hey...you were in HAIR! A movie, about, like, uh, when, like, uh, the length of your uh, hair, was like, important.

It ain't freakin' Sophocles, but it's all we got.

[caveblogem]

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I have done a sort of statistical study of responses to this meme, and that yours was one of the blogs chosen for the sample. (I tried to let the unwitting participants know through trackbacks, but apparently the spam-filters caught all but a few of these).

The first of the results are posted on my site here.