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Tigers692

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:10 am
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Ok, should be enough. When he raises his stump and says that was him
flipping her off, isn't that a direct quote from the tales from the
crypt movie demon knight? (it was made in like 1995) don't try to tell
me that you don't have it in VHS!!

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:31 am
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> Ok, should be enough. When he raises his stump and says that was him
> flipping her off, isn't that a direct quote from the tales from the
> crypt movie demon knight? (it was made in like 1995) don't try to tell
> me that you don't have it in VHS!!
>

Never heard of that movie.

There is something that bothers me about Duma Key. If he could paint
anything he wanted and it would come true shortly he should have just taken
ten minutes to paint a medicine vial and labelled it "AIDS Vaccine" or
something noble like that instead of being all about some seventy year old
murder mystery.

If I ever find myself bestowed with magical powers I do not aim to be so
selfish as to just think about me. I will do some magic that even people in
other hemispheres can take benefit.

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:17 am
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> What if your powers are finite, and you only have three
> wishes-kind of thing?

First wish: Lots more wishes
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:15 am
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Tsai_tsai wrote:
> Thanatos <atropos RemoveThis @mac.com> wrote in news:atropos-88F609.06171817042008
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>> In article <Xns9A837422CE2C3nehindragmailcom RemoveThis @85.214.90.236>,
>> "Tsai_tsai" <nehindra RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What if your powers are finite, and you only have three
>>> wishes-kind of thing?
>> First wish: Lots more wishes
>>
>
> Such a logical choice... and it turned out NOT to be for the greater good
> of the world.
> Yet.
> So what's the second?
> Never-ending food supplies? Complete lack of disease? Do away with the
> monetary system?
> How do you go about reforming a planet so that everyone ends up suffering
> less?
>

I don't have an answer to that, but I'll bet Stephen King could find
half a dozen ways to show you why whatever you wished for was a bad idea....
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RickyBobby

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:22 am
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> Liz <ejd52.DeleteThis@spamproof.verizon.net> wrote in
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>> I don't have an answer to that, but I'll bet Stephen King could find
>> half a dozen ways to show you why whatever you wished for was a bad
>> idea....
>>
>
> And he'd be closer to the truth than people would realise...
>
>
> --
> ~
>
> Strawberry.
>
> ~

If your wishes were unbounded then the only logical thing to wish for would
to be God. That way you could have your loved ones with you forever and
kick the asses of everyone who bothered you. Now that would be a good deal.
But it would make for a real short novel. "I am God. I win. Die,
mother*******. What are we doing for lunch?"

If I were God I know exactly what I would do. When somebody did something
wrong that they know that the should not do their head would shrink just a
little bit. Maybe about 1/8 inch in diameter. That way the pinheads really
would be pinheads if they kept up their evil ways.

But if somebody truly repented the wrong that they did and stayed on the
straight and narrow I would give them their original head back after a
little while. A person who jaywalked or parked illegally all of the time
would get their own hat size back in a month but a killer or rapist or child
abuser would have to wait about forty years.

If somebody really ticked you off it would be fun to turn them into a pillar
of honey on top of a fire ant mound for about a month. That would teach
them a lesson.

And if some kid got too big for their britches and smarted off to a parent
or other adult you could make their vocal cords disappear for about an hour.
After a couple rounds of that the little monster would learn to keep a civil
tongue while they still had one.

Within a short time everybody would be standing on a hillside and singing
the Coca-Cola song in perfect harmony.

Ahh, it is good to dream.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:28 am
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"Liz" <ejd52 DeleteThis @spamproof.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Tsai_tsai wrote:
>> Thanatos <atropos DeleteThis @mac.com> wrote in news:atropos-88F609.06171817042008
>> @news.giganews.com:
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>>> In article <Xns9A837422CE2C3nehindragmailcom DeleteThis @85.214.90.236>,
>>> "Tsai_tsai" <nehindra DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What if your powers are finite, and you only have three
>>>> wishes-kind of thing?
>>> First wish: Lots more wishes
>>>
>>
>> Such a logical choice... and it turned out NOT to be for the greater good
>> of the world.
>> Yet.
>> So what's the second?
>> Never-ending food supplies? Complete lack of disease? Do away with the
>> monetary system?
>> How do you go about reforming a planet so that everyone ends up suffering
>> less?
>>
>
> I don't have an answer to that, but I'll bet Stephen King could find half
> a dozen ways to show you why whatever you wished for was a bad idea....

Anyone could. Say a person wished that they had fifty million dollars tax
free in their checking account. So in order for the universe to stay in
order those funds would have to be withdrawn from other people's money and
the government would come up fifty million dollars short for needed
programs. All of that distress and suffering just so that one person could
have a lot of money.
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:45 am
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"Tsai_tsai" <nehindra.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "RickyBobby" <nascar42.TakeThisOut@cox.net> wrote in
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>> If I ever find myself bestowed with magical powers I do not aim to be
>> so selfish as to just think about me. I will do some magic that even
>> people in other hemispheres can take benefit.
>>
>
> Are you sure?
> What if your powers are finite, and you only have three wishes-kind of
> thing?
>
>
>

If you tried to make sure that your reach did not exceed your grasp you
would underperform.

But I see your point. If you could dream up an AIDS vaccine and cure then
next week Asian Bird Flu could become more lethal and widespread.

And if you could keep everyone alive to age 100+ there would soon be more
people than space and food and water and energy and shelter. So you would
be working against yourself that way also.

The wish business is a dodgy one.
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:07 pm
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>> "Liz" <ejd52.DeleteThis@spamproof.verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>> I don't have an answer to that, but I'll bet Stephen King could find
>>> half a dozen ways to show you why whatever you wished for was a bad
>>> idea....
>>
>> Anyone could. Say a person wished that they had fifty million dollars
>> tax free in their checking account. So in order for the universe to
>> stay in order those funds would have to be withdrawn from other
>> people's money and the government would come up fifty million dollars
>> short for needed programs. All of that distress and suffering just so
>> that one person could have a lot of money.
>>
>
> Why, in a world where wishes come true, would the universe have to draw
> from one planet in order to balance itself?
> It could draw gold from a star, shunt it into a government mine, cause a
> little loophole in the accountant's file, and tada!!! Fifty mil. No
> worries.
> Ah wait... no bad ending.
> Let's try again.
> It could draw gold from a star, causing the star to explode, causing an
> asteroid to head towards earth... no wait - wrong genre.
> There's a loophole in the accountant's file, the wisher gets fifty
> million, then dies a horribly gruesome death on his way to the bank. I
> think a falling safe has a nice clichéd piffle to it.
> Which is why I don't write horror, I just read them.
>
> --
> ~
>
> Strawberry.
>
> ~

I liked the bit where the guy saw all kinds of things falling from the sky
onto the roadway. At the very end of the story it turns out that he was
having a big old brain stroke and that is how his brain cells misfired.
Chilling stuff.
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