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Fri Jan-12-07 01:48 PM
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If you could choose a super power what would it be? |
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Fri Jan-12-07 01:50 PM
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But I'd pick invisibility.
'Cause then I can sneak into the Mets' locker room and watch David Wright take a shower.
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:01 PM
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about somebody who found a ring that could turn him invisible, and he used it for his own selfish gain. The consensus was 'who wouldn't?' The answer, many years later was, Bilbo Baggins, but my thinking was that it's hard to think of many socially useful things to do with invisibility and quite easy to think of many prurient uses.
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Fri Jan-12-07 01:56 PM
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3. The power to turn sand into $100 bills nt |
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Fri Jan-12-07 01:57 PM
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4. Invisibility, of course. |
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Then you can do whatever you want.
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:40 PM
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26. as long as you don't have to sneeze |
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:44 PM
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You could really fuck with people; I'd have so much fun!
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Fri Jan-12-07 01:57 PM
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I hate not knowing what people are thinking.
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Fri Jan-12-07 04:07 PM
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57. ew. I don't want to know what at many are thinking. |
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Think about it, can you turn it on and off?
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Fri Jan-12-07 01:58 PM
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Are there any other choices left?
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:00 PM
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7. the ability to stop time |
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I would give anything for a pause button on life. Taking naps would be easier that way.
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:04 PM
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9. Morphing, like Peter Griffin |
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:18 PM
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15. bah, anybody who practices their archery can do that |
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get the Ted Nugent DVD.
Now, if you want the power of wishing, why not make it constructive, ala Bastian in "The Neverending Story"? And in Neverending Story II, the ending is brilliant. Instead of killing or defeating the evil princess, he makes a different wish.
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:22 PM
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like half-way around the planet.
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:29 PM
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22. like for somebody who is annoying you on the internets |
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yeah, I got that :hide:
That would be a "wishing" power. My point was why not wish for other things than just the death of an enemy?
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:05 PM
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12. Just one superpower? I'm already super-smart, super-nice, super-funny, |
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super-geeky (edit, let's just make that 'super' instead of 'spuer' although the original may have been funnier, albeit unintentionally so), super-honest, super-hardworking, and super-modest. I'm all that AND a bag of Doritos. Why would I want just ONE super-power?
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:08 PM
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13. This is not my fault. I'm not gonna name names, but |
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Edited on Fri Jan-12-07 02:11 PM by hfojvt
SOMEBODY stopped time while I was posting.
Plus, what I tell you three times is true.
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:08 PM
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14. Did I mention super-redundant? |
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and super-dsylexic? :blush:
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:20 PM
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16. Besides the ones I currently have, I'd choose teleportation too. |
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:rofl: :rofl: It saves a lot of time. :P
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:38 PM
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and slap me upside the head, quicker than posting a reply. I'm like Dr. McCoy though, all that disassembling and re-assembling of my molecules would be kinda scary. What if something goes wrong, and you teleport yourself into a marble column or underwater? What if you teleport into an empty space, but an empty space that is about to be filled by a fast-moving, heavy object. I am just reminded of the book "The Bad Place". The villain can teleport and take people with him. Plus, if he is wounded before teleporting, like by a gunshot in one case, he can fix himself upon reassembling. That seems logical, but the teleporting x-man could not do that.
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:19 PM
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37. My kind of teleportation would be akin to I Dream of Jeannie rather than |
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Star Trek. :rofl: And it's for all the same reasons you listed. At least with the I Dream of Jeannie teleportation, you could pop in and pop out without any of that other scientific BS. :rofl: :D :P
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:52 PM
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53. would you have to wear the i dream of jeannie |
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outfit also? just curious?
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66. i look forward to it. |
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:22 PM
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:22 PM
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18. Long-range listening skills. |
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I'm a biiiiiig eavesdropper.
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:22 PM
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20. Teleportation Would Be Cool |
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mind control would be another
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:25 PM
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aka 'Matter transmisson.' Could be fun!
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:45 PM
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27. I'd choose the power to be able to use a super power of others... |
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for a short while after I had been around them.
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Fri Jan-12-07 04:30 PM
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68. Well, more like SpongeBob... |
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But, you get the general idea.
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Fri Jan-12-07 04:31 PM
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69. SpongeBob can do that? I've never seen that show. |
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But I know the theme song because various kidlets in my life sing it all the time!
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Fri Jan-12-07 07:03 PM
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I've become a huge Heroes freak.
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Fri Jan-12-07 02:46 PM
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28. the ability to stop time |
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and keep everyone in suspended animation while i move around.
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Is a very very scary thought. :scared:
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58. I've got whoever that was on ignore. What'd he/she say? |
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Fri Jan-12-07 04:17 PM
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Why would you care. :shrug:
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71. Idle curiosity. Because we're talking superpowers and I'm a geek. |
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:13 PM
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31. I'd fly like Superman |
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I'd use it to fly over to see FedUpWithItAll every day. :)
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wouldn't it be easier to move here? ;)
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33. Not if I could fly like Superman |
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35. Moving is for people who can't fly like Superman |
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Fri Jan-12-07 04:21 PM
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65. Wouldn't be teleportation be faster |
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And you wouldn't show up at her house with bugs in your teeth. :)
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34. I think i would like to be able to heal... |
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36. There would be much work for you to do |
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:21 PM
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38. teleportation would be cool |
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as would the ability to pause time but i would really love pyrokenisis, that way i wouldn't have to get up to set people on fire
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39. remind me not to piss you off |
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43. i don't think i could light you on fire |
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but it's best to be safe
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:27 PM
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44. i'll wear my flame-retardant undies then |
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:22 PM
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Is that a super power....hmm, a very HIGH level of constititution....I would love to see how this life thing, pans out in the end...
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:23 PM
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41. Being able to see through clothes. |
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I'm really a ten year old at heart.
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42. super-stretching, like Mr. Fantastic and Plastic Man |
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I would think guys like that are a hit with the ladies, no?
Or, the guys, if one was gay.
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Either that or telekinesis
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:34 PM
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46. Um..DUH! A little superpower called "The Power Cosmic" |
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Like Silver Surfer. Then you could fly at faster than light speed, shoot rays at people, heal people, and be basically immortal. Why would I teleport when I can fly to anyplace on Earth in less than a second?
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63. plus the flying surfboard is really cool |
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I'm not sure it's really fair to call that 'one' superpower though since it's quite omnibus.
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48. The power to make people stop being stupid |
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Fri Jan-12-07 03:46 PM
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51. You'd be really busy, then! |
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52. Then who would I have to mock and laugh at? |
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Where's the fun in that? ;)
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54. Forget invisibility, I'd want to be completely undetectable. No one could |
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see me, hear me, feel me, smell me. I wouldn't have to open and close doors. I could just slip in and out of rooms and onto airplanes, etc. Believe me, the first place I'd head is Washington D.C. and sort out the mess in the White House.
Then I'd take a little detour to Ewan McGregor's house. ;)
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56. Active or passive power? |
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Seriously, you want that particular power to be something you can turn on and off at will.
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61. I'd like to be able to turn it on and off at will, of course. |
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There are definitely times when I would want to be seen, heard, felt, etc.
Especially when I get to Mr. McGregor's house. ;)
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If you get creative with that, there's a lot of nasty tricks you can do.
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Fri Jan-12-07 04:10 PM
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60. Shape-shifting if I was a villain. |
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If I was a hero, I'd probably rather be able to fly. Super strength is great, but flying is more fun.
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Fri Jan-12-07 04:29 PM
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67. Bah, Hulk does not need it |
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because Hulk can jump for miles! What good is flying if you will just get your a$$ kicked if you land and try to do anything? If you lack the strength to carry anybody? Did the ability to fly ever do any good for Arthur Dent? Okay, it did save his life a couple times and maybe even got him some nookie.
Reminds me of a story.
A man was hang-gliding over an isolated rural area when he is spotted by a couple of hunters. One raises his gun - BLAM! BLAM! The other one says "What the heck was that?" The first replies "I have no idea, but I sure made it drop that man it was carrying."
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76. Yeah, but he causes giant craters every place he lands. |
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I just want to be able to fly to Maui whenever I get the notion. Maybe I can be a courier of donated body parts to make some money. Not much of a "hero" I suppose, unless you're waiting for that heart transplant.
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Fri Jan-12-07 04:33 PM
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70. I wanna be like Samantha in Bewitched. |
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*twitch* clean house *twitch* work done, desk cleared. *twitch* grocery shopping accomplished, dinner cooked.
And screw that whole 'we have to live like mortals' crap. I would SO be into being witchlike.
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but not just of myself...of anything I wanted from or to anywhere I wanted. Would make it a lot less sad to have the people I love so far away. :)
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Fri Jan-12-07 04:54 PM
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73. I'm late, all the good powers are taken ..so |
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I'll settle for the ability to eat more hotdogs faster than Kobayashi.
But I stand in awe of the rest of y'all's powers.
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It's now "Banging Paula Abdul"
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Fri Jan-12-07 06:39 PM
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78. "If I could be invisible..." |
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Psychometry is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a psychic holds an object in his or her hands in order to obtain information about the object or its owner.
I'd like to be able to know things about people from objects they've touched.
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Sat Jan-13-07 12:03 AM
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81. Eyes that can burn DUH-bya when I see him on TV. n/t |
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Sat Jan-13-07 12:06 AM
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82. Vaughan's heavy groin. |
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83. One might ask why one would bother to edit a reply such as this. |
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Sat Jan-13-07 12:12 AM
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84. Super powers not withstanding |
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Would I have to wear the skintight underoos like the other superheros? Just checking.
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Sat Jan-13-07 12:19 AM
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85. I have mentioned this before... |
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The ability to control the weather as well as control the currents of the waterways, Great Lakes and the oceans.
The ability to psionically control the Internet, hack into any website, server or government computer etc.
The ability to psionically influence peoples' politics.
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