Your wish is granted: You now know all the answers, but nobody believes you.

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Discussion Overview

The thread explores a creative and humorous game where participants make wishes that are granted in ironic or undesirable ways. The scope includes playful interactions and imaginative scenarios, with each wish leading to a twist that often results in negative consequences.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Conceptual clarification
  • Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • Participants grant wishes with ironic outcomes, such as wishing for knowledge leading to indecision.
  • Wishes often result in humorous but unfortunate scenarios, like receiving a non-functioning toy or being bed-ridden for a year.
  • Some participants express wishes related to personal goals, like getting accepted to a university, which are granted with disastrous consequences.
  • There are recurring themes of wishes leading to unexpected and often comical results, such as wishing for more wishes resulting in twisted versions of those wishes.
  • Participants engage in playful banter, with some wishing for mundane tasks to be done, only to receive absurd outcomes.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the humorous nature of the game, but there is no consensus on the best or most creative wish granted, as each response varies widely in tone and outcome.

Contextual Notes

The wishes and their outcomes are highly dependent on the creativity of the participants, leading to a wide range of interpretations and responses that are not bound by any established rules.

Who May Find This Useful

This thread may be of interest to those who enjoy creative writing, humor, or interactive games that involve imaginative scenarios and playful exchanges.

  • #121
turbo-1 said:
Your wish is granted. You are now a blood-hound, and your biggest joy (when not working) is humping someone's leg.

I wish my truck would get 100 mpg instead of 24.

Granted. Every time, you go 24 miles your truck breaks down and you tow it to the service station which is 64 miles away ...


I wish I had a flying car which could be programmed to go where ever I want
 
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  • #122
rootX said:
I wish I had a flying car which could be programmed to go where ever I want

Granted... unfortunately you have no airspace clearence and may be shot down if you try to fly anywhere.



I wish potatoes tasted of chocolate.
 
  • #123
TheStatutoryApe said:
Granted... unfortunately you have no airspace clearence and may be shot down if you try to fly anywhere.



I wish potatoes tasted of chocolate.

Granted, but they have the same sugar content and all your teeth go bad and you gain 100lbs

I wish i had a Vincent black shadow.
 
  • #124
wolram said:
Granted, but they have the same sugar content and all your teeth go bad and you gain 100lbs

I wish i had a Vincent black shadow.
Granted, but the price of oil will hit $140 a barrel. I wish I lived in the best of all possible worlds.
 
  • #125
jimmysnyder said:
I wish I lived in the best of all possible worlds.

Granted, but it is only theoretically possible based on the Other Worlds hypothesis in mathematics, so you're confined to living a computer.

I wish I had something better than Ramen noodles for lunch today.
 
  • #126
Moonbear said:
I wish I had something better than Ramen noodles for lunch today.

EDIT

Your wish is granted-----you can now have Ramen noodles WITH salt (but NO water though).


I wish for something better than Ramen noodles with water for lunch today.


(hmmm--jimmysnyder--you want to edit your 'wish granted' to reflect the NEW improved 'wish granted' for MB)
 
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  • #127
rewebster said:
Your wish is granted-----you can now have Ramen noodles WITH water.


I wish for something better than Ramen noodles with water for lunch today.
You can have Ramen noodles with H[/color]O[/color]T[/color] water. I wish I knew what the 'other worlds hypothesis' was.

If you're in my neck of the woods, look me up and my wife and I will take you to Santoku in Edgewater, NJ for a bowl of Ramen noodles. You can't wish for anything better.
 
  • #128
jimmysnyder said:
I wish I knew what the 'other worlds hypothesis' was.

Granted. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/"

I wish I could have been friends with Carl Sagan.
 
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  • #129
robertm said:
I wish I could have been friends with Carl Sagan.

Granted.. but your friend is now dead.


I wish I were a god.
 
  • #130
TheStatutoryApe said:
I wish I were a god.

Granted, but everyone is atheist

Granted... unfortunately you have no airspace clearance and may be shot down if you try to fly anywhere.

I wish those guys weren't that jerks and I had airspace clearance.
 
  • #131
rootX said:
I wish those guys weren't that jerks and I had airspace clearance.

Granted. You have clearance, but no plane, no license, no money, and no job; they would really like to help, but unfortunately you're stuck on the ground.

I wish that I could taste and/or see sounds.
 
  • #132
Math Is Hard wished that she had someone to go to the Mall with.

This is a fun thread, thought I'd bump it up.
 
  • #133
Evo said:
Math Is Hard wished that she had someone to go to the Mall with.

This is a fun thread, thought I'd bump it up.

I went to the mall with MIH, but, alas, Sarah Pallin was doing book signings in the book store on the exact same day we chose to go to the mall. There were lines and cordoned off areas making it practically impossible to get through to the books and we were accosted by security as possible assassins when we finally broke through the lines. Strangely, the security personnel were shocked someone might actually enter a book store to shop and were totally stumped as to how that might be accomplished. (This actually happened to me at the mall bookstore right in the middle of Christmas shopping season, no less!)

I wish I had a wench that appreciated my winch.
 
  • #134
robertm said:
Granted. You have clearance, but no plane, no license, no money, and no job; they would really like to help, but unfortunately you're stuck on the ground.

I wish that I could taste and/or see sounds.

Granted. You have been transported to a room full of six year olds who like to scrap their fingers on the chalkboards that line the walls.

BobG said:
I wish I had a wench that appreciated my winch.

Granted. She's using it to reel in your wallet.I wish that I could safely and instantly travel to anywhere in the universe any time I wanted.
 
  • #135
Borg said:
I wish that I could safely and instantly travel to anywhere in the universe any time I wanted.

Granted, you safely travel to the event horizon of a black hole and are instantly spaghettified.

I wish I didn't have an army of micro-organisms invading my pharygotympanic tubes, pharynx, and trachea.
 
  • #136
robertm said:
Granted, you safely travel to the event horizon of a black hole and are instantly spaghettified.

I wish I didn't have an army of micro-organisms invading my pharygotympanic tubes, pharynx, and trachea.

granted, you now have a neck that is long as a Giraffes.


I wish I had my own private mountain.
 
  • #137
MotoH said:
granted, you now have a neck that is long as a Giraffes.


I wish I had my own private mountain.

Granted; it is in the Pacific Ocean and nearly reaches the surface.

I wish I could think of something to wish for.
 
  • #138
Jonathan Scott said:
I wish I could think of something to wish for.

Granted, but now I've twisted it.

I wish I had a new pair of shoes.
 
  • #139
robertm said:
Granted, but now I've twisted it.

I wish I had a new pair of shoes.

Granted. But you are now Dean Moriarty's girlfriend and the two of you are riding in a car, but you don't know whose.

I wish I were a Jimmy Cliff 8-track tape sitting at the curb and that a person with an 8-track tape player found me and took me home.
 
  • #140
BobG said:
Granted. But you are now Dean Moriarty's girlfriend and the two of you are riding in a car, but you don't know whose.

I wish I were a Jimmy Cliff 8-track tape sitting at the curb and that a person with an 8-track tape player found me and took me home.

Granted, the person brings you home, puts you in the player misaligned and your casing cracks.

I wish I was dating the pin-up girl from the January 2010 issue of Transworld Motocross
 
  • #141
Granted. Is that her psycho chainsaw wielding ex-boyfriend knocking down your door?

I wish to grow a glorious, bushy mustache some day.
 
  • #142
hamster143 said:
Granted. Is that her psycho chainsaw wielding ex-boyfriend knocking down your door?

I wish to grow a glorious, bushy mustache some day.

Granted, but for 3 years you will be stuck with the pedo-stache


I wish for my microwave to automatically make food!
 
  • #143
MotoH said:
I wish for my microwave to automatically make food!

Granted, but your house has foreclosed and you have to try and sell it to afford rent in your crappy apartment but no one believes so now you're homeless and raving about your magic microwave.

I wish I had a 12" dobsonian.
 
  • #144
robertm said:
Granted, but your house has foreclosed and you have to try and sell it to afford rent in your crappy apartment but no one believes so now you're homeless and raving about your magic microwave.

I wish I had a 12" dobsonian.
Granted, but it is made of solid tungsten, about 1.5 times denser than lead. Have fun lugging that beast around.

I wish I were an Oscar Mey--no, wait, I mean I wish I had an electric car.
 
  • #145
Redbelly98 said:
Granted, but it is made of solid tungsten, about 1.5 times denser than lead. Have fun lugging that beast around.

I wish I were an Oscar Mey--no, wait, I mean I wish I had an electric car.

Granted. But the remote control breaks and it's not much fun after that.

I wish I had a PhD.
 
  • #146
Math Is Hard said:
Granted. But the remote control breaks and it's not much fun after that.

I wish I had a PhD.

Granted, you can find him in Irkutsk (Ирку́тск), Siberia. He still wears his hat.

I wish I had that note from the future what to do.
 
  • #147
Granted. You don't have enough tentacles to repeat the procedure.

I wish it was not that cold.
 
  • #148
Borek said:
Granted. You don't have enough tentacles to repeat the procedure.

I wish it was not that cold.

Granted. It's much warmer here that it was last week. Thanks!

I wish that I didn't have to pay taxes.
 
  • #149
Borg said:
Granted. It's much warmer here that it was last week. Thanks!

I wish that I didn't have to pay taxes.
Granted, but you know the alternative, so you're now dead.

I wish my mink buddy would stick around and kill all the mice and voles on the property next summer.

th_mink.jpg
 
  • #150
turbo-1 said:
I wish my mink buddy would stick around and kill all the mice and voles on the property next summer.

th_mink.jpg

Granted, but every time you see that gorgeous glistening coat, all you can picture are mittens; and soon the mice and voles are back and your hands are sweaty and fashionable.

I wish someone would make a small (100$ minimum people) tax-deductible donation to the Poor Starving robertm Foundation (you can just PM me).
 

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