What is your whimsical ambition?
Thu, 2003-03-13 14:55
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What is your whimsical ambition?
We were talking today about what your most whimsical ambition is. The kind of ambition that you like the idea of but never actually ever attempt to put in to practice, or if you do it's in a massively half-arsed way.
One person I talked to said that she wanted to be Indiana Jones but without the archeology and Nazi killing. She also wants to be a sword fighter.
Her sister wanted to be from a poor family and made to go out to find her fortune dressed as a boy. And she wanted to be a nineteen fifties spy.
I have the whimsical ambition of learning origami and sleight of hand magic to impress children.
What's YOUR most whimsical ambition?
Tony Cook
I'd like to fly like an eagle, sing like Mick Jagger with the Stones, play guitar like Frank Zappa, ski like Franz Klammer, play football like George Best - all at the same time.
andrew o'donnell
Yeah.. can see it now.. that whole rhyming thing, yeah? Vitalite.. Israelites.. clever eh??
Rokkitnite
Wake up in the morning
Wanting some breakfast
What margarine do I spread on my toast?
Ohhhh
Ohhhh
Vitalite...
andrewodonnell@...
I'd like to eat roasted human flesh while dancing naked on a bar to The Stooges 'I Wanna be Your Dog' in a room full of aliens. But this probably won't happen.
I'd settle for being a transexual pool hall hustler for a day.
Used to want to be a stuntman when I was a kid.. Lee Majors was a God.. loved those jackets.
beef
I'd like to dress only in black and red for the rest of my life...or at least a significant portion of it...
andrew o'donnell
I was convinced for ages that the lyric on this song was-
'Ohhh Ohhh my ears are alight!' ..Thought that these ear burning activities had very little to do with margarine.. unless perhaps as a viable alternative to something like germoline.. having said that The Israelites has very little to do with margarine.. unless, unbeknownst to me, Vitalite is very popular in Israel.
Oh.
Think I could be losing the plot again. Just a warning in advance.. completely misunderstood and ignored the fact that the commercial people changed the lyrics.. went off on another skewed tangent, sorry
Rokkitnite
How weird, Andrew! For a second, I thought we had the exact same ambition, then I looked closer and realised I had made an error. See, in *my* scenario I'm dancing to 'I'll Be Your Dog', off the old Ki-Ora ads, and all the people in the bar are singing along. But still, pretty close, eh?
hovis
When I was a kid I so wanted to have Penelope Pitstops legs and leaping abilities - remember how she used to take off and almost fly when she was being chased by the Hooded Claw. I must've so wanted to do that as I used to have such vivid dreams about being able to fly that I really believed I could. I remember arguing with some girl in my class trying to convince her. It was around the same time my grandfather became an astronaut.
andrew o'donnell
Very close indeed Rokkit.. actually would ditch the aliens and settle for the genuine bar extras from Cheers.. after the dancing and the cannibalism we'd have irish coffees and a proper sit down chat about life being an extra and perhaps get some incites into what Woody Harrelson and Ted Danson are REALLY like.
Wasn't The Israelites on a Ki-Ora ad as well??
gail
I sometimes imagine myself being on stage singing, being a big hit... but in reality I know I can't sing very well and I hate standing up in front of people! Actually i'm not even sure the person I imagine even looks like me, she is much funkier.
Kerrberw
I used to imagine myself playing hockey at the olympics but after a bad injury I cannot imagine hat now, instead I went from the believable to the ridiculous; now I imagine myself someone who goes and sorts out induction procesdures ( yes my life has taken a down turn!. Now I see myself as a person that gets involved politically to right the oh so obvious wrongs.
Kerrberw
Spack
Oh to be a pro snowboarder... Being helicoptered to slopes that have never been seen before let alone skiied on. And, like Mark, I'd be doing magic tricks on the way down...
Hen
I'd like to be Rokkitnite, coz he's a witty, handsome, womanising cad.
Rokkitnite
I'd like to be Hen, because he's erudite, dashing and a master of sarcasm.
Spack
I'd like to be Hen Nite because then I would be a group of drunk women.
piglet
When I was 11 I wanted to be Prime Minister, but thankfully the country my ambition has now changed to wanting to break a window with my bare hand.
Rokkitnite
No, that was Vitalite. But close.