also a Zoom version where you hold down the spacebar and it fills in corporate waffle for you
― kinder, Sunday, 14 June 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
The Philip K Dolls - a Pussycat Dolls tribute act where each member is styled after a particular PKD novel.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 20 June 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
Homes Under The Hammer but instead of grimy two-up two-downs in northern Britain they send Dion Dublin to look at fixer-uppers in Sydney and Melbourne.
Homes Down Under The Hammer
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 10:27 (four years ago) link
How is that not already a thing?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link
make MC Hammer the new host
Homes Down Under The Hammer Time
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 10:43 (four years ago) link
with Cyndi Lauper co-hosting:Homes Down Under The Hammer Time After Time
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
Denny's Homes Down Under the Hammer
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
World’s Most Evil Kittens
― Tim, Friday, 26 June 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
If Aretha had lived long enough, I would've liked to propose she sing an updated version of 'Who's Zoomin' Who' to advertise...well, you know.
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Sunday, 28 June 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link
would that she had
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
http://cnn.com/2020/07/01/us/hampton-inn-black-family-pool-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0CUbvh5VLn_mb82ryMJk-DxZuvN9ttz0_nOdDVz6Kpe8ZA9A_RoHEv0og
I kind of want to write a short story about a black family who has the police called on them like this while staying in a hotel, and to try to make up for it, corporate gives them multiple free hotel stays. Only then, in each of the multiple free hotel stays, they again have the police called on them. So they just exponentially grow vacations but continue to get harassed each time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
Sounds like Hilbert's Hotel, but with racism
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
I could see it as a Jordan Peele film, although it's kind of a flimsy premise for a feature
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
screwball mob comedy called "It's a Made, Made, Made, Made World"
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
Cocteau Twang, a compilation album of popular country acts offering up rootin', tootin', boot scootin' reinterpretations of your favorite Cocteau Twins numbers.
― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
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 19:16 (four years ago) link
I saw one of those dumb “life is good” shirts the other day that I’d forgotten existed and now want to make versions that say “life was good” with images of people missing mundane activities like going to the movies or not dying of covid
― joygoat, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
All Blue Lives Matter, a movement for LGBTQ cops
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 16 July 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
a new competitor for google search that relies on real life people using google to search for the thing that users ask for and find the best result. like if you search for "tabletop games magazine" then some guy will take a few seconds to sift through the google search results and then pick the best ones for you. could be a real game changer for older people who take 45 minutes to google for an IRS form because they're so damn slow
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
^ this supports my contention that computers are just a drastically worse experience for everyone than the existence of administrative/secretarial staff
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
xp -- I had a very similar idea a while back, basically a search "hotline" for old people uncomfortable with computers (you'd call and they'd do the search for you)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
the true force behind parents' cliched pining for grandchildren revealed
― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
idea for much improved movie sequel formatting: instead of, say, "BORAT 2", you call the sequel "2 BORATS" and it's basically the same as the first movie but now there are two Borats, or whichever such person or thing, in every scene. works for anything: "2 PAULS BLART MALL COP" "2 POLICE ACADEMIES" "2 SHAPES OF WATERS"
― lumen (esby), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
2 Look Who's Talkings
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 12:57 (four years ago) link
2 Fasts, 2 Furiouses
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
Wraths of Khan
― I pity the foo fighter (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
8 Weddings and 2 Funerals
― I pity the foo fighter (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
221 Grams
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
2 Terminators
o wait
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
...actually how the ill-fated sequel to “girl with a cup” got produced.
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
104 Pickup
― I pity the foo fighter (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
So you know the radio/dealership stunt “hands on a hard body” where you get some contestants to put their hands on a pickup truck and whoever holds out the longest wins the truck?
Well allow me to introduce you to Hands in the Hamburger
Where you put two tons of burger meat in a parking lot and get people to put their hands inside it, whoever holds out the longest wins the hamburger
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Thursday, 23 July 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
their body heat collectively cooks the raw ground beef, which is then made into meatloaf for needy children
― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
2 Weekends At Bernie's
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 July 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link
Yachtzee: a game where you have five sailboats and you set them adrift during a hurricane and see which ones do best.
― Please, Hammurabi, don't hurt 'em (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
How about 2 Weekends at 2 Bernie's, an extremely convoluted plot in which two different sets of insurance agents discover two different overlapping frauds and murder plots and each tries to pretend their respective dead boss is still alive to the other, not realizing that the other is doing the same thing. I can't even really work out the details of this, which is why it's a good terrible idea.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
new idea: short-lived food-scented incense.
pho, lasagna, thanksgiving turkey for starters
― rb (soda), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
I had friends who lived next to a burger king that was constantly billowing smoke no matter how not busy they appeared and we theorized part of their branding is to burn a flame broiled whopper incense stick the size of a 2x4 on the roof all day
― joygoat, Sunday, 26 July 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
The Peruvian rotissierie chicken places in my neighborhood definitely follow that model. When the wind is right I stand on my porch and find myself craving Peruvian chicken, without quite knowing why.
― forbidden froot loop (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 26 July 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
So here's a follow-up idea to my idea that somehow got stolen and became Too Many Cooks: an NPR podcast that is all credits, with each individual having one of those fantastic or improbable sounding NPR staff names. Title: This Hyphenated Wife
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 10 August 2020 06:22 (four years ago) link
infinite recursion reaction videos -- reaction videos to those music reaction videos, and then other people doing reaction videos to those reaction videos, etc.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
the child-parent relationship is the original recursive reaction video
― it's a spicy dinner we're having (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
Are you ready for ska-infused Hüsker Dü covers as sung by a Scooby Doo impersonator? Well then may I present: Hü-Ska Dü-Ska Dü.
― the secret of sucess is to know all rules ...and brake them (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
Never noticed before how similar the exclamations were between Scooby Doo and Fred Flintstone.
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
Huh. Me neither!
― the secret of sucess is to know all rules ...and brake them (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link
So Irn Brn contains a small amount of iron and is orange. How about other metal themed vowel reduced sodas? Cppr Bru - contains copper and is green. Cblt Beu - contains cobalt and is blue.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 29 August 2020 09:31 (four years ago) link
Pb bru - trust me, it's just peanut butter!
― contorted filbert (harbl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
Portable, cybertruck-looking, woodfired pizza ovens seem to be fashionable. I want to design and sell a "usb fired" miniature version for warming pop tarts and hot pockets called the "yoozbee dorbin".
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 05:23 (four years ago) link
i googled "usb oven" and found that many others have already acted on your terrible idea :(
― contorted filbert (harbl), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link