# That really dumb idea...that you are secretly afraid would sell like hotcakes

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**Created:** [October 14, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-really-dumb-idea-that-you-are-secretly-afraid-would-sell-like-hotcakes/1023954 "2025-10-14T06:44:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-really-dumb-idea-that-you-are-secretly-afraid-would-sell-like-hotcakes/1023954/141 "2026-02-10T18:48:54Z")

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> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#):
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> Then this idea hit me. In the logging regions like where I live, restaurants should serve sausages to children in little toy logging trucks.

Or have a 18” tall yarder in the center of each table and sling them to each plate.

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**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-really-dumb-idea-that-you-are-secretly-afraid-would-sell-like-hotcakes/1023954/142 "2026-02-13T14:39:34Z")

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An Apple Watch charger that keeps the back of the watch at body temperature. Putting a cold slab of metal on my wrist is one of the most unpleasant of my morning rituals.

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**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-really-dumb-idea-that-you-are-secretly-afraid-would-sell-like-hotcakes/1023954/143 "2026-02-17T08:40:13Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Not just documentaries and music videos, but also dramas and comedies and kid’s shows that would be based loosely around the lyrics of popular songs.

Sweet! I would co-finance that with my lottery win.

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**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-really-dumb-idea-that-you-are-secretly-afraid-would-sell-like-hotcakes/1023954/144 "2026-02-17T18:21:14Z")

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> [@chappachula](#):
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> Make a cat bed in the shape of a house, with a brick pattern on the sides and a sloped roof with a pattern of shingles, a little fake chimney. Make the entrance a door-shaped opening, with a mailbox alongside it, with a space to write the cat’s name and address  
> Bingo!..cute, right??? I wand ould make millions!!!

Of course 83% of cats would end up living in the cardboard box the house came in.

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