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A few years ago, a friend of mine and I seriously sat down with notebooks and "brainstormed" when he found out he had a family connection to a novelty/jokeshop magnate who was looking for ideas. The brainstorm was remarkably free of lightning bolts though we did produce a number of pencil-on-lined-paper schematics of drink-bearing hats and gag gum packages.

this is the thread for schemes abandoned before they were even really halfbaked.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, there's that techno-grass album I've been meaning to work on...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Grid might have beaten you to it. Or the Rednex.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

portable illuminated makeup mirror.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Manzeer

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

For the ladies:
Purse light... kind of like a fridge light...but for PURSES! I'll never do it, so someone else can make millions.

― cprek, Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

anthony east*n 2002 calendar

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I mean 2003 obv.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Also, for the fellas:

Pants Light! Kind of like a fridge light... but.. ah whatever.

― cprek, Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I had this dream years ago where I invented these picture frames that could be hooked up directly to your digital camera (it was when digital cameras first started to become popular). It was one of those in-color dreams and I could see the things perfectly (they were sharp-looking metal frames with a nice blue-tinged screen), and I woke up and did the scramble around for a piece of paper to scribble a picture and discription. Anyway, needless to say I was flipping around and saw them on QVC a year ago having done nothing with my idea. But then, the Coen brothers also ripped off my idea of re-making the Lady Killers (AND after I saw Gladiator I thought they should make a movie about Alexander the Great cuz he did all that stuff and was young, and of course Baz Luhrman and Leo are making it). So, the point being, I should get paid lots of money to keep coming up with this stuff and/or the Illuminati should stop reading my thoughts... hahahaha. shutting up now.

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

the atomic powered chewing gum neutralizer.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

A disposable garbage bin. So, you don't have to change garbage bags all the time.

Also, I thought up stadium seating in movie theaters.

Also, my grandfather came up with barrel shaped mustard containers.

― cprek, Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cabbage Patch Kids' style dolls called "Clones." They're all identical except for one very minor genetic flaw.

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

like morbid obesity.

― cprek, Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, yeah, morbid obesity could be one. I was thinking blonde hair of different colored eyes or 6 toes or something.

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

My brother's idea: vegetable schnapps.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

when you said flaw, i was thinking along the lines of premature arthritis and the like.

― cprek, Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually I like that better. I mean, you'd have to come up with thousands of flaws. What if some had like liver disorders or Marfan's disorder (makes you really tall) or gout or two heads... The trick is to make each one slightly different so that people buy loads of 'em.

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 21:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

kind of like beanie babies, except you collect children with devastating genetic disorders. i can't imagine this not being a hit with the kids. ;)

― cprek, Thursday, 2 January 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

needs a catchy name though..

― cprek, Thursday, 2 January 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

horrible misuse of modern science patch kids

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like Clones. Or maybe Clonies or something... To cash in on the whole Raeliens thing. You know, completely ephemeral so that when they do the "I Love the Aughties" they can be like, "Wow! What were we thinking??"

Yeah, maybe they should all have like hideous mutations but still be cute (more cabbage batch than garbage pail).

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

FreakZ!

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 3 January 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

this reminds me of one of my high-school friends' "million dollar ideas"

he: "OK, you know those little baby corn?"
me: "yeah"
he: "OK, you know Corn Nuts?"
me: "yeah"
he: "OK, get this... BABY CORN NUTS!!"

dud

― ron (ron), Friday, 3 January 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm pretty sure I invented a perpetual motion machine a while ago. Honestly.

Also, a race track where people race in specially protected cars (kinda grown-up dodgems) while drunk! It would be the best fun, I think, though I'm aware that it's a bit of a moral quagmire.

Within the next ten years, men will regularly be wearing skirts and office desks will be plugged into the sewers for immediate relief. I'm willing to bet on it.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 3 January 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

A gym which is lardy-friendly.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 3 January 2003 11:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is there a peanut butter schnapps? because I want some sort of reese's shot. it needs to be done.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 3 January 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

marmite w. nutella = happy new year EVERY year

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 3 January 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought I had invented finger skateboards when I was 12 (thats 17 years ago matey).
I used to make hundreds of cool designs and bring them into school. Obv they were no match for the robust construction of todays F.skateboards but the idea was there.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 3 January 2003 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

I started writing a book once about an alternate universe where guns were never invented, and it revolved around inner-city gang violence, where the gang members all wore suits of chain and plate mail and all fought with bows and arrows and swords and shit, and each gang had a specific favored weapon, like "Da Heavies" wielded axes in combat. Then what was gonna happen in the book was somebody from the "Guniverse" slipped into their realm and all the gangs joined together to fight the "fire-stick wielders". Did I mention the gangs spoke in a hybrid jargon of Shakespeare-style old English and modern urban American slang?

Eh, I wrote 5 pages.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 January 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

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