# \#1 On Your Wish List Of 'Things That Will Never Happen' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340 "2009-06-19T22:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/1 "2009-06-19T22:48:35Z")
My pick? A new Beatles album. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/2 "2009-06-19T23:18:04Z")
How about Paul and Yoko get married? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/3 "2009-06-19T23:25:40Z")
Before it became not so funny, I long said that we’d see a new Beatles album long before we’d see a new _Real_ Pink Floyd album. That was back when all the members of the Floyd were still alive, it was still just as impossible that Roger and Syd would both simultaneously get back together with the band as it would be for Lennon to rise from the dead. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/4 "2009-06-19T23:35:36Z")
a Flashman novel dealing with his exploits in the US civil war ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/5 "2009-06-20T03:35:34Z")
The people with rights to fictional works decide that a newer, shittier version of the work does not need to replace the original in the public consciousness. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/6 "2009-06-20T04:15:50Z")
The current director of the **Harry Potter** movies totally gives into his obvious Harry/Hermione shipperness and has them end up together at the end of the **Deathly Hollows** instead of Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione. ---
**Author:** ![vikingsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/0ea827/32.png) [@vikingsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vikingsfan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/7 "2009-06-20T04:36:10Z")
W was never President ---
**Author:** ![IdahoMauleMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71c47a/32.png) [@IdahoMauleMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IdahoMauleMan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/8 "2009-06-20T04:40:45Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > My pick? A new Beatles album. The United States goes back on the gold standard. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/9 "2009-06-20T06:32:59Z")
A Grateful Dead reunion, called: _“Grateful Resurrected.”_ Or how about Beethoven’s Tenth? ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/10 "2009-06-20T06:49:59Z")
A bible that includes all the apocrypha, commentary, and excised items that would’ve been period-appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/11 "2009-06-20T10:25:29Z")
I win the lottery. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/12 "2009-06-20T11:26:57Z")
Congress readjusts the length of copyright to a more sensible period than 95 years. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/13 "2009-06-20T12:28:29Z")
3 more Discworld novels ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/14 "2009-06-20T12:33:24Z")
Completely portable free and nonpolluting energy source capable of driving motor vehicles, powering buildings, and what-have-you. (Actually, it’s tied with Warp Drive.) ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/15 "2009-06-20T16:49:17Z")
A worldwide Kate Bush tour. (The only one happened in 1979) ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/16 "2009-06-20T16:53:50Z")
A TV show about the early years of Han Solo and Lando Calrissian directed by Joss Whedon. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/17 "2009-06-20T16:57:03Z")
That HBO produces more seasons of Carnivale. Yes, I know one could consider it ‘finished’ if you skip the last 5 minutes or so of the final show, but there are still those unanswered questions…what about Alamagordo? Does Ben become the new “Management” or does he recover? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/18 "2009-06-20T17:03:44Z")
Firefly seasons 2 through 5. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/19 "2009-06-20T19:26:51Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#): > > A bible that includes all the apocrypha, commentary, and excised items that would’ve been period-appropriate. These do exist… ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340/20 "2009-06-20T22:34:07Z")
Alice in Chains goes on tour…/cry [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-on-your-wish-list-of-things-that-will-never-happen/500340.md?page=2)