1 |
Learn to sing it backwards. |
2 |
grow a beard |
3 |
read War And Peace |
4 |
read an entire copy of
Cross Rhythms magazine from cover to cover searching for mentions of Delirious? |
5 |
Start a band and release a
single and get it to number 1 before they do. |
6 |
Learn to sing it in 10
different languages |
7 |
See how many original
things you can come up with to kill time |
8 |
Start a thread on
suicide....no wait, nevermind. |
9 |
Without repeating one
thing, get to 101 things. |
10 |
Decide that number 9 is too
similar to number 7 and disqualify it. |
11 |
Listen to Mezza 3275 times. |
12 |
Listen to KOF 2649 times. |
13 |
Work out how many time you
could listen to all the other d: CDs. |
14 |
Download as many d: MP3's
as you can find. Download times will vary dependant on connection and machine speed. |
15 |
Ask the d: list, if there
are any new MP3's on the net. |
16 |
After your single goes no.
1, go on tour with d: |
17 |
Wonder many times whether
Martin really is Chesney Hawkes or not. |
18 |
Sort out the mess of two
people adding to the list at once! |
19 |
Decide that actually
there's going to be more of a problem with the number of >>>s in the message and
sort that out instead |
20 |
Go to lots of boyzone
concerts |
21 |
Sort out your keyboard
error that you made in an earlier post |
22 |
Play it at every cell
meeting for the remaining Tuesdays |
23 |
Go around singing the
chorus, until everyone you know has it in their heads. |
24 |
Ask Furious, if the single
version will be different in any way |
25 |
Buy a new keyboard |
26 |
Kidnap d: and don't let them go until
they led worship at Pinhoe Road |
27 |
Read Purepop and find some proof that
Mart did look like Chesney |
28 |
Realise its time to go to bed |
29 |
Go to bed and sleep for 8 of the hours
before church tomorrow |
30 |
Tell all your friends to get it because
they SWEAR in it. |
31 |
Explain to your hairdresser why they
SWEAR in it. |
32 |
Discover, when revising for English,
that you predicted It's OK's release as far back as the 16th September in your English
essay, and show off how prophetic you are. |
33 |
Write your English coursework, trying
to fit in delirious? quotes, pretending that when you quote from Martin Smith, that Smith
is an esteemed critic on Fowles' "The Collector". |
34 |
Perform mundane updates on
www.spurious.org that will have d:starved people rushing to look at them, only to discover
it's Scooby's recipe for chocolate hobnobs. |
35 |
Attempt to eat a custard cream by only
eating the biscuit bit and bing left with a slab of custard cream inside bit. Mmmmm. |
36 |
Attend 16 Sunday Services (not counting
extra Christmas ones) and ponder the statement "Belief was never meant to be
boring"!!! |
37 |
Read a Douglas Coupland novel and see
where Jon gets his inspiration from. |
38 |
Move this from when I first put it at
29...... Re-insert Mike Rimmer's number 21 at number 30. because @ndy did a number 18 |
39 |
Realise Adam already put in Mike's
point at 29, then that he's added a load more just a few minustes before me and oh dear
this is getting messy lets add mine again and hope that this doesn't get any worse :o( |
40 |
Design a groovy CD insert for It's OK
single |
41 |
Realise someone's already done number
40 so you really ought to come up with a better idea |
42 |
Wonder if this could be published in a
book and if people would find it amusing after the event or not? |
43 |
Come up with another 101 list - call it
something like "101 Things to do with an OT e-mail discussion group" |
44 |
Try and improve your level of humour
when adding to the list......but hey! - it's ok |
45 |
Suggest that Adam/Scooby or
whoever get this on spurious with an auto list counter to stop 18 happening |
46 |
Have a couple of perfect
days :) |
47 |
Go play paintball and think
that you got hit when you really didn't so that you could have stayed in the game and won
it for your team, but you were stupid enough to call yourself dead |
48 |
Change your clocks back an
hour for daylight savings time |
49 |
Drink cappuccino |
50 |
Grow your short hair out |
51 |
Start jogging |
52 |
Hope that no one adds at
the same time as me so that mAd FiDdLeR doesn't have to sweat anymore |
53 |
Try to type mAd FiDdLeR 50
times fast |
54 |
Try and use the phrase
"pretty as hell" in as many conversations as youcan. Example: Instead of
"Wow, that girl is really hot!"...use..."That girl is pretty as hell." |
55 |
After reading number 46, find some one
to have perfect days with. |
56 |
Say to any mad d: fans that if they
want proof of d: selling out they have to buy a copy of the the new single as soon as it
comes out :0) |
57 |
Do some homework |
58 |
Scare people camping by putting piles
of stones around their tent. |
59 |
Wonder why people in horror films
dont head in the other direction when they hear the celloists. |
60 |
Make Al happy by buying a copy of any
My Life Story recording. |
61 |
Wonder if anyone will bother trying to
do all of the things on this list. |
62 |
See in the year 200 (add an extra 0 as
you think it should be 2000!) |
63 |
Read all of the 64 messages the list
receives on an average day. |
64 |
Stay up until the wee hours watching
"lost" films from your youth such as "The Care Bears Movie 2" or
"The Secret Of The Sword - The He-man/She-Ra full length animated feature film" |
65 |
Dress up as Luke Skywalker, or dress up
as Princess Leia and wear two bagels on the side of you're head and go to a fancy dress
party. (Guess what we did this weekend) |
66 |
Make Al exceriatingly happy by buying a
single called "Walk, Don't Walk" on 31st January 2000 (Containg the fantastic
line "Now the baby's cold and hungry, she didn't even feed the tamigotchi") |
67 |
Go to
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/primall/mahir/index.html and wet yourself laughing at how
pathetic this bloke is... |
68 |
Hope nobody's writing number 68+ while
you're trying to think of some stuff to write... |
69 |
Go to
http://www.unhindered.com/insp/humor/index.shtml and read the lists, especially the
elevator one... they are really funny if you are easily amused. |
70 |
Go trick 'er treating... |
71 |
Combine and Choreagraph CE 1-4, KOF,
LAINTC, and MEZZ into one big Broadway musical. |
72 |
Go door to door and see how many people
in your neighborhood know who D: is. |
73 |
Try to find and buy some property, and
declare it the official... D:Country! |
74 |
Make Martin President... or King or
whatever... |
75 |
Fall over dead on your keyboard as a
result of brain exhaustion from trying to think of this things... is there such a thing as
brain exhaustion? |
76 |
Realise that you've been away for the
weekend and have to catch up on 222 messages and sort out this list for some nice people!
So proceed to insert the old 64 at number 77! |
77 |
come into the station after being gone
36 hrs and find a bunch of messages about absolutely nothing, lay face first before the
Lord and pray very, very, very hard that your d: friends find a hobby....soon |
78 |
learn Perl |
79 |
learn to code raw HTML |
80 |
learn Lingo |
81 |
learn to talk Klingon. |
82 |
learn to play AbAug7 on the guitar. |
83 |
practise smiling for Photo-Me booths. |
84 |
Stop reading e-mails and do that work
that must be handed in at 4:30. |
85 |
Stop reading emails and try and write a
feature for cross Rhythms magazine. |
86 |
continue hoping that someone will send
me some interesting Delirious? questions to ask them on Thursday morning. |
87 |
realise that the emails you sent to
Mike must either have been uninteresting or not reached him as you sent at least 10
questions! |
88 |
Get very scared that your friends on
this list really do have no life outside of this list and d:gigs! |
89 |
Discover that you can't go to the d:
gig in Cambridge so decide to go to the one in London instead. |
90 |
GIVE BLOOD! |
91 |
Fix all the computers at my school. |
92 |
Fix all the computers that kids broke
while you were fixing all the computers at my school. |
93 |
Make a big floppy hat, decorate it with
lilies and turnips, paint a yellow spot right in the centre of it, sew a name tag inside
it, go for a ride in a double decker bus while wearing it, lose it outside Euston Station
in London, run around Trafalgar square pretending you are an llama, and eat a strawberry
and swede flavour ice cream. |