My most sincere wish for you will be granted, to your utmost. You will have a White Christmas this year. The trouble is you will be snowed under with snow to such a degree that all the mod cons don't work as well as they should.
I wish for a nice cool bearable Christmas we can all enjoy.
Right, you get a nice cool bearable Christmas of about 25 degrees C, but the very next day it's up to 40 again. (this can actually happen in Melbourne)
I wish we could bring back creatures that humans have driven to extinction.
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)
All of the creatures that humans drove to extinction have been brought back, but only the large carnivores, leaving you with no choice but to abandon everything to find safe refuge.
I wish I could travel at the speed of light.
~Wunder
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts." ~ C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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You can travel at the speed of light, but the relativistic time dilation effect (as described by Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity) means that you instantaneously find yourself at the end of time.
I wish I could remember everything I read.
You can now remember everything you read, but you can't remember anything else.
I wish I had a flying horse like Fledge in The Magician's Nephew.
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)
You now have a flying horse but it cost you a page out of your Magician's Nephew book.
I wish I could play profession baseball.
You can now play professional baseball but you are on a minor league team and are on the bench most of the time.
I wish I had echolocation like a dolphin.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
–C.S. Lewis
You have echolocation like a dolphin, but metallic objects are too reverberant for you to listen to.
I wish I could make a snowman tomorrow.
Movie Aristotle, AKA Risto
You are able to make a snowman tomorrow but it starts to melt a couple hours later.
I wish I could go to the moon.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
–C.S. Lewis
You go to the moon, but you crash land and can't come back to Earth.
I wish I could get a bigger aquarium.
"The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly." -John Muir
"Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed." -Richard Adams, Watership Down
Yes, you do get a much bigger & nicer aquarium, but it is already stocked with fish who want to munch the fish you already know & love.
I wish I could do a rain dance that actually works.
You can now do a rain dance that actually works! However, since it only works if you do it dressed as a galah, hanging upside down from the power lines and making appropriate screeching noises, you don't quite dare to try it.
I wish I could teleport instantly between the UK and Australia (to save on air fares).
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)
Congratulations, you do get your wish. But you only get your wish the once only, to Sydney Cove, obliging you to wear a ball & chain on your ankle to an original Australia Day reenactment on 26 January 2020.
I'm wishing for a Green Christmas, just like the ones I sometimes had, with wild life thriving, & Christmas bush living. Just the sort of thing to make us glad.....
Ooh! I did love those galahs on the telegraph wires. Thank you.
You do get a Green Christmas... a little too green, as after the fires, the bush magically regenerates 1000 times faster than usual and suddenly covers your whole property and pushes its way right into your house. Then an army of koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, possums, bandicoots, emus, kookaburras, cockatoos and every other creature you can think of (including a few snakes) all move in too and take over. You now have an instant wildlife sanctuary and all the critters there are very happy, but there's no room left for you and your (human) family to have your Christmas celebrations!!
I wish for good weather over the coming week (tomorrow onwards) as I go for my pre-Christmas holiday in Cornwall.
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)
You get good weather, for day or so before it starts to rain...again.
I wish could go on holiday in Fiji.
(I hope the weather was or has been nice!)
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
–C.S. Lewis