If you had any of these, it would be a really fucking stupid idea posting them on a public message board anyway, if you hoped to eventually benefit from them. So what’s the problem?
You know, while I think there’s still less chance of me agreeing with you on most things than there is of the Titanic spontaneously mutating into a clone of Dennis Rodman, taking up badminton and getting elected President of the World whilst inventing 5 new kinds of watersport and solving cold fusion, I’ve got to say you’ve been fucking funny since (and about) your pitting. Vive la difference and all that.
No, not that kind of watersport.
DAMMIT! How did you get into my hard drive??!
Oh, the horror. The horror. The very idea that somethign we say here, might be seen by someone. If I ever said anything witty enough or intelligent/clever enough to get published in the Reader or anywhere else, I’d be flattered.
…mushroom, mushroom.
And blessedly, thanks to the wonderful foresight of TYM and his brilliant warning system, I’m prepared for any fallout this natural disaster might inflict. Now I just have to find some place that will give me insurance coverage against Acts of Andrew.
::: goes to wait in the bathtub :::
I guess I kind of assumed that one reason for the copyright thing was that SDMB posts occasionally end up in Straight Dope books. Does Cecil or the Reader ask specific permission when using posts in the books? Or do they just lift them from the boards and go with it?
I will post my idea for an invention, and hope someone steals it. Colored salt! Who can see that salt on their corn or veggies when it’s white? You always put on too much or too little because you can’t see it! Make it blue (we need more blue food) or red or something. Pepper works great, it’s back. But salt??
Steal my idea, Reader/Doper/Lurker, I dare you!
Who wants their food to have a bluish tinge, though?
Blue Man Group? Tobias Fünke??
Well, I just had a hard-boiled egg. One half had too much salt. One half didn’t have enough. I rest my case.
Might be easier to get the kids to eat their cauliflower if you can tell them they’re Smurf Brains. [sub](copyright Marlitharn, TM, all rights reserved, void where prohibited)[/sub]
Incidentally, it appears someone has already stolen andrew’s posts and turned them into a movie.
That didn’t take long.Colored Salt.
That was really clever. Is it copyswritten?
Just shove it in your mouth all at once and the saltiness evens out. Or make it a mayonegg, and you’ll never know the difference.
Sorry to disappoint you, but years ago I read about a kid who won his school science fair by inventing colored table salt.
i wouldn’t post any story lines or inventions of great value here, some other schmuck is gonna steal it from you way before the chicago reader does…and you’re not a stupid person, youre just sort of an asshole for now–calm down dude! and dont take everything so seriously- then i’m sure youd have a lot to say and some to listen
Read the patent number, bitch!*
*Simpsons quote. Not calling Guin a bitch.
Public message board?
Public?
Ya’ll are for real? This leaks out of my little bright screen and into the air for all of Nashville to read?
I just thought my husband was playing a little joke on me.
You’d better believe that next time this senior citizen will read the instructions before she gets suckered again!
Get on up outta that bathtub, faithfool, it’s your turn to deal.
Why the hell not? 