If you could have ONE wish.......

[Gaith]

@SpocksOddSocks: Heh. Good joke.

Coming up with a single wish that would help everyone is tricky. You can cure world hunger sure, but as a result there'd be a whole lot more people taking the world's resources, which would cause problems of its own and potentially kill as many as hunger does.

How about: the complete eradication of the religious impulse among all primates known as Humans.


(The instantaneous eradication of all forms of mentally damaging emotional illness would be nice, too.)


Also helpful (to me): the ability to sense if any given nearby woman would be receptive to flirtation from myself at any given moment.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

To transfer my current consciousness into my brain in my 1985 self.

Actually, the idea of living my life from an earlier point with my current knowledge and experience is something I often think about. I'm sure I would have been able to enjoy my teens/twenties more with the emotional security and confidence it took me so long to develop. Of course I would be choosing a point in the mid to late nineties.

 

[hux]

That's possible. I wouldn't want to have to deal with that a million times over. Alright, we'll fall back on my second choice for one wish, which is that I would eliminate world hunger.

What about being born 25 then living a normal lifespan where you remain physically 25 to the end?

As a man, I'd probably prefer my 30's though as you're still a bit weedy and fresh faced in your 20's. Need a bit more gruffness around the edges.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

@SpocksOddSocks: Heh. Good joke.

Thanks, though I can't really take credit for it. It was told to me sometime between '98 and 2000. I didn't actually find it funny when I first heard it... it wasn't until I ran it through my head a few days later, imagining I was telling someone else that I had to try hard to contain my laughter (I was on public transport at the time )

I can take credit for the sequel though, which is also long winded and I've never written it out before.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

To Rule the World..with an Iron FIST!!

OMG that looks like fun... How old is that game? I wonder if it's still available?

 

[RJDiogenes]

But what if you found them on that planet and after observing for some time you gradually came to realize they were building their invasion force for earth? You couldn't tell anyone, no one would believe you.

I'd write a novel about a guy who gained the power of astral projection and visited a planet of aliens building an invasion force for Earth and tried to tell people but they wouldn't believe him so he wrote a novel about a guy who gained the power of astral projection and visited a planet of aliens building an invasion force for Earth and tried to tell people but they wouldn't believe him and when events start to play out exactly as in the novel everyone realizes it's all true and all the nations of Earth unite just in the nick of time to repel the invaders.

Or I'd haunt the alien leader like Marley's ghost and make him change his mind.

I guess if you really could astrally project anywhere they you could find out so many secrets you shouldn't know that this might swing people towards believing you. Alternatively you could find out enough infformation to blackmail people into helping defend the earth

You know, that's a really good idea for a movie or, better yet, a series. I don't think anything like that has ever been done before.

This strip made me think of my favourite joke to tell:

Nice. I love jokes like that. My favorite is "The Valley of the Trids." Then there's "Nate the Snake" and "Froggy Goes To The Bank."

My wish is to read this novel .

I better get writing.

 

[ichab]

You can have the money just give me a replicator.

 

[MANT!]

To Rule the World..with an Iron FIST!!

OMG that looks like fun... How old is that game? I wonder if it's still available?

It's from the early 2000s... and it's for sale on GOG..

http://www.gog.com/game/evil_genius

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

To Rule the World..with an Iron FIST!!

OMG that looks like fun... How old is that game? I wonder if it's still available?

It's from the early 2000s... and it's for sale on GOG..

http://www.gog.com/game/evil_genius

Oh cool looks like fun

 

[Pingfah]

Immortality, while never looking or feeling older than 25.

Yes. For me but also my cat. I wouldn't want immortality if I can't bring Daisy with me.

Proper immortality, so if the earth exploded we would just be floating in space. We'd need to each have a strong magnet as well, so we don't drift off in opposite directions.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Immortality, while never looking or feeling older than 25.

Yes. For me but also my cat. I wouldn't want immortality if I can't bring Daisy with me.

Proper immortality, so if the earth exploded we would just be floating in space. We'd need to each have a strong magnet as well, so we don't drift off in opposite directions.

Magical magnets that can also form a gravity well and create new planets magically

 

[thestrangequark]

I'd like to be healthy. I don't know if that would be my final choice, but it's definitely up there.

 

[Pingfah]

Immortality, while never looking or feeling older than 25.

Yes. For me but also my cat. I wouldn't want immortality if I can't bring Daisy with me.

Proper immortality, so if the earth exploded we would just be floating in space. We'd need to each have a strong magnet as well, so we don't drift off in opposite directions.

Magical magnets that can also form a gravity well and create new planets magically

Don't be silly.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I will take one billion dollars. After tax.

I could make MANY people's lives happier, healthier, safer with that much money.

I could do whatever the hell I wanted for myself as well (I have modest desires).

 

[Taylirious]

I always wanted Superman's abilities. The problem with all that power would be the "great responsibility" part. That is kinda scary.

 

[2takesfrakes]

To - one day - realise my political ambitions at the Federal level. If I were to be denied that one wish, for some reason, then I am prepared with an alternative - a wish even nearer and dearer to me heart:That I "break the ice," as it were and am finally able to survive - to thrive, actually -solely from $ales of my Fine Art pieces, as the Art World collectively kisses my arse.

 

[auntiehill]

I will take one billion dollars. After tax.

I could make MANY people's lives happier, healthier, safer with that much money.

I could do whatever the hell I wanted for myself as well (I have modest desires).

That sounds good. I like that wish. I always wanted to be able to just swoop in and anonymously pay off some poor or sick person's bills, or send a group of kids to college--something like that. But I can just barely pay my own bills.

 

[Amaris]

Immortality, while never looking or feeling older than 25.

Yes. For me but also my cat. I wouldn't want immortality if I can't bring Daisy with me.

Proper immortality, so if the earth exploded we would just be floating in space. We'd need to each have a strong magnet as well, so we don't drift off in opposite directions.

In that case, yes, and I would also want retroactive immortality for my dearly departed furry friend as well.

 

[RJDiogenes]

We don't want much. Just a perfect world where nobody grows old, nobody dies, but there's always room for new babies who grow up well but also never get old and die, a world where everybody gets along, everybody has everything they need, and we all have super powers. A universe without pain or sadness, but where there are always challenges and innovations and new places to explore.

Okay, my one wish is that the universe would reboot with entirely different parameters.

 

[Starkers]

That might be cheating!