I came across this word game on another forum. It's called the Monkey's Paw Game. For those not familiar, The Monkey's Paw was a story written by William Wyman Jacobs for Harper's Monthly in 1902(electronic online copy found here: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JacMonk.html, courtesy of the University of Virginia online library). The main gist of the story is that you should be careful what you wish for. The main character gets this artifact, a shriveled monkey's paw, along with the warning that he can have three wishes, but he may not like how his wishes turn out. Regular viewers of The Simpsons may recall this story being adapted in one of the Halloween episodes.

This is a more cruel game....the first person will make a wish, and the person who follows will grant that wish in proper monkey's-paw-esque fashion. (i.e., "I wish I could fly" could be answered with "Poof! you've been mystically turned into a mayfly by a passing wizard! Enjoy your 24 hour life, it's all you have left") That person then gives their wish, and on it goes. It can be as silly or morbid or elaborate as you like.

I'll start things off. I wish I had a hundred million dollars in small bills.

You are arrested by the police for holding 100 million midgets named Bill as slaves. Each midget had one dollar.

In their stomachs.

You forgot to make a wish.

No thanks. When I played D&D, I got used to the concept of corrupting wishes literally.

For example, if I wished to be invincible in battle, I'd wind up in the town of Vincible, where the local demon convention was being held.

I'll let Snick do the honors.

Wow! ANOTHER forum where this idea has shown up! It's spreading throughout the Internet like a virus!

I'll do a wish then.

I wish I had a large television set.

Congratulations. You have a 1950's style 10 inch black and white tube in a HUGE cabinet console.

I wish for perfect health for the time period equal to the remainder of my natural life span (had I not made this wish).

BTW, when we played D&D, one of our favorite "games" to play during soda breaks/whatever was "Corrupt The Wish".

See also Je Souhaite (X-Files S7).

Congratulations, Scott. The segment of time/space continuum in which you will exist is perfectly healthy and free from paradoxes, intrusions or reality-bending.

You, however, will suffer a horrible affliction related to baking soda.

I knew it would be corrupted...

What's your wish, Snick? I promise to wait until someone else has corrupted it before I weigh in...

TIDBIT: In 1970, there was a Saturday Morning kids show called "Make A Wish". It starred Tom Chapin....

Tom Chapin: [singing theme song] Make a wish, have a ball, / dream a dream, / be it all... / If you want it, you can get it, / But to get it, you've got to want it. / Anything you want to try, / Just let go, fly high... / and Make a Wish

Also...Draem your dreams. Dreams come true. They can even work for you....so Make a Wish

I wish Walt Disney was back in charge of the Disney Corp.

Okay, but it's Walt Disney when he was four years old, and how much do four-year-olds know about running a corporation?
I wish for one hundred years' supply of food.

Okay, you have a hundred years' supply of tough, stringy iguana meat and thousand-year-old eggs.

I wish that my wish not be corrupted.

I'm sorry, your meta-wish is not allowed. You have been sent to Tumbolia.

Or, "Your wish has fine, upstanding ethics. Congratulations!"

I'll take Scott's.

Granted but now you have to do everything he does backwards.

I wish that the world was run by cats.

Next on The World, a segment on catnip cultivation in the Far East, and after that, Georgian political accusations of 'hairball diplomacy.' That's next on The World, produced by the British Broadcatting Corporation and Public Meowdio International.

Seems amazing, almost 3 years since anybody posted jokes on this particular board!

Scott wishes the world was run by cats.
Okay, but it's the slang term "cats" meaning young cool guys who play jazz and wear fashionable sunglasses.

I wish this board were full of intelligent repartee.

And by the way, a Happy New Year!