{"id":7451,"date":"2013-09-08T18:18:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T22:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=7451"},"modified":"2013-10-21T22:54:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T02:54:27","slug":"the-murtaugh-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/the-murtaugh-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murtaugh List"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my last post, commenter Nathaniel mentioned that sleeping in hostels was definitely on his Murtaugh List. In case you’re not familiar with it and you don’t know how to use Google, the Murtaugh List comes from the sitcom\u00a0How I Met Your Mother<\/em>. Ted, the main character, catalogs all the things he’s passed the age for. (Murtaugh is an allusion to Danny Glover’s character in the Lethal Weapon<\/em> series, whose tagline is “I’m too old for this shit”.)<\/p>\n

It got me thinking what was on my list. There are only a few areas where Ted’s and my lists overlap. I won’t pull an all-nighter, I won’t eat a whole pizza in one sitting, and I won’t use a beer bong. But not because I don’t want to—only because those things would wreck me physically and\/or spiritually.<\/p>\n

He wouldn’t, but I would totally<\/em>\u00a0still go to a rave, though it would be for people-watching\/blog-fodder purposes only.<\/p>\n

Speaking of raves, let’s get into my list:<\/p>\n