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I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link

Here's a terrible (and, of course, stupid) idea along these lines: a presidential historical memorabilia store organized in such a way that any customer who comes in looking for JFK-related items is directed back and to the left.

I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link

Zip Recruiter: set your sights on a new job.

(dissolve from Zapruder film to LBJ taking the oath of office on the plane) See? This guy just got a new job!

Never mind the bollards (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link

xp lol Lunch.

tangent: I was in a toy store a while ago and asked an employee where they keep the invisible ink. He told me, but we also talked about it was a missed opportunity to say either "It was around here somewhere...." or "It's right there! Can't you see it?"

lol "Where do you keep the JFK memorabilia?" "Back, and to the left."

Never mind the bollards (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link

A Lovecraft-themed frozen yogurt shop called Yog-Softserve. Or maybe 'Sothtserve'?

I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link

Why not Lovecraft-branded yoga clothing from Cthulhulemon?

Never mind the bollards (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link

Big budget remake of Jaws with an obvious Trumpalike in the Murray Hamilton role

Ward Fowler, Friday, 14 September 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link

Henley henleys.

A line of henley shirts that all have a screen-printed image of Eagles drummer / solo artist Don Henley on them.

know-it-some (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 September 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link

Here's a quick mockup if you're interested in investing in this venture.

https://i.imgur.com/PjJ5B7B.jpg

know-it-some (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 September 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link

Souvenirs for when you visit the south-west-England suburb of Henleaze

kinder, Friday, 14 September 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link

A separate yet parallel business venture will be Glenn Fries, which are French fries that have images of Glenn Frey sprayed onto them with edible ink.

know-it-some (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 September 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link

Joe Walsh® Jowl Wash

I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 September 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link

Henley Henley Tea Tees -- T-Shirts featuring an imaginary brand of tea called Henley Tea where the box prominently features Don Henley's face and the shirt features the box.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 14 September 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link

Er, Henley Tea Henley Tees

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 14 September 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link

Watch your step, Puffin.

pplains, Saturday, 15 September 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link

would be cool if 'take it easy' incited more litigation than any other song ever

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 15 September 2018 04:17 (five years ago) link

I'm frankly a little surprised the Eagles didn't market the shit out of themselves a la Kiss. Trying to imagine what their ultra-crass, Kiss Kasket-esque product would be. Like maybe a line of Peaceful Easy Feeling lethal injection drugs for prisons.

I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 September 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link

surely they would have just opened a chain of Hotel Californias.

know-it-some (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link

surely the gamble was to not merchandise in that way, in order to maintain huge catalog record sales as being "all about the music, man." plus t-shirts.

got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link

I think you might be overestimating the fun and ease of being financially responsible for a large chain of hotels.

Karl Malone, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link

Did a Marriott commit suicide or is that a fake fact I just invented?

faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link

Seemingly I made that up but it’s a good fake fact. “A member of the Marriott family killed himself from the stress of running the multinational hotel chain.”

faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link

(me a few years from now telling that story)

"yeah i know i heard that somewhere...)

Karl Malone, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link

jw about marriotts

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 15 September 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link

Elon Musk™ cologne

He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Friday, 21 September 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link

*perfume

He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Friday, 21 September 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link

a game about being on the internet called "lads" except it's really just like uno, and the uno card is called "lads"

El Tomboto, Friday, 21 September 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link

Ubertow. A towing company that's also a car service. Like, you'd tow cars, but you'd let people ride in the cars you're towing, instead of leaving them empty.

I've moped on a moped and cooed with a coed (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 September 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link

An 'I love Quakers' board where nobody posts anything except occasionally when the spirit finds them

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 September 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link

Ubertow. A towing company that's also a car service. Like, you'd tow cars, but you'd let people ride in the cars you're towing, instead of leaving them empty.

― I've moped on a moped and cooed with a coed (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, September 21, 2018 10:24 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is a good terrible idea because you'd basically have to wait until both your location and your destination were somewhere in the path of a tow truck's trip between the scene of an accident and a garage or between an illegally parked car and a tow yard.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 23 September 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link

Homonym: a service for people with dark pasts and unique government names. if you're the only Neil Chumberton in the world and the first google hit for your name is your 2003 arrest for cocaine possession, Homonym will hire a bunch of people to change their names to Neil Chumberton and go on crime sprees. eventually your offense will be overshadowed by a slew of murders and robberies and racist tweets perpetrated by Neil Chumbertons who obviously have nothing to do with you.

on the other hand, if your archenemy is a man named Viborg Willisau who got a lot of publicity for saving a family of five from a fire, Homonym can hire people to save the whales and cure cancer and reverse climate change under his government name, overshadowing his good deed in the same fashion.

Homonym's rates will vary depending upon the number people hired and the severity of the deeds committed. getting 100 Neil Chumbertons to blow up 100 courthouses might cost you a few billion dollars, whereas getting 5 Neil Chumbertons to write 5 TERF screeds on medium.com might only cost you a few thousand.

ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link

Would definitely use. I'd hire someone to do shitty things in the name of my archenemy so I could truthfully write about them at length on the internet.
The second use doesn't make sense though, Viborg would just look more awesome?

kinder, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link

I had a dream the other night about a Roku-esque device dedicated exclusively to tailor-made boilerplate middle-age 'comedy' movies. It had little ports where you insert cartridges for which actors, plots, holidays, etc. you want featured in your movie of choice. As far as I could tell, 'Diane Keaton' was a default setting that you couldn't turn off (but the target market didn't seem to mind). So now I'm wondering if it's too late for me to get to the patent office today.

Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link

18-years-too-late Metallica/Napster parody called “Cease and Desist” (based on “Seek and Destroy”)

latebloomer, Saturday, 29 September 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link

A cooking show (like Chopped, Top Chef, etc.) But with Crock-Pots.

"Okay, you only have seven hours. Clock starts NOW!"

And it's filmed and broadcast in real time, like one of those Warhol movies that's just five reels of someone sleeping.

Romantic koolmoedee (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 September 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link

Would produce

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link

I'm kind of picturing it being seven hours of "tension" shots, like closeups on people's intense faces/eyes, going back and forth between judges and contestants, etc.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link

"Clock is ticking, people! Just two and a half more hours!"

I am torn about using some of the cooking time would for human-interest background montages and motivational trash-talk.

"I'm from Brooklyn, so my stews keep it REAL."

"I'm not here to make friends - I'm here to bring serious Tuscan-style braises."

"My garlicky boeuf-en-daube is gonna wow the judges, because my secret ingredient is pizzazz."

"The other cheftestants better watch their backs, because me and my cumin are comin'... for YOU."

Romantic koolmoedee (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link

"Sorry, Timothy. You've been CROCKED. Pack your ladles and go."

Romantic koolmoedee (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link

Do it with glass-topped slow cookers, use overhead cams and split screen so you can see all of the dishes in progress, and just make it like Norwegian Slow TV. Every time a competitor comes over to open up and stir it’ll be like WHOA LOOK IT’S A DIFFERENT SHADE OF BROWN

El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link

back it with some kinda acoustic pickin shit that’s all in different meters playing off each other like if Steve Reich had a folk period

El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link

Macrozoom shot of the steamy lid

Karl Malone, Sunday, 30 September 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link

Overnight, the channel is all about marinades.

Romantic koolmoedee (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 September 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link

The spinoff that gets canceled halfway through the season - scrubbing a crockpot: live

Karl Malone, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link

also, in addition to the marinating show, the channel is also all about making your own seasoning powders starting from raw seeds

El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link

what was that old NPR late night / early morning show that was all about ambient and new age synthesizer shit? dig all that up. I would love this channel

El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link

Overnight, the channel is all about marinades.

heehee

kinder, Sunday, 30 September 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link

yeah

Also. This isn't a terrible idea. I've seen worse. There were neckbeard guys racing drones on a sports channel earlier. I didn't know that was a thing.

kraudive, Sunday, 30 September 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link

I've been in bed and wondered how my marinade looked.

kraudive, Sunday, 30 September 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link


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