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So like, just going by the front page of snorg atm, an IDGI shirt could have the text of "Hedgehogs: Why Don't They Just Share The Hedge", but a graphic of a robot DJing?

how's life, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link

Oh sorry, that's a medieval knight DJing.

how's life, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link

you could create that very thing on IDAKOOS

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link

medieval knight is the one from monty python holy grail film, hence the 'tis but a scratch'.

koogs, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link

I think sunglasses chinchilla with "Back in My Day We Had Nine Planets" would work well

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link

tbf these shirts basically look like most memes to me, as i get old

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link

terrible t-shirt idea: A "dirty" coin shirt that has "Head" and "Tail" as the sides instead of heads and tails.

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link

Nuts Beery Farm

Eat nuts, drink beer, ride roller coasters.

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link

sounds like busch gardens tbh

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link

North Face offers limited editions designed by Kanye and Kim's baby

North x North West

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 21 June 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link

inevitable headliner North West at South by Southwest gets Southwest Airlines sponsorship

i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 June 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link

they should throw the kid a bar mitzvah in the canadian arctic: a real north west (rite of) passage!!

goole, Saturday, 22 June 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link

an app called Pictagram where you text using pictograms

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link

With stiff competition from FourSquare knockoff RebusCube.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link

a bar called "The Most Photographed Bar in America"

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link

hmm actually maybe that's a good idea

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link

people would enjoy saying "Do you want to meet me at The Most Photographed Bar in America? What? No, that's the NAME of the BAR dude, lol!!!" And then of course they'd come to take photos there.

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link

mash up of "strange brew" and "strange fruit"

truth bomb lawyer mean mean pride (Edward III), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link

Strange Brute?

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link

et tu, fruity?

BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 28 June 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link

Drone rock-sampling g-funk track with the hook "oh, it's just like Dr. Dre says"

how's life, Monday, 1 July 2013 11:23 (ten years ago) link

construct a box that is covered on the inside with mirrors, and a few small holes to let sunlight in. the box would be 4x4x7 ft, and it would be called "the freakout room"

Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link

people taller than 7 feet or wider than 4 feet would not be allowed into the freakout room

Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link

congratulations, you are an installation artist!

Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 July 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link

isn't that at the Guggenheim right now?

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 July 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link

yeah, i was telling my gf about my terrible idea and she was like "Have you seen any of Yayoi Kusama's work?"

Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link

however, i notice that Yayoi Kusama didn't have the terrible of calling it the freakout room.

Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link

terrible ^idea^

Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link

i do have similar (original, i believe) terrible ideas, though, about constructing a soundproof centralized box (again 4x4x7) and a set of corridors surrounding it that each blast agonizing sounds from the corners of building, down their halls and toward the center. in certain halls, you would only hear a single tone. in other halls, you would hear combinations of tones. all of the tones would be audible in the centralized box, but only when its shutters opened. the participant would step into the soundproofed box with the shutters closed, and as the door closed the sound would flip from a loud discordant ANNNNNNNGNGGGGGGHHHHHH to - ..... - nothing. total darkness as well. after a few seconds a long animation appears on the inside of the box that shows world population from 1 million bce to now. everything is silent until about 0 bce, when one of the shutters just barely opens and the noise from one of the surrounding halls leaks in. the animation proceeds, and around the industrial revolution, as the population curve begins to approach the curvy part of the J-curve, other shutters that correspond to the other sound hallways begin to open. and then of course as the 20th century proceeds and the population begins soaring up the vertical part of the J the shutters just fly open, the lighting in the room turns blood red and it's fucking chaos in there, because for the first time you're hearing ALL of the sound hallways all at once and it sounds fucking TERRIBLE. then it hits 2013 and the door flies open and you're outta there

Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link

this terrible idea hinges on my ability to construct giant soundproofed hallways and boxes and having millions of dollars

Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link

I like it.

Romantic style in da world (crüt), Monday, 1 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link

crut do you have some $ i can borrow

Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link

construct a box that is covered on the inside with mirrors, and a few small holes to let sunlight in. the box would be 4x4x7 ft, and it would be called "the freakout room"

― Z S, Monday, July 1, 2013 3:51 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people taller than 7 feet or wider than 4 feet would not be allowed into the freakout room

― Z S, Monday, July 1, 2013 3:52 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

congratulations, you are an installation artist!

― Doctor Casino, Monday, July 1, 2013 4:02 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a friend of mine actually did this

BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 1 July 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link

did you get to experience the freakout firsthand?

Z S, Monday, 1 July 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link

it was ultimately sort of cheap looking on the inside but a fun idea

BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 05:58 (ten years ago) link

it sounds a lot like a dressing room at TJ Maxx

i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link

They had one of those at Robot World in the Wisconsin Dells. I've wanted to build one since I was a kid.

how's life, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link

Buying a dog just to name it "Bounty Hunter"

lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link

Name it Body Movement and then always talk about your BM

Z S, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link

Buying a dog just to name it "Bounty Hunter"

― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:12 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

middle name The

BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 12 July 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link

a cartoon of an armed bob dylan following jeff koons, with the caption "Fucking Koons, he always gets away!"

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 12 July 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link

a compilation of 'badgirl feminist' web writing called "Click My Lit"

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 12 July 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link

http://clickmylit.net/

Here is a sexy lit story about an older guy who uses subliminal seduction to hypnotize a younger girl. Perhaps this online writing job is not of the usual style I have presented in the past but do remember that I like to promote lit that has not been already plugged in other places. Girl Hypnotized has promised they will presenting more lit soon so do check out their latest short subliminal seduction story.

not quite what you had in mind

Doctor Casino, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link

I daydreamed an elaborate finance scheme that I call "Costco Membership Arbitrage" -- basically, you front members the money to go from the "regular" membership at $55 to the "executive" membership at $110 (so you front $55 per household) in exchange for a cut of their 2% rewards cash at the end of the year. The returns could actually be huge, for example, we got back $150 in rewards cash, so we made almost 200% on our $55 "investment" in the executive membership.

Of course this is a terrible idea for many reasons, not least of which being that you can only spend the rewards money at Costco.

undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link

Also what kind of family would spend enough at Costco every year to get back enough in rewards to make it worthwhile but wouldn't have the $55 to spend on the membership?

undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link

Terrible idea: Sandra Lee presents a cooking show based on the Forme of Cury.

slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Monday, 22 July 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link

xpost lol. picturing a room of suits buying and selling kirkland mayonnaise futures

kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 July 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link

I've also tried to dream up Costco import/export schemes. I devote an unseemly amount of time to this kind of thought.

undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link

I've also half-seriously tried to dream up ways of "churning" credit card rewards by just paying myself via a shell company. Of course you'd need a lot of different cards and a lot of transactions to make this actually pay off decently, you'd probably get caught, and I think the processing fees might be greater than the rewards anyway.

undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link


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