If you had 3 wishes?

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Here we go! What would we wish for? Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Assuming we don't get to wish for a million wishes:

1. End hostilities and battles everywhere, right now, this second.

2. Establish a binding world court via the auspices of the UN and the Declaration of Human Rights, with the authority to carry out decisions based on that declaration, applicable from China on down to Trinidad and Tobago.

3. Get everyone properly fed, clothed and housed who needs it.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

here are some people's from before.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

would you really wish for a world court? how silly. you think milosevic should be tried in the netherlands instead of serbia? odd. and allowing an organization that sponsored durban and is composed mostly of totalitarian states(having just elected syria to the security council) a vital interest, interesting. but what about anti-globalism?

― keith, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this sort of question always leaves my mind utterly blank in panic. don't ask me, please.

― maria, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah total classic question. I guess I would give one wish to some bigger cause, say...everybody from now on let's everybody be, no-one gives anyone any static over religion/politics/whatever (don't know how that one is going to work out, but hey that's not my problem ;). Then obviously unlimited funds, so I can get everything I want (become president of Real Madrid, start some serious space-travel program, buy the lost MBV tapes so I can get them released, all that stuff). Third one would be something like semi-conscious reincarnation for me and my loved ones. Beats the classic mistake of asking to live forever (and thus be miserable forever).

― Omar, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

would you really wish for a world court? how silly.

The current system of lack of international accountability beyond the vaguest of approaches being the wretched failure it is, I'm all for trying something else.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The End.

Note this answer has been brought to you by a world of shit. Hurrah.

― ogden, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Am I the only one who'd wish for every woman on the planet to love me. (more). Or unlimited money. Or er.......endless love. Or to score the winning goal for Ireland in the World Cup Final, I'm still a child at heart.

― Ronan, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Am I the only one who'd wish for every woman on the planet to love me?"
Dude, that's a bad idea, didn't you see the Buffy episode where Xander did that?

― DG, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best episode evah?

I can't believe it's 2am and I'm posting away. This is what comes of my parents going to Spain.

― Ronan, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. To be able to FLY
2. Tons and tons of CASH
3. To be able to turn INVISIBLE

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, can I change number two? I'd wish that I could SHAPE-SHIFT (I figure if I could fly, shape-shift and turn invisible then I'd probably be able to make a good, honest living as a SUPERHERO)

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have no idea what I'd wish for.

― DG, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish for the ability to phase shift between dimensions.

― james, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, assuming that meta-probs like war and world hunger cannot be solved with single sweeping wishes... I might just concentrate on making a better me and wish

1) to be the smartest person alive (in both IQ and EQ) 2) to be in *perfect* health until my mid nineties at least. 3) to have inexhaustible energy.

If I had those three things, perhaps rest of the good stuff would fall into place.

― Kim, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Three more wishes, of course!

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Each wish would undoubtedly have horrible consequences. Take Ned's 1^st wish - to "end hostilities and battles everywhere, right now, this second." Your wish could achieve this by wiping out all humanity. Or destroying YOU. In effect TO YOU all hostilities would have ended...

Ronan - every woman to love you? How about everyone DOES, but can't do owt about it? They all martyr themselves to their current partners and yearn for you? Or perhaps your mother & sisters start trying to rape you...

http://info.med.yale.edu/nursing/athena/etc.GIF

― Kodanshi, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1) the annihilation of humanity

2) an explosion of amoeba

4) a lou reed gig at my place on friday night

note: not in any particular order.

― Geoff, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

After ironing eight consecutive work shirts yesterday, I wish that I never have to iron another shirt in my life. Once I've got that sorted, everything else will just fall into place. Then I'd give the other two wishes to charidee because I'd have no need for them myself.

― Trevor, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This sort of question always reminds me of the stuff they ask beauty pageant contestants.

― Nicole, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If only they would sometimes give answers like Geoff's

― Nick, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Trevor - your wish to never iron a shirt again may come true by an accident in which you lose your arms...

― Kodanshi, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's funny. I never actually considered that. On second thoughts, this wishing lark is more trouble than it's worth. I wish I didn't have three wishes. There.

― Trevor, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1) A twelve-inch pianist 2) Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit 3) A giant orange for a head

― Steve.n., Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*Exactly*. All cautionary tales about being careful what you wish for, because it might just happen.

― Trevor, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being able to fly is the ultimate wish. Would certainmly be my first choice. Though if the granter of said wishes is a real difficult bastard, you'd have to make it entirely clear that no, the concept of flying is not the same as falling from a great height onto concrete, and no, I don't want irreversible surgery providing me with 20 foot aluminium wings, and I really, really don't want to be a sparrow.

― Mark C, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My first wish would be to have Kodanshi advice me on what to ask for in my next two wishes.

― james, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And my second wish is to have someone checking my spelling and grammar. Advise!

― james, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

here are my silly answers: 1) omniscience 2) shayne carter to turn up on my doorstep wearing nothing but a pink ribbon wrapped around his penis 3) to be scarey.

here are my for-real boring answers: 1) to be able to make people happy by doing the things i love to do like making music. 2) anarchy (ducking for the inevitable round of tomato-throwing.) 3) for everyone to be more tolerant, including myself

― di, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven years pass...

1. to finish my homework tonight
2. to get As in all my CS courses
3. to get 3 more wishes

― youn, Monday, 28 September 2009 21:11 (sixteen years ago)

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