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A liposuction clinic called ¡Adipose Amigos!

Skin Boherts (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link

An all-Asian Asia cover band called Asian

JRN, Sunday, 18 October 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link

Band-management simulation game where you play the role of an industry hack trying to steer an ambitious but under-talented 80s ballad-rocker through the stormy seas of the 1990s. Will he go grunge? Settle down into an adult-contemporary role? Collaborate with positive-minded rappers? You'll decide in... Command Winger!

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 25 October 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link

Haha, would play

niels, Sunday, 25 October 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

a mobile phone with an e-cigarette built in - one less thing to carry.

koogs, Monday, 9 November 2015 13:26 (eight years ago) link

ahem

https://vaporcade.com/jupiter/

μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 9 November 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link

great minds think alike, obv.

"We have worked tirelessly to integrate texting, talking, and vaping into one spectacular, innovative technology. The applications are limitless. We feel that Jupiter will change the world as we know it."

o rly?

koogs, Monday, 9 November 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link

I feel like they went over most of the applications in that previous sentence

μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 9 November 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link

A selfie selfie stick, which will allow users to take a selfie of themselves taking a selfie.

Puddin' Taint (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 November 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link

OMG @ that cellular vaping device. "We have worked tirelessly to integrate vaping, eating, lawn mowing, gargling, Skyping, and wok cookery into one spectacular, innovative technology."

Puddin' Taint (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 November 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link

I had the vapephone terrible idea a couple of months back and all of my (two) vaping friends said they would buy one.

The thing that's really terrible about it is that phone batteries barely last the day as it is without you also using them to boil nicotine (or whatever the fuck ecigs do).

the fiest p (onimo), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link

a theater troupe of dogs called The Dramatic Paws

Karl Malone, Saturday, 21 November 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link

hahah

Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 21 November 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link

My wife and I were saying how we didn't know of a Jewish female kids' cartoon character, and we came up with Shoshana, Esq., who sues Doc McStuffins for medical malpractice.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, 22 November 2015 03:49 (eight years ago) link

just off the top of my head the Rugrats are Jewish, feel like i'm missing someone else big

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 November 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link

oh yeah true, although when was rugrats last on the air? I guess we were thinking more in terms of stuff my daughters would watch.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, 22 November 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link

I don't know if all the characters were but at least one or two were, hence the passover special

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Sunday, 22 November 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link

Rugrats Passover is important viewing.

pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Sunday, 22 November 2015 04:18 (eight years ago) link

skimming the wiki, i guess tommy, his mom, and her parents (the grandpa/grandma characters) are jewish, and the rest of the cast aren't?

Chuckie, his father Chas and the DeVille twins, Phil and Lil, meanwhile, were portrayed as nonreligious yet inclusive and enthused to learn about the customs of the holiday.
and then obviously there's fievel and company.

i've also read some pretty interesting stuff that makes a strong case that betty boop is jewish; there are lots of hebrew-language jokes (like, hebrew letters and words appearing onscreen), and one of her early shorts revolves around having uptight immigrant parents who don't support betty's boopish lifestyle, and they are rendered pretty clearly as eastern european jews. i realize this does not really pass the "stuff my daughters would watch" test.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 November 2015 09:39 (eight years ago) link

see Holberg, Amelia. "Betty Boop: Yiddish Film Star."American Jewish History. no. 4 (1999): 291-312. the cartoon i was thinking of is "minnie the moocher" (indeed with cab calloway, and a great short).

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 November 2015 09:41 (eight years ago) link

A cover version of Leonard Cohen's 'The Future' sung to the tune of 'Hallelujah' in the style of Jeff Buckley.

Eins zwei PoliSci (snoball), Sunday, 22 November 2015 10:58 (eight years ago) link

Cover of ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man" that goes "every girl's crazy bout a half-mast flag!" To be deployed during post-terrorism situations.

how's life, Monday, 23 November 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link

a re-working of the lyrics of jeremih's "don't tell 'em" that would change the subject to santa's reindeer. sample:

rhythm is a dancer / pulls the sleigh with prancer / vixen's helping out there too.

call all destroyer, Monday, 23 November 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link

soulsearch.com, an evangelical christian search engine that honors the lord EVERY day

― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Monday, April 1, 2013 12:07 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the time is ripe:
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/today_s_google_doodle_celebrates_evolution_so_christian_conservatives_threaten_boycott

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link

i think i realized tnite what led ben carson to make his comments about the pyramids being grain silos. he probably believes the common misconception that the jews built the pyramids. in the OT it says that the jewish slaves built the cities of pithom and ramses which various commentators describe as storehouse cities. is it giving him too much credit to think he probably conflated this misconception w/ this [ime] popular bible translation?

Mordy, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link

Dr. Carson's been on Level 1 with us this whole time:

http://i.imgur.com/1iwj5Tj.jpg

pplains, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 04:42 (eight years ago) link

my theory is he got his history of egyptian cereals from this guy

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Yummy_Mummy_cereal_box.png

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 05:48 (eight years ago) link

A tv show called Only Fools, Not Horses.

It would be a candid camera style show where people would run out on to the street thinking "oh! a horse!" but actually it was just someone clapping together 2 coconut halves.

unquiet_skull, Thursday, 3 December 2015 10:36 (eight years ago) link

They always talk about putting the carrot in front of the horse, but what if the horse is the carrot for the man.

pplains, Thursday, 3 December 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link

man, they're always talking about putting the carrot in front of the horse, and then always running outside whenever they think they hear something that might be a horse. they are obsessed with horses!

new terrible idea: Horseloving Whisperers, a show where people whisper about how much they love horses

Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 December 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link

A lifesize plastic reindeer head with antlers and glowing red nose for attaching to the front of your bicycle during the festive season.

ledge, Friday, 4 December 2015 09:06 (eight years ago) link

they do similar beasties for those ubiquitous micro scooters so it shouldn't be too hard.

koogs, Friday, 4 December 2015 09:28 (eight years ago) link

http://www.micro-scooters.co.uk/scooter-heads-and-a-monkey.html

koogs, Friday, 4 December 2015 09:29 (eight years ago) link

that said, a front-facing red light might be illegal.

koogs, Friday, 4 December 2015 09:30 (eight years ago) link

Definitely the main reason why it's terrible, otherwise I'm certain it would fly off the shelves. Would have to be more waterproof than those scooter ones though.

ledge, Friday, 4 December 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link

I feel like bicycle reindeer heads would be big with the bacon/zombie/comedy horsehead crowd.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 4 December 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link

A Firesign Theatre-style comedy record titled "Hamas and PETA"

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 4 December 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link

A thinkpiece webmag about fishing called Codpiece

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 December 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link

A series of tie-dye t-shirts with terrible slogans like 'I hate myself and want tie-dye' or 'Star Wars: Tie-Dye Fighter'.

Eins zwei PoliSci (snoball), Saturday, 12 December 2015 11:22 (eight years ago) link

New James Taylor project wherein the singer/songwriter turns out a set of gritty, contemporary protest songs: Occupy Sweet Baby James

weatheringdaleson, Saturday, 12 December 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link

A long-running tv series where the protagonist travels back in time to three months previous, but in the course of the first episode's events the time machine breaks/portal closes and they are stuck. The rest of the series will detail their attempts to adjust to their new life while trying to get back to their own time, even though much more than three months would pass over the course of the series.

Über, Über mensch (wins), Saturday, 12 December 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link

lol at james taylor one

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 December 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link

a children's book called Baby Llama Drama

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 14 December 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link

I'd read that 5 times in a row to my kid.

Speaking of my kid, his behavior in the dining room the other day made me imagine a band that played early 2000s screamo songs in the style of Dave Matthews and/or vice versa, as I imagine the fans of both of those would pretty much hate each other's music. The band would be called Under The Table And Screaming.

joygoat, Monday, 14 December 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link

I think screamo vocals over DMB-style instrumentation would be a good permutation of that idea.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link

It would be an improvement. at least

lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link

Do it with death metal vox and call it Grave Matthews Band

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 01:07 (eight years ago) link

hahahahahaa

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link

of course, on those songs where dave matthews himself attempts a deep, rumbling growl (e.g. "halloween" and, well, "grave digger") the surprisingly melodious, angel-voiced bassist would take the mic

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link

would not be hard to make satellite and warehouse riffs metal

Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 02:48 (eight years ago) link


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