# Three wishes. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686 "2012-02-03T21:23:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/21 "2012-02-04T03:10:52Z")
I’d wish to be healthy, happy, and loved. I’m not adding any caveats because I’ve played enough corrupted wish to know that someone can always think their way around it so I’ll just wish for what I want and let the chips fall where they may. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/22 "2012-02-04T03:17:10Z")
[ol] [li]Omnipotence.[/li][/ol]I won’t be needing the other two. ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/23 "2012-02-04T03:23:12Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > [ol] > [li]Omnipotence.[/li][/ol]I won’t be needing the other two. Can I have them? ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/24 "2012-02-04T03:33:18Z")
I always thought it would be neat to be able to read and write, speak and understand, every language on Planet Earth. ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/25 "2012-02-04T04:10:16Z")
I would wish to know what I actually want, in all situations from career choices to relationships to what to have for lunch. Admittedly this could backfire really badly, I’m not sure if I want to know what’s going on in my subconscious. Assuming it didn’t drive me insane, I’d then have a much better idea of what to do with the second and third wish. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/26 "2012-02-04T04:47:13Z")
1. I wish that I would never be asked what I would wish for again. Whether or not I get my wish, there’s no point to the two other wishes. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/27 "2012-02-04T04:49:57Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > [ol] > [li]Omnipotence.[/li][/ol]I won’t be needing the other two. They have medication for that now. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/28 "2012-02-04T11:17:03Z")
“A cheeseburger, a coke, and world peace.” Seriously, though: 1. Techniques for curing any infectious disease that can afflict humanity. 2. The functional equivalent of the Fountain of Youth. 3. Stock in the companies that bring (1) and (2) to market. ---
**Author:** ![BeaMyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@BeaMyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeaMyra)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/29 "2012-02-04T11:45:58Z")
I would wish everyone would get what they truly deserve ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/30 "2012-02-04T13:27:07Z")
> [@BeaMyra](#): > > I would wish everyone would get what they truly deserve eek. I joined the death pool thread this year! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/31 "2012-02-04T19:44:08Z")
Voluntary immortality in my 14-year old body–I will be forever young and thin, and never die until I decide I want to. A source of unlimited money in any currency I want. The ability to speak and understand every language on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/32 "2012-02-04T20:03:12Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > 1. I wish to know precisely how to phrase my other two wishes in order to achieve as many of my goals as possible in ways that will be completely satisfactory to me. > > 2 & 3) Whatever Wish (1) reveals to me. > > It’s worth blowing a wish to avoid accidentally wiping out the human race to produce “Peace on Earth”. Similar to this, my first wish would have to be: I wish that this wish, and all subsequent wishes, to be interpreted and fulfilled in exactly the manner in which I intend them. For 2 & 3, you can then make them as vague and open-ended as you (heh) wish, since the first wish means that any wish you make will be interpreted exactly the way you want them to be. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/33 "2012-02-04T20:20:40Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > **Voluntary immortality in my 14-year old body–I will be forever young and thin, and never die until I decide I want to.** > A source of unlimited money in any currency I want. > The ability to speak and understand every language on Earth. You’re only fourteen. Your only sexual partners will be seriously underage. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/34 "2012-02-04T20:51:58Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > You’re only fourteen. Your only sexual partners will be seriously underage. She’s not 14, she just looks like one. But at some point nobody will believe she’s as old as her actual age and any adult she has sex with will be charged with statuatory rape. Conversely, if she has sex with anyone of the age she appears to be, she will be commiting statuatory rape. So sticking with an 18 years or older body is the way to go. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/35 "2012-02-04T20:56:16Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > She’s not 14, she just looks like one. But at some point nobody will believe she’s as old as her actual age and any adult she has sex with will be charged with statuatory rape. Conversely, if she has sex with anyone of the age she appears to be, she will be commiting statuatory rape. So sticking with an 18 years or older body is the way to go. She said “in my 14 year old body”. So she’s inhabiting her teenage body with an adult mind. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/36 "2012-02-04T21:56:56Z")
1. The ability to generate enough income to always have enough for me and mine, and to share. 2. To always have creative outlets. 3. To understand the ways of the world well enough to help and not hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/37 "2012-02-04T22:31:20Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > You’re only fourteen. Your only sexual partners will be seriously underage. No, I matured early. I would pass for youthful but legal. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/38 "2012-02-05T00:07:13Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Hmmmm… ~ 342 million pounds of copper at $3/lb. 😃 > [@runner pat](#): > > Which temporarily floods the market and drops the price to .25/lb. 😃 Actually, it’s zinc, at around $1.40 a pound, but do it and you’ll wind up in prison, as it’s a [federal offense](http://www.usatoday.com/money/2006-12-14-melting-ban-usat_x.htm) to melt pennies and nickles for their metal content. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/39 "2012-02-05T00:23:02Z")
I would wish for: 1. For concentrations of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane to return to the levels we had in 1550. 2. I would like every person on Earth to have a renewable, maintainable, safe, non-property-damaging, and easily accessible source of plentiful clean, potable water. 3. I would like my student loan debt to be wiped away in a clerical error that goes undetected until after I’m dead. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686/40 "2012-02-05T02:14:36Z")
> [@Scribble](#): > > I would wish for: > > 1. For concentrations of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane to return to the levels we had in 1550. > > 2. I would like every person on Earth to have a renewable, maintainable, safe, non-property-damaging, and easily accessible source of plentiful clean, potable water. > > 3. I would like my student loan debt to be wiped away in a clerical error that goes undetected until after I’m dead. And billions of plastic bottles start piling up. And the clerical error also wipes out every record that you exist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-wishes/611686.md?page=3)