The Selfish Genie...

[definition of insane]

So I don't know why but I was thinking about this conversation I had with people I used to work with today and I just thought it might be interesting...

Say you had a genie who could grant you 100 wishes, but those wishes had to benefit you and you alone (so no world peace type of stuff), could you think of 100 wishes?

I remember this...and I found it hard to even come up with 10. So could you come up with 100 selfish wishes? Do you want to share them to give me ideas?

A couple of mine where that I wished I would never get sore feet from wearing shoes of any sort and that I would always have the money to do whatever I wanted.

What would you wish for?

[The Chosen]

Well, for one I would wish for 100 more wishes and then we'd go from there.

:D

[LorneyTunes]

well i think maybe losing 5 stone would be good for me lol

Maybe turning the sky purple just cause i love the colour x

Maybe to live in greece for a year x

yeh and never ever having sore feet ever again is an excellent one x

[white avenger]

I think that it would be extremely difficult to come up with 10 wishes that would benefit me and me alone, and absolutely impossible to think of a hundred. At least it would be for me.

[Blondie Bear]

Hmm....

1. A high metabolism that makes sure I can eat whatever I want and never gain weight.
2. Immediate 50 lb weight loss.
3. No saggy skin from said weight loss
4. Contract with a highly regarded literary agent
5. Bottomless bank account
6. Privately owned island where I'M the boss, not some government
7. My very own Spike.

I think I'm out. I don't think I'd ever make it to 100. 20 maybe, but not 100.

[Cangel]

Of course I could come up with 100 wishes, seriously, what's hatd about that. Even if you're running out of good stuff, you could always wish for lame things like free pizza.

[Fake Shemp]

lots and lots of free pizza!!!! and pez.... a pez dispenser of myself

[palabravampiress]

Completely selfish wishes?

1. Successful publication of my writing.
2. Insta-curing of all health problems I now or ever will have.
3. ^ Plus slayer-esque super powers. I don't just want a healthy body; I want a SUPER body.
4. Lots and lots of money.
5. Perfect credit.
6. An *honest* personal finance expert to pay all of my bills and manage all of my investments.
7. A robotic maid (robotic so that no real person can see what a slob I am).
8. The ability to sing and play the piano flawlessly.
9. Immortality.
10. Anti-aging.

I'm totally selfish enough to come up with 100 wishes. I can imagine walking down the street and thinking, "Gee, I wish that crossing light would light up" or going into Mrs. Fields' and thinking, "Gosh, I wish they had my favorite cookie."

[Fake Shemp]

all of Stargate: SG1 on dvd (just when i went to buy it, it doubled in price and then went out of stock.) *pout*

[Clem Rocks]

1. Microwavable Rustlers Burgers whenever i want them
2. Steak whenever i want it
3. Roast potatos whenever i want them
4. a PS3
5. A 360
6. a Wii
7. A PSP
8. Broadband
9. A new laptop
10. A subscription to Gamesmaster
11. To have my girlfriend live near me

there you go 10 and a bonus one, easy

[Crazy Flakes]

Oh, geez. I could come up with a hundred easily. Let's see...I'd wish for:

- A new season of Buffy that's even better than it was at its peak.
- A new season of Angel that's even better than it was at its peak.
- A new season of Firefly that's better than the first season.
- A new season of Arrested Development that's better than the other 3 seasons.
- Unlimited access to every episode of every TV show ever.
- Ridiculously good looks that never fade; that includes being a perfect weight forever, so no need to waste wishes on losing weight!
- Immortality, 'cause, you know, why not?
- Lots of cool powers, 'cause they'd be fun to have.
- Huge amounts of money.
- An amazing boyfriend.
- The ability to play every instrument on the planet flawlessly.
- Innate songwriting ability.
- A band filled with hot guys that also possess amazing musical talent.
- Perfect expertise with Photoshop.
- A super high-tech laptop that never runs out of battery and has internet access everywhere on the planet.
- A really nice sports car that runs on oxygen.
- Perfect writing talent and a head full of brilliant story ideas.
- Free food everywhere, 'cause, you know, Super-Me doesn't get fat.
- Every good CD ever made.
- An iPod with unlimited space and tons of really cool features.
- A really high-tech and sleek cell phone.
- Coldish weather all the time.
- ...cookies?

Okay, I guess I can't think of a hundred wishes right off the bat, but I definitely could given enough time. And that was a pretty impressive list.

[InsaneMystic]

I'm not sure about getting a hundred full, unless I use SS's pizza option.

I can think of 18 without problem...

Physical stuff:
1. being a woman (I'd happily use a couple of the hundred for fine-tuning :babe:)
2. better (but not "super", I see no need for that) strength
3. super stamina (like, running a marathon without losing a bit of breath or breaking a sweat)
4. a metabolism to eat whatever I want without weight gain or other problems
5. total control of my sleep-wake cycle (like, stay awake for 7 days straight or sleep for 7 days straight if I want, and wake up the second I specified beforehand without an alarm clock)

Super Powers:
6. Superman (or rather Supergirl, see #1) style flight at the speed of sound
7. voluntarily controllable invisibility (incl. sound masking)
8. voluntarily controllable "phasing" (untouchable/walk through walls)

Stuff & Perks:
9. every dream I ever dreamt on DVD
10. a computer with enough hardware power to be able to play all video games for the next 20 years with maxed-out graphics
11. enough money to actually buy these games (yeah, and then some ^^ )
12. several lost/broken childhood toys and books back into my possession (might fill up a couple of these pesky 100 if they count individually...)
13. a StarTrek style replicator... no more food shopping, ever!
14. a self-cleaning comfy apartment (doesn't need to be huge or luxurious, as long as it does the dishes, cleaning and laundry by itself :lmao:)
15. lifetime chauffeur service (for the times #6 would be rated too obvious :D )

Miscellaneous:
16. the local weather never going warmer than 22° C or colder than 5° C
17. all insects and arachnids vanishing into thin air whenever they come closer to me than 10 m radius
18. a Buffy spinoff dedicated to Frillow. I wouldn't mind it being strictly adult rated either. :tongue2::evilgrin1

[The Kinslayer]

A 100 may seem a bit hard at first but at the moment I don´t have the energy to even try. But money and health is of course included. But if I´m running out of options I don´t use the "get all the dvd´s/cd´s I want" wish and just take one at the time like "I want the Freaks and Geeks dvd set". No problem getting to a hundred then. :)

[Dlou444]

Well, the TRICK here would be to think small.

But, then there is a question here. How do you KEEP things for effecting other people. For instance, there is a neighborhood I'm DYING to have a house in. My husband couldn't care less and would never make a move to move there. But, of course, if I WISHED for a house, in the end, it would technically be a house for ALL of us. If I wished for 100 dogs, wouldn't those be happy to have a home? I'm DYING to have the funds to fix the old neighborhood pool so they don't concrete it in, I couldn't care LESS if anyone else wants it open, I want it open. But, other people would benefit, I suppose.

I'd also like my house to have all that "green" stuff added. Not because I'm so gung-ho about the planet, but I'd like to not pay for power.

I can think of LOTS of things I want for SELFISH reasons, but I can't say they won't also accidently benefit other people or things.

[definition of insane]

Well if the initial point is for your benefit, then it counts.

For example...right now my selfish wish would be that a certain someone got penis diseases from a Chumach tribe...that's definitely for my benefit and no-one else's and it would undoubtly affect others.

Well, it doesn't exactly benefit me either, but it's pretty damned selfish.

[NightBird]

My first wish would be that I only had to make as many or as few wishes as I wanted.

[Dlou444]

Then, I think I can do it. Gimme a minute or two!

[DarklyDreamingDrusilla]

I can come up with a few I am sure....
1. All the money I need (so I can pay my way through college without a job!)
2. The ability to gain/loose weight at will
3. New episodes of Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Point Pleasant, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development and Undeclared
4. Jason Segel to be my Boyfriend
5. To be completely unbeatable but not immortal (I don't think I could handle living forever)
6. Get a job with Judd Apatow productions
7. Scientist to develop some kind of eco friendly substitute for gasoline
8. For all the trash in the world to disappear
9. To go on a trip across Europe (with my boyfriend :smile: )
10. To meet any celebrity I wish
11. To win an Oscar/Emmy for directing
12. To see any Broadway show I want even if it is not on Broadway anymore
13. To be able to time travel
14. To be able to enter any Movie/Television Show/Book I wish and live out the story
15. To be able to travel to space
17. To give my family everything they needed to be comfortable
18. To own every DVD/Blu-ray in the world with a sweet shelf to display
19. To own all the comic books I wanted
20. To have a movie theater in my house

I am sure I could come up with other stuff as well but that's all for now...

[Dlou444]

YEA! Now I'm the MOST SELFISH PERSON ON THE BUFFY BOARDS! Is there an award for that?

1.) A new iMac
2.) magically lose 30 pounds of chest and "abs of flab" overnight.
3.) have my weird over bite fixed overnight.
4.) Have my garage and all my husband's CRAP magically put itself in a garage sale that I don't have to do.
5.) Take money from said garage sale and be able to get my husband a new car and have these two junk cars OUT OF MY LIFE FOR GOOD!
6.) Get entire house magically updated with new carpet/floors, paint, fixtures, deck, everything we'd need to sell it and make tons of money!
7.) Buy lot in my parent's neighborhood.
8.) Have money to steam roll old house.
9.) Work with Architect to design my new house.
10.) Have office in new house with built in walls of dry erase boards and storage for paintings.
11.) Have the whole house "greenified" so that we don't have to pay power bills or worry about power outages.
12.) A nice BIG 8 foot stone wall around backyard for a fence so that my dogs will be safe from neighbors.
13.) Two more Chows.
14.) My friend magically gets off drugs, gets her dog from me that I've had for 2 years and pays me back the tens of thousands of dollars she owes me.
15.) I wanna make +$100K a year so my husband can eat poop when he feels like being a BUTT.
16.) I want a 1969 VW van that has been Overhauled to have A/C and heat and a nice hybrid engine and be painted BRIGHT yellow.
17.) I also want a nice hybrid VW bug painted to look like Herbie that I can drive when all alone.
18.) The new house should have DURABLE flooring. Enough hardwood to be helpful but, not so much the house echos.
19.) The carpet should be able to handle the kids and dogs without looking like we live in a condemned house in 2 years.
20.) I want one of those houses with the kids rooms connected by their own bathroom that no one ever has to see.
21.) this neighborhood overlooks the school, so I'd want my office to have a BIG WINDOW and deck that overlooks the playground so I could watch field day and other fun things.
22.) I want my son's "Rainman" like qualities to go away. Not really for HIM because he's doing quite well. But, more for me so I can stop feeling the weird parent "guilt" that makes me wonder if I've done "enough".
23.) My sister getting back with her husband and moving back to Virginia would be nice.
24.) I want GUEST ROOMS!
25.) I also want a Mother-in-law suit apartment type thing.
26.) I want my Aunt to leave California and MOVE HERE WITH US. Into the Mother-In-Law suite. I'm sick or worrying about her and trying to live on talking to her once a week while she's out there all alone.
27.) I want my husband go to into therapy to get over his childhood issues and quit taking them out on ME.
28.) I want an apology for all the CRAP said husband put me through a few years ago.
29.) I want a magical college fund to appear for BOTH kids so they can do whatever they want when they finish school and I don't have to worry anymore if their dreams are based on what I can give them.
30.) I want a GIANT tubular fish tank that goes up through three floors of my house and is FILLED with stingless jellyfish for me to just sit and stare at.
31.) I want my house to look like this....
http://www.hansonminis.com/hansonimages/Simp%20Brownstone%20flat%20top.jpg
32.) I want a circular driveway too.
33.) I want a yard that self mulches
34.) Plants that self prune.
35.) I don't mind mowing, but grass that self edges would be nice.
36.) I wanna know how to cook.
37.) I want to magically WANT to exercise more.
38.) I want the place I buy canvases from the deliver to my house so I don't always have to run out and get them 3 times a week.
39.) I want to redo the neighborhood pool even if it's JUST FOR ME!
40.) I want to be able to go back to school. Not really for a degree, just to be able to take classes whenever I feel like it.
41.) I want to PERSONALLY be able to submit plans for a better way to teach our children in school.
42.) I want to buy the house I lived in during my 20's on campus.
43.) I'd like to also revamp the whole block and keep them from getting torn down because they're fabulous history and need to be restored.
44.) I want to learn to blow glass.
45.) I'd like a room to blow glass IN my office.
46.) I don't need millions of dollars, but I would like to NEVER have any debts again.
47.) I want my husband to go BACK to school and find a job he's happier in so I don't have to deal with his grumbling or jealousy about MY job.
48.) I wanna take the kids and my parents to Disneyworld.
49.) I want all my vices to go away, even caffiene.
50.) I want this stupid fatigue from my 8 months of mono over 10 years ago to GO AWAY for good.
51.) I want a guarantee that I never have to sit up at night wondering if my kids are alive.
52.) I want a TV Channel that will show Murder She Wrote, Magnum PI, The Greatest American Hero, X-Files, Cold Case, Law and Order, Buffy and Angel all the time and a sister channel that shows GOOD new shows.
53.) I want the Oscar Meyer Wiener mobile to drive in the neighborhood's 4th Of July Parade.
54.) I want the Buffyverse to be real
55.) I wanna be able to call the cast over for dinner and birthday parties and have them be IN character, not snooty actors.
56.) I want a LARGE in wall frog tank that is just to hold those pretty poison dart frogs.
57.) I want my cat to turn nice.
58.) I want my laundry to self fold and put itself away.
59.) I want all the cute clothes I see to LOOK GOOD on me.
60.) I wish my hair grew faster
61.) I wish my nails grew slower.
62.) I wish being pregnant didn't make me SICK so I could have more kids.
63.) I wish my husband was more romantic.
64.) I wish hubby's step father wasn't INSANE!
65.) I wish my friend in Wisconsin would MOVE BACK HERE and preferably next door to my new house.
66.) I wish my other best friend would move back in town too, but she doesn't have to live next door.
67.) I wish my other two best guy friends would live on the block with their families so we could have block parties and POOL parties at my own private neighborhood pool.
68.) I wish I wasn't scared of heights
69.) I wish I wasn't scared of crowds.
70.) I wish I wasn't scared of boats too far out for me to swim back.
71.) I wish the Muppets would have sung at my wedding.
72.) I wish for a tele-porter so I could pop in and visit people far away without any worries.
73.) I wish for the magic ability to be able to comfort or help people instead of this feeling of standing there being useless. I don't fare well when people cry.
74.) I wish I could dance without looking like I'm being electrocuted.
75.) I wish I could do cartwheels.
76.) I wish petunias came back every year.
77.) I wish my allergies would go away.
78.) I wish the dog the stupid neighbor's poisoned was still alive.
79.) I wish I had my daughter's eye for seeing everyone the same way.
80.) I wish my garbage would separate itself between trash and recyclables.
81.) I wish my snake would ALWAYS eat his food so I NEVER have to have a nasty RAT living in a cage in my garage. I HATE rats.
82.) Maybe I wish we could talk the snake into eating "Snake Chow".
83.) I wish I could afford to PAY someone to pack my paintings up for me.
84.) I wish my Mom was my birth mother so that I would NEVER have to worry about her freaking out that I don't love her as much as I "should" or explain to my kids that sometimes parents just drop dead or that their Grandma isn't their "real" Grandma.
85.) I wish I was better at forgiveness.
86.) I wish dreams were time machines and I could go back in time and relive some of my favorite times while asleep.
87.) I wish the TV shows I love could go on forever.
88.) I wish I was better at reading, I really stink at it. It's the ADD, I don't want the ADD to go away, but I do wish I was a better reader.
89.) I wish that the images I see in my head would ALWAYS come out on paper the same way.
90.) I wish I liked traveling a bit more.
91.) I wish my stomach wasn't so sensitive and I didn't have to think before I eat everything.
92.) I wish the word "organized" had an actual definition in my house.
93.) I wish my husband had let me put the bright rainbow colored carpet squares on the basement floor.
94.) I wish I was more tolerant of intolerant people. I HATE feeling like I'm just like them.
95.) I wish I felt like hanging out with other parents more.
96.) I wish gas prices would GO DOWN.
97.) I wish my bar was still open.
98.) I'm starting to REALLY WANT Joss to write me a special Dawn and Connor show just to appease my curiosity.
99.) I wish I had a switch to stop time so I could catch up or get ahead of the game when I really need to.
100.) I wish I had 100 more wishes every year as new things come up.....with rollover wishes for those I don't use!

Edit:

Blondie Bear agrees: *jawdrop* Good lord, woman!

LOL! I know. My Aunt's always telling me how "unselfish" I am. Little does she know I have a LIST of things waiting for the Selfish Genie to show up and do for me!

[definition of insane]

I think the point of the exercise is actually how self aware are you...so I'm guessing if you can name 100 wishes, you are pretty self aware!

Although I think you're suppose to be able to do it straight of the bat but who cares!

Lou's aware! Lou's aware!

:cheering:

[Blondie Bear]

Lou broke everything she wants down into about 5-10 different wishes, that's how she did it. :P

[Dlou444]

Lou broke everything she wants down into about 5-10 different wishes, that's how she did it. :P

I was TRYING to be SPECIFIC. You know the problem in the movies with wishes is that people aren't specific enough. :lmao:

You're just jealous that I'm AWARE! :P
Or, perhaps you're jealous I can waste all day writing up 100 things.
Either way, you're jealous and I'm READY FOR THE GENIE!
:nana: Nanny Nanny Boo Boo :nana:

[Blondie Bear]

*rotfl* Immature much?