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'That was wonderful, Spoonman, but I should go.'
'Hey, why don't you stay the night?'
'Are you sure?'
'Sure I'm sure. If there's anything I love more than making love to a beautiful woman...it's spooning.'
(sax solo)

Please do not underestimate how far down the rabbit whole of irredeemable awfulness I'm willing to go wit this thing.

'rabbit whole'

Sorry, that dumb typo was making me laugh harder than it ever should have.

a whole skinned rabbit slaps spoonman in the face, disorienting him to the point of almost terminal confusion

he thrashes on the ground, rabbit meat stuck across his eyes and mouth

a cloaked figure appears at the edge of a nearby apartment block and a jeering voice sounds across the alley where spoonman lies

'good luck cutting your way free from my rabbit whole with your pathetic spoons, spoonman! maybe you need... a SPORK!'

the figure steps into the light, revealing spoonman's arch-enemy, sporkman, laughing maniacally

*ad break*

Many of his nemeses (see also: The Wired Jaw, Reinhold Von Tarnish) have, per tradition, adopted personae in direct response to Spoonman's whole steeze but, even despite numerous comments from his sidekicks and compatriots alluding to the various dark mirrors in his rogues gallery, Spoonman totally doesn't understand and thinks they're all completely ridiculous. 'What idiot would think to commit crimes with a ladle? I mean, is it just me or is that the stupidest thing you've ever heard, Bergeron?'

'Eh...oui, Monsieur Spoonman. Is, 'ow you say, tres ridicule.' (glares pityingly at Spoonman)

Dr. Tong, Count Spatula, Forkenstein...

and she could see an earmuff factory (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link

Uri Geller

This thing just fuckin' writes itself, man.

dowd’s joke went right over my head

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link

adopted personae in direct response to Spoonman's whole steeze

Busted a gut at this, loool

obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link

maybe not the exact right thread, but I was thinking a good name for a twee indie band album would be "Au Contraire, Au Pair"

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link

No, you're definitely in the right thread for that one.

pplains, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link

:)

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link

A productivity book/system that basically just recommends writing reminders on your hand in pen.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link

Don't have a catchy name for it yet.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link

The Longhand Planner Spanning Across Your Hand Plan

Actually, "The Longhand Solution" might be good

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link

Note: I actually do this. When I need to do something in the morning (take out the trash, early kid dr. appointment) I write it on my hand. Usually I understand what the notes mean but sometimes I'm like "why did I write 'BLRVg' on my hand?"

the lauper curve (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link

I was just thinking it would be fun if I was walking around my office with like "9:30am interview temp candidate; 11am draft report to David" on my hand

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link

burst into this thread a couple months down the line with 'LEW HANH' sock account making a huge fuss about how i finally found the upstart who's irresponsible snooping made them take away my royalties, and how dare you, etc etc

kinder, gentler (sleepingbag), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link

Capitalizing on the popularity of the longhand solution with the iGlove

Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link

I don't know if this counts as an 'idea' per se, since it autogenerated in my mind fully-formed with no conscious intent, but I just very clearly imagined a commercial with Schwarzenegger as a Lyft pitchman who agrily intones, 'it's not an Uber!'

On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Sunday, 3 June 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link

'angrily' obvs

On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Sunday, 3 June 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link

a version of the UK TV quiz show 'Mastermind' where your opponent gets to choose your specialist subject for you and you then have a month to swot up on that topic before the quiz - the object would be to pick the most tedious possible specialist subject so your competitor would have to make the choice whether they (e.g.) spend a month watching every episode of Midsomer Murders or just wing it and hope to make up points on the general knowledge round

soref, Saturday, 9 June 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link

"I'm with stupid ->" t-shirts in other languages

я с тупым ->

मैं बेवकूफ के साथ हूँ

Etc

koogs, Saturday, 9 June 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link

I dunno, man. This one could work to your advantage.

https://i.imgur.com/G4x5hvK.png

pplains, Saturday, 9 June 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link

Really I just wanted something with text I can't read on it. Even just one, two, three, four done in the style of those John Paul George Ringo t shirts but in Cyrillic, Hindi, Korean, Japanese etc just because they are fascinating.

Or maybe, more politically, just Welcome in a selection of non-English scripts. Syrian, polish, Romanian...

koogs, Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link

Seems like you could do something with this like this prank against Richard Nixon. Take something like "I'm with stupid" but make it into something even more sinister.

Tuck's most famous prank against Nixon is known as "the Chinatown Caper".[8] During his campaign for Governor of California in 1962, Nixon visited Chinatown in Los Angeles. At the campaign stop, a backdrop of children holding "welcome" signs in English and Chinese was set up. As Nixon spoke, an elder from the community whispered that one of the signs in Chinese said, "What about the Hughes loan?" The sign was a reference to an unsecured $205,000 loan that Howard Hughes had made to Nixon's brother, Donald. Nixon grabbed a sign and, on camera, ripped it up.[8] Later, Tuck learned, to his chagrin, that the Chinese characters actually spelled out "What about the huge loan?"

pplains, Sunday, 10 June 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link

Cinnamon sugar hash browns

valorous wokelord (silby), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link

an all-spanish Parquet Courts cover band called Porque Cortez

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link

Fucking lol

valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link

A Michael Moore-style documentary about income inequality and disparity, rising housing prices, etc. The title?

“Serfin’ U.S.A.”

incel clown posse (naus), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link

Roombidet

Roomba + bidet

cakelou, Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link

Actual lol right there.

Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link

lol

Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 14 June 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link

So many questions

valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 14 June 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link

A remake of Usual Suspects where the Kevin Spacey role is replaced by OJ Simpson as himself, and instead of Kaiser Soze it's Kaiser Sojay, but no one makes the connection.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link

And while spinning his tale he keeps throwing out suggestions of what he might have done IF he was the mastermind behind the crimes, which of course he wasn't and couldn't have been, don't be silly. But IF he was...

A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link

a bluegrass band that plays bingo halls named That's a Good Banjo

scopin' VARs (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link

And while spinning his tale he keeps throwing out suggestions of what he might have done IF he was the mastermind behind the crimes, which of course he wasn't and couldn't have been, don't be silly. But IF he was...

― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Tuesday, June 26, 2018 9:36 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes to this

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link

Cuzplay (role playing as someone's cousin)

A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 June 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link

CUZ (it's a) SIN .jpg

kinder, Thursday, 28 June 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link

Find and hire several pairs of identical twins. Dress them up in like astronaut-style jumpsuits. Call a press conference, where you announce you have unlocked the secrets of time travel.

You have one group (that is, one twin from each pair) next to you at the podium. They're looking neat and clean and brave, about to go into a time machine-looking apparatus or something.

Just then, the OTHER group bursts into the room shouting FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO! DON'T DO IT!

Maybe this second group should appear to be bruised and bloody, or perhaps covered with green slime.

nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 8 July 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link

For extra wackiness “group 2” could all be in different outfits: WWII uniform, leather bondage playsuit, prison stripes, one of them being carried on a stretcher, etc.

El Tomboto, Sunday, 8 July 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link

Good idea!

At first I thought the second group should just emerge from the time machine, and the two groups would just stare at each other in a bewildered manner. Lined up with each twin facing their counterpart, like bookends. But I agree the situation calls for more drama.

nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 8 July 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link

a monster film where a person wakes up from a coma to find a London filled with glazed-over faces uttering "it's coming home" after every social interaction. "it" eventually "comes home", and it is a giant world cup trophy with a beak and tentacles, basically a giant squid trophy. everyone rushes to be a devoured by the monster in rapture, as the coma person tries to locate a reserve of Pret a Manger ginger beer, which is known to be strong enough to dissolve the monster. The monster is a metaphor for "dangerously legitimized male aggression." The movie ends when the monster devours the protagonist, who then wakes up on a world cup pitch, revealed to be Materazzi struck by Zidane's headbutt.

scopin' VARs (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 July 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link

I love the ending

El Tomboto, Monday, 9 July 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link

very last temptation of christ, love it

Karl Malone, Monday, 9 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link

last temptation of christ / ending of super mario bros 2, i should say

Karl Malone, Monday, 9 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link


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