In response to the "I ___________ for a whole month" (smoked weed everyday, ate fast food for every meal, got drunk every day) shows that keep cropping up, I have decided to do the following:
1) Throw this question up to do an ILX brainstorm of things I could do everyday for a month. 2) Encourage participation of all types and qualities 3) Take the top five answers and place them into a poll 4) Run the poll for a week, and, pending the legality of the suggestion, attempt to do the thing suggested every day for a whole month.
I will not: Smoke weed ever day, get drunk every day, eat fast food for every meal.
What have you got? Mind you, I do have a job and would like to keep it.
― B.L.A.M., Wednesday, 26 March 2008 19:49 (eighteen years ago)
different girl
― remy bean, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 19:50 (eighteen years ago)
Also, I are married, and would like to remain so.
― B.L.A.M., Wednesday, 26 March 2008 19:59 (eighteen years ago)
read from a religious text (bible, torah, koran, bgagavad gita, etc etc) of your choosing. can be repeated with different texts.
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 20:00 (eighteen years ago)
http://timeouttunnel.com/images/pictures/albums/vintage_timeout/24816031_9b6344b7d1_o.jpg
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 20:01 (eighteen years ago)
every day for a month, listen to a different jimmy buffet album.
― kenan, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:33 (eighteen years ago)
You should write an entire memoir every day for a year and then write a memoir about the experience.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:36 (eighteen years ago)
rememoirs?
― JTS, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:48 (eighteen years ago)
Every day try a new flavor of ice cream at Baskin Robbins.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:52 (eighteen years ago)
Charity work
― Øystein, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 21:53 (eighteen years ago)
Keep 'em comin, guys.
― B.L.A.M., Wednesday, 26 March 2008 22:01 (eighteen years ago)
self portrait in different media
― Slumpman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:24 (eighteen years ago)
knock on someones door and run away
― Slumpman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:25 (eighteen years ago)
Mock a different tragedy to the survivors of it.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:25 (eighteen years ago)
everyday for a month: refrain from laughing out of politeness i bet it can't be done.
― Slumpman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:28 (eighteen years ago)
I've tried that - it turns you into a bitter person with a constant internal monologue of "That wasn't funny".
― robertwolf8080, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:32 (eighteen years ago)
study for the bar exam
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:34 (eighteen years ago)
did you replace the polite laughter with anything verbal or just glare at people?
xp
― Slumpman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:34 (eighteen years ago)
graffiti a bathroom stall
30 different ones or just one, either way
― milo z, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:36 (eighteen years ago)
draw a one-panel cartoon with no more than two lines of dialogue. stickmen are allowed.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:41 (eighteen years ago)
troll a non-ILX message board, provide links here
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:45 (eighteen years ago)
go to a range and fire a different gun
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:46 (eighteen years ago)
rob the same liquor store every day
― milo z, Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:00 (eighteen years ago)
eat an apple
― felicity, Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:06 (eighteen years ago)
Make a new friend! Everyday!
― Slumpman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:06 (eighteen years ago)
In real life i mean.
― Slumpman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:07 (eighteen years ago)
1. Every day, take a photo of a different bathroom/restroom toilet, which presumably, you've used. 2. Every day, make friends with a different dog/cat/hamster/animal of yr choice. 3. Every day, create a new word/name for a bit of yr life, a word that to the best of yr research, has never been used. 4. Every day, listen to a song you have never heard by an artist you have never heard of. 5. Count how many words you speak. At the end of the month, total them.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:47 (eighteen years ago)
Are you trying to make him a combination of Stuart Smalley and Rain Man?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:53 (eighteen years ago)
Ghost-ride the whip
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 27 March 2008 01:54 (eighteen years ago)
watch one of these http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/video.php
― caek, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:04 (eighteen years ago)
buy me a thoughtful gift!
― 69, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:18 (eighteen years ago)
Perhaps, but that's only 2 out of 5. Throw in Paul Rubens, Scott Seward, and GG Allin and we may have a winner.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:21 (eighteen years ago)
On the first day of the month, hold your breath for a decent amount of time. Say, 45 seconds. Every day of the month, increase this number by 2 seconds. If for some reason you are a master breath holder, increase the starting number, or if you have severe asthma, start at 5 seconds.
― Z S, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:29 (eighteen years ago)
learn a new word in a foreign language
read a page of Ulysses/Finnegan's Wake (and whatever explanatory text you need for this not to be totally meaningless)
― 31g, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:40 (eighteen years ago)
Recite the alphabet backwards without major pause.
― Z S, Thursday, 27 March 2008 02:42 (eighteen years ago)
Actually, I have a great idea for you, B.L.A.M.
Read a couple pages a day from Five Weeks to Winning Bridge by Albert Sheinwald and then you and Mrs. Blam can come play with us in LA. :)
― felicity, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:09 (eighteen years ago)
Right on. I may do that anyway.
Whatever happened to the Dodgers tix?
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:21 (eighteen years ago)
unfriend someone from facebook
― ledge, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:24 (eighteen years ago)
Someone I've heard about made a birthday resolution one year ago to do something new, something he had never done, EVERY DAY for the next year. I don't know if there were exceptions or days off on the weekend or whatever, but I think he succeeded. I do know that one of the very last items, saved for the wind-up weekend, = was riding a mechanical bull.
― Laurel, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:25 (eighteen years ago)
walk a different route through your home town, from home or work to nowhere in particular.
― ledge, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:26 (eighteen years ago)
engage in meaningful conversation w/a stranger
― jhøshea, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:28 (eighteen years ago)
this is a super awz idea/thread blam!
― jhøshea, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:29 (eighteen years ago)
Drink one more cup of coffee than you did the day before.
― nickalicious, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:30 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/images/avatars/Fry_Coffee_High_100.jpg
Out of respect to my central nervous system, no.
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:07 (eighteen years ago)
Oh, I thought I posted on the LA thread -- I got 2 tickets for April 1 in Section 1FD, Row U. I think my other one is spoken for but you guys can get some and we can all meet up at the game.
― felicity, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:25 (eighteen years ago)
Word. I'll see if the missus is interested.
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:02 (eighteen years ago)
take a photo of yourself then post in a row.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 27 March 2008 21:42 (eighteen years ago)
Write 3,000 words. At the end of the month you will have a 90,000 word book. Give it to Ned.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 28 March 2008 02:38 (eighteen years ago)
^^ how many days before you were too ill to continue? i think the limit might be 2 weeks.
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 28 March 2008 02:56 (eighteen years ago)
that's my totally uneducated guess.
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 28 March 2008 02:57 (eighteen years ago)
How many cups in a pot? For years my mom was drinking more than two pots of black a day, but I dunno if that was more than 14 cups.
― milo z, Friday, 28 March 2008 03:02 (eighteen years ago)
Give me one penny on day one. Give me two pennies on day two. ... etc (double the amount every day).
― nickn, Friday, 28 March 2008 06:10 (eighteen years ago)
Dress as a woman!
― not_goodwin, Friday, 28 March 2008 08:37 (eighteen years ago)
Dress as a different woman every day!
― StanM, Friday, 28 March 2008 08:53 (eighteen years ago)
3) Take the top five answers and place them into a poll
^^
Also B.L.A.M. check your em@il.
― felicity, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 22:46 (eighteen years ago)
Put off making the poll every day for a month. Only 2 weeks to go.
― felicity, Thursday, 10 April 2008 21:14 (eighteen years ago)