# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/41 "2013-04-03T19:01:05Z")
A green TARDIS. ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/42 "2013-04-03T23:26:48Z")
If I had one wish, it would be [that all the children of the world could join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPVuHP3OXk0) ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/43 "2013-04-04T01:24:49Z")
“If I had one wish, it would be for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss” No, actually I would want to be able to fly. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/44 "2013-04-04T01:51:33Z")
I’d wish for the power to be irresistibly sexy and attractive to any woman I wanted to have, so much so that they would come looking for me even if they were thousands of miles away. Yes, I know it’s shallow, but if I get a second wish I’ll wish for cheap cold fusion power. I promise! ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/45 "2013-04-04T01:58:45Z")
That people would stop being stupid. I don’t think it would affect me, but then again, I could just be being stupid. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/46 "2013-04-04T02:22:35Z")
A cheap lightweight minimally polluting technology for generating electricity in say a box the size of a large computer tower that could power a typical home. Something like “Mr Fusion” from back to the future that can run on trash. Also make it scalable or at least be able to run it in multiples to handle larger power needs. If not $100mil will cover it. Drop it all into Muni bonds and live rich and tax free on the interest till I die. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/47 "2013-04-04T02:25:47Z")
To be better than everybody at everything worth being good at. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/48 "2013-04-04T02:28:14Z")
I’d wish for [this](http://www.ballpoint.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/whirled-peas.jpg). mmm ---
**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 4, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/49 "2013-04-04T02:35:46Z")
A stoner finds a bottle on the beach, rubs the side and a genie pops out and tells him she will grant him 3 wishes! He thinks for a second and says I’ll have a never ending joint! Instantly a fat joint pops into his hand. He starts hitting it hard and he keeps hitting it, yet it remains the same length! The genie begins to get impatient. The genie finally has had enough. WHAT ARE YOUR LAST TWO WISHES? Stoner pauses, looks at his joint and says I’ll have two more of these. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/50 "2013-04-04T02:37:19Z")
2.3 billion dollars. I don’t think I could waste that money even if I tried. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/51 "2013-04-04T02:54:45Z")
I would wish for _Control of the Decimal Point._ My paycheck, I’d have it slide over a few places to the right. At the beer store a six-pack of Bass Ale would now cost me 99 cents. My Mustang would have set me back about $140 … no, 14 bucks. I would surf wwwstraight.dopecom. and it would work! The possibilities are endless! ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/52 "2013-04-04T02:58:35Z")
immortality ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/53 "2013-04-04T03:37:56Z")
> [@PurpleClogs](#): > > World peace. > > (hurl) That’d be harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan. …And world peace. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/54 "2013-04-04T03:38:24Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > A stoner finds a bottle on the beach, rubs the side and a genie pops out and tells him she will grant him 3 wishes! He thinks for a second and says I’ll have a never ending joint! Instantly a fat joint pops into his hand. He starts hitting it hard and he keeps hitting it, yet it remains the same length! The genie begins to get impatient. > > The genie finally has had enough. WHAT ARE YOUR LAST TWO WISHES? Stoner pauses, looks at his joint and says I’ll have two more of these. Hahaha ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/55 "2013-04-04T03:49:18Z")
I’d wish for everyone to have control over their fertility (well, within the bounds of feasibility. I wouldn’t be able to suddenly decide to gestate ten million fetuses or anything). No infertile couples. No unwanted babies. No contraception needed. Fewer abortions. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2013, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/56 "2013-04-04T05:48:25Z")
Turn me into a shapeshifter. With that ability, the possibilities are endless. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/57 "2013-04-04T07:39:33Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > 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? “Nasty thoughts” are only going to trigger headaches and nausea. If he tries to rear-end the asshole, or follow him and jump him at the next stop, it’ll escalate, but he’s not going to pass out then-and-there just for thinking “I wanna choke that guy”. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/58 "2013-04-04T08:43:04Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > i wish all the bad people in the world will just disa I wish someone else would laugh as hard as I did at this. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/59 "2013-04-04T13:14:39Z")
[quote=“harmonicamoon, post:32, topic:654725”] [QUOTE Probably end world hunger.[/QUOTE] > [@harmonicamoon](#): > > 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. Yeah. I thought about that. But the OP suggested the wish would not backfire. I guess just about everything does. Like your user name BTW ---
**Author:** ![purple\_cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@purple\_cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purple_cow)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725/60 "2013-04-04T13:27:44Z")
I spend a lot of time outside so i’ve always thought my first wish would be to never have any bugs touch me. Spiders, ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, black flies, those big scary green flies at the beach; none could ever get within 4 inches of me. If i walked up to one it would be pushed away, like a force field. Would save me a lot of itching. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-wish-guaranteed-to-come-true-whats-your-wish/654725.md?page=4)