Well the girlfriend still gets a wish.
Her wish is to go back in the well.
Well, well, well.. Guess he got his answer to The Bee Gees Question
True love is actually a great wish. Money runs out, the earth doesn't have the resources to power an x-wing, super dude can't do anything super or else society will now expect him to be Superman, which is a huge responsibility anyone reasonable would want. But TRUE LOVE, the fucking stuff from Disney movies? I'd take that in a heartbeat, then proceed to do a lewd photoshoot with my partner on the defunct x-wing.
As someone who once had true love... True love is the wish 100% of the time.
Something Elon and Besoz will never have (because they are sociopaths) (and wankers)
Am I the only one concerned there's a wishing fountain that anyone can use? Even Republicans.
jk..
I wish everyone else but me would be miserable!
Huh, it's what they're wishing for every day anyway nothing would change
super dude can't do anything super or else society will now expect him to be Superman
Reminds me of a scene in My Adventures With Superman where Clark literally cannot go to sleep because he can't stop hearing people needing help (thanks to his super-hearing). He stays awake the whole night helping people.
Is true love necessarily until death?
Sadly no
If he has a a personality disorder that could be a cause of the inability to form or maintain relationships, wishing for true love might not last either.
Ouch
I love this comic, seen it first I think a decade ago.
Of course it’s already funny on the surface, but it also makes you stop and think about what you would choose.
Is it really true love, if a wish compelled it?
Millennium Falcon. Just saying.
Actually, I think I’d rather a Ton Falk, complete with a collection of fighters/bombers to go with it.
Maybe it just brought them together giving them both true love.
Arguing about the trueness of love is just getting too into semantics and willfully creating a non true scottsman debate.
I already have true love. I'll wish for more wishes.
a hotdog
Millenium Falcon? That old bucket of bolts that needs constant maintenance even while flying? Hard pass. Now, a shiny new Corellian YT2000, on the other hand...
That bucket of bolts is the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I don't need this. Let's go, Chewie.
The hydrologist in me always asks: why dig a well at the top of the hill? Surely that is more effort than digging it at the bottom of the hill where the water table is closer to the surface.
But I guess wells like this predate modern hydrology. And outhouses and such could be polluting the water as it flows down gradient. So the water at the top of the hill was likely cleaner and safer to drink...
I'd wish for clean drinking water in every well. ;)
Conjecture: if you assume people also live on the hill, it would be easier to carry pails back down than to carry them up from the bottom of the hill.
Only in a 2D world with the directions being limited to "up" and "down". Carrying it laterally around the circumference of the hill would be equally probable.
Aren't ancient wells often based on where springs were? Springs are often at the top of hills, aren't they?
This is a misapprehension. Springs are on hillsides, not hilltops. Basically, imagine there are two surfaces: the ground, and the water table. In some places, usually on hillsides, the water table will intersect the surface. Where that happens, a spring will exist.
But that water has to be under pressure for this to happen -- this is known as the hydrological gradient. Water flows down hill on the surface, and down gradient under ground. In order for there to be pressure on the water, enough to force it out a hillside, the water table somewhere in the hill needs to be physically higher in altitude than the spring.
In other words, it rains on top of the hill, and the rain soaks into the ground. That water wants to flow downhill, so it flows out of the ground on the sides of the hills. But this means a spring will never flow from the top of a hill.
A true man of the people! With the right connections, you'd do quite well in 14th century Europe!
Wishes flow best in vuggy volcanic strata, so well location is based on luck hitting a vug or interconnected seam. Any wishes in sandstone were used up millennia ago for plants to eat or, apparently in one case, death by meteor.
It is a divine rain reservoir.
Now the idea of a millenial falcon popped into my head.
I guess it's a very fast bird that's approaching middle age but the bird equivalent of boomers are convinced it's still an unruly adolescent? 🤷
Does it use up some kind of exotic fuel to run, though?
How long until you are stranded somewhere in outer space with absolutely no-one that could even possibly help you?
How long until you are stranded somewhere in outer space with absolutely no-one that could even possibly help you?
12 parsecs
The millennial falcon preys solely on avocado toast.
And wealthy boomer mice.
I'll take a comfy magical isekai, please. Maybe to the setting of Knight's & Magic so I can pilot a cool magic robot.
Comfy and wartime don't really mix
Does it come with a fresh, newer body (or the ability to renew the current one, maybe through "cultivation")? This one I've got it is kinda worn out.
Also, anyone who gets in please send me an invite
Truck-kun will be with you shortly to deliver the invite.
Just have your GF make a wish for a pair of x-wings. Or that you both have super powers. Or whatever. She would be a new customer and this able to make 1 wish.
Edit: Wait... Did she just poof into existence or was she already in line? I've seen this comic so many times and only now am I noticing the girl is in the first panel.
She was poofed into existence one hour in the past, and started walking toward the well. At first it was just a zombie shuffle, mindless and jagged. But slowly and surely, she remembered her made-up past, forgot that she had materialized from thin air.
If we’re reading that particular top to bottom he does say “true love” and she could then be walking up.
A bit of a weird wish, but I'd definitely wish that whenever I want I could be looking at a living person (either through TV or a photo), see their age, and be able to adjust it at will. I would finally be able to turn the US legislators into the babies they are.
interesting superpower. i wonder if this has been done before?
I don't know if it has been explored in great depths in general media, but I know just about every single cartoon I've ever seen has done at least one episode involving age regression. I also know that season 3 episode 9 (Secret Agent Bear) of Yogi's Treasure Hunt they had Dick Dastardly was trying to hold world leaders ransom with fountain of youth water and that's the closest I can think of to this super power that I've seen in popular media.
And my first thought to that idea was "ah yes, preserve Danny DeVito for years to come."
Fair.
Maybe true love waits.
Nice Radiohead reference
I'm just killing time
An iron man suit, which one is the best? I don't like the nanobots ones.
