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To respond to Teshi's wish, you go back in time. Unfortunately, this causes a rift in the space-time continuium, and you are stuck in a bad Star Trek TNG episode for all eternity.
I wish I could control the speed that time flows for me, as in the book Treason.
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Hey, as long as there isn't a malfunctioning holodeck in the episode, I consider myself fortunate.
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m_p_h, this you now have the power to do. But, er, not very well. While dreaming of your powers you mistakenly age yourself rather quickly, and well... rest in peace, my friend.
I wish I could emit light from my hand just by willing it.
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Curse you, MPH! Truly, you are an evil genie!
Teshi: An ultra-secret branch of the NSA takes an interest in your glowing hand, and kidnaps you. You spend the rest of your (brief) life being vivisected by government scientists.
I wish that I knew what Book's background was in Firefly.
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You find out about Book, and realize that if they had continued, Firfly would would become the greatest work of cinema, art, and literature in the history of mankind. It would have issued in a new era of world peace, eliminated poverty, and given everybody a purpose to their lives.
But you can't get anybody to make it.
I wish that I had access to a library of all works of art, all books, all TV shows, all movies, etc. through all time.
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*poof* You have all works of stuff, but only this life in which to read it. Also, a lot of it is either in a language you don't know or translated by a darned Yalie.
I wish I could play guitar.
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A dizzyingly alien, dizzyingly beautiful spaceship descends gracefully, landing in Porter's back yard. With a quiet hiss, the airlock opens, and a ramp descends to the ground. Down it, a being that can only be described as "angelic" strides purposefully. Although her lips do not move, Porter hears, in his head, a voice saying "Take this, brother; may it serve you well," and hands you a storage device which contains all works of art, all books, all TV shows, all movies, etc. through all time. As Porter watches in stunned silence, she re-enters her craft and disappears into the heavens, having completely forgotten to provide a reader for the storage device.
[Edit--pooka develops an uncanny ability to play the guitar. Unfortunately, she'll now spend the rest of her life with hellhounds on her trail, since she happened to find the "genie" who granted her this wish loitering at a crossroads.]
I wish that I had the ability to observe history as the characters in Pastwatch do.
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Noemon, you observe your parents in the act of creating you and are totally squicked. Not only is observing history wrecked for you, but so is any thought of a normal sex life.
Carrie--you pick up a copy of The Illiad in the original Greek, and are delighted by your ability to sight read it. Well, for the few moments you have remaining before macular degeration claims your ability to see, anyway.
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Kaioshin: Your future senile mother-in-law spends three weeks with you to teach you to bake good cookies. Then, because she is a mother-in-law and thus conniving and manipulative, she moves in with you so she doesn't have to bake and eats all your cookies.
I wish I knew how to fix my car.
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Now that veal calves are free, prices for veal plummet. For a while, it is the cheapest meat you can buy. The entire world develops a taste for it, and within a year there are ten times as many veal calves in cages as there were before.
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Granted. Pedro Sanchez becomes president. But is assassinated the next day and Carlos Santana succeeds him... he is then assassinated and we all have to deal with Ricky Martin as president.
I wish Eruve could get a chocolate chip cookie
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