Kurado has to choose

Just random. I'm interested in the answers and why. I am entirely not in the condition to choose and answer right now. Don't get silly with the options (you can never lose the phoenix! Don't worry about stupid technicalities!), just straight forward.

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Fame and money. I don't really want to live past 75 anyway, what's 20 less years going to hurt so long as I make the most of them?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

A heavenly garuntee? And in great health? I voted for that, simply because that means I could get all the money and fame I wanted. With no fear of death or illness there's a great deal you can do, risks you can take.

I'm not talking about robbing a bank. Just find some crazy motherfucker and bet him you can jump off the Eiffel Tower and live. There's the money, and with that kind of cash you can easily hire whatever kind of support you'd need to become a famous motherfucker overnight. And if there IS a Pheonix out there, you could buy it. Languages? Please, you could learn seven in a year if you devoted that time to it.

All you'd have to do is not get thrown in jail for your entire life.

Win.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

A mastery of 7 languages is a mastery over language, not a mastery over ideas and philosophy that are substantiated by those words. Its like having a bike without wheels. What else is there?...

Who the hell is Fawkes? At any rate, I am assuming everyone is familiar with the tale of the Monkey's Paw? Yea. I'll pass...

100 years of age? This might be a given. If life expectancy continues to rise, there should be no reason why we all can't live to be damn near a hundred. In that context, perhaps the wish would best be spent elsewhere...

Money and fame...Perhaps there is a reason why Paris Hilton feels so content with her meaningless fame, but I could care less.

Ten Million bucks? SOLD!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

An immortal pet who produces a cure-all for any wounds and diseases? I'm in. With something like that you could easily reach beyond age 100 in perfect health barring any horrible accidents. It shouldn't be too difficult to live a nice life without risking disembowelment though. Not to mention the heavenly decree only guarantees good health at the time you reach 100. That doesn't mean you won't have a pain-filled existance before slowly recovering.

Besides, an intelligent bird would be pretty handy for fetching things around the house.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Not even gonna lie, I'm a money man. There is almost nothing money can't buy.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I chose the mastery of 7 languages. That would be so awesome, knowing the most used languages in the world. The ones I'd choose would include Japanese, Italian, French, German...and a few that I forget as of this moment. I'd be such an impressive thing to say, too: "I know 7 languages" sounds more impressive to me than "I have 10 million dollars", although I guess that varies from person to person.

By the way, the money would be second for me. The fame would be last; I'd hate to be famous, since I hate being the centre of attention.

FELIPE NO

$10 million. No answers given.

But, for the fame thing....I'd only have 12-17 years left....so--no.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Where's the option for being a card-carrying member of NAMBLA?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Heavenly guarentee. Dangerous jobs aren't so dangerous(and pay quite well) when I know I'll be in perfect health. Plus we're notorious for dying early in my family so a bit of insurance against that would be nice.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'd choose the 100 years of age and good health.

Money is cheap, fame is worthless, languages can be mastered with time, and mythical creatures are likely to get stolen. Good health and a long life (guaranteed) on the other hand is priceless.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The seven languages thing seems like the least amount of benefit, but with no strings attached. Saves me a lot of time and effort on it, too. All these other options, I can see too many ways they can bite you on the ass.

Owning a phoenix would be cool, but I'd have to feed the thing. Kind of more responsibility than I want to deal with right now. Don't see many strings on this one either, but honestly, what would I do with a phoenix? Open an exotic zoo?

The problem with a guarantee that I'll live to be 100 is that I'll probably then keel over dead the day after my 100th birthday. My plan is to hold out until medical science can make me clinically immortal, via cures for deadly diseases, organ cloning, and good old cybernetics. 100 is shooting low for me.

Much as I'd like to flame out in a blaze of glory like John Candy, I think I'd rather keep it simple. I don't think I even WANT fame. And again, 50 is much too young to die.

$10 million, no questions asked? That's the classic evil genie schtick right there. Of COURSE that $10 million was stolen from the federal government, or from wrathful drug lords, or from a children's charity or something. No sir, not touching that.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Money is worthless without health. I think the language option sounds pretty good, but I guess I would go with the third option, although it's not that unusual to become 100 nowadays.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Musharraf

although it's not that unusual to become 100 nowadays.

Well, 'in great health', as opposed to 'as drooling cluster of lame', is the important factor there.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Hey, you quoted one of my posts there

I guess that's true, but it's pretty much part of common sense that nowadays newborns - provided they don't fuck up their life by drinking too much alcohol or becoming drug addicts - CAN become 100 in great health. It's not like everyone over 80 is automatically chairbound, you know.

FELIPE NO

I'll take the outrageous amounts of money please. Life turns pretty shit after 60, who'd want to live to 100? Pet birds are pretty gay and $10 million dollars would be ok I guess but that's only enough for a nice flat in London these days. As for languages, if I had tons of money I could hire interpreters.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

The ten mill. With ten million I don't have to work ever again, and I can travel where ever I want. The important thing is not to think you have to live like a millionaire as soon as you become one, then 10 million is more than enough to live free for the rest of your life. I wouldn't want to live to a hundred, but I think there'd still be a couple of years enjoyment after the 55 mark, roaming around on a yacht or something. I wouldn't want to give those up.

What's left? Dunno what that Phoenix thing is.

The 7 languages just doesn't sound special enough to me. You could learn those in a lifetime anyway. You've got 10 million, you're not working ever again, what else are you gonna do. If it was 7 million languages, and I could be like C-3P0? Well that'd be more like it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Insane amount of fame and money, please. Knowing when you die can be a great asset. Gives you time to prepare for it and live life to the fullest.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'm taking the ten million dollars. With that much money, I could probably buy master guides to various languages, make my own fame, and be able to be treated for the worst conditions by the best people with the best tools. I'd probably still have plenty left over, too.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'll go with the Ten Million as well. I'll take my chances with reality. Throw 5 million of it into investments, that's more than enough to live off the interest comfortably for my entire life without working a day, and use the other 5 million to just get myself established (get a house, car, pay off grad school, etc.)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I plan to be dead by 30, so that second to last option seems boss.

I'd've picked the last one - but youd have to ask if you'd be trading your soul for that, so nevermind.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I would go with the outrageous amounts of fame and money.

I then take all of the money, and live a boring life until I lose all of my fame. Which, considering the attention span of America, should be about 6 months.
I then do whatever I want in obscurity.
(This assumes that "outrageous" means greater than 10 million dollars, however.)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Fame and Money. Witht he ADDED BONUS of dying in my fifties everyone will be all "oh remember RABICLE? He was so cool, why'd he ahve to die so young?"
"Yeah I liked his portrayal of Ben Skywalker in Star War VII and VIII"
And I'd be a legend forever.

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I would choose the hundred years of great health. Like Fresh Frank wrote, this would give me the kind of confidence needed to achieve pretty much anything I want. And I could be high on nine different drugs every day without losing my mind. Unprotected sex all over the place, and so forth.

What does it mean that it's a "heavenly decree", though? Because knowing that there is a god, heaven, afterlife, and all that would be cool, too. I could even prove it to other people by performing death-defying stunts. Although that would only prove my invincibility, and not its heavenly origin, now that I think of it.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I'd take the money since I could then fun a lot of my own work without having to grovel to all of the different corporations out there. Would also be nice to retain patent rights on anything I develop.

Jam it back in, in the dark.