# Let's come up with some bad ideas! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062 "2008-06-06T21:01:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/81 "2008-06-08T19:25:27Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] ISTR that a Canadian MP did joke in this way and was arrested… back in the early nineties or even late eighties, long before the current paranoia. [/QUOTE] Damn. Hmmm…I just remember one of my high school teachers telling us that his brother in law did the same thing. That would have been pre-1996. They were checking his luggage, and he said, “Ooooh, watch out for that bomb in there!” He ended up missing that flight. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/82 "2008-06-08T20:51:25Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] I can’t believe no one has given you credit for this bit of genius. To give a bit of corollary advice: When someone asks you if you’re a god, say no. [/QUOTE] Thank you! Of course, I just realized you didn’t give me credit either. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/83 "2008-06-08T21:45:56Z")
If you get superpowers and decide to commit crimes with them, make sure to wear a brightly colored, exotic outfit that will stand out in any crowd. It’s not like you have any need to be inconspicuous. If you find an anti-tank mine, here’s a great game. Get drunk with your buddies and dare each other to stomp on it, harder and harder. Prove your manly daring. \* If a Mr. Morden asks you “What you want ?”, go for something big ! What’s the worst that can happen ? - Some fellows got a Darwin Award for this, as I recall ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/84 "2008-06-08T21:51:25Z")
[QUOTE=Sigmagirl] Thank you! Of course, I just realized you didn’t give me credit either. [/QUOTE] I hereby bestow upon you… CREDIT! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/85 "2008-06-08T23:24:31Z")
Play the German drinking game “hit the stump.” It’s simple. All you need is an axe, a stump, and an axe. U don’t even need a stump really, but it makes it more fun. Each person takes turns swinging the axe into the stump/spot/whatever. After that he or she takes a short. Repeat until everyone passes out or is wounded. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/86 "2008-06-08T23:25:58Z")
Make errors in your posts and then don’t correct them. Better yet, edit them but don’t change anything. Do this to everything you post. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/87 "2008-06-09T00:46:37Z")
Invite that nice Jessica Fletcher over for a visit. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/88 "2008-06-09T01:12:05Z")
Read the _Necronomicon_ cover to cover. Buy a tribble. If most of a planet if covered with a substance that burns you, this burning substance falls out of the sky on a common basis, and the locals are largely made of the stuff - invade. Naked. ---
**Author:** ![joazito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/89 "2008-06-09T01:12:47Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] Tell her you think that her sister is hot. [/QUOTE] I’ve been struggling with this one for a while… Help me, I don’t know what to do! Actually, it was my ex, so I guess now would be kind of ok to say it… except we might get back together… Damn it she is hot and I want to express it! ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/90 "2008-06-09T01:27:05Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] Buy a tribble. [/QUOTE] No. The bad idea is _feed_ a tribble! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/91 "2008-06-09T01:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] No. The bad idea is _feed_ a tribble! [/QUOTE] What’s the trouble with tribbles? …groan… [Quote=Der Trihs] If most of a planet if covered with a substance that burns you, this burning substance falls out of the sky on a common basis, and the locals are largely made of the stuff - invade. Naked. [/quote] An even worse idea is to make a movie based on that premise. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/92 "2008-06-09T01:42:13Z")
Stoppin’ Joe from goin’ where he’s going with that gun in his hand. Heating one’s home with AC current and a kitchen fork. Conversely, having a bonfire _inside_ one’s home. Drinking paint thinner (albeit, the Russians seem to do it. . .) Not stopping, failing to collaborate, or listening. Tripler Trying to jump a shark. . . _without_ a ski boat. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/93 "2008-06-09T03:38:59Z")
Those emparassing photos of you, post on the internet for all to see. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/94 "2008-06-09T04:27:21Z")
What I wish I had said to the cop who pulled me over, what I REALLy wish, I had said… Oh Man if I could go back and say it again I would have said: “Good Evening officer, how are you tonight?” (with thanks to Emo Phillips) or That thing I did at the petting Zoo, with the vodka and the nail clippers, or Hiding that LSD in grandma’s spice cabinet… (On the other hand her quilting really changed after that, although they don’t make beds that shape…((Until we can make beds that exist in 7 dimensions.) or that outgoing phone message during my divorce… didn’t realise that the wife’s lawyers could use it in court… big grins FML ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/95 "2008-06-09T04:40:43Z")
Help that nice widow from Nigeria to transfer her dead husband’s funds into an overseas bank account. Worried that an e-mail you’ve just received addressed to “dear valued customer” is actually phishing? Only one way to be sure … click on the link, post all your personal information, and see what happens! ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/96 "2008-06-09T04:52:57Z")
I thought of another Start a new thread called “I needs helps with mine grammartism” ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/97 "2008-06-09T07:16:24Z")
Kid with Vorenus that his wife has a great ass. Kid with Pullo that the Thirteenth is a bunch of mollies. Go ahead! Those two Roman jokers have great senses of humor! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/98 "2008-06-09T10:53:55Z")
Escape from a Nazi prison- you are a resistance leader- and walk around Vichy France Morocco wearing a white suit so you are conspicuous. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/99 "2008-06-09T10:58:30Z")
If you’re a spy, don’t worry about [misplacing sensitive documents](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Albert). Some nice person will return them-and people generally are polite enough to not to read them. And no ethical nation would use them for their own purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/100 "2008-06-09T11:33:11Z")
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