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Har Mar Superstar tribute act featuring a grandmother from Texas, called Yee Har Grand-mar.

just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link

'bus radio' - basically the bus equivalent of in-store radio stations in supermarkets. The between-song banter could be relevant to travelling by bus, and there could even be shout-outs and dedications ("this next record is dedicated to the guy at the front with the skateboard - several other people on board think you're an obnoxious loud-mouthed tool").

just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link

is it broadcast by someone at the back of each particular bus?

don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link

an a.i. jeff ross is dj of each bus

i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link

Agile Ed Debevics. basically you hire our scrum masters to take over your Agile office. they are really mean to you in meetings, but they do coordinated dances between the cubes. plus milkshakes.

Cecil replies to your e-mails (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 May 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link

An LP of George Gershwin songs done in a breakcore/bassline style, called "Fascinating Riddim"

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 May 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link

Convincing Force MDs to license their biggest hit for use in commercials for a popular dating app.

Fiat Earther (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

To cash in on Lion King hype, open a SoCal restaurant specializing in an Italian egg-based dish: Laguna Frittata.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 11 July 2019 05:04 (four years ago) link

Crank: The Musical

just another country (snoball), Sunday, 14 July 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link

Cigarette smoke scented vape liquid.

just another country (snoball), Sunday, 14 July 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link

I wish! Candy scented vape makes me miss cigarette smoke

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Sunday, 14 July 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link

There's someone on the bus to work who vapes, and they smoke up (puff up?) almost immediately after stepping off the bus, frequently resulting in me walking through a cloud of apple pie (including pastry scent) smoke. On the other hand, whenever I walk behind someone smoking an actual cigarette - despite never having smoked myself - I get nostalgic. Which seems weird - nostalgic for the days when everywhere that wasn't a workplace smelt of cigarette smoke?

just another country (snoball), Sunday, 14 July 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link

A Beach Boys tribute band, but all their songs are about LARPing instead of surfing, which is achieved mainly by replacing every instance of "surf" in the lyrics with "LARP".

just another country (snoball), Friday, 26 July 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link

From the early morning to the middle of the night
Any time the LARP is up the time is right
And when the LARP is down to take its place
We'll do the LARPer's stomp, it's the latest dance craze

Cecil replies to your e-mails (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 July 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link

The limitations of this project in no way diminish my feverish enthusiasm.

my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 July 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link

https://youtu.be/G5e4UXm0jNY

The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 26 July 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link

Terrible late afternoon BBC1 quiz show ideas:

  • Will It Rain Or Not? Contestants are shown a photograph of some sky, and they score points by correctly guessing whether or not it was about to rain.
  • What Brand Of Laptop Is My Co-Host Using? Contestants score points by correctly guessing the brand of laptop that the show's co-host is using. The brand logo on the back is hidden underneath a label, so after the contestants have finished guessing, there's a nerve shredingly tense and overly drawn out bit where the co-host slowly peels off the label to reveal the logo.
  • Quiz Show Banter Quiz Show. A quiz show where the contestants score points by watching a clip from a previous show, and then correctly guessing what bit of host banter came next.
  • QuizzyBantz. An 'edgy' version of Quiz Show Banter Quiz Show, aimed at Millennials but patronisingly assuming that all Millenials are still 20 years old. Shown on the BBC Three YouTube channel.

just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link

haha
#2 hosted by Jo Brand and Russell Brand. With music from 90s band Laptop

kinder, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link

Cigarette smoke scented vape liquid.

OK so a new vape shop opened in town - they also repair mobile phones, I guess to catch some of the business from the phone repair shop that also sells vape liquids - and they had an advertisement outside on their A frame for nicotine-free vape liquid. Which seems like a terrible and pointless idea. Unless there's some 420blazeit purpose for such a product that I don't know about?

just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link

In Australia nicotine containing vape liquid is illegal and yet the vape shop down the street still seems to do enough business to stay open.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link

Southern US version:

  • Did It Rain Or Not? Contestants are shown a photograph of their yard, and they score points by correctly guessing whether or not it rained last night.

pplains, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link

Been workshopping some Bugs Bunny reactions lately. Latest one came to me in a dream.

Bugs is a rich paranoid smug SOB living in a penthouse. He's in his bedroom, watching his closed-circuit TVs. Most of the screens are just his family watching TV, maintenance guy taking out the garbage, etc. But on one of the screens, he sees a new maid. She's very beautiful!

Bugs has been wearing a half-lidded, mouth hung open expression this whole time as we've gone back and forth to the CCTV. But when he sees his new employee, his eyes spring wide open! Then, his pupils, roll back into the top of his head and come up from the inside of his ears. His ears fold halfway at a 90º angle, toward the CCTV. His pupils, synchronized, hop to the fulcrum of his ears and then zipline down the length of his ears to the tips, not just toward the CCTV screen, but also straight toward the viewer behind the fourth wall.

As the pupils fill the screen, the viewer sees that the pupils have pupils themselves, which have now turned into red throbbing hearts.

pplains, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link

Here was what was waiting for me on my Samsung Notes this morning (transcribed by voice):

Bugs Bunny watching circuit closed circuit television his pupils leave his eyeballs go up inside of skiers and skiers turn towards the television at a 45 degree angle and when his pupils come out of his ears go up to the fulcrum of them they zip line down to the tips of his ears closer to the camera and POV closer to the viewer so you got a better look at the closed-circuit television

pplains, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link

Oh, I like that one.

Spin-off: is this your nearest gas station? People are shown a photo of a gas station. They must try to figure out if it is a photo of their nearest gas station.

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link

Did It Rain Or Not? Contestants are shown a photograph of their yard, and they score points by correctly guessing whether or not it rained last night.
― pplains, Wednesday, August 7, 2019 6:28 AM (one hour ago

i feel like i grew up watching this show? Except the contestants were my parents ....

sarahell, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link

plains do your kids know this about you yet

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link

The yard thing or the Bugs Bunny thing?

Because no.

pplains, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link

<3

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link

lmao the fucking bugs bunny thing, i like that you spend your time thinking such thoughts plains

boobie, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link

thanks, boobie.

pplains, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link

crowdsourced positive train control

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 16 August 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link

jazz baseball, but it has nothing to do with ken burns

Karl Malone, Saturday, 24 August 2019 03:45 (four years ago) link

Yeah ok let’s do it

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Saturday, 24 August 2019 06:57 (four years ago) link

port the speed-up feature from podcast apps to music, so you can get through albums quicker

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link

A television series about a urologist who invents time travel and then feels duty bound to track down the fathers of history's greatest monsters and give them preemptive vasectomies.

McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link

Vas Improvement?

mick signals, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link

or is that just the title of the episode in which he snips Tim Allen's dad

mick signals, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link

What a Deferens!

The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link

Maury Wills: you were going to be the father

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link

a fantasy football + dungeons & dragons hybrid where live football prop bets replace the dice roll. it'd be like "if cam newton completes this pass, you break the witch's spell."

triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link

Drinking games where instead of alcohol it's like condiments and salad dressings.

McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link

a time killing word game called "scrapegoats". people take turns saying a real word (scrabble rules) with a single extra 'r' in it. if you hesitate, say a word without exactly one extra 'r', or mess up pronouncing the "scrapegoat" (which is what you call the words with an extra "r"), you are eliminated.

triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link

that's not a terrible idea at all

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link

That sounds really annoying, can you please send me the GoFundMe link for your project

McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link

I actually think games might be a lucrative place to direct one's bad ideas. That horrifying monstrosity of a 'game' which I serially refuse to play where you try to pronounce words through Cronenbergian oral stirrups seems to be taking off like a shooting star.

McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link

Ah yes, brig mouth

kinder, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link

Do both the initial word and the extra-r word have to be valid? I guess "scrapegoat" isn't a real word but both "scape" and "scrape" are. Can I just break out any old thing during this drinner party entertainment?

That horrifying monstrosity of a 'game' which I serially refuse to play where you try to pronounce words through Cronenbergian oral stirrups seems to be taking off like a shooting star.

Oh god, I hate this so much.

emil.y, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link

Every time people have tried to get me to play it I'm like, not only is there no possibility of that ever happening while I'm both conscious and alive, your eagerness to indulge in this effrontery of nature has me rethinking our continued association.

McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link

xp the scrapegoat should not be a real word. i think you are eliminated if the new scrapegoat is (in total, not parts) a real word.

triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link


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