Call me a pyro but i always thought it would be cool to control or create fire at will. It would be so nifty on the fourth of July since i could make my own fireworks :).
Also i would love to have teleportation abilities. The plant thing SqrlCub mentioned would be good because i could get all of my plants to maturity without having to wait years for them to get to size.
I’d like to be able to spot really fresh seafood.
Not too usefull for fighting crime, but pretty popular at oyster bars
Don’t let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey.
That was The Girl, The Gold Watch, & Everything with Robert Hayes and Pam Dawber. It was based on a novel by John D. MacDonald.
Speaking of which, my favorite super power would be the ability to control time; travel to the future or the past, stop or speed up or reverse time, and other related abilities.
Definitely invisibility. I’ve wanted that one forever.
Teleportation would’ve been a useful one too (how many times do I imagine that one when I’m late?) but I think if it was down to choice, I’d choose invisibility.
For similar reasons, I hope to be a ghost when I die. For a while.
I would love to be able to communicate with animals. This would be very helpful considering what I do for a job. It would be nice to be able to make an animal understand that I am actually trying to HELP it when I poke a needle into its jugular or put a thermometer up its butt! It would also make my job a lot easier if I could just ASK the pet what is wrong with it.
Superman like invulnerbility (sp) sounds pretty nice to me if I had to choose a singular power.
If we are picking a set of powers:
I don’t need no stinkin’ heat vision or x-ray vision (although I’ll take them if they come as a package with the above).
Going “somewhat” more mundane then from a previous thread (what would you be if you could be anything) I’ll take jedi knight.
What more could you expect from somebody who lets people kick him to the head?
Umm, I’d want to be able to Get Girls Through Hypnosis because that book I bought just isn’t working. Dang, another $5.95 down the drain.
It only hurts when I laugh.
St STella, if I could teleport, I would not have to fly commercially anymore. Read my post again after a cup of coffee 
Super-speed. There’s way too much to do and way too little time to do it in.
BTW, Clark K, the guy’s name was Duplicate Boy, not Lad. Sorry to get nit-picky, but we Legion fans are nuts about continuity.
Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@schicktech.com
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
I think I’d like the power of transmutation. You know, the ability to change lead into gold, water into air, plastic into steel. Though I would definitely want some sort of failsafe, so it would stop working when I was angry; otherwise, the first person to piss me off in traffic would find his SUV converted into fifteen hundred pounds of vanilla ice cream.
BTW, daniel p bostaph wrote:
My username isn’t a joke either. But it’s not a good idea to mention this sort of thing in front of the skeptics; they get upset when you challenge their worldview. 
(Yes, folks, that was a joke.)
Of course I don’t fit in; I’m part of a better puzzle.
AuraSeer, where do you live? What pisses you off? 1500 pounds of vanilla ice cream sounds GREAT! 
For me, I’d have to go with teleportation. Waiting around at the airport lost its charm a long time ago.
Transmutation would be OK too, though, as long as I could convert the excess body fat resulting from eating AuraSeer’s 1500 pounds of vanilla ice cream into something useful.
The Cat In The Hat
Teleportation.
If you want a neat book about it, try Jumper by Steven Gould. A young man discovers he can “jump” while escaping an abusive situation. He starts using his “jumping” ability to establish a new ID, into a bank vault to fund the new life, evades the scientific community and CIA who have nifty plans to either dissect him or use him a la Firestarter…
It does for teleportation what Connie Willis and Jack Finney did for time travel.
I’d take the ability to get laid whenever I want. Screw teleportation and the rest.
Sorry, CMKeller. I actually wrote “Boy” but then figured I must have it wrong. I mean, it seems like everyone is a Lad in the 30th Century.
But you’ve got to admit he was a drip.
As to the original question, I couldn’t cope with invisibility or telepathy. I’d lurk around and find out what people really think of me. Probably would deflate my ego.
If I have to pick one, I’d settle for simple flight – the ability to glide among the clouds. What a way to travel!
Up, up and away!
Peyote…How would you put this ‘getting laid’ super power to good use by fighting crime?
–Donj
Wait! We have to use these powers to FIGHT CRIME? Can I pick again?
Well, let’s see…the criminal mastermind and his gang are relaxing with milk and cream-cheese-and-jelly sandwiches after hiesting the First National Bank…I sneak into their lair and BAM! Roquefort with Smucker’s Grape! In the resulting confusion, I shoulder the swag and nip smartly back to the bank, winning commendations from the Mayor and Chief of Police: “Fine job, Mold Boy!”
Uke
That would be “heisting.”
Shirley,
Wow, I read that one too fast. Do’h! I think I need to start drinking coffee.
I think I’ll stay away from the “what’s your IQ” thread after than one!
Clark K:
Well, amongst male Legionnaires (those who were members of the Legion prior to 1990), I count 9 Boys (including Superboy) and 4 Lads (as well as 3 Kids). The Substitute Legion had 2 boys, 1 Lad and 2 Kids. And the Heroes of Lallor, which included Duplicate Boy, had 2 Boys and one Lad.
Well, he was no Mister Personality, but he certainly had more going for him than, say, Bouncing Boy.
Chaim Mattis Keller
Hey! I liked Bouncing Boy!
Also, I’d like to add the ability to change form to my list. Between these 2 powers, one could be one kickin’ super-being.
‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’
Last words of General John Sedgwick