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1. An adaptation of Blood Meridian scored by Def Leppard

7. An adaption of The Mikado done entirely using mobile ringtones.

snoball, Saturday, 4 July 2009 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link

8. a book about combat rock compared/contrasted with the 1982 worlds fair

carpathian florist (roxymuzak), Saturday, 4 July 2009 08:38 (fifteen years ago) link

9. (another music one, but that's what I save most of my truly bad ideas for) An album made entirely using samples from Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" and Presley's "Having Fun With Elvis On Stage" (because they are supposedly the worst two albums ever made - my theory being that I could make an even worse-er album by combining them).

snoball, Saturday, 4 July 2009 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link

10. putting chilli sauce on vanilla ice cream - one mouthful was enough to cause projectile vomiting.

snoball, Saturday, 4 July 2009 08:46 (fifteen years ago) link

11. marinara sauce and peanut butter

what a delightfully quirky new voice! (bug), Saturday, 4 July 2009 08:56 (fifteen years ago) link

12. Going back to school.

Turkoglu & Love Affair (Clay), Saturday, 4 July 2009 09:03 (fifteen years ago) link

nah, that's a great idea.

what a delightfully quirky new voice! (bug), Saturday, 4 July 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link

13. Starting the thread "What does 'rockist' mean?"

bamcquern, Saturday, 4 July 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link

14. A pop group exclusively made up of 2 year olds called Diaper Rash.

real men love cheeses (latebloomer), Saturday, 4 July 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link

13. Starting the thread "What does 'rockist' mean?"

― bamcquern, Saturday, July 4, 2009 11:05 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

if your original post was a gigantic picture of goatse with an embedded sound clip of, i dunno, somebody having explosive diarrhea or something, then it'd be a pretty great idea

what a delightfully quirky new voice! (bug), Saturday, 4 July 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link

15. deciding you wanna ride a goddamn ferris wheel

16. 1p3

a poppy seed NAGL (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 4 July 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link

rong

two months pass...

17. Sell white rice dyed brown to exploit gullible newcomers to the health food world (long time health food consumers would probably see right through the scam.) The brand would be called "Rice that is Brown" rather than "So-and-So brown rice" and list the ingredients in super timy print.

latebloomer, Friday, 11 September 2009 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link

eh..tiny print

latebloomer, Friday, 11 September 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link

haha the next step would be "Rice that is Multiethnic" and it would just be bag of Fruity Pebbles.

we like cars, we like cartoons (dyao), Friday, 11 September 2009 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link

would that actually like... save you any money?

mountain G.O.A.T. (s1ocki), Friday, 11 September 2009 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link

slocki you don't get it--IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA!

ian, Friday, 11 September 2009 06:36 (fifteen years ago) link

1. An adaptation of Blood Meridian scored by Def Leppard

7. An adaption of The Mikado done entirely using mobile ringtones.

18. an adaptation of Do You Remember Love?/Macross for the musical theater/broadway stage.

tehresa, Friday, 11 September 2009 07:08 (fifteen years ago) link

maybe less terrible and more so not gonna happen why bc i am lazy

tehresa, Friday, 11 September 2009 07:08 (fifteen years ago) link

im dying over rice that is brown

Angus Young (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 September 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link

19. Putting a book of my poetry out
20. Taking up a drug habit on the back of the highly unlikely profits from this anthology of work (any suggestions for the drugs?)

Don't Be A Ned Raggett (King Boy Pato), Monday, 14 September 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link

idk I've actually been pretty impressed with yr writing. Honestly.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 14 September 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link

21. Combination mezzuzah and bottle opener, so you're never at a loss with a cold beer in your hand.

that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Monday, 14 September 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link

(xxpost) not my terrible idea, but someone once suggested to me, in all seriousness, that I become a smack head in order to guarantee that I could continue to claim benefits.

a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Monday, 14 September 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link

patoetry plzzz

jergins, Monday, 14 September 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link

art project involving tramp stamps, semen and polaroid camera.

ian, Monday, 14 September 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link

A Terrible Plan!

velko, Monday, 14 September 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link

tramp stamps on actual tramps

fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link

like, hoboes

fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link

i thought it would be great an edgy brooklyn gallery! you know, like, transgressive sexuality & the mainstream appeal of defacing the body. or something.

ian, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link

you have to go for that obsessive all-over-composition style in the installation ... also you need typewritten descriptions of the context for each photo

Suggest Bander-Meinhof Complex (sarahel), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link

make the stamp say something edgy like "FEMINISM" or "ART" or something

we like cars, we like cartoons (dyao), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link

the images will be titled with the content of the stamp.

for example:
daisies no. 2
chinese character nos. 1-3

ian, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:29 (fifteen years ago) link

maybe you can install them onto a traced map of your city, with push pins, and place them in the locations where the people live or were photographed, and it could be a commentary on gentrification or routes travelled.

Suggest Bander-Meinhof Complex (sarahel), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm trying to combine all the edgy art trends I can think of ...

Suggest Bander-Meinhof Complex (sarahel), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link

^feelin this

ROCK BAND: BORBETOMAGUS (haitch), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link

http://regretfulmorning.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/dunk-hunt-tramp-stamp.jpg

ian, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link

http://purefnevyl.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/corinthians_tramp_stamp.jpg

ian, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:41 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.thesicness.com/pics/march09/03072009/tramp_stamp.jpg

ian, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link

I think a pretty funny tramp stamp would be a second asshole

we like cars, we like cartoons (dyao), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link

http://rlv.zcache.com/tramp_stamp_inspector_mug-p168228570079141682qzje_400.jpg

ian, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:44 (fifteen years ago) link

idk I've actually been pretty impressed with yr writing. Honestly.

u drunk

a light salad of Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida and Esteban Buttez (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Nope and I still stand by that statement.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link

"dunk hunt"

Angus Young (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

20-something. momus hosts a cooking show called "cumin in a girl's mouth"

chemical ali v. chemical frazier (m bison), Friday, 16 October 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link

otherwise known as "Monday" in Japan

well pull down my pants and call me swamp thing (latebloomer), Saturday, 17 October 2009 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link

Freak out the receptionist at work.

Sorry John, but I like to freak you out

I got RIPPED in 4 weeks (Z S), Saturday, 17 October 2009 03:00 (fifteen years ago) link

This thread reminds me of a scene from Office Space:

TOM: You know there are people in this world who don't have to put up with all this shit? Like that guy that invented the pet rock. You see, that's what you have to do. You have to use your mind and come up with some really great idea like that and you never have to work again!

MICHAEL (with resigned, but obvious, disgust): You think the pet rock was a really great idea?

TOM: Sure it was. The guy made a million dollars!

The confident, oblivious way Tom answers Michael Bolton always makes me smile.

Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 17 October 2009 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Staying on to train my replacement.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 October 2009 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link

edible pro audio equipment & medical supplies

Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 20:51 (five months ago) link

a cover of charles lloyd's "TM" but it's about cock and ball torture

budo jeru, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 20:57 (five months ago) link

A cover version of Billy Joel's 'Allentown' but titled 'Camden Town' and with new lyrics such as:

Well we're waiting here in Camden Town
for the Cool Brittania we never found

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Wednesday, 19 June 2024 18:23 (five months ago) link

for dogs that constantly eat other dogs' shit...

a type of doggy treat that smells and looks like shit, but is actually full of helpful nutrients

Feces Pieces

Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 June 2024 15:56 (five months ago) link

A coffee place called "Small Bach Roasters." The logo is a tiny J.S. Bach (perhaps with his tininess emphasized by a coffee mug for scale)

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 28 June 2024 15:43 (four months ago) link

Remaster of Ken Burns' "The Civil War" except instead of slow pans across bloody battlefields, A.I. is used to animate Matthew Brady's photos.

Just picturing a sepia three-eared Stonewall Jackson, his mouth fluttering open and closed like a tarp tied too loosely to the back of a pick-up truck.

pplains, Friday, 28 June 2024 15:51 (four months ago) link

hahaha, I like that idea

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 28 June 2024 15:59 (four months ago) link

putting tea into an espresso machine to make concentrated shots of extremely strong tea

then you could add water to make it just like normal tea again. this would be called the "teamericano"

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 July 2024 14:41 (four months ago) link

There's a dude I follow on instagram who demos all kinds of espresso equipment and sometimes he does weird stuff like putting cocoa in the portafilter or a lemon at the bottom of it. Possible he's tried tea bags.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 July 2024 21:49 (four months ago) link

I've had the sound of this stuck in my head for a week - it's a hip-hop cover of Fast Car in shitty rap-singing (think like 50 Cent singing a hook), but it's completely straight, no changes to the lyrics, done all the way through.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 7 July 2024 23:09 (four months ago) link

I can hear it and I love it

Holy, Sunday, 14 July 2024 18:34 (four months ago) link

A Muppet parody of The Bear The Bear is Fozzy. Kermit is Carmy and Miss Piggy calls him Carmy in the same voice she would say “Kermie“.

Off to join the WGA.

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 14 July 2024 21:01 (four months ago) link

next Euros have England be the only team in it.

rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 July 2024 21:04 (four months ago) link

Commando: Home Alone. Arnold reprises his role as John Matrix in this crossover film. This time the burglars have really picked the wrong house.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 18 July 2024 01:06 (four months ago) link

somehow that reminds me of an idea i had to develop a mythology where "altered states" is a sequel to "jungle 2 jungle", where the william hurt character leaves academia and goes into the private sector and becomes tim allen

budo jeru, Thursday, 18 July 2024 14:51 (four months ago) link

sounds like Lost Highway

rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 July 2024 14:51 (four months ago) link

A 2024 record by ? and the Mysterians called "58 Years", where the singer details all the horrible life events that have happened to the female subject of the song in the decades since she left him and he recorded "96 Tears"

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 18 July 2024 15:21 (four months ago) link

Commando: Home Alone. Arnold reprises his role as John Matrix in this crossover film. This time the burglars have really picked the wrong house.

I would prefer if John Matrix were the one trying to get into the house, like maybe he put the wrong address in google maps for where his kidnapped daughter is being held.

silverfish, Thursday, 18 July 2024 15:52 (four months ago) link

I was amusing myself today imagining a guy who unironically refers to his toes as "The Wolf Pack"

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 22 July 2024 03:36 (three months ago) link

Ha!

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 22 July 2024 07:35 (three months ago) link

need to get these puppies outta my boots before they start to hoooowl

― budo jeru, Monday, July 22, 2024 4:26 PM (sixteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

budo jeru, Monday, 22 July 2024 21:27 (three months ago) link

haha what thread?

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 22 July 2024 21:28 (three months ago) link

rejected JBR screen names

budo jeru, Monday, 22 July 2024 21:34 (three months ago) link

Godzilla Minus One, a Jazz play along record.

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 01:43 (three months ago) link

Read that as Godzilla Mingus One

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 23 July 2024 03:05 (three months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Someone else's terrible idea - a keyring for your car keys that's a miniature of your car's number plate. Terrible because if you lose your keys, whoever picks them up could then find your car and steal it.

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 9 August 2024 16:52 (three months ago) link

a reality television show where they bring on people who are known for telling outlandish tall tales about things that allegedly happen to them to look badass, and then acquaintances of that person who were there when these events happen, with the latter throwing cold water on the cool stories OP was telling and sharing what actually happened.

"one time I stole a car and was chased by the police"

"no actually, you borrowed your mother's car, with permission, and the cops were chasing another vehicle ahead of you and you pulled over"

A jazz band featuring AI generated vocals of the former US Vice President, called Al Gore Rhythms

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 August 2024 16:04 (three months ago) link

Yo La Tengo cover band that performs inside a protective plastic bubble, called Noli Me Tangere

budo jeru, Tuesday, 13 August 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link

public toilets with a handle attached to the flush lever so that you never have to touch the dirty flush lever

budo jeru, Sunday, 18 August 2024 16:07 (three months ago) link

But the handle will be dirty

Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 18 August 2024 19:11 (three months ago) link

floor mounted flushes that you can step on

koogs, Sunday, 18 August 2024 19:23 (three months ago) link

I've seen those in trains. Not a terrible idea, but they often don't work.

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 18 August 2024 19:26 (three months ago) link

But the handle will be dirty

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, August 18, 2024 2:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol exactly, see thread title

budo jeru, Monday, 19 August 2024 10:35 (three months ago) link

There is a bucket of disposable, single use handles for people who are concerned about that*

*the handles are sitting in pickle juice

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 August 2024 12:07 (three months ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GU7cPbEXsAA_AOA?format=jpg&name=small

I was thinking, did I once see a pic of Russian public toilets with glass barrier walls, not like the self-cleaning sealed Japanese ones that turn opaque as soon as you shut the door. No, just glass.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 19 August 2024 21:13 (three months ago) link

Golf umbrella javelin. Just like regular javelin, but with a golf umbrella instead of a javelin.

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 24 August 2024 17:56 (two months ago) link

Instead of releasing these £200 expanded box sets, they should rerelease classic albums with a bunch of tracks missing and/or faded out early and sell then for like £8. I mean, who's got the time and/or money these days ya know?

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 18:59 (two months ago) link

the irregular underwear of music

or the box sets could be reliced and made to look like they were stolen from Target, missing 7 of the 8 LPs, liner notes have been encrusted with a true-to-life snot stain and "weed" crumbles. this would obviously make them more expensive, though, not less

budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 August 2024 21:39 (two months ago) link

three weeks pass...

Two chocolate bars that combine the top and bottom halves of a Snickers and a Double Decker. 'Dickers' = the peanuts & caramel top of the Snickers combined with the biscuit-crispy bottom of the Double Decker. So called because that's what you'll say when inevitably bits of it get stuck in/between your teeth/filling. 'Milky Why?' = the nougat half of both bars.

― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:16 (four years ago)

I tried this out this afternoon and it is indeed a terrible idea. The 'Milky Why?' has an interesting flavour, being comprised of two different chocolates and two different nougats. But without the biscuit base of the Double Decker, that nougat almost has the texture of cheap bubblegum. I was left chewing for a while. The 'Dickers' manages to be even worse. I correctly predicted the dental hazard of this combination but the texture and flavour I didn't expect. It was like eating a piece of coarsely crumbling tarmac coated in chocolate, and there was a strong aftertaste of burnt caramel and peanuts.

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 22 September 2024 15:50 (one month ago) link

I misread something last night as Da Vinci Donuts, then decided that a great name for a donut chain would be Masterpiece Donuts

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 00:53 (one month ago) link

two weeks pass...

Hamster Dance! Live on Broadway

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 October 2024 00:06 (one month ago) link

a coffee shop called Scone Depot

budo jeru, Thursday, 10 October 2024 00:27 (one month ago) link

A version of Biggies "Juicy" where all he does is list video game consoles

smears for fears (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 October 2024 16:08 (one month ago) link

A cover version of Chris Spedding's "Motorbikin'" titled "Microwavin'".

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 12 October 2024 16:16 (one month ago) link


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