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Children, ready yourselves.
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: to the left of you.
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Granted.
And in your next life you'll born a Muslim and needn't worry about it. I wish Paul McCartney was taking me to dinner tonight.
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Benefactor Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: in the shadow of Lincoln Center
Posts: 29,104
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Granted
Paul Diddledork McCartney, of Brooklyn, is taking you to dinner at the Koffee Kup Café. I wish I could solve all my problems by snapping my fingers.
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Professor of applied misanthropy
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,438
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Granted. Snap your finger 2.5 billion times and all your problems will be solved.
I wish things would stop breaking in my house and just work as they're supposed to. |
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designs books | writes books
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Iowa
Posts: 857
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Granted.
Things have quit breaking into your house and go to work like they are supposed to.... you now have a lot of extra crap to haul with you to work everyday. Get a van. I wish I had a magic wand.
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I like to write and stuff...
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Gotham City, baby
Posts: 4,062
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Granted, you now have a magic wand but it's mostly used for Wii games and you ended up breaking it anyway after throwing it at the TV in frustration after consistently missing the swing on the golf game.
I wish I had a 1969 Mustang Boss 429, toot sweet!
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Professor of applied misanthropy
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,438
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Granted, you now have a candy-whistle shaped exactly like the car. (That's what you meant by toot sweet right?)
I wish I had a bottomless pit of money. |
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
Posts: 38,142
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Granted.
Though, as it is a bottomless pit, getting anything out of it is rather difficult. Also, I'd stay away from the edges. I'm starting to wish I did, in fact, own a 4WD vehicle.
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“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
Out of work? Stop by the AW Special Unemployment Team Password: serenity Fleas • Twits |
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Doing Pirate things...
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: ...on my pirate ship.
Posts: 4,893
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Granted, but it's an ATV with no windows or doors. Bring a good coat!
I wish I today was still Saturday. |
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
Posts: 38,142
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Granted
It's Saturday. Next week. You, according to everyone around you, had the *most* amazing, incredible, wild week of your life. Of which you remember nothing, though you do have a nice souvenir tattoo. And it is still Saturday. I wish I could find what I was looking for.
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“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
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#7435 |
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Memorial Day
AW Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 51,559
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Granted. You will find it in the last place you look; so keep looking.
I wish I knew WHAT I was looking for?
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#7436 |
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
Posts: 38,142
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Granted.
Good luck finding it, though. ![]() I wish I knew if school will be cancelled tomorrow so I don't have to shovel the driveway today.
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“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
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Professor of applied misanthropy
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,438
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Granted. A giant meteorite will strike your house at midnight tonight, wiping out everything within a twenty mile radius, including your school (which will be shut down by the way).
I wish I could do magic like Gandalf or Merlin (or Dumbledore). |
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Benefactor Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: in the shadow of Lincoln Center
Posts: 29,104
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Granted.
You can do magic, but only when no one is aware of it, and when you try to convince people you really can do magic like Gandalf or Merlin or Dumbledore, you are taken away to a "restful place" in the country, where you will be looked after by kindly people. I wish my kitchen drain wouldn't get clogged so often.
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Why do I say these things?
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvsQ9hYKq7c
Posts: 5,322
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Zippidee-Dippidee-dappity-doooo.. wham bam KAZAAAM!!!
There you go, Nymtoc... no more clogs. Of course, the magic I cast is so a plumber will automatically show up every other day at a charge of $96 a fix. But it's not like you have to actually call him or anythng. Pretty cool, huh? I wish this huge stack of papers would just file themselves away.
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Imagine something clever here.
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Living in the rain somewhere near Seattle.
Posts: 15,153
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Granted: Your filing cabinet drawers magically fly open, and the papers jump into the alphabetized folders. Unfortunately the papers are sorted randomly.
You don't bother to check the Genie's accuracy, and go home. The next morning the errors are discovered, and your boss thinks you did it intentionally. Enjoy your last morning at work. I wish I could stop editing things I write.
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Benefactor Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: in the shadow of Lincoln Center
Posts: 29,104
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Granted.
You no longer edit what you write. As a result, your writing is an inchoate mass of words that make little sense, even to you, and your writing efforts are doomed to failure. I wish Santa would bring me a motorcycle for Christmas.
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Professor of applied misanthropy
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,438
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Granted. Unfortunately you will soon find out that your new Harley was, until Santa moved it to your place, the property of one Gareth "Hulk" Cassidy, enforcer for the local Hells Angel's chapter. Oh and by the way, he has lowjack.
I wish my next book was done already. |
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Imagine something clever here.
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Living in the rain somewhere near Seattle.
Posts: 15,153
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Granted: Your next book is done. As a matter of fact, your agent, upon reading it said you're done in the industry, too.
I wish I were getting a huge bonus this Christmas.
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Professor of applied misanthropy
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,438
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Well... You WERE getting a huge bonus this Christmas, until that thing with the boss's daughter. Ahem, best not to talk about that, just be happy you have a job.
I wish for a white Christmas. |
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Benefactor Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: in the shadow of Lincoln Center
Posts: 29,104
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Well, that wish gives the genie a little problem, because, see, he really is a softie underneath all the snarkiness, and he would hate to deny anyone a white Christmas, so he's going to grant your wish--with one proviso. You will be shoveling snow until the end of March.
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Professor of applied misanthropy
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,438
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Granted. Your favourite restaurant is still open. You do know why it was shut down by the health department don't you? I'll give you a hint. That's not chicken.
I wish I had one of those huge LCD monitors with super-high contrast ratio and such. |
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Imagine something clever here.
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Living in the rain somewhere near Seattle.
Posts: 15,153
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Granted: You now have an LCD, Lowest Common Denominator, monitor. It only receives programs that are intellectually the simplest and most basic. On one of the two channels you can only watch Glen Beck, and on the other, Rachael Ray. I think you'd have to agree that the bubbly Ray, and the delusional Beck offer super-high contrast and such.
I wish I had something interesting to do today.
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Professor of applied misanthropy
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,438
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Granted. You have been framed for the murder of Giovanni Calbrese, the local Mob boss. The next time your doorbell rings it will be Guido "Blowtorch" Calbrese, coming for revenge. You can either stick around and find out why they call him Blowtorch or start running. I'd start running if I were you.
I'm actually so generous that I'm extending your wish time frame, this activity will keep you occupied for the rest of your life. However long that may be. I wish all the Christmas decorating was already done. |
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#7449 |
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Benefactor Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: in the shadow of Lincoln Center
Posts: 29,104
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Granted. You have hung the mistletoe and are waiting for someone to come under it and kiss you. You will wait a long, long time.
I wish no one would give me a hideous necktie for Christmas.
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Imagine something clever here.
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Living in the rain somewhere near Seattle.
Posts: 15,153
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Granted: And don't be alarmed when you see several thin, flat, long, gifted wrapped boxes under your tree on Christmas morning. They, the Genie promises, do not contain neckties. They contain ascots, hideous ascots.
I wish I hadn't made so many commitments for the holidays.
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