… Elevated trains, like the BART or the El, were built on roller coaster tracks.
… Police officers were required to sing you a song after issuing a speeding ticket.
… Cubicles came with a beer tap.
… I could get paid for screwing around on this board.
… Somebody else contributed to this thread.
…we had flying cars.
…it would be a law that work and/or school could not start before noon.
Screw noon!
Wouldn’t it be cool if jobs came with recess, naptime, and summer vacation?
…Someone would pay me to post on the board 40 hr/wk
…Ice cream caused weight loss
…The dentist had to pay you if you needed a filling
…I could hang out with Beck
if my ex husband, the cop, sang to you, you could sue for cruel and unusual punishment.
i’d rather see them have to do a little tap dance.
You could shrink planets to a fraction of their original size and wear them as jewelry?
Jousting was an Olympic sport?
“Do the Hokey Pokey” became the national anthem?
Amelia Earhart had never gotten lost?
… anything could happen, and it usually did!
… penguins could talk. Nah, they’d probably just complain. "Hey! Hey! It’s casual day! Get me out of this tux!
… my cat could make me dinner and clean my apartment, like I keep asking him to (of course, could doesn’t mean would, and this is a cat we’re talking about, so I’d still be SOL).
… I received a substantial check every month simply for being me. It would arrive attached to a basket of flowers with a nice balloon on top.
… everything in the New York area was available on a “Free to Rosebud!” basis, including travel to the locations of my choice from our airports.
…the company had bowling matches every friday night and the winner got to be boss for the next week.
I hate it. The format does, however, have an application in the Real World.
Wouldn’t it be cool if the public could vote out politicians from parliament in the same way?
People actually got paid what they were worth?
People actually worked at jobs they enjoyed?
(I’m at work now, in case you can’t guess.)
Calories really DIDN’T count?
Police enforced the ‘Slower Traffic Keep Right’ rule.
Beer really was an aphrodisiac.
There really was a surplus.
–office jobs let you wear costumes to work.
–your pets lived forever.
–people who snap their gum while talking on the phone would say “Hey, wait a minute, it’s rude to chew gum while talking on the phone” and stop doing it.
–you start hanging out with a new guy at work, who eventually confesses to you that he really is Batman, and he takes you to the Bat Cave and everything! You have to keep it hush-hush, but you can hang out there as much as you like.
–if someone puts the milk carton back in the fridge with only a few tiny drops of milk in it, so technically it’s not empty, the fridge will spit it back out at that person, rather than have some poor unsuspecting milk-wanting person be disappointed later.
–publishers announce a new, previously unknown book written by your favorite dead author has been discovered in an attic in Cleveland, and will be published soon.
–You could pick out your day’s adventures like choosing a video: Today, I want to live the life of Supergirl, doing great deeds and saving lives; or the life of the heroine in trashy romance you’ve been reading.
–people could fly. Like birds. I’ve always wanted to do that.
–We had 4-6 weeks of vacation like they do in Europe. Yeeha!
–Travel was cheap. What? Spain for a week? $500? Awesome!
If cars had a device installed in the steering wheel that would bitchslap asshole drivers.
If antigravity belts existed?
If your body burned extra fat as soon as you gained it?
If holodecks existed?
–doing a google search on Hitachi 44780 controlled LCD’s would actually find ones for sale.
–my cats would listen to me when I told them to a)not eat the poor locust who got in the room b)get off the furniture c)stop biting me just because I’m wet
–ice cream and french fries were fat free
–bravissimo wasn’t in London, but just around the corner from me. (New strapless bra with transparent straps!! Oh, it’s $32.00. Ugh.)
…the people I work for had any idea about how my job really works?
…I’d had more than four hours of sleep last night?
…if I could find Diet Cherry Coke in every vending machine?
…if I could lose that last 18 pounds overnight instead of having it go soooo slooowly?
…if the run of 5 Penn and Teller shows in Michigan this spring were the week of my spring break rather than the week before it?
Oh, and Tattva? A new strapless bra with transparent straps? I think it would be worth $32 to own something that’s simultaneously there and not there. 
::d&r::
…Juniper200 emailed the former holder of “The Judge”?
…El Cheapo associated an email address with his profile and/or gave further clues as to his identity?