3 Wishes?

[Plaidman]

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Not to mention that if you just wish for cash, at some point you have to explain where it came from. I think i'd wish that every powerball ticket i bought would be the jackpot winner.

No... because then it get real suspecious real fast. One time sure, two times has happen, even one man has won the jackpot three times in his life.


But to win every single one? People will know your cheating somehow someway.

[Andara Bledin]

But to win every single one? People will know your cheating somehow someway.

That just means that you don't always play... Play it once, win, and let it go for a decade or two. Don't even make it a huge jackpot. A half a million would do me quite nicely, thank you.

^-.-^

[HYHYBT]

Rather than wishing to win every time, why not wish for permanent good luck? Remember, losing when winning would get you in trouble is also good luck.

[Stormraven]

1) Locate and bring to me no fewer than 5 and no more than 20 other lamp genies all of whom must be prepared to grant wishes without any kind of semantic or legalistic twisting.

2) Perfect health and rejuvenation for myself, my Lady and our cats.

3) Repair both our home and our cars to perfect condition.

4 through 15 (or more) - Profit!

[Plaidman]

Will anyone wish that I could be like Batman except in real life but able to do comic book physics so that I can bring justice to my city?

[lordlundar]

One idea I always had for if I ever found a genie lamp: I frequently see in movies and other media that someone gets 3 wishes, and winds up getting screwed over by his wishes because the genie is an asshole.

Of course the Genie's an asshole. How would you feel if you were taken from your plane of existence and bound to spend an eternity in a smelly oil lamp using your powers to give some idiot what s/he wants? After a few mellenia of that, I'd be pretty cranky myself.

[Andara Bledin]

One thing that I seem to recall is that traditional situation is for there to be there wishes allowed.

It doesn't stop you from making a fourth, but if you do, then the first three are nullified.

I've seen that used as a way to repair genie-wish damage in a story at least once.

^-.-^

[DrFaroohk]

Anyone remember this children's book with a guy who grants wishes but they're really shitty? I remember one wish is for someone to "set down roots" in town, as in to live there, but they literally grow roots and can't move. Another one wishes she'd never say another mean thing again, so instead she starts barking like a dog or something.

[Duelist925]

First off, I'd talk to the genie, get to know it, see if it's at all humanlike. Depending on how that turns out, I'd make one of two first wishes:

If the genie is humanlike and somewhat kind (ie, not a douche) I'd wish to know its nature. If it's true nature was something basicly good, second wish would be for, say, a computer program that would allow me to alter my physical and mental capabilities as and how I want. 3rd wish: Free genie! And mad adventures. Yay!

If its a capricious, jerkass genie, then:
1st: All my following wishing shall be interpreted as I intend and being inherently in my benefit, NOT to be twisted under any form of legalise or any such shite.
2: Same computer program wish as above, but with built in failsafes so that only I, and those with my permission (not implied, outright stated) can use it, and it cannot make ANY negative changes to anyone without their utter consent
3: That the genie shall remain bound, and shall grant all future wishes to be in the wishers benefit, until it becomes as good as it is now evil.

[KabeRinnaul]

1. The ability to time travel. If done with a machine, a TARDIS would be preferred. However, limited in that my time travel would not allow me to actually alter the present through my actions in the past. Sightseeing only.
2. That any time I need to pay for something, I can reach into a pocket and pull out the exact amount I need, in the appropriate currency.
3. Hell, I dunno. Immortality? Maybe I'll save it for after I'm done going back and making copies of everything in the Library of Alexandria, the Grand Library of Baghdad, and... well, most of these and these.

[powerboy]

2. That any time I need to pay for something, I can reach into a pocket and pull out the exact amount I need, in the appropriate currency.

I always said that was going to be one of my wishes is given the chance.

So here is mine

1. That any time I need to pay for something, I can reach into a pocket and pull out the exact amount I need, in the appropriate currency.
2. To have perfect health for my wife, step kids, animals and myself

Thats all, because the first one would get me what I want. Evey time.

[HYHYBT]

Any wish for what amounts to infinite free money needs to include "without attracting unwanted attention." Otherwise, at the very least, you'll have the IRS after you.

[DrFaroohk]

Yeah people always forget some of the finer points of their wish. How are you going to explain where a billion dollars randomly appeared from? That's why I like the lottery idea, or something similar.

[Lachrymose]

Any wish for what amounts to infinite free money needs to include "without attracting unwanted attention." Otherwise, at the very least, you'll have the IRS after you.

Reminds me of this episode of Twilight Zone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Bottle

[Daskinor]

I think about this all the time.

1) The ability to speak and read all languages including all the cultural information needed not to offend or get myself in trouble.

2) the knowledge necessary to build and mass produce a clean power source to rid the worlds dependence on damaging energy sources.

3) Die in my 110s during a threesome