# What would be your last request to Medusa?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 17, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021 "2016-05-17T18:56:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/1 "2016-05-17T18:56:46Z")
It’s the ancient world. You have been purchased off the slaver’s auction block by Medusa herself. She’s going to make you a statue. Some of her other slaves bathe and groom you and then take you to her. She’s wearing special glasses and will remove them when she petrifies you. There’s a plinth in the middle of an otherwise bare room on which she commands you to stand. There’s no escape but Medusa is not unkind. Before she has you pose, she will hear a modest last request from you. Sex is not on, nor is anything involving mirrors. If you anger or try to hurt her, her hair-snakes will bite you and you will suffer a prolonged and agonizing death.
What would be your last request?
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### Author:  [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/2 "2016-05-17T19:01:19Z")
Let me keep my clothes on. I don’t wanna be a nude statue.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/3 "2016-05-17T19:13:00Z")
A visit from St. Patrick.
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### Author:  [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/4 "2016-05-17T19:16:00Z")
I really need a mirror. You know, for my um… hair. Yeah, that’s why I need a mirror.
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/5 "2016-05-17T19:16:05Z")
I would like a partnership, so my heirs can enjoy the royalties from the Medusa brand cement, a product of Sandusky Portland Cement Company, ticker symbol MSA.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/6 "2016-05-17T19:20:18Z")
I would like to do my best Indiana Jones impression.
“Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?”
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/7 "2016-05-17T19:32:36Z")
I wouldn’t say no to a good meal.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/8 "2016-05-17T19:53:40Z")
> [@drewder](#):
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> Let me keep my clothes on. I don’t wanna be a nude statue.
You’re a slave; you have no clothes save at the whim of your owner.
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> A visit from St. Patrick.
You’re hundreds of years too early.
> [@dracoi](#):
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> I really need a mirror. You know, for my um… hair. Yeah, that’s why I need a mirror.
Excluded in the OP.
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> I would like to do my best Indiana Jones impression.
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> “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?”
You still get petrified.
> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> I wouldn’t say no to a good meal.
You don’t get the opportunity to say no; she doesn’t want her statue looking fat.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/9 "2016-05-17T20:05:12Z")
I would like to gaze upon your unclothed body, so that when you remove your glasses the joy in my transformed face will show a reflection of your true beauty.
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/10 "2016-05-17T21:02:09Z")
After you’ve petrified me, can you get a sculptor to come in with hammer and chisel, and modify my statue so that it’s worth anybody looking at?
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/11 "2016-05-17T21:57:55Z")
If I’m gonna be a statue, can you give me a few weeks to work on my abs and pecs?
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### Author:  [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/12 "2016-05-17T22:17:38Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> Excluded in the OP.
Yeah, but it’s not like anything else is going to help me. Even if she kills me painfully for making the attempt, at least I will have screwed up her statue.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/13 "2016-05-17T22:25:03Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> I would like to gaze upon your unclothed body, so that when you remove your glasses the joy in my transformed face will show a reflection of your true beauty.
Good one.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/14 "2016-05-17T22:30:55Z")
I’d like a month or two to kill all the pigeons on the island first?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/15 "2016-05-17T22:34:45Z")
On the off chance that I’ll still have some kind of feeling after the transformation, I’d request I be allowed to pose as a sitting statue.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/16 "2016-05-17T22:39:30Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> I would like to gaze upon your unclothed body, so that when you remove your glasses the joy in my transformed face will show a reflection of your true beauty.
“Will you look at that? I’m already turning to stone.”
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### Author:  [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/17 "2016-05-18T05:03:05Z")
Is that an Oglaf reference? I assume it is, but in case it isn’t, here’s a (NSFW) comic along the same lines:
[http://oglaf.com/snakeskin/](http://oglaf.com/snakeskin/)
To the OP, I would ask to be allowed to get drunk first.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/18 "2016-05-18T05:13:38Z")
> [@Goofus](#):
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> Is that an Oglaf reference? I assume it is, but in case it isn’t, here’s a (NSFW) comic along the same lines:
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> [http://oglaf.com/snakeskin/](http://oglaf.com/snakeskin/)
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> To the OP, I would ask to be allowed to get drunk first.
Never heard of Oglafs.
I don’t remember where I found the joke or when.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/19 "2016-05-18T08:25:49Z")
> [@Goofus](#):
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> Is that an Oglaf reference?
I’d forgotten about Oglaf. Always good for a laugh.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-be-your-last-request-to-medusa/755021/20 "2016-05-18T09:04:34Z")
> [@Goofus](#):
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> Is that an Oglaf reference?
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Never heard of Oglafs.
> I don’t remember where I found the joke or when.
[YAFGC](http://yafgc.net/comic/0017-gorgon-my-dreams/)?
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