# One wish, guaranteed to come true - what's your wish? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725 "2013-04-03T12:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/21 "2013-04-03T15:55:10Z")
An unlimited number of wishes for as long as I live. After that, being able to relive the last 40 years with a young man’s body and the knowledge I have today. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/22 "2013-04-03T15:59:23Z")
A hundred mil. Sweet and simple. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/23 "2013-04-03T16:01:53Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > After that, being able to relive the last 40 years with a young man’s body and the knowledge I have today. I should have chosen that since I argued in favor of it yesterday. It’s kind of a toss-up with the cupcakes though. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/24 "2013-04-03T16:05:48Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I wish no human being would ever again be capable of physical violence towards another human being either directly or by instrument - the very thought of it would trigger reactions ranging from headache and nausea to catatonia, depending on severity of thought, never mind action. Whoa… So when some asshole cuts another guy off on the interstate, it turns into a fifteen car pileup when the cut-off driver has a nasty thought? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/25 "2013-04-03T16:07:20Z")
A technological breakthrough that allows FTL travel. Or maybe a way around Heisenberg’s principle. Or maybe a way around entropy. Tough to decide. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/26 "2013-04-03T16:12:01Z")
All cancer to disappear. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/27 "2013-04-03T16:12:33Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Can we wish for ten more wishes? See, I’d wish for 8 more. I aint greedy. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/28 "2013-04-03T16:16:18Z")
“I wish that tomorrow, I open my breakfast cereal and find a lamp inside with a wish-genie who grants unlimited guaranteed wishes.” ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/29 "2013-04-03T16:16:29Z")
No monkey’s paw? Awesome. I’d wish for peak physical and mental fitness for me, my friends, and my family. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/30 "2013-04-03T16:18:02Z")
Why would anyone wish for a monkey’s paw? Those things can be dangero-- oh, I see what you’re saying. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/31 "2013-04-03T16:53:14Z")
That my bank account never dips below one million dollars. See… I have a million dollars, I write a check for a $900,000 house… I still have a million. The next day, I write a check for $500,000 worth of show horses… I still have a million. Spend $100 at the grocery… still have a million. I think that would come in pretty handy! ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/32 "2013-04-03T17:11:09Z")
[QUOTE Probably end world hunger.[/QUOTE] Nice thought. Every day 16,000 children die of hunger. Now they live. And make more children in this finite planet. Then we need another wish. For god to intervene with a major catastrophe to ease the population growth. Which would be preferable to dying of starvation. So, this wish needs a second one, or a smart god. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/33 "2013-04-03T17:49:52Z")
I’d wish for true, lifelong happiness, as a way of getting the most out of my wish. Why wish specifically for love, or money, or good health, etc., when all those things would be required to fulfill my _one_ wish for happiness? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/34 "2013-04-03T17:54:01Z")
I’d probably wish for some level of magical powers just short of genie level. ---
**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/35 "2013-04-03T18:25:12Z")
Reading some of the responses I kind of feel selfish with my first impulse. Still, it was my immediate response, so I’ll still go with it… For both my parents to be alive and in full health, so that they can meet (in one case) and spend more time with (in both cases) their grandchildren. And so their grandchildren can get to know them. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/36 "2013-04-03T18:42:08Z")
Utter and complete happiness ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/37 "2013-04-03T18:44:33Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Utter and complete happiness So the genie makes you stoned forever. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/38 "2013-04-03T18:47:53Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Hostess Cupcakes The good news is that you will probably get your wish, since Hostess products are supposed to return this summer! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/39 "2013-04-03T18:51:22Z")
My son would be alive again. I didn’t even have to think about it. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/40 "2013-04-03T18:52:11Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > Total fluency - speaking, writing, reading and hearing - in every human language. Even the dead ones. This is my stock answer for - What would you want as your superpower? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725.md?page=3)