# You Get to Trade Places With Somebdody....
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 31, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344 "2008-03-31T03:30:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/1 "2008-03-31T03:30:08Z")
Past or present, real or not too (I suppose). Who would you choose?
For me, I’d pick none other than [Sheryl Cooper](http://www.sickthingsuk.co.uk/musicians/musician_images/m-alice11.jpg), so I could be welcomed to my own personal nightmare by Alice every single night. 😃
\< happy shuddery sigh \>
Your turn!
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/2 "2008-03-31T05:08:19Z")
Trade places with them for how long?
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/3 "2008-03-31T05:22:06Z")
For as long as you wish. In my case, she’d never get to come back.
\< BWAHAHAHAHA! \>
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### Author:  [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/4 "2008-03-31T09:48:51Z")
Wonderful. I pick George Clooney (even though I’m not a guy). I don’t believe for one second that guy is stressed out about anything. He may very well be, but oh man, can he sure fake it.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/5 "2008-03-31T10:09:58Z")
Do I get their body and skill set, too? If so, I get dibs on Amy Adams! She’s just so friggin’ cute, and I love every single role she’s chosen - even the ones in terrible vehicles. I think (hope) she’s still on her way up, and I’d love to experience life as a \*talented \*starlet.
(Holy $#!&! I just realized she played Tara’s cousin in the “Family” episode of _Buffy_!)
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/6 "2008-03-31T12:35:34Z")
Of course you get to keep everything! Or at least I hope so… that chick is beyond hot at 51 and she’s a dancer!! I so don’t have the body for that and to be able to pull off those sort of moves would be just another version of my heaven.
Workin’ up a sweat indeed. 😃
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/7 "2008-03-31T12:39:23Z")
Ossam bin Laudin, circa 1990. Then I would kill myself.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/8 "2008-03-31T14:11:56Z")
I’d be Taylor Swift and spend the entire time either in the shower or in a room with a video camera and a mirror.
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### Author:  [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/9 "2008-03-31T14:32:18Z")
Bill Gates. I’d write a large check to RiverRunner and switch back.
RR
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/10 "2008-03-31T14:55:15Z")
Angelina Jolie.
There’s Brad, a nice family, the good works, nice paycheque and perks, and she’s hot!
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/11 "2008-03-31T14:57:29Z")
Well, all the good topics - money, sex, destroying one’s enemies - have already been riffed on, so I will go with a serious answer and pick Alex Lifeson. It would be awesome to have his guitar skills. And hey, maybe once I come back, I will retain some of them.
Either that or whoever gets to bang Lena Heady
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### Author:  [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/12 "2008-03-31T15:15:52Z")
I would swap places with my boss, then soil myself at my desk and just sit there long enough for a few people to notice. And then swap back.
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### Author:  [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-to-trade-places-with-somebdody/443344/13 "2008-03-31T22:46:09Z")
Assuming I’d take on the person’s mental characteristics, probably I’d trade places with my sister.
She travels a lot and goes to cool events and hangs out with fun, sprightly, light-hearted people.
Unfortunately, as myself I don’t have the mental or emotional energy to be really consistently social;, and travel of pretty much any kind (especially overseas) just stresses me out. However, if I were she it wouldn’t bother me!