You Want The Moon On A Stick, You Do!

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What do you want right now that there's no chance of you ever getting?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

A decent wage.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

student loan amnesty

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

a hard-on

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

a flattering haircut.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

A position where I can seem to do anything at all with some girl without every single one of my friends seeming to know about it, despite me having said nothing.

And a flatmate who realises that speaking about people in front of them in "Egga" language is possibly the rudest thing ever and will get him a kicking one of these days.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Peace in the Middle East (oh, and a blowjob)

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

So, a blowjob in a peaceful Middle East then?

― ___ (___), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

£30k a year and a small cottage in France with lots of land and a stream in the garden.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

A decent night's sleep. It's freakin 2:30 a.m. here. What's wrrong with me?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

the last 5 years back

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The last five years of your life, or just the last five years of hte whole universe?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

it's one and the same to me

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Meh-mo to zelff: pay-cient eck-zeebheets probb-habble dee-luge-yong of grand-hee-ur.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick your wish list doesn't seem that unreachable!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to have properties all around the world and not ever have to 'work' - just travel from place to place.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

or...

True love.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to selfishly get back some element of the nothing-I-really-have-to-do pressureless idling of my late 20s singledom and combine it with my burgeoning, exciting, terrifying responsibility-laden cash-strapped mid-30s.

Maybe this just translates to something as banal as "I wish I had more time to guiltlessly listen to my stereo."

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Banal it may be, but quite true. I swear the thing that gets me the most stressed out is that I just don't foresee a time in the near future when I can just sit around worry-free and read or listen to music.

Oh, and I want an island, a yacht, and a TVR Tuscan 'S', thanks.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 17 June 2004 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, the TVR. That along with the amnesty for me, please.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

here you are, sarah. watch the clutch from 1st-2nd gear, it's pretty tight and you've got a lot of BHP under your feet.

(there are TWO of these damn things on my street and they make me drool)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean HERE you are, sarah!
http://usuarios.lycos.es/cupra5606/tvr_tuscan_r_01.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

wow *drools*

Looks also like it has one of those coats of paint that look one color as the car approaches and then another as it moves away. Sigh.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup. One of the two on my street has that paint. Looks purple as I get near it, racing green as I walk past. Bizarre.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

as *you* walk past, or just anyone?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Just me. It looks canary yellow and pink to all you plebs.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Any what's wrong with that?
I want some more cash so that I'm not in debt, dont mind the mortgage, just the rest of it! Oh & I want to get rid of this sore throat!

― Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 June 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Aside from maybe scoring a winning goal for England in the Euro 2004 final, I can't really think of anything. I have a ridiculous sense of possibility in the face of all evidence.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

A sense of aesthetic style.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmmm, sticky moon...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

minor thread derail, this, but: did Richard Herring actually coin the phrase "you want the moon on a stick"? or was it already established by the time he used it? Cos I'm pretty sure it's somehow been assimilated into normal life to such an extent that it was used by some financial analyst in the Telegraph a few days ago...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

seems likely

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I want what's coming to me, the world and everything in it... oh, and the moon on a stick.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Herring is to YWTMOAS as Reeves is to YWLIL.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

So the astronauts that planted the flag on the moon at one point had "The Moon on a Stick"

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually... I wouldn't mind the moon on a stick.

― Homosexual II, Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Err, yes, just to clarify - 'moon on a stick' was in no way invented by Herring. Or even much popularised!

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Get thee to space...

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

A loaded gun and invisibility.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

MOONKEBAB!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I want a feast.
I want a bean feast!
Cream buns and doughnuts and fruitcake with no nuts
So good you could go nuts

"You can have all those things when you get home"

No, now!!

I want a ball
I want a party
Pink macaroons and a million balloons
And performing baboons and ...
Give it to me now!

I want the world
I want the whole world
I want to lock it all up in my pocket
It's my bar of chocolate
Give it to me now!

I want today
I want tomorrow
I want to wear 'em like braids in my hair
And I don't want to share 'em!!!!!!

I want a party with room fulls of laughter
Ten thousand tons of ice cream
And if I don't get the things I am after
I'm going to scream!

I want the works
I want the whole works
Presents and prizes and sweets and surprises
Of all shapes and sizes
And now
Don't care how
I want it now
Don't care how
I want it noooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww!!!......

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

A house. No debt.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i want the world, and i want it right now!

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I already have everything I want.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh, get you!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

No debt. The job I just applied for. A pair of really expensive shoes and a Vivian Westwood suit. An elegant three-storey Georgian town house in Islington or Bloomsbury with modern interior, a garden, a big fridge and at least four bedrooms.

This frightens me. I am turning into my mother.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

inner peace. and a lot of money.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

A clear conscience.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

An early retirement - in which I not doomed to dwell in destitution.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

self-belief?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a large candy cane in one of the kitchen cupboards at home. i wish i had it now, at the office. also, i'd like a set of nice luggage. a really obscenely nice set, with train cases and big trunks and the like.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i was just thinking last week how i'd like some really swank luggage.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I either want the world to be a nice place where people don't smoke on the bus or break into other people's houses or mug people in wheelchairs or put profit before lives or I want a pile of money and a new, conscience-free brain so that I no longer care.

Oh, and I want another three month holiday in New Zealand.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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