The New Yorker: More Ads

The New Yorker: More Ads*

The second ad in the April 2 issue is a two-page spread for Visa. On the first page at the top is:

"Things to do while you're alive:"

There's then a list of them. Here are theirs and here are ours:

-"Learn to fly-fish at Inverlochy Castle" [Learn to eat your screenplay]

- "Visit an uninhabited island" [Visit the Big Dipper]

-"Celebrate St. Patty's Day in Dublin" [Celebrate St. Patty's day on Isla margarita]

-"Deep-sea fish and eat your catch" [Deep-sea fish and eat your parents on a vacation]

-"Camp on Seven Mile Beach" [Camp on the Space Shuttle]

-"Write a screenplay" [Write a screenplay on eating an insect]

-"See the Leaning Tower of Pisa"

-"Drink a margarita on Isla Margarita" [Drink a margarita on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. While eating an insect. With your parents on vacation]

-"Shoot a hole in one" [Shoot a penguin]

-"Watch a space shuttle launch" [Watch a space shuttle launch in Dublin]

-"See a penguin in its natural habitat" [See a penguin run with the bulls in Pamplona]

-"Climb an eighteener"

-"Travel with handmade fitted luggage" [Travel with an eighteener]

-"Find the Big Dipper"

-"Look down from the Cliffs of Moher" [Climb the Cliffs of Moher with handmade fitted luggage]

-"Take your parents on a vacation." [Take your parents down from the Cliffs of Moher]

-"Eat an insect" [Eat an insect with your parents on a vacation]

-"Run with the bulls in Pamplona"

-"Attend the Argentine Polo Championships" [Attend the Argentine Eat an Insect Championships]

-"Win a karaoke contest" [Win a karaoke contest at Inverlochy Castle; Win an Eat an Insect contest]

-"Have a museum all to yourself" [Have a margarita all by yourself with your parents on a vacation in Dublin]

I am Benjamin Harris

*See the We Could Be A New Yorker Reader series, January 1, 4, 10, 28 2006.