Aiming high.
12 years ago, a friend and I were leaving school forever. We made up a list of things we had to accomplish now that we walked in the world of men. I still have it – a useful reminder of what, as young teens, we felt were important achievements for a real man to have under his belt. Here are a select few:

Foil a baddy in the execution of his duties
Find an amount of money exceeding £100
Make an enemy cry with a witty rejoinder (witnesses necessary)
Lance a boil
Boil a lance, for the fuck of it
Catch someone who is falling (preferably with one hand, height of fall irrelevant)
Egg on a streetfighter
Shrug nonchalantly. Mean it.
Faint
Chair a meeting stood up, pacing, and smoking a cigar
Serenade the wrong window
Have a drink slid to me by a stranger in an apron
Be cursed
Arm-wrestle a lesbian
Rue the day
Visit a celebrity in prison. Demand that they stop writing me letters.
Kick out a farmer
Fool a camel

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Still working on most of them.
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 11:07, 6 replies)

I like the celebrity letters one.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 11:20, closed)

Fool a camel?
This makes me grin while confusing me...

"Hey! you're a Marlboro!" :)
( snee held his breath since, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 11:33, closed)

They're aloof, sauntering spitters
And they need bringing down a peg or two.

I think that was our reasoning.
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 14:17, closed)

Is this restricted to camels or
to any from the camelid family? Alpacas think they're special just because they get to wear fancy coats.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 15 Oct 2010, 14:23, closed)

I like these
esp. "Chair a meeting stood up, pacing, and smoking a cigar" - I feel I might to this this afternoon!
( splorp ®, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 12:25, closed)

that's a great list for ones so young, keep at it

*cheer*

*click*
(TheFlyingOnion. looking forward to, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 20:56, closed)