Ok If you could run away from your current life or existence

[tigereye]

What would you do and where would you go? (end of summer fantasy)

1. I would dye my hair black, put on the fishnets and plaid mini-skirt and go follow NoFx around.

2. Europe. Spain. A train. Lots of real Sangria. etc.

[demnan]

1. First I'd go up to NYC for a week

and party with DU'ers then I would settle back and quietly be independently wealthy with a family compound including lots of pets.

[mhr]

2. 10,000,000 In The Bank, Visa For New Zealand, House On The Beach

'nuff said

[tigereye]

60. New Zealand sounds wonderful

sigh

[TheCentepedeShoes]

68. NZ sounds wonderful

Meetcha there.

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. I'd look up some friends.

Or, at least, their skirts. :evilgrin:

[tigereye]

8. for god sakes man,

show a little more imagination!

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Nah. Not really interested in seeing the world.

The world sucks.

[tigereye]

23. I'm not sayin' it

Well, I don't think it does. I should, but I don't. Can't help it, I'm generally an optimist.

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. But looking up friends' skirts RULES!

:D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

44. particularly plaid mini-ones.

I'm just sayin'.

[tigereye]

46. yeah I walked right into that one, eh?

Can't help it, I'm a brazen hussy. Where did those fishnets go?
:evilgrin:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

47. Remember the boots.

Gotta have the boots. I will allow Doc Martens at a push.

[tigereye]

52. whoops don't know where the other response went....

I have lots of boots.... riding boots, army boots, I did have real Beatle boots at one time (those were really cool)


Only for you Byron.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

53. (bows, and blushes somewhat)

I had the Beatle boots at one point, real Chelsea boots. Great.

[tigereye]

59. wow

you know I'm just funnin....

[truthspeaker]

4. stunt man

Always wanted to be one.

[tigereye]

9. that's a cool idea

[jedicord]

5. Have a house in Jackson, Wyoming and Barcelona, Spain...

and write political novels at my leisure.

And marry Brad Pitt.

[terrya]

6. Work out, have a nice body, get a tan, grab Doug and head to Brazil...

Specifically, Rio. Where some of the most beautiful men in the world are at. Some absolutely beautiful eye candy (in very skimpy bikinis), gorgeous weather and lots of sandy beaches.

[tigereye]

12. that sounds lovely

the beach, the music, the guys... the food. Sigh. You can tell I didn't get to go the beach this year...

[Misunderestimator]

7. I'd go to California, pick up my woman, and move to Holland.

:D (That's if we won the lottery.)

[tigereye]

14. Holland sounds very good! with your sweetie

Although, I bet you wouldn't necessarily have to win the lottery. I think people limit themselves a little too much by the financial aspect sometime.

[Misunderestimator]

15. True enough. The choice would be made by what happens in November.

[tigereye]

22. cripe half the board would be moving to another country

let's hope the news is very good in Nov. I am cautiously optimistic. I think * is in big trouble. If you remember the Reagan years - half my friends were thinking of moving and * is worse, on many levels.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

63. LOL I have been thinking about going back to Europe a lot this week

Thats weird that a lot of other people have been thinking the same thing as well .

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

54. Your woman checking in

:D

[Misunderestimator]

55. hehe

;)

[demon67]

11. That's easy . . . join The Polyphonic Spree

Become a member of the choir and tour the world with the Spree. After the VMA's on Sunday, their tour goes to Japan and then to the U.K.

[tigereye]

16. I like that idea!

There was an interesting article about them in Blender, I think, recently. They talked about touring with Bowie, was it? C'mon you just like those robes, right?

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. Just don't go through DFW airport

with an antique microphone and you should be OK. :D

[tigereye]

36. all right

what happened there?

[fudge stripe cookays]

41. Look here:

http://www.nbc13.com/news/3626469/detail.html

A “suspicious device” that caused airline officials to evacuate several Dallas airport terminals and brought bomb-sniffing dogs to the Birmingham airport turned out to be a vintage microphone.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. Hmmm....

I'd have to be independently wealthy to do this.
I'd move to Hawaii, buy a beach house, and just live on the beach. ACtually I'd split my time between the beach and my boat.
And basically just travel the world and then go home to Hawaii when I needed to rest.
Duckie

[tigereye]

19. ah living on a boat by the beach

Good one duckie. Or is it that I watched too many of those beach soap operas. (guilty pleasure of mine)

[truthspeaker]

17. play bass for NoFX and hook up with groupies!

[tigereye]

20. personally I have fallen in lust with the singer's voice

love that snotty tone.

[amber dog democrat]

18. I'd be on the right side of the cab

fireing a steam locomotive, under a good engineer pulling a mixed consist of freight cars on a cold morning, attending to the demands of the engine, adjusting the atomizer, blower, fuel feed,
and flame - as I gaze down the track calling the switches, and signals.

As we hit 80mph on a curve....

or

at the wheel of a 19 foot sailboat I plan to build after completing a project first.
making for the Dry Tortugas.

or

in the pilot house of a stern wheel tow boat making up a tow on the Lower Mississippi
bound for Vicksburg out of New Orleans.

[tigereye]

21. great one!

sounds like a need for speed...and the open air or sea.

[amber dog democrat]

28. There is something exhilerating

about that stuff. I volunteer on a historic railroad. Our 2-8-2 is bad ordered for repairs but we are getting the necessary repairs done.

There is that old saying - if you life has to pass before your eyes, make sure its worth watching.

but also -

i'd love to be on a drift dive in Cozumel along Palancar, or Rosario Reef looking at the bright pretty fishes and coral.
Thanks.

[pagerbear]

24. Ah, my multi-million dollar lotto fantasy

1. Quit my day job


2. Dee-luxe apartment in the sky


3. Lots of travel--Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Brazil, etc.


4. Study languages, literature, cultures

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. I'd sing Jacques Brel songs in a dingy bar in Prague.

My name would then be Jacky.

[tigereye]

37. not Squeaky?

Jack-kay? Zhak. So you are really a closet Eastern- European torch singer. Why am I not surprised? I love people's alter egos.

So I really should have made this a poll to see how many people would inhabit "Cabaret."

[Screaming Lord Byron]

45. I am a camera.

[tigereye]

48. oops need a reference

Jacques Brel... hmm... I will figure this out somehow. Thin Blonde Man with one Red Shoe, The Thin Man ... nope... thinking too hard... now I need a nap.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

49. I am a Camera by Christopher Isherwood is the book Cabaret is based on.

[tigereye]

50. right

I know a bit about Isherwood, but not that book. How embarrassing. I mean, as an Engl. Lit. BA and all... I know a bit more about V. Woolf and her set.

[ze_dscherman]

27. Visit the world on my bicycle

Needn't be a round trip, but I'd love to visit all continents. No planes from one continent to the other, though, but some long passages on passenger ships, with lot's of time to work on my travelling stories. And see my stories and pictures published again, with not having to feed a family from the income.

[tigereye]

38. It think everyone should have a one year or periodic

sabbatical from their "real life." I envy my academic pals that option.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. I'd move to Tokyo and pick out one of those

charming British or Australian expat men for my very own. :-)

[SnohoDem]

31. I'd be a married middle aged scuba/surf/sailing bum

moving from one tropical paradise to another...

[flvegan]

32. Start an animal sanctuary and open a gym

Maybe mountainbike Moab...jiminy jillickers, I'm boring.

[tigereye]

39. nah, there are no boring escape fantasies

well, maybe being an accountant.

Welcome to DU Flvegan. :hi:

[DemWitch]

33. My own little island on the Gulf Coast of Florida.

accessible only by boat, Starband hookup, totally solar...

[Ready4Change]

34. Go back to my college years

And focus on games developement as a career. Board games, war games, RPGs, etc...

I'm now realizing that's really what I want to do. Many wasted years in between then and now.

[tigereye]

40. that sounds like what my 8 year old wants to do!

well, think of it this way, sometimes you have to do something for a long time before you realize what you really want to do for your second-half of life career.

As Frankenfurter.. or was it Magenta, would say, Don't dream it, be it. Since we only get one shot ( unless you are a Buddhist or Hindu) why not give it a try? :)

I am in my career cheerleading mood today.


I would go study jazz drumming, myself.

[redqueen]

43. I think both said that...

Good advice, too!

[Ready4Change]

76. Hmmm

Rocky Horror Picture Show. Seems to me that might make a good Call of Cthulhu module.

:)

[redqueen]

35. Quit my job

and move to Belize!

[tigereye]

42. kick I need to hear more!

[tXr]

51. Wander around America

and see the country. (boring fantasy, but I've been stuck in Houston for most of my life, and I've always wanted to get out for a while and 'see the sights'.)

[SarahB]

56. Three words

man
Fiji
Sex

[SarahB]

57. Three words

man
Figi
Sex

[SarahB]

58. Hey. it won't let me edit this .

It's a dupe and misspelled and I just posted this minutes ago, yet I'm getting "You can't edit this message because the editing period has expired." :wtf:

[tigereye]

61. Hi SB

sounds really good. Fiji. Nice azure water.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

62. A Buddhist retreat...

Or a similar inwardly-reflective sanctuary.
No husband.
No kids.
No pets.

[tigereye]

64. ah that is a nice one

my husb. talks about that too. I think you can do that... I have seen ads for such things in new age mags. :)

[catzies]

65. Move to Chichicastenango, Guatemala and await 12/21/2012.

:hippie:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

66. What happens then and there?

:hi:

[catzies]

67. Here's a long version and a short version

:hi:

Short version:

http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-10.html


Long version:

http://www.astrostar.com/articles/MayanElders.htm

[Deja Q]

69. Where's to go?

There is no future. They are shaping it, stomping on us in the process.

[tigereye]

80. even in the movie Brazil

there was still hope, HT. And there is always some hope for the future.

[bloom]

70. I've been thinking about Iceland....n/t

[Skittles]

78. Iceland has always appealed to me too

:)

[alarimer]

71. Buy a house on the beach in Belize

Or some Caribbean Island and just fish, sail and scuba dive.

[Selwynn]

72. I just want to work for an organization that has as its mission:

the betterment of the human condition.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

73. Give it all up...........................

To be a self-satisfied AV artist/filmmaker.

And a flat in Paris, cabin in NZ and a house in Nepal.

Yo, te.

[tigereye]

82. that's sounds pretty good

Hey, foamdad. How are ya? :) Actually a friend's husband who is an academic recently made a movie about Rwanda... he did the music, too. Did it without really any movie/music background. Thought that was pretty cool.

You have good taste in locations. What's your specialty?

[IronLionZion]

74. Green Governor of the great state of Pennsylvania

Where I would fix as many of the state's problems as I could. Get those damn corporations out of government, give everyone lots of liberties and freedoms...and oh why not legalize the growth and use of God's own herb, marijuana? Fox News would call us a banana republic or some bullshit like that.

Then I would leave politics and have a hemp plantation in the mountains of West Penn. I'd sell the hemp for use in clothing and energy and whatnot. and smoke the weed! And I would have an awesome wife and two very respectful and well-behaved daughters, one of them would eventually be Governor, or even President!

pfft. you people and your plans to leave this fine country. phooey!

and I'm buzzed from a few beers so don't mind me, I'm just blabbering.

[tigereye]

83. I love it, a Green Gov for Pa

Pa as a banana republic... isn't that already the case?

Hi from Pittsburgh!

[IronLionZion]

86. hi, and we're not a banana republic yet are we?

The only state that came close was Louisiana under Democrat Huey Long. The Democrats have done some really wacky things thoughout history.

[tigereye]

88. well we do have a really backward Senator

and nuts who elected him. I guess that doesn't necessarily count.

[HEyHEY]

75. Head to a small mediterrainian ocean village

First learn how to spell mediterrainian then move there..open a paper..... and live in a stone hut.

[tigereye]

84. Mediterranean

I dunno, Greece has been looking very appealing. And it is very laid back there.

[jackieforthedems]

77. A White, Sandy Beach

Where hurricanes never hit, and coconuts, bananas and pineapples are plentiful! A few dolphins dropping by for a visit would be nice, too.

[bookfreak]

79. Oh to escape my current life....

If it were that I had the funds I would run off to Europe to see the caves and cave paintings of our ancient ancestors. I'd also see the medieval castle ruins while I was there. For the winter I'd live in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and/or Utah. I love the red-rock deserts and detest cold and snow.

If only...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

81. I wouldn't - but I'd like to paint more - MUCH MORE

In Japan, or Brazil, or Mozambique - you get the point!

[Red State Rebel]

85. An adorable cottage in Maine with 1M books and no phone!

Plus a hunky guy to do the chores :)

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

87. oh heck...The Amalfi Coast? Gore Vidals kept boy? German spa towns?

World weary expatriate in some pleasant and scenic location?

[tigereye]

89. Gore Vidal

not a bad deal

[Zomby Woof]

90. #2 sounds ideal

I lived in Spain many a moon ago, and I love trains... and sangria!

I still yearn to go back.