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Preston C
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Mine Would Be:

1.The ability to do anything, anywhere, and anytime (including things not even imaginable by humans, like magic)
2.Babes
3.Money

I could gradually get fame through wish #1


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Easily Confused
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Babes and Money eh? You're a Typical 14 year old

Programming anything is an art, and you can't rush art.
Unless your name is Bob Ross, then you can do it in thirty minutes.
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Preston C
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why thank you


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Me:

1. Money, money, money
2. James Bond style hideout
3. More wishes

4. Proof that I am in fact a chicken ( )
5. Proof that I'm actually found funny somewhere
6. Ownership of TGC

~I see one problem with your reasoning: The fact is that is a chicken~
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Terabyte
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id ask for 100 more wishes

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Killswitch
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Well asking aint gonna get you no where, you'll have to wish for them

~I see one problem with your reasoning: The fact is that is a chicken~
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My first wish would be for the ability to roll back time and take back anything I had ever done, while maintaining memory of the events that had transpired, that way if I screwed up the following two wishes I could just get a do-over...

My second wish would be that if anything caused me to lapse into a state that would render me unable to use my first wish, that that period of time would automatically be reset to a point in time where I would be able to avoid the situation completely.

And my third wish would be for the power to selectively nullify other people's wishes, so that I would act as a sort of wish counselor for any future granted wishes, with no time limit on my decision. That way I could yay or nay other peoples wishes for the rest of eternity, as well as take a cut on the ones that really interested me.
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So, your third wish is to be God?

Programming anything is an art, and you can't rush art.
Unless your name is Bob Ross, then you can do it in thirty minutes.
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An infinate number of wishes of course.

If I couldn't do that and could only have 3 then

1. Never get hungry or thirsty
2. A wallet that always had local currency in it and never got empty.
3. Being able to do things and only experiancing the positive effects not the negative ones.
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Pincho Paxton
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I'd wish that I was on TGC Forum typing a reply to a post entitled.....If a Genie Granted You Three Wishes, What Would They Be?

Whoooooaaaaa!

Thanks Genie!


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Mattman
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1. To be king of the world
2. I have to follow NWC here (Babes, Babes, and more Babes )
3. That my best friend would move back from St. Louis :sniffle:

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1. Universal knowledge of everything.
2. Genie-like powers.
3. 1969 Dodge Charger, 528 hemi, 4-speed manual
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1. wings
2. ability to be impervious to any weapons but for swords,knives,and arrows
3. ability to come back to life every 70 years after a death.
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1. to legally own a nice farmland out in the bush here in victoria.
2. a portal to step into a world of my creation, where i am hailed as a hero. (kindlike ultima, you know the avatar goes to britain, but this time i can set the worlds to be whatever i want them to be, like my own syndicate world, or ultima world )

3. To get legally paid large sums of money each week for me and my girlfriend to live comfortably and still afford all the added pleasures life can offer for the rest of our lives which will be eternal as one of the worlds i create will be a hero quest style world where one of the quests we go on gives us the potion of eternal youth .

god damn it now im upset that this won't happen.



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1) for any i didn't like ever, to instantly be put on mars
2) some kfc (i'm kinda hungry atm)
would save the last one cause i hear theres some kinda clause over it...

might wish for another season of dark angel, or invader zim - i miss those shows

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Quote: "1) for any i didn't like ever, to instantly be put on mars
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Should I start packing my bags


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1. teh codez
2. uh... well, just teh codez really.

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1) I wish I hadn't run out of toilet paper last night (should not have eaten the fish )
2) I wish to be able to open those stupid bloody milk cartons without spilling half of it all over the place (did that today).
3) I wish all spammers/hackers where to join those that Raven hates on Mars.

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1- To legally own a nice, large mansion on a nice, large island that was all mine, legally within the USA, and have a well-paid, happy staff to care for the land and house.
2- To have college-level education in all the standard fields (math, physics, etc) and be able to quickly and permenantly learn anything I set my mind to... so that I could spend time normally spent getting a 'standard' education learning in more complex fields.
3- To have minor 'magical' mental ability in the classic form... altering reality in small ways by merely willing it to be. Small ways, mind you.

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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QuothTheRaven
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I wouldn't wish for babes, I like the challenge.

Wishing for money/infinate money would badly screw up the economy/inflation.

fame? I'm good enough to earn it

I have no idea what i'd wish for. Probably to know EVERYTHING. And I do in fact mean everything.

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Kharnor
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Ooh! I thought of another one!

2. to free my mind

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(1) To live as long as I wish (As far as normal age, disease, ect; though I would not care if I was still mortal as far as weapons against me are concerned)
(2) To excel at a strategy as Grand Admiral Thrawn (From the 3 book series: Hair to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and the Last Command.
(3) To Own & Control The Super Star Destroy Eclipse (From Star Wars: http://galactic-voyage.com/Dark%20Side-Capital%20Ships-Eclipse%20Super%20Star%20Destroyer.htm) with a loyal and obedient crew to man it.

From there I would conquer earth and move on to other planets leaving one of my loyal crew members behind to represent myself on earth...

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to be happy for as long as I live

and few other things.

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Andrew
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I would only need 1 wish, and that is to have everything LOL

Life is just a dream - you are not really alive, so get a gun and start killing evil people.
Rikku of final fantasy 10 and 10.2 is well fit/cool
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Quote: "6. Ownership of TGC "


Why would you want that? Hell, just wish to own Microsoft and then buy out TGC if you really want.

Quote: "Grand Admiral Thrawn "


That guy was really wierd lol.


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1)My kids to have an extremely happy life - my wife too, but she already got that - me

2) To be a football(soccer) player. I'm playing for England in the World Cup final against Germany (in Germany 2006), it's the last 30 seconds of extra time, I pick up the ball on the edge of the box nutmeg the onrushing defender, flick the ball up to about knee height, smack the sweetest volley in the history of football - GOAL - Germany 0 -England 1, we win World Cup(again).

3)The ability to drink more than 2 mugs of tea without a trip to toilet.
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Interesting variety you have there...


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1) To have all the time, energy, and modivation to reach my true potential.

2) To never have to worry about life's essentials (food, water, shelter, ect...)

3) To every once in a while experance a life you only see in animes and mangas.


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Ok, here's a combination of the old timer and young lad in me:

(1) My health, and the health of my family and friends.
(2) Money
(3) Elite martial artist

mwahah.

Women flock to money.

Wayhey!

Insiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!
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Well number 6 is there cause I couldn't really think of anything else, and I had my heart set on reaching it

~I see one problem with your reasoning: The fact is that is a chicken~
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Quote: "Women flock to money."


only women worth keeping are the ones that don't cum for the cash
sides, there's only so much airheaded bimbos you can actually tollerate - you think its a cooincidence that most of the places you'll find them has alot of alcohol around?

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1.) Immortality.(too me and friends)
2.) Perfect Immune System.
3.) Ability to stop aging.




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Hmm...

1) For my body to be perfect for any given needs or desires. (Or desires is special, cos those genies are tricky buggers sometimes...they might take this as an invitation to give you what you really need, which can be the opposite of what you want...)
2) To start a perfect society where all my friends can live happily without having to worry about Neds (Only Scottish folk will get that)
3) A bit geeky this one...to know everythign about computers, ever. To be super profficient in every programming language from STOS to C++.

Yeah, i'm a sad git. I put too much thought into these things.

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1) to have a very sucsessful computing buesness

2) to know every programming language ( ) and create my own operating system

3) to be able to fall asleep and wake up as i wish so i dont have 2 ly awake in bed at night!

The rock has rolled!
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Ian T
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'Immortality'

That's painful, you know...

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

A very nice %it, indeed.
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Yeah, immortality sucks, haven't you ever seen "Ninja Scroll" or any decent Vampire movie?


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Ian T
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Or just the Highlander TV series to get an idea of what a pain being a relatively normal but immortal guy can be.

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

A very nice %it, indeed.
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Right now I wish I didn't have the flu...


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Quote: "Neds (Only Scottish folk will get that)"


I'm not scottish and I know what Neds are! Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I would tell the genie to go away because all things not earned have negative reprocusions no matter what you add to the actual contained parts to the wish, and because for anything to mean something you must earn it, like respect, respect doesnt mean much if you take it...

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1) To have all the powers beyond any humans wishes (e.g. stop time, make things appear/disappear from no-where)

2) To know every programming language in the world.

3) Infinity more wishes.

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My #3 would be "I wish for 3 more wishes"

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Quote: "Immortality.(too me and friends)"


Lemme rephrase that to

1.)Immortality too me and anyone whom I (touch, no j/k)choose.

Trust me, I know I'd wanna die eventually, That's why I'm gonna use my second wish on 2.)killing myself.

3.)Live in the world of DBZ(and be stronger than goku )








A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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1) Control over time (stop, rewind, ff, play... like a vcr )
2) Immortality (but like elves, so I can be killed)
3) No negative effects from my wishes.

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Funny, I'd choose the opposite... I couldn't be killed, but I'd die of old age just like everyone else .

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

A very nice %it, indeed.
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Quote: "decapitation"


....I'll just use duck tape.



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Quote: "3) No negative effects from my wishes."
False, the very nature of wishes is to be negitive, didn't you ever read "The Monkey Paw"? In any case that wish is way to vauge to save you from anything.

Quote: "2) Control over time (stop, rewind, ff, play... like a vcr )"
You did say anything about changing time, if you try to go back in time you will just do what you did the first time, then once you reach the point where you went back in time you'll do it over again, create a pardox and nullify the universe.

As you can tell I've DM'ed a few wish spells.


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Aha! I just worked out my third wish!

3) I wish for an Ornithopter!!!

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1: super powers (e.g snapping a skyscraper in half with one kick and then chucking it at my school.

2: be the inventor of the world's first self-destructing computer (ahem no little brothers aloud)

3: design a DBP game that causes seizures.

god i wish i had more wishes

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Quote: "Quote: "3) No negative effects from my wishes."
False, the very nature of wishes is to be negitive, didn't you ever read "The Monkey Paw"? In any case that wish is way to vauge to save you from anything.


Quote: "2) Control over time (stop, rewind, ff, play... like a vcr )"
You did say anything about changing time, if you try to go back in time you will just do what you did the first time, then once you reach the point where you went back in time you'll do it over again, create a pardox and nullify the universe.

As you can tell I've DM'ed a few wish spells."


I obviously didnt think anything through lol .. hehe

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