# If you had three wishes...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 8, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274 "2005-10-08T02:35:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/1 "2005-10-08T02:35:42Z")
and World Peace had been acheived, Hunger Abolished, and Equal Pay for Equal Work a fact of life,
what would you wish for?
and NO you may NOT wish for additional or unlimited wishes.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/2 "2005-10-08T03:47:05Z")
1. stability
2. a reality based ‘Love of My Life’ counterpart to how I feel about my (eventually-to-be-ex) husband regarding everything else, except marriage
3. a trip to Europe (and I’d take one with nothing but a back-pack, hostels and a bike!)
Og, how I always love these types of questions. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/3 "2005-10-08T16:24:45Z")
1. Perfect health and my physical appearance rolled back to what I looked like 25 years ago, and stays there. I never get sick from anything ever again.
2. Selective immortality. I can’t be injured in any way and I won’t die for any reason unless I kill myself.
3. A guaranteed minimum income of no less than US$5 million a year, after all taxes, from legal sources.
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/4 "2005-10-08T17:13:17Z")
I’d wish for this thread to be moved to IMHO.
And maybe for a nice sandwhich.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/5 "2005-10-08T17:18:09Z")
_Three_ nice sandwiches.
A good pastrami on rye with mustard, a tunafish grinder from Yorkside Pizza in New Haven, and a BLT, whole wheat, heavy on the mayo.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/6 "2005-10-08T17:20:37Z")
Seriously, **Clothahump** ’s are pretty darn good.
But I’ve always liked the joke where a guy wishes that, anytime he wants to buy something, he reaches into his pocket and finds exactly the right amount of cash. So I’d substitute that for 3.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/7 "2005-10-08T17:25:07Z")
Omnipotence, and keep the change.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/8 "2005-10-08T17:36:19Z")
Infinite sums of money, good health always, and the ability to teleport to wherever I want to go. That pretty much sums it up.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/9 "2005-10-08T17:46:28Z")
1 : Total Body Control. Nothing can hurt me unless I want, I can become whatever I want, and I’m immortal.
2 : Selective Omniscience. I can see and know whatever I want, but be blind to whatever I want to be blind to ( seeing _everything_ would screw up games, books and so forth ).
3 : Boostable intelligence. Whenever I feel like I’ve worn out life and have nothing more to do, I can increase my intelligence and explore a whole new mental realm.
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/10 "2005-10-08T17:52:40Z")
Durn, **Lefty** beat me to it. But maybe I’d throw in omniscience as well just to really be on the ball.
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### Author:  [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/11 "2005-10-08T18:29:45Z")
1. Pregnancy - a healthy one - resulting in a healthy baby.
2. A bank account with a starting balance of $10 million that replenishes itself automatically with each withdrawal.
3. The ability to speak any language in the world.
E.
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### Author:  [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/12 "2005-10-08T18:35:29Z")
1. Awareness and control (ability to manipulate) over all bodily functions. Shapeshifting in the primal sense
2. Ability to sense non-bodily molecules and atoms at will, as well as the ability to manipulate them with a sort of Nano-telekenisis.
3. The ability to tap into as many human brains, use them as founts of knowledge, as well as borrow their processing power to use in parallel with mine and others. (different from telepathy, don’t want to hear what they are saying, just want access to their knowledge- like a file on a computer)
Three wishes that all amount to- “I wish I were a god”
😉
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/13 "2005-10-08T18:42:28Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#):
>
> Durn, **Lefty** beat me to it. But maybe I’d throw in omniscience as well just to really be on the ball.
I thought about omniscience, but:
1. Why bother? I’m omnipotent. If I want omniscience, I can get it whenever I want.
2. What if omniscience really, really sucks, and drives me insane with some Lovecraftian knowledge? I might be too far gone to recover.
3. So once I’m omnipotent, I’ll go for a safeguard: I will make it so that I know, dispassionately, what effects, in general, omniscience would have on my quality of life. If I like what I learn from that one fact, I might go for it.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/14 "2005-10-08T19:36:23Z")
I like **Clothahump** ’s wishes but would rework them a bit.
1. Perfect health for all of existence, the physical appearance of my peak age, and the maximum strength, speed, dexterity, charisma, and intelligence that is humanly possible and the ability to give or take any combination of these attributes to as many people (friends and family) as I so choose.
2. I cannot be injured or die unless I consciously choose to be and the ability to give or take this same gift for as many people (friends and family) as I so choose
3. The ability to have as much money or local currency for whatever I need on me at any time.
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### Author:  [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/15 "2005-10-08T19:56:09Z")
I figure you always get hit with the unintended consequences if you go for the big wishes, so I’m going (relatively) small:
For my sister to be able to carry her husband’s healthy baby to term.
For my mom to know that she’ll never get cancer again.
For a boat and a pony, and we could all together go out on the ocean, me upon my pony on my boat.
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/16 "2005-10-08T20:33:31Z")
I like **Clothahump** ’s wishes also
i would modify the first one, tho, as follows:
Perfect health and my physical appearance rolled back to what I _should have_ looked like 25 years ago, and stays there (and this would _not_ be a shock to anyone). I never get sick from anything ever again, except an occasional head cold so no one suspects anything.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/17 "2005-10-09T17:42:39Z")
1. Life-long perfect health.
2. To live until at least 70.
3. For as long as I live, to have sufficient money to purchase anything I want without having to sell anything.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/18 "2005-10-09T19:01:54Z")
I think I’ll have a Coke.
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### Author:  [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/19 "2005-10-09T21:46:46Z")
1. Ideal physical and mental condition lasting indefinitely
2. inexhuastible supply of money
3. Living, breathing dinosaurs on an island I’ve leased from the Costa Rican government.
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-three-wishes/325274/20 "2005-10-10T01:56:53Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#):
>
> 1. Ideal physical and mental condition lasting indefinitely
> 2. inexhuastible supply of money
> 3. Living, breathing dinosaurs on an island I’ve leased from the Costa Rican government.
re # 3 - do you plan on inviting Jeff Goldblum or Sam O’Neill?
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