# If you could be someone for the day...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 26, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889 "2002-11-26T14:28:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Dunmurry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunmurry)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/1 "2002-11-26T14:28:18Z")
…Who would you be? I might be Cecil to see how diificult being “The World’s smartest human being” really is.
Please state who you would be and why.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/2 "2002-11-26T14:42:24Z")
I would be my boss. And I would give me a huge raise and an exrtra three weeks’ vacation a year.
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### Author:  [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/3 "2002-11-26T15:40:04Z")
I’d be Julia Roberts, I think. Rich, pretty… Sounds like a good day to me!
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/4 "2002-11-26T15:47:01Z")
My pick is, of course, Brad Ference. Go home to Michelle Kwan, get paid to beat people up. Yeah, I’ll take that.
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/5 "2002-11-26T20:16:15Z")
I’d be slortar. He’s just the coolest darn person in the world.
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### Author:  [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/6 "2002-11-26T20:31:50Z")
a graduate student, just to see if i’m really going to be as miserable as people say once i complete my undergraduate.
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### Author:  [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/7 "2002-11-26T20:39:56Z")
A certain classmate of mine…just to see how painful stupidity really is.
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/8 "2002-11-26T20:41:22Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by lovelyluka \*
> \*\*a graduate student, just to see if i’m really going to be as miserable as people say once i complete my undergraduate. \*\*
:eek: You have **no** idea. Don’t even **joke** about those kinds of things…
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### Author:  [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/9 "2002-11-26T23:08:25Z")
I would be Halle Berry… coupled with a full length mirror and about 100 video cameras at every possible angle… I think you get the picture…
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### Author:  [@Pablito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablito)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/10 "2002-11-27T00:14:54Z")
I’d be a woman. Just to see what it’s like on the other side.
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### Author:  [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/11 "2002-11-27T01:15:13Z")
George Bush. While I don’t generally approve of the concept of executive orders, it’d be quite a challenge to see just how far I could go and still be obeyed.
Do I get to choose which day?
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### Author:  [@I\_am\_Sparticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_am_Sparticus)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/12 "2002-11-27T03:19:57Z")
Damn, Kalishnikov beat me to it. But I’d do an impromtu press conference.
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### Author:  [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/13 "2002-11-27T03:50:36Z")
I’d be my cat, just so I can find out what she’s really thinking.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/14 "2002-11-27T15:03:09Z")
Hubby. Can’t provide a link, it’s against the rules.😃
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### Author:  [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/15 "2002-11-27T16:27:38Z")
For purely selfish reasons I’d be Brad Pitt (but it would have to be a Sunday so I could spend all day lying in bed with Jennifer Anniston. :D)
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### Author:  [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/16 "2002-11-28T14:08:18Z")
I wanna be the guy who test drives Ferraris. Or maybe the Lamborghini guy… It’s probably the only chance I will ever have of driving one of those babies like I own them 🙂
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2002, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-someone-for-the-day/138889/17 "2002-11-29T11:45:39Z")
Robert Redford. He’s very private and I would just love to poke around in his mind. Besides, I would really like to ski at least once in my life!