# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/101 "2008-06-09T12:17:01Z")
If you challenge Han Solo with a sword when he has a gun, make sure you do all sorts of sword waving before you attack him, so people know you’re really a cool sword swinging wild & crazy guy. ---
**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, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/102 "2008-06-09T12:18:32Z")
Be sure to tell the Mongol Emissary that they don’t have the balls to burn the city down and kill every man, woman and child in the city when the walls finally fall. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/103 "2008-06-09T12:39:05Z")
Make sure your Doomsday Device has a large and obvious countdown timer. No need to worry about battery backup for it, either- mains power will suffice. You can even use a standard extension lead to plug it into the wall! ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/104 "2008-06-09T12:47:03Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Have an affair with a co-worker. Don’t use protection. Brag about it to your other co-workers and your friends. [/QUOTE] Ok, now what? Is it supposed to burn when I pee? ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/105 "2008-06-09T12:58:13Z")
[QUOTE=marking] His name is Ken. peace mark [/QUOTE] At least one person got that. I live 20 miles north of Kenosha. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/106 "2008-06-09T13:13:05Z")
[QUOTE=Cicero] Escape from a Nazi prison- you are a resistance leader- and walk around Vichy France Morocco wearing a white suit so you are conspicuous. [/QUOTE] Then lead a singalong of La Marseillaise in a nightclub when everybody else wants to sing Die Wacht am Rhein! Don’t worry, they’ll join right in! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/107 "2008-06-09T13:16:36Z")
Put your own money in the show. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/108 "2008-06-09T13:48:36Z")
Bet all the money you can get your hands on on Big Brown. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/109 "2008-06-09T17:59:01Z")
Telling your current girlfriend what a sexual dynamo your ex was in the sack. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/110 "2008-06-10T00:47:41Z")
Vote Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/111 "2008-06-10T01:31:57Z")
Store the only prints of a large number of movies in the same vault, don’t make any backup prints, and do nothing to make the vault fireproof. (Sadly, some people never do learn this one…) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/112 "2008-06-10T01:46:54Z")
Tell a Hillary Clinton supporter, “Eh, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.” ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/113 "2008-06-10T02:04:25Z")
When your significant other announces she is appearing on The Jerry Springer Show, where she will reveal a big surprise, go on with her. It can only be good news. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/114 "2008-06-10T02:22:06Z")
1. Start a thread claiming to have the answer to _14k of p in a f g d_. 2. Don’t give the answer. 3. Profit! ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/115 "2008-06-10T02:59:18Z")
…oh, for og’s sake, give us the answer to _14 k of p in a f g d_. All will be forgiven. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/116 "2008-06-10T03:20:50Z")
_whispers_…Actually, I think I got the P and the F backwards. That, too, is a bad idea! ---
**Author:** ![Ultraviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/117 "2008-06-10T16:58:15Z")
[QUOTE=audit1] Invite that nice Jessica Fletcher over for a visit. [/QUOTE] Too funny! A local channel just started showing repeats of Murder She Wrote. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/118 "2008-06-10T17:19:19Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Vote Democrat. [/QUOTE] . . .or Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/119 "2008-06-10T17:58:37Z")
When I am putting together something very complicated with lots of paperwork and I have all the papers in various piles trying to get them together right, don’t come up and start rearranging all the papers because “it’s better and easier to do it this way.” People have been killed for doing less. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062/120 "2008-06-10T18:40:10Z")
Choose a credit card based on how cute their commercials are. Never pay more than the minimum payment. Use every one of those nifty checks they send with the bill. Soak your shirt and hair in Axe, chug a half-pint of Jack, and grab the ass of the first foxy chick that comes out of the tae kwan do parlor. Go to the Drama Building on campus in a downpour. Right after classes let out, stand in the rain, screaming, "Stelllllllaaaaaa! Heey, Stellaaaaaaaa! No, wait a minute, that might work. Late at night, dial zero on the phone. Tell the operator, “This is an obscene call.” In a shopping mall, go to the Information kiosk and ask, “Why does the porridge-bird lay its egg in the air?” Ask to page Mr. Ahk Lem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-come-up-with-some-bad-ideas/452062.md?page=7)