Well not all of us are as stingy as andrewdt85. I will gladly donate some of my more rockin’ ideas to the Reader owners so they can make a million bucks and buy some Christmas presents for their poor, neglected, bitter kids.
Invention: Hot dog with integrated bun. Use some pastry dough (maybe biscuit dough) and make a “blanket” for the hot dog then cook it up. Yummy and no fragile buns to split or spill stuff.
TV Pilot Pitch: “Growing up Bricker” - Young scallywag always causing trouble at his Montessori High School. Hi-jinks with a heart!
TV gameshow: “Who’s more hardcore?” Uses at least 2 participants, one heavy duty taser some candles and a pair of locking pliers.
TV gameshow: “What’s that smell?” = People and smells- Nuff said!
And they’re all yours Chicago Reader!
TV Game Show - “Nitpicking For Dollars” Two contestants read a page-long post on a message board, and then compete to see who can find the most and tiniest nits to pick. The loser gets attacked by a blimp.
I thought of those little note pad thingies that you install in your car so you can take notes while driving and talking on the cell phone. Some one else made them and sold them.
I thought of a looooong funnel/tube thingie to allow you to fill the water basin on the Chrismas tree without having to crawl under the branches and knock all the ornaments to hell. Some one else has made them, and I bought one at the tree lot this year.
I thought that they should make a hair drier where the engine/fan is put in a closet or something, so you don’t deafen yourself and everyone else within 100 yards every time you dry your hair. I don’t know if that’s been done yet.
I thought that make-up companies should package complementary colors of lipsticks and fingernail polish into sets (2 for 1!). I don’t know if that’s been done, or if anyone that used lipstick or nail polish would want that.
I wrote a movie treatment that is based on a future where a committee of powerful corporate types control the world through a network of computers (this was before the internet was, well the internet). A band of rebels has had some success in the past disrupting the network by sabotaging ground based connection points and connections. Unbeknownst to the rebels, the committee has just about completed a plan to move all of the connections to satellite, out of reach of the rebels. The committee is also involved in drug trafficking, which helps keep the populace stoned and under control, and the rebels are fighing that too. At the end of the movie you find out that the leader of the rebels is actually the son of the head of the committee, and has become addicted to the controlling drug – he’s lost the battle, and he won’t even care!
If I can remember or think of any more, I’ll be sure to share!
(I’m sure I have some song lyrics somewhere – that’d be bitching if someone stole those, and I heard my song on the radio!)
BZZZTTT! Wrong answer! Astro specifically said “Use some pastry dough (maybe biscuit dough) and make a “blanket” for the hot dog”. Corn dogs are covered with a corn meal batter, using a pastry dough or biscuit dough would render a Pig in a Blanket.