# I am a genie, and you have been granted 1 wish. You have 5 seconds to make it. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321 "2003-07-27T22:19:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmosdes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cmosdes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmosdes)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/1 "2003-07-27T22:19:05Z")
Go. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/2 "2003-07-27T22:28:33Z")
“I want self-confidence.” That was easy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/3 "2003-07-27T22:32:15Z")
A million dollars. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/4 "2003-07-27T22:35:42Z")
$100.00 more than I’ll ever need. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/5 "2003-07-27T22:40:37Z")
More wishes! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/6 "2003-07-27T22:41:14Z")
I wish that a magic spring would form in my nearest State Park that would make people who bathe in it wise. If that’s too long, I wish all the people in the world looked like RL Anime characters! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cmosdes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cmosdes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmosdes)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/7 "2003-07-27T22:43:41Z")
**Sunspace** is suddenly filled with such bravado that he (she?) will never again believe he is wrong about anything. **xgxlx** Stands in a pile of green, shredded paper. If assembled, the paper was once 1,000,000 dollar bills. **norinew** is broke, save for $100 now in his pocket. Many people are able to survive with $0, thus proving you don’t actually need money. I never said I was a benevolent genie. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/8 "2003-07-27T22:44:07Z")
Vanessa Williams, 10 gallons of baby oil and lots of jello. _or_ A pet wolverine by the name of Cuddles. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/9 "2003-07-27T22:44:21Z")
A billion dollars (none of this measly million stuff for me. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/10 "2003-07-27T22:44:45Z")
Make me healthy. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/11 "2003-07-27T22:46:15Z")
Self-powered flight (a la superman.) ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/12 "2003-07-27T22:49:39Z")
The ability to eat anything I want without having to worry about being overweight. ---
**Author:** ![cmosdes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cmosdes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmosdes)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/13 "2003-07-27T22:52:49Z")
**Bosda** - The spring is there. It is filled with hydrochloric acid. **Rabid** - Done. However, none will be granted by me. You didn’t ask for more wishes to be granted by me. **Kal** - Venessa Williams watches as you are suddenly trapped under 10,000 pounds of jello floating on the baby oil which you are submersed within. **Lsura** - more shredded paper for you. **Mockingbird** - You will never die nor grow old. **Cisco** - you now have wings where your arms used to be. **Ruby** - you will never again worry about being overweight as the “worry” center of your brain is disconnected. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/14 "2003-07-27T22:54:41Z")
I wish I had more time to decide… _ **Ooops!** _ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/15 "2003-07-27T22:55:13Z")
I wish I could be sent back in time to either the late 1700s or the medieval times, and I don’t want any of this sending me back as dirt-poor, living in the gutter junk. I wanna be of at least middlin’ class or as close to that as I can get. And I wanna be married, to a guy I love who loves me, for a fair amount of time, not for a half hour. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/16 "2003-07-27T22:57:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmosdes \* > \*\ ***Bosda** - The spring is there. It is filled with hydrochloric acid. > > **Rabid** - Done. However, none will be granted by me. You didn’t ask for more wishes to be granted by me. > > **Kal** - Venessa Williams watches as you are suddenly trapped under 10,000 pounds of jello floating on the baby oil which you are submersed within. > > **Lsura** - more shredded paper for you. > > **Mockingbird** - You will never die nor grow old. > > **Cisco** - you now have wings where your arms used to be. > > **Ruby** - you will never again worry about being overweight as the “worry” center of your brain is disconnected. \*\* You’re no fun. You _also_ have bad breath. Allegedly. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![UperCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c0e974/32.png) [@UperCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UperCow)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/17 "2003-07-27T23:00:01Z")
i wish i could be a vegetable ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/18 "2003-07-27T23:00:43Z")
I wish I could always make the most advantageous desicions for me at the most advantageous time. ---
**Author:** ![cmosdes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cmosdes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmosdes)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/19 "2003-07-27T23:05:12Z")
**Buckleberry** - You can say that in 5 seconds? **Bosda** - too bad, because _I’m_ having fun with it. This started with the idea of wondering what people would wish for with just 5 seconds to decide and then, just for run, trying to think of ways of foiling those wishes. Mundane? Check. Pointless? Check. Must share? eh. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321/20 "2003-07-27T23:08:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmosdes \* > \*\* > > Mundane? Check. Pointless? Check. Must share? eh. Oh well. \*\* No, merely obnoxious. And **I’d** know. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-genie-and-you-have-been-granted-1-wish-you-have-5-seconds-to-make-it/191321.md?page=2)