Admit it! You are a bit childish!

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

I found this list of "59 Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30", and decided to check how many puerile things on the list I had done. How many have you done? Fess up in the poll! On to the list:

1. Coin his own nickname.
2. Use a wallet that is fastened with Velcro.
3. Rank his friends in order of best, second best, and so on.
4. Hacky sack.
5. Name his penis his name plus junior.
6. Hang art with tape.
7. Hang The Scream, unless he stole it from the Munch museum in Oslo.
8. Ask a policeman, "You ever shoot anybody with that thing?"
9. Ask a woman, "Hey, you got a license for that ass?"
10. Skip.
11. Take a camera to a nude beach.
12. Let his father do his taxes.
13. Tap on the glass.
14. Shout out a response to "Are you ready to rock?"
15. Use the word collated on his resume.
16. Hold a weekly house meeting with roommates.
17. Name pets after Middle Earth characters.
18. Jokingly flash gang signs while posing for wedding photos.
19. Give shout-outs.
20. Use numbers in place of words or locations, such as "the 411" for information, or "the 313" for Detroit.
21. Hug amusement-park characters.
22. Wear Disney-themed neckties.
23. Wake up to a "morning zoo."
24. Compare the trajectory of his life with those of the characters in Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant."
25. Request extra sprinkles.
26. Air drum.
27. Choose 69 as his jersey number.
28. Eat Oreo cookies in stages.
29. Volunteer to be a magician's assistant.
30. Sleep on a bare mattress.
31. End a conversation with "later skater."
32. Hold his lighter up at a concert.
33. Publicly greet friends by shouting, "What's up, you whore?"
34. Wear Converse All Stars with a tuxedo.
35. Propose via stadium Jumbotron.
36. Decide anything based on the ruminations of Howard Stern.
37. Call "shotgun" before getting in a car.
38. Dispute someone else's call of "shotgun."
39. Whine.
40. Mist up during Aerosmith's "Dream On."
41. Purchase fireworks.
42. Google the word v*gina.
43. Ride a pony.
44. Sport an ironic mustache.
45. Hit 13 against a 6.
46. Organize a party bus.
47. Say "two points" every time he throws something in the trash.
48. Buy a novelty postcard in another country of topless women on a beach and write, "Wish you were here" on it.
49. Keg stands.
50. Purchase home-brewing paraphernalia.
51. The John Travolta point-to-the-ceiling-point-to-the-floor dance move; also that one from Pulp Fiction.
52. Put less than ten dollars' worth of gas in the tank.
53. Keep a minuscule amount of marijuana extremely well hidden.
54. Read The Fountainhead.
55. Watch the Pink Floyd laser light show at a planetarium.
56. Refer to his girlfriend's breasts as "the twins."
57. Own a vanity plate.
58. Whippits.
59. Say goodbye to anyone by tapping his chest and even so much as whispering, "Peace out."

I had done 5 items (you guess which!) on the list before reading it, and as a testament to my immaturity, I did google the v-word upon reading item#42. It produced 28.8 million google hits. I then combined that word with the text string "Peter Gustafsson" which produced 9 hits. One of those listed my name as "phographer" and another in the "Golf Gazette", I do not know which is more unsettling or funnier in the context. I then proceeded to test with various other f.net names to see if someone else would beat the score of 9. Inquartata held the lead with 19 hits for a long time, until a score of 74 hits was achieved. I will let it be a exercise for the reader as to whom that person is.

OK - how many had you done? Answer the poll!


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[Mr Epee]

Following PG's example, I did Google my real name along with the word Vag*na. Surprisingly, it did turn up a hit... some apparently crazy person blogging about me based on a newspaper article they'd read... followed by separate discussion that required the use of the word Vag*na.

I was a little disturbed...

[HookUpandFence]

I had _NO_ idea I was so old. I have got to make some changes... starting with #42

[Ramrod]

Whoa. Maybe I did it wrong but I got 202 hits.

It looked like a bunch of references to the show V*gina Monologues.

[Larrison]

aaah.... 19? And a few not on the list I'm astonished to say.....

[Fencergrl]

LOL.... men! *fencergrl laughs and shakes her head*

[fencerbill]

Over half.

[D'Art]

Whoa. Maybe I did it wrong but I got 202 hits.

I got about 42,500.....

Worryingly, the top hit was about Balinese elephants, and the second was something that can't be discussed on a family forum.....

[sabreur]

I got 697K hits when I just googled my name and the word under discussion--but that is probably because both my family and given names are fairly common normal words as well. When I put my name in parens, I got 61 hits.

There is evidently some semi-perverse individual with my name out there, from what I could judge from those 61 hits....

[fencerbill]

Following PG's example, I did Google my real name along with the word Vag*na. Surprisingly, it did turn up a hit... some apparently crazy person blogging about me based on a newspaper article they'd read... followed by separate discussion that required the use of the word Vag*na.

I was a little disturbed...

I got 3,110,000! Can anybody beat that?


Which supports the premise of the thread.

[Inquartata]

"And the number of the counting shall be: three."

[JasminaJ]

oooh, Inq.! You fibbed!

Men are funny, Fencergrl! Can't live with 'em, can't shoot them!

[Fencergrl]

I know... as women, I think most of us would be bothered by someone we slept with discussing our sex life on the internet..... guys... well they appear flattered.

[latenight]

134,000...

and number 18........I'm soooooo guilty.

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

134,000...

Waitaminute! I googled your real name - as a complete textstring - and got exactly 0 hits. When I googled with "latenight" I got a bit more than 500 hits. You can not just only use your common first name to get a huge count! No fair!


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[Aqua_volans]

hmmm. im 16 and have done 5 things there... oh yes my name only turned up 1 hit.

[latenight]

Hi!




Waitaminute! I googled your real name - as a complete textstring - and got exactly 0 hits. When I googled with "latenight" I got a bit more than 500 hits. You can not just only use your common first name to get a huge count! No fair!


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

ok, that way I got Results 1 - 10 of about 29

[oiuyt]

Score: 0.

Does help that I've had only just over a month in which to build my score.

-B

[swordwench]

I know... as women, I think most of us would be bothered by someone we slept with discussing our sex life on the internet..... guys... well they appear flattered.

I dunno, FG - it depends on what they're saying about you!

As for me, I confess that I answered yes to 2 on the list - #17 and #37 - and the latter only because I suffer from serious motion sickness.

Yeah, I did the juvenile google thing and come up with 0 hits. I've googled my own name before and come up with myself (my pathetic fencing results and some software-related junk), a housewife in California who's involved in her kids' school activities, and a teenaged gamer. Not a very common name. Happily, no nasty posts by any ex. Maybe chivalry's not dead.

[Josephine25]

I don't want to admit it -crys- even through I'm allowed to be since I'm only 14.