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BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......

13 Apr 11 - 05:41 AM (#3134206)
Subject: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Lizzie Cornish 1

...what would you think, say, do, spend it with?

Nickelback 'If Today Was Your Last Day'


13 Apr 11 - 06:56 AM (#3134239)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle

If today WERE your last day.

I'd spend it correcting English grammar, and telling people they weren't really playing folk music. In fact their whole careers had been a bit of a mistake when taking that into cosideration. I can only think Satan will be waiting for them in his red tights and a branding iron reading "1954 - revenged!"


13 Apr 11 - 07:01 AM (#3134241)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Arthur_itus

I think I would just get pissed out of my brains, assuming I was well enough in the first place.


13 Apr 11 - 07:04 AM (#3134243)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: gnu

If today IS your last day?


13 Apr 11 - 07:13 AM (#3134249)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Jack Blandiver

Dunno - maybe read one of those books on the other impending death thread? Getting a bit morbid here, Lizzie - what gives? On second thoughts, don't answer that - such melancholia is rife these days; last night I watched Dan Snow giving us a graphic account of executions in the French Revolution with a tour around the subterraean charnel houses piled deep & high with the bones of millions. Human beings everyone. Tonight, I think I'll watch Top Cat instead.


13 Apr 11 - 07:37 AM (#3134262)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: GUEST,Patsy

Can I cheat and say the last two days? Because I would want to be with my soulmate and would have to set a day aside for him but I would have to see my sons for the last time before the impending doom, preferably with alcohol on both occasions.


13 Apr 11 - 07:40 AM (#3134266)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: gnu

Who's buying?


13 Apr 11 - 08:11 AM (#3134277)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Bobert

Well, I wouldn't waste my money on any green bananas, that much is fir sure...

B;~)


13 Apr 11 - 08:37 AM (#3134288)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Little Hawk

Relax. Breathe. Focus on my breathing. And wait.


13 Apr 11 - 08:54 AM (#3134301)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: kendall

I'd dwell on what form it was about to take.


13 Apr 11 - 08:57 AM (#3134302)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Musket

I notice that an advert has revived the old song "Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think."

Quite.

I'd plan what I am going to do the next day. Funny thing fate. A bit on the unpredictable side.


13 Apr 11 - 09:04 AM (#3134306)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: MGM·Lion

Watch Tottenham Hotspur play Real Madrid; with my darling wife who is also into football; just as indeed I shall...

...having first finished reading A Man Of Parts, David Lodge's v long new novel which I am quite near the end of after some days [tho it is, despite what it says in the jacket, not really, taxonomically, a 'novel' at all, but a fascinating imaginatively conceived biography {esp re the sexual exploits} of that revered womaniser tho now somewhat dated turn-of-last-C novelist H G Wells]; just as indeed I shall.

~Michael~


13 Apr 11 - 09:12 AM (#3134310)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: leeneia

I'd get in the car, go out to a wildlife refuge, and bird-watch.


13 Apr 11 - 09:14 AM (#3134313)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: GUEST,Patsy

Seeing as it would be my last I would be buying!


13 Apr 11 - 10:02 AM (#3134337)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: LilyFestre

I've had some time to think about this and it hits way too close to home for me. What would I do?

I would do what we do everyday. I would love them, tell them that I love them and pray for their health and happiness. I would pray for forgiveness of my own sins and be thankful for the life I've had. I would cry for having to leave my family. Nothing could ever be more important to me than knowing my family is ok and that they know they are loved with every ounce of my being.

Michelle


13 Apr 11 - 10:06 AM (#3134338)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Bill D

ummmm...pace up & down my cell?

How would I know it was 'last' unless there were written orders to that effect?

Now, if the comet were coming, and I knew to the second, I'd probably hug my wife and watch the sky.


13 Apr 11 - 10:33 AM (#3134351)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Dave Hanson

Wouldn't start reading War and Peace, I'd start working my way through the single malts I've been collecting for a few years.

Dave H


13 Apr 11 - 10:38 AM (#3134357)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: frogprince

Some months back, my wife had turned in for the night before me, and something brought this Garth Brooks song to mind big time. I printed it off and put it where she would start getting breakfast together in the morning.

Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She's lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes


13 Apr 11 - 10:43 AM (#3134363)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Rapparee

If Today Was Your Last Day......

Well, I'd try to be your friend and do nice things for you, like maybe a back rub. I'd try to make you comfortable and stuff like that. And I wouldn't steal any of your stuff, either.


13 Apr 11 - 11:05 AM (#3134376)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: frogprince

Rap, just be careful how far down on my back you rub, or you might not make it to the end of the day.


13 Apr 11 - 11:12 AM (#3134380)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: LilyFestre

FrogPrince.....love that. Thanks for sharing it!!!

Michelle


13 Apr 11 - 11:25 AM (#3134384)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Ebbie

I'd change my guitar strings. They sound so much better that way.

In actuality, though, I would probably make quick calls to several people in my life and then join the music party in the other room. I'm assuming that the agent of my expected demise would be some kind of cataclysmic event- like Bill D's comet - so I would take what measures I could reasonably do and then get busy. I would lmost definitely not want to meet my end at an airport screaming for a seat on a plane.

If I were being executed... hmmmmm. I'd have to think about that.


13 Apr 11 - 11:42 AM (#3134398)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: maple_leaf_boy

I'd confront the thieves who have stolen from me, and take back what
they stole. If they are no longer in possession of those items whether
they destroyed those items or sold them, I'll take money from them.

I would like to do this before my last day, but if I knew that today
was my last day, I'd jump right on it and see justice served.


13 Apr 11 - 12:23 PM (#3134428)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: katlaughing

Little bit too close for me, too, right now, like Michelle. Most important, I would ask my kids to join me at home and tell them all how much I love them and their kids. Some quiet time with my Rog. I'd be happy to go in one way, but sad about leaving my family and friends. I"d make some phone calls, too. In truth, I hope I go in my sleep, peacefully without the strife of sadness, etc.


13 Apr 11 - 01:37 PM (#3134476)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: kendall

I'd call all my women friends together and let them max out my credit card.


13 Apr 11 - 01:44 PM (#3134480)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: gnu

Kendall... "I'd dwell on what form it was about to take."

I first read that as... "I'd dwell on what form i was about to take."

Combine that with... "I'd call all my women friends together and let them max out my credit card." and ya gotta a knee slapper!

Sorry jac... cellar?


13 Apr 11 - 04:33 PM (#3134590)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: kendall

Hell, Jacqui would lead the charge! Stuff to the right of us, stuff to the left of us, once more into the Wal-Mart...into the valley of debt rode the two dozen.


13 Apr 11 - 04:42 PM (#3134597)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: frogprince

Lilly-Michelle; I thought you were responding to my last post before yours, but after coming back and thinking for a moment, I suspect you were responding to the song! : }


13 Apr 11 - 05:12 PM (#3134617)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Smokey.

It's often been suggested that we should live every day as though it's our last, but with the best will in the world, you can only garrotte Rupert Murdoch once.


13 Apr 11 - 05:27 PM (#3134630)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: gnu

Smokey... but, if you had ALL day...


13 Apr 11 - 06:28 PM (#3134673)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Smokey.

I get up late.


13 Apr 11 - 09:07 PM (#3134761)
Subject: RE: BS: If Today Was Your Last Day......
From: Joe_F

Call my best buddy & tell him.
Masturbate.
Read some things I am sentimental about, while sipping Benedictine.