God this must've taken you ages Kerry!
I will choose and post options later on - in the meantime, replying so I see it popping up in the new replies to my post section to remind me to fill it in!
I'd love to go swimming with dolphins! :D
I'd also love to spend the night in an authentic haunted house, but there would have to be other people with me. I couldn't do it alone, I don't think. :D
Nice poll Kerry! Thanks for posting it! :D
SEE?? you SAY you don't like that scary stuff but I think you do really!
pps. What's a "yurt"?
It looks like swimming with dolphins is one of the most popular choices. 6 people out of 7 voted for it.
I'd love to swim with dolphins. They are amazing animals, and probably my very favorite, just after dogs. They are so cute, and they love humans, even in the wild. Nobody knows why they instictively bond with people. Wild dolphins have been known to approach humans and interact with them while swimming. They have also been known to circle humans while swimming to fend off a potential shark attack. Dolphins have even saved drowning humans by giving them a ride to shore; sometimes beaching themselves in the process. :'(
Who couldn't love those sweet, beautiful animals? :D
And they've got cute lil smiles too, David! ;D
(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j43/Davidindy/DOLPHINS2_lg.jpg)
Aww! :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
He he, nobody wants to swim the English channel - zero votes so far.
And nobody wants to join me in digging for dinosaur bones - only one vote and that was me ;D.
Haven't read the other answers yet. Will do now.
Great idea for a thread Kerry! :)
me!! I want to dig up dinosaur bones!!!
I would have liked to tick the dino dig. Alas, I must be a realist and I know for sure that my lower lumbar wouldn't allow it. Sad but true. :-\
The first time I read that I thought you said you would like to "tick a dingo dog". :laugh: :laugh:
I couldn't figure out what you were talking about Kerry! Maybe I need some glasses.... or some medication! :-\
David, before you hit the hay tonight, scoot on over to my new thread "Pet Fashion Week in NY" in BetterMost Current Events. There are lots of cute doggie pics to be seen. They're the kinda dogs you can safely pat without the risk of losing your hand - unlike a dingo! :o ;) :D
Ooh ....... Ooh ...... I found the moonlight scene ... aaaaarh so beautiful!
You're welcome Kerry ... and Clarissa! If you love the ocean and you love dolphins you have GOT TO see The Big Blue .... gorgeous gorgeous film!!
Susie (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_1_201.gif)
Oh, and I have designed my own cocktail: the Cosmo-Paul-itan. PM me if you'd like the recipe!
Thanks Susie for telling us about that movie! :D
I'm planning to watch it sometime. It looks very beautiful. :)
I'd love to try a Cosmo-Paul-itan! 8)
How about posting the recipe here, so we can all enjoy it?! :D
(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ADL/AD-DD6004~Martini-Cosmo-Posters.jpg)
It looks and sounds yummy. I'm sure I could Paulish off a few of them.
I love the new footer on your posts, David! :D
Is it a coyote or a wolf? It's stunning! :D
What does "Nahan rei ni wayon heon!" mean?
I'm beginning a knowledge quest. In other words, I'm here and I'm ready to learn.
That Cosmo-Paul-itan sounds yummy and quite a bit like the Cape Cawduh drink I want to create!
You all, I got to order Cape Cawduhs and other drinks at the Ranchman's bar with the actual creator of the Cosmo-Paul-itan himself! :-* How lucky am I??
OK! Here goes: this recipe is different from the usual sick-sweet cosmos one gets at most bars. It's more tangy.Cosmo-Paul-itan3 parts Stoly Cranberry
1 part Cointreau (or a little more if you like it sweeter)
1 part fresh lime juice
splash Pomegranite juice (could use cranberry juice; it's mostly for color)
Fill cocktail shaker with ice halfway
Add above ingredients
ShakeShakeShake!
Strain into chilled cocktail glass
Garnish with lime twist
Enjoy!(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ADL/AD-DD6004~Martini-Cosmo-Posters.jpg)
Hi Kerry! :D
I believe the animal in my sig line is a wolf. A Gray Timberwolf. Most of the coyotes I've seen around here are brown; although I think they have gray coyotes out west. Around here they're brown, or a brown and gray mixture.
The sentence under the wolf is Lakota and it means "I'm still here" (literally "I'm still alive" but most modern day Sioux will interpret it to mean "I'm still here"). The wolf is a symbol of power and ESPECIALLY of wisdom to the Lakota. So, what I'm saying in my sig line is I'm beginning a knowledge quest. In other words, I'm here and I'm ready to learn.
That's what I'm TRYING to say, anyhow! ;) :D
It's a beautiful image, David. So wild and free! :D
Do I recall you mentioning at another thread that your name-animal or totem is the wolf? I apologise if I've got those terms wrong. I seem to remember you mentioned something about that. It sounded very interesting to me, because so much more thought and consideration appeared to go into the naming of a Sioux child, in comparison to the way children are named in the western tradition.
David, I hope you don't mind that I've saved a copy of your beautiful lunar wolf for myself! :D
Hey Kerry! Technically no. But I have such a deep love for the wolf (and other canine animals such as dogs and coyotes) it probably should be. My mother always told me I was an eagle when I was small. In fact she named me "Little Eagle" (not an official name. More like a nick name) and when I was a teenager a tribal elder told me my spirit was a horse; or more specifically a spirit horse and I was given the name Yamni Tasunka (Three Spirit Horses). But I have met many wolf spirits in my life. Many people possess the wolf and it is an excellent animal to be associated with. :D
That is so much more romantic than the way I got my name, David! :)
Let me tell you how I came to be named Kerry.
During my mother's pregnancy, my parent's short-listed three possible names for me, should it happen that I was a boy. They were hoping desperately for a girl, because they already had three sons. But I digress, the names were David :D, Stephen and Richard (which is my middle name). The story goes that shortly after my birth, my three brothers visited my Mum in hospital. She told them the three possible names she was considering and there was apparently a near riot at the bed-side. They hated all three names! Why? Very important reasons for school boys. They knew boys at school named David, Stephen and Richard, who they didn't like, and didn't want a baby brother "named after them." So in desperation, Mum turned to the woman in the bed next to her and asked, "What have you named your baby son?" When the woman responded, "Kerry" (an unusual name for a boy at the time), my Mum declared to the family, "So be it!" And the rest is history. Mum got her way in small measure by giving me the middle name of Richard. My godmother, Dorothy (Yes, my godmother's name really is Dorothy! Please, no fairy godmother jokes! :laugh:), refused to call me Kerry 'cause she hated the name so much, preferring "Ricky" instead, until she finally relented when I reached my teens, and started calling me by my real name. I'm glad "Ricky" didn't catch on! I probably would have go the nickname of "Lucy" at school! :laugh:
Alas, not quite as romantic as soaring eagles and spirit horses! :'( ;) :)
Thank ya kindly, David. I'm more accustomed to it now. Wasn't so easy going through school with a "girl's name"! :-\ ::) ;)
Well, if it's any consolation, Kerry is a very popular boys name now. There are many guys named Kerry over here in the US. Who knows? Maybe it was YOU who started the trend, Kerry! :D
So many lovely ideas! You really inspired me a lot! Another thing I want to do before I die is to spend a week in the mountains running about with bare feet.....maybe I´ll do that in September......but I don´t have planned to die afterwards ;D.....
Dagi
I picked.....
Kiss a movie star
Love your body.
Travel from coast to coast across the USA
Do something you fear
Make love in a tent in Alberta
Smell snow.
Watch a lunar eclipse
Buy a cowboy hat in Wyoming.
Be an extra in a film
Shower under a waterfall.
Make a wish as you throw a coin into Rome’s Trevi fountain.
Spend the night in a haunted house.
Write a song.
Forgive yourself.
Go white water rafting
Yodel on a Swiss mountain
Meditate at Stonehenge.
Buy cowboy boots in Texas
Visit the Mona Lisa and smile at her.
Gallop a horse on a deserted beach.
Make love in a motel room in Wyoming.
Go on a fishing trip with your sweetie in the Big Horn Mountains.
Kerry, I was actually pleased to see I had done a few things on the list!
And it gave me a great idea for an extension to this poll. How about if we list all the things we've already done, and tell each other when/how we did them? :D
It's easy with cut 'n' paste! :laugh:
I'd love to read everyone's responses! :D
Here ya go, Kerry!
Very interesting responses, Chuck! :D
I always love reading responses to questionnaires! I'm just naturally nosey, I guess! ::) ;) :laugh:
Seriously, I was particularly interested to read your response to "Do something you fear." Can you actually remember the exact day you came out? That's amazing! And it was something you feared doing?
Chuck, could I tempt you to tell us more details about that fateful day in 1997?
I ask, because my experience of coming out appears to be very different to your own. I was always a "delicate" (aren't euphemisms wonderful things?! ;) ) kinda kid, so I guess I never really had to come out, as such. People seemed to just know, without me having to spell it out. :-\
The first person I formally told was my Mum. I was in my mid-teens. Hadn't yet consummated my fantasies, but was concerned about them and wanted to ask my Mum's advice. We were always close. I remember asking, "Should I see a psychiatrist?" She responded, quick as a flash, "Why, you're not mentally ill, are you?"
Would be interested to read of your coming out experience, Chuck. :)
I would be happy to share that story.
Do you want me to post here, or is there a more appropriate thread where it should go?
Chuck, I've just located the lovely conversation between you and Lee at the Coming Out thread. I have friends in the same situation as Lee (one, my ex partner of 15 years) and my heart really goes out to him.
Okay. Now listen to me all you "tropical people" out there! Snow doesn't smell! Not unless a dog or cat pees in it first.
Snow is frozen water and it doesn't smell.
;) ;) :D
Okay. Now that we've cleared that up, what does "Lay a wreath on the grieving plain" mean? I voted for it because I thought it sounded pretty, but I have no idea what it is. ???
Be an extra in a film.
Now – not a film as yet, but I have been an extra in 2 adverts and a Scottish soap opera! I was nearly I a film that’s being filmed currently with Biully Boyd and Robert Carslyle called the Stone of Destiny but they decided at the last minute because it was set in the 50’s they could have any extra with highlighted hair AT ALL! So I was out!
On a 1981 fishing trip (the one where Jack says, "Tell you what . . . truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it . . .") Jack says to Ennis, "It's gonna snow tonight for sure." And somewhere in the original short story, Annie Proulx says something about being able to smell snow coming. She says it has a gunmetal kinda smell. I went looking for the latter quote but couldn't find it (it's late here and I'm tired). Maybe it was not in BBM at all, but in one of the other "Open Range" stories. ???
Okay. Now listen to me all you "tropical people" out there! Snow doesn't smell! Not unless a dog or cat pees in it first.
Snow is frozen water and it doesn't smell.
;) ;) :D
Okay. Now that we've cleared that up, what does "Lay a wreath on the grieving plain" mean? I voted for it because I thought it sounded pretty, but I have no idea what it is. ???
Gee, you've done a lot, Kelda! :D
You definitely get 10 outa 10 from me for your peripheral brush with fame, by almost appearing in a film with Robert Carlyle! :o :D
He is a very fine actor, indeed. I first noticed him in "Priest," one of my favourite films! :D
I think snow smells! Ever since I was a kid I have said and heard "it smells like snow"!
Maybe thats just me! ;D
It does? I never can smell anything when I stick my nose in it! Maybe we just have weird snow up here. ???
I bet it's problably more a case of me being wierd than the snow! LOL
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
When ever it snows down here you cn just tell it's going too. The air has a different quality about it and the clouds look different.It's usually a fine line here that has to bbalanced on if we get snow. We usually get rain or ice. Sometimews sleet but usually rain or ice. It used to snow more here when i was a kid. the last snow of any signifigance we got was in 99 I beleive. Now significant for us is 3" or better and I think it was just about 3". We haven't had any snow since then other than flurries that didn't stick.
Kerry, I hope you realize I was just kidding when I typed that! Although I never did think snow had a smell to it. Maybe I should have inserted a :laugh: in my post. I thought I did, but when I went back and re read it a minute ago, I noticed I put a :D in there instead.
I was just kidding when I typed that, buddy!
[[[Kerry]]]
Become a vegetarian - it's a great thing to do
Go on a fishing trip with your sweetie in the Big Horn Mountains.
(You don't want to take me fishing with you! haha. I throw them back! Dad used to drag me on fishing trips when I was little. They would fill a pail with water and put the fish in it. I always dumped the fish back into the lake when they weren't looking. They soon stopped taking me along with them. I'm an animal lover and I can't help it!)
Take the next taxi to the airport and catch the next plane to anywhere.
(Me and a friend once went the airport for no reason and decided to buy roundtrip tickets to Chicago just for the hell of it. It was on Southwest Airlines and the tickets only cost $59.00 round trip. So, we flew to Chicago, spent the night there and flew back the next day. haha. Does that count?)
Run a marathon.
(I've ran the 500 Marathon twice. It starts in downtown Indy, and ends up in Speedway at the race track.)
Ride an elephant.
(Not an elephant, but I did ride a camel in Tangier, Morocco. Camels smell bad. :P )
David - the spontaneous plane ride is way cool as is you having done the marathon - twice - ack! a lot of hard work - I'd be blowing my own trumpet with that one a LOT more often - that is hard work there!
and david - rising a camel in tangiers - I've done that in tangiers too! I took a day trip from spain to tangiers in 2004. These pics make me realise I've lost a good amount of weight since there)
Great pics, Kelda! :D
There's another thread here at BetterMost that asks what job you know you could never do. I answered "Abattoir Slaughterman." Can I change that to "Snake Charmer"?! :o :laugh:
I was visiting a petting zoo once and a youngun near me copped a large, stinking, glob of green spit, all over the top of his head, from one of the resident camels. He was not impressed! :P
David - the spontaneous plane ride is way cool as is you having done the marathon - twice - ack! a lot of hard work - I'd be blowing my own trumpet with that one a LOT more often - that is hard work there!
and david - rising a camel in tangiers - I've done that in tangiers too! I took a day trip from spain to tangiers in 2004. These pics make me realise I've lost a good amount of weight since there)
he, he Sandy, you're in fine form today!! Since we're getting Paulitical here, I'm ready to start my Friday happy hour early with a tasty Cosmo-paul-itan!! The colour of it reminds me a little of the margarita I had with Luigi last week at a restaurant overlooking Denver. It was a prickly pear margarita in almost that same shade of pink. A very tasty treat indeed!!