HEy, my first THREAD at SDMB…woohoo.
Anyhoo, what are some weird, strange ideas you’ve come up with?
I thought it would be neat to pass out tampons instead of candy on Halloween…
I used to wonder what would happen if someone cut off their finger at the grocery store where I worked, and they couldn’t find the finger, and it ended up in the meat grinder, packaged, and out on the counter…
I am a sick puppy…
Once, I dreamed that Tonka had come up with a line of cars for people. They were clear plastic, with lights that flashed on and off from the inside. The seeling point of them was that since they were Tonkas, they couldn’t be damadged, not even by a head-on collision.
I once had a plan all worked out (well, at least mulled over in my head) for a line of really bizarre and specific greeting cards. Not the normal stuff. Some of the ones I came up with were:[ul]
[li]“Sorry your parrot flew away”[/li][li]“Congratulations on your first whack-off!”[/li][li]“So, you ran over the sprinkler head with the lawn mower again”[/ul][/li]
As you can see, I’ll never be mistaken for a creative person. (Hmmm, maybe someone should send me a card lamenting my lack of creativity). This was a long time ago. Now, what with the internet card sites, I’d be surprised not to find these very cards somewhere.
A joke shop sell boxes of “misfortune cookies- A curse in every cookie!” I can just see someone slipping one to a really superstitious old guy; he reads “You Will Die Today.” and keels over dead from a heart attack. Of course then the company would get sued, so maybe it’ll never happen.
I also thought of valentine message hearts, with NASTY sayings, like, “YOu Suck”, or You Smell, or I hate you
Actually, I woulnd’t be surprised if they do exist.
I rather like(d) the idea of detachable breasts, an idea which popped into my head one lunchtime. Just imagine… you could have any size, any shape… spiked, geometric, colored, etc. My favorite style would be birdcages. You would have tweeting birds instead of breasts.
Yeah, lunch does get a little weird sometimes.
Well i thought up a kick ass roller coaster, to get a beter idea of what im getting at change your screen saver to “Curves and Colours” and use the settings to slow it down to its slowest and change it to one line. Now using a little imagination stare at it for a while and think of a roller coaster with a flexible track that was constantly contorting itself in the same manner the screen saver is. That way everytime you rode it it would seem like a different ride. Im sure with modern engineering this could be accomplished, God im brilliant =)
I had the idea of making swimming lanes so people could commute to work by water instead of bike/car/bus.
Also creat a languge by getting the first letter of each word in a sentence, then say the first letters as a whole “sentence word”.
THen chat pages started up and my idea became reality…sriously.
tennents: At first I mis-read your post, but then it gave me a great idea, for something that I could make! A roller coaster screensaver!
It would just randomly generate a rollercoaster and run it, and when that was done, it’d make another one!
Thank you for inspiring me ::goes off to figure out Direct3D programming::
For those with longer memories (mine usually sucks), think back to when subway had a contest offering people $100,000 to start a business (in reality to start a subway franchise but I did not read that fine print until much later). This would have been about 10 years ago (as I was still in high school).
I got to thinking and decided that if I could start up a business with Subway’s money it would be to make yogurt. Not just any yogurt, mind you, but special yogurt. Tired was I of all the fruit yogurts like Strawberry, Banana, Raspberry, etc. I yearned in my heart of hearts for a tasty meat yogurt!
Yes! … a delicious beef yogurt … mmmmmm … with all the beef at the bottom and the vanilla yogurt on top so you could just stir it up like regular yogurt (none of that prestirred nonsense).
Mmmm … tasty! Sadly I did not win. Although I have since enjoyed chocolate covered bacon. A treat that is very tasty and not to be ignored! (tricky to prepare if you are not thinking, though).
How do you explain your high post count?
That is just responses to other threads. There is a big difference between just replying and starting a whole thread.
mmm … yogurt!
here’s one:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=36159
It’s a recent wierd idea. I get more than my share of wierd ideas. Some of them work, some of them… well…
A small robot with a pneumatic ram. The ram would be tipped with a nasty spear. The robot would have accoustic and infrared sensors and would skewer anything that moved. It would be a great anti-burglar device, and it would make things much more exciting if you got up in the middle of the night to use the lavvy! (Not reccommended for single-storey dwellings.)
Hey, Lazarus. That reminds me of an idea i once had. Have any of you ever heard of the Juice-Man? It’s this really cool juicer on info-mercials. Well, last summer, me and my buddy were watchin it at 2AM, and we got a good idea. We could buy one of those and start a business making weird juices. Like Steak Juice, or, our favorite idea, Potato Juice. Bacon Juice. Banana Juice. Need I continue? I mean there are tons of things no one has thought to make juice out of. Sadly, we never did it.
sounds good ! … how much juice would a steak have though?
Our other thought is to do beef fondue. Not with cheese though, but with chocolate. Small beef cubes dipped into chocolate.
Lazarus7 - Good idea. Sounds almost as good as the cheese-based breakfast cereal idea that my friend came up with while stoned.
Cheddar-Os, anyone?
::munch, munch::
While I’m eating, I might as well share an idea. How 'bout a small, collapsible gas mask that could fit in a woman’s purse. We could sell it in New York City for that one day when terrorists go ape-shit with Sarin in the subway system.
Whaddya think?
I like the gas mask idea. The beef fondu sounds good to. Sign me up for some. Cheddar-O’s don’t sound to bad either. Those gas masks would be cool in crowded elevators, i think you know where i’m goin with this, so I won’t finish it. Think you could make em small enough to fit in my pocket since, being a guy, i don’t carry a purse?
Back when I was in health class in 7th grade a bunch of us were complaining about that time o’ the month, and then I came up with the brilliant idea that there should be a vacuum that would suck out all of the blood/lining every time someone had their period.
We also, IIRC, debated the merits of donating menstrual blood for transfusions.
Oy.