your terrible ideas

also fafnir is a dragon not a sword

ha, wait, yeah, what is that about?

Agreed about 'magic' versus 'special' swords. On the Gibson tip, there's a great sequence somewhere in Stephenson's Baroque Cycle - probably midway through "The Confusion" where a couple of our heroes, one a warrior, one a seasoned alchemist, get to watch a bunch of metallurgists at work somewhere in the Near East. The alchemist is following the whole process, step by step, focusing on what they're doing with the hammers and the heat and so on, and meanwhile the warrior, who has been carrying around a prized 'watered steel' blade the entire story, gradually has this jaw-drop moment of realizing that this is the place where watered steel comes from, this is the procedure that's created his amazing super-sword that everyone fears. And this is set in the late 17th century!

the sword sigurd used to kill fafnir was forged by wayland the smith, which is probably the writer slipped there. it has a more boring name though (gram)

I remember Gram, it was a sword in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. IIRC the description was the rather underwhelming ''The sword named Gram.''

An actual terrible idea: sitting in the inverse castle library and killing eight million Dodos in the hopes of them dropping a rare Crissaegrim. (I speak from sad experience.)

Er...wait. those are Shmoos, I think. The Dodos are in the inverse castle entrance but they also drop something really cool about one in ten thousand times.

kill ilxor account

a poster that reads

KEEP CALM
and
SHOW ME
THE MONEY!

I had a terrible idea, which was to start a thread called "Describe yourself in the harshest, most uncharitable way possible."

omg, it exists already

so does
"keep calm and i drink your milkshake"

however

"keep calm and don't taze me bro" is open

i think that's a great idea xp

KEEP CALM
and
DROWN CATS
& BLIND PUPPIES

This came to me in a vision on the way home -- it's a movie in which Clint Eastwood plays a truck driver who picks up a hitchhiking Chris Tucker, and the rest of the film is just two hours of them talking in the truck, with Clint Eastwood doing more or less his character from Gran Torino, and every exchange is Chris Tucker doing his stupid schtick and Eastwood responding with his slow, salty barbs. "Yeah so I really appreciate you pickin me up dawg" "I'm not your...dawg." "So what up man you like hip-hop or what?" "No...I don't like...hip - hop."

If Chris Tucker hadn't self-imploded that would be available on Netflix right now

My Drive Wit Dre

Here's one: a site that's like a "longform" version of buzzfeed -- "576 Cool Things You Didn't Know About European History 1076-1492" "1000 most attractive people of the 20th Century" etc.

A cover version of King Missile's 'Detachable Penis', but retitled 'Detachable Booster', with new lyrics appropriate to the video game Kerbal Space Progam ("I was orbiting Kerbin, and my booster was missing again. This happens all the time. It's detachable.").

Here's one: a site that's like a "longform" version of buzzfeed -- "576 Cool Things You Didn't Know About European History 1076-1492" "1000 most attractive people of the 20th Century" etc.

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buzzfeed actually has a 'longform' section now, i would sort of love if it became this

"Wow, has it been three and a half hours already? Better get back to that spreadsheet"

This would be great if the factoids were in chronological or organized thematic order, so it was basically just every sentence of a high school textbook, rewritten as a dumb heading with a huge picture.

an 8+ piece band playing a hybrid of math rock and western swing named "texas instruments"

lol

the line-dancing would be incredible

I guess you don't really line-dance to western swing. Oh well. I like it anyway.

DANCING SQUARED

An app solely for sharing pictures of alligators called Instagator

an lp of Boris playing music by Carl Orff. Boris Carl Orff.

lol at instagator

Third-party app that gathers up the photos of the angriest and most dangerous specimens: AggroGator

A cover version of Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start The Fire', except with new lyrics that reference historical internet memes.

We didn't know what to say
when Spiderman made you gay
Badger badger badger badger
badger badger badger badger

...or something like that.

A t-shirt with a picture of Foghorn Leghorn dressed as Jules from Pulp Fiction, with the words 'BAD MOTHER CLUCKER' at the bottom.

That sounds like a pretty strong money-making idea, even if it would have been more viable 18 years ago when Pulp Fiction and Looney Tune t-shirts were both flying high. I still think you'd move a few at state fairs, etc. If you could get the Foghorn Leghorn to not exactly look like a copyrighted character you could probably get them into Hot Topics or Spencer's or whatever mainstream outlet it is that sells crap like that to 15-year-olds.

Foghorn Leghorn/Jackson would definitely be making the Dreamworks Face though.

An ice cream shop called "In The Dessert of the Real"

or maybe an ice cream shop/movie theater called "In The Dessert of the Reel"

Put it in Brooklyn and call it In the Mouth A Dessert

Parody thread called "what movie is this no longer taken from"

http://terribleideas.neocities.org

would 100% DEFINITELY go to a ice cream shop / movie theater but would hate to be the clean up crew

A cover version of Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start The Fire', except with new lyrics that reference historical internet memes.

star wars kid/keyboard cat/i don't know what to think of that

ugh, the other day i had the terrible idea of illustrating/animating the true story of the Sound of Music which would pick up where the film ends, detailing the tragic journey of the von Trapp family as they cross over the Alps on their way to Switzerland. but while i was looking up information about the end of the film so i could make a nice segue, i found that someone already had the same terrible idea in 2008 - http://gratzindustries.blogspot.com/2008/11/alternate-endings-sound-of-music.html. now it is a terrible, unoriginal idea

i want to move to a space colony that only has 1 million people

an 8+ piece band playing a hybrid of math rock and western swing named "texas instruments"

please subscribe me to your singles club

A right of passage for my future sons inspired by the bullet ant gloves of the Sateré-Mawé tribe. When our cat is sleeping under the ikea lounger, the participant must place his arm underneath the chair and make contact with the cats belly. If he withdraws his hand before 15 seconds has passed, no ice cream after dinner.

i like it

would you be so kind to link re: the bullet ant gloves?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawé_people

Also, *rite

amirite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMG0XDOQxQk

conceptual art piece in which three people literally argue all day about who's the best MC: Jay, Biggie or Nas.

Inspector Trebus