Strange Ideas that just might work

I want to open a gay night club and have people enter round back at a door that says "No Entry"

what other crazy ideas have people had? like when you were intoxicated and you and your friends thought "that would be so cool if we did that" but never did it. or if the idea just came to you out of nowhere when you werent even thinking of anything remotely close to the thought and you just had to make a new thread about it.

I once told my teacher that there should be jet planes that take off and land like helicopters. She informed me of what an ignorant idea that was. (my concern at the time was getting the wounded out of enemy territory in Nam)



Who's laughing now?

I wanted to either paint or slipcover one of the buildings on my college campus pink. This was really weird in 1982.

Now that Christo has done it to the Reichstag, it's kind of ho-hum.

Having a strange machine in your house the will tell you anything you want to know, or send and recive messages to any one in the world. I was told by my teachers in 1966 to stop dreaming.

jinx and i dreamt up cyber cafe's 5 years before we saw one. good thing we didnt do that.....

also, i imagined trains supported and propelled by magnets when i was in 8th grade.

About 6 or 7 years ago I got pissed off at something some political columnist wrote, and I started thinking that I could write political commentary just as good as many of the idiots in the newspapers. And I could just put it up on my own web site... since I wouldn't be under the pressure of a weekly deadline, I could just write whenever I had something substantial to say.

Of course, I never actually did it, and now everybody and their brother (or so it seems) has a blog.

these are great! keep em coming

i thought for a while that humans and other living creatures were just like cells in a bigger organism. i wanted to write a book/thesis telling the evolution of life from single cellular to multicellular to multi organism lifeforms. i recently found out about the Gaia Hypothesis

now im just happy im not the only one that thinks and understands this

I had this idea as a boy that we all saw different colours from each other but wouldn't know this because we would say 'that is yellow' and 'this is red' so we all thought we were seeing the same colour - when what I was seeing as yellow was your red.... and so on....

Does that make sense?

yeah i thought that too.

Got one that I hope to patent soon, keep your fingers crossed for me.

We should rename parkways driveways and driveways parkways.:cool:

Cyclefrance wrote:

I had this idea as a boy that we all saw different colours from each other but wouldn't know this because we would say 'that is yellow' and 'this is red' so we all thought we were seeing the same colour - when what I was seeing as yellow was your red.... and so on....

Does that make sense?

I still think that!

I (upon discovering what a Hooters restaurant was really about) decided that I would like to open up a restaurant called Peckers. I would hire muscle bound, hotties to serve up footlongs, and dress them in next to nothing.

When they became overweight or got pudgy? They could go work for my BBQ restaurant Porkys.

~ Thats all I had....:o

Ohh great idea.

I think you should follow up on that one!!

Cyclefrance wrote:

I had this idea as a boy that we all saw different colours from each other but wouldn't know this because we would say 'that is yellow' and 'this is red' so we all thought we were seeing the same colour - when what I was seeing as yellow was your red.... and so on....

Does that make sense?

Wondered about that, myself.

Studies show this is true by measuring what nerves fire in the visual cortex and at what frequency when a subject is exposed to certain wavelengths of light, but the variation isn't a huge amount. Most of the variation comes from the peak wavelength that your cones are excited by and depends on variations in the pigment inside the cones. Your long wavelength cone might be more "tuned" to a wavlength several nanometers above or below someone else's, resulting in your orange being slightly more yellow or red than someone else's.

Color perception is all kinds of weird.

Splendid link, Kitsune. Thank you.

I wanted to start a company called Single Socks that makes and sells one sock at a time that are mix and match. Making mismatched socks a fashion statement.

newmanae wrote:

I wanted to start a company called Single Socks that makes and sells one sock at a time that are mix and match. Making mismatched socks a fashion statement.

my washing machine already does this.....

How about paper paint in a spray can. Every time I go to the post office to mail a box I'm given the third degree and a large, smelly, black magic marker to cross out the words like liquid, cleaner, electric. I haven't time to go buy a box so if I invented a spray that was brown paper bag in a spray can? Like a correction film on a bigger scale? What could the postal-postal worker say then?
(actually don't want to know) would probably reject the box due to potential flammablity, but our lab could work on that.

:rolleyes:

I have always thought it is a terrible waste to have only one strikeable end to a match . Both ends should be strikeable . After all , many people put their used match back in the box .
If both ends were strikeable , you could cut the wood involved in making matches by 50% .

Buddug wrote:

I have always thought it is a terrible waste to have only one strikeable end to a match . Both ends should be strikeable . After all , many people put their used match back in the box .
If both ends were strikeable , you could cut the wood involved in making matches by 50% .

thats a pretty good idea. you should tell a match company. seriously

Buddug wrote:

I have always thought it is a terrible waste to have only one strikeable end to a match . Both ends should be strikeable . After all , many people put their used match back in the box .
If both ends were strikeable , you could cut the wood involved in making matches by 50% .

I thought this was a really great idea until I got the visual of people placing recently extinguished matches back into the box. Matches that possibly have a still glowing ember...

I spit on matches , don't you ?

Spit? Yucky ... wooden matches are such a rarity here, anyway, that I don't think the second head idea would catch on ... except for liability lawyers who would love the idea of your having to grasp the extremely flammable end of an already hot object.

I've never known anyone to put spent matches back into the matchbox.

spent matches go back in the box the other way around, everyone knows that. i dont spit on them, i just shake them. besides, matches are designed to be safe to touch after 2-3 secs after extinguishing them

wolf wrote:

Spit? Yucky ... wooden matches are such a rarity here, anyway, that I don't think the second head idea would catch on ... except for liability lawyers who would love the idea of your having to grasp the extremely flammable end of an already hot object.

I've never known anyone to put spent matches back into the matchbox.

So what are matches made of over there?

C4

Cyclefrance wrote:

I had this idea as a boy that we all saw different colours from each other but wouldn't know this because we would say 'that is yellow' and 'this is red' so we all thought we were seeing the same colour - when what I was seeing as yellow was your red.... and so on....

Does that make sense?

Geezus, I thought I was the only one who thought that. But it does make sense--some people do seem to have a whack sense of color. And of course, to them, it's not at all.

My idea:
Package a variety of blank receipts, and market them to business travellers, that they can submit for meal reimbursements. "Bag o' reciepts".

limey wrote:

So what are matches made of over there?

Cardboard. But they're only for use when you've lost all three of your disposable lighters.

Before tattoos were cool - back in my 20's - I wanted one at the lower edge of my butt cheek, right in the crease where the cheek meets the thigh -it was going to be an eye, with eyelashes, so when I walked away it would wink at whoever was watching.

Then I grew up.

Sort of. I still think it's a neat idea.

i wanted a tattoo on my arse that said "Closed for Renovation"

jonesieQ wrote:

Sort of. I still think it's a neat idea.

So do I. :thumb:


Of course as you get older it would look like you're getting sleepy.

ive had plenty of bad drunken ideas that became realized. i think the best was when i was in highschool and my friends and i decided to light off fire crackers in the highway. if only drunkeness was a good enough excuse to pull things off like that these days.

wolf wrote:

I wanted to either paint or slipcover one of the buildings on my college campus pink. This was really weird in 1982.

Now that Christo has done it to the Reichstag, it's kind of ho-hum.

[smartass]well it was rather whitish but what they did with some islands in Florida was really pink :

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I'm patenting it now... when I get the pre-patent I'll post it. The pre-patent search is happening now.

Sorry in advance if this doesn't translate well - it's a UK restaurant

I like the idea of a Family Wedding theme restaurant. There's an all you can eat buffet including such typical treats as cheese & pineapple on sticks, chipolatas on sticks, creamed chicken vol-au-vents, half bridge rolls with tinned salmon on them, scotch eggs, pork pies, dishes of Branston pickle etc

There is a disco playing on the huuuuge dancefloor, although it is only lit with flashing light's at the DJ's end - leaving the rest in semi darkness. The DJ talks over the beginning and end of songs - none of which are less than 3 years old - and joins in with the songs randomly.

At the end of the evening everyone goes home with a little gift bag and a piece of wedding cake wrapped in a burgundy napkin.

Staff are employed to maintain the family wedding atmosphere including:
- Little boys to run around the dancefloor pretending to be aeroplanes (only available until 19.00)
- Fat bridesmaids weaving dangerously, spilling their rum and coke and eyeing up anyone in trousers (20.00-22.00) then snogging the spotty usher in the corner (22.15-22.30)
- Drunken Uncles from different sides of the family sizing eachother up before a brief but harmless scuffle over a rash comment made about Frank Lampard's sexuality (after Last Orders are called)

Well I'd go anyway!

That sounds potentially interesting. Where do the hung-over groomsmen fit in? Is there any potential for interaction between the uncles and the bridesmaids? And don't we need two female guests to get catty when they discover they're both wearing the same dress?

What about an iPod dock that you can use in the bathroom?! It could mount right on the wall and hold the toilet paper at the same time. You could fill your soul while you empty your colon. You could pinch a loaf to Meatloaf. You could rock on and crap out. Flush to Phish. Don't even get me started about The Electric Toilet. (yes, I have it and no, on vinyl)

Wait. Shit. Too late.

I want to open a restaurant chain called "Boners." Men in G-strings will be the only waitpeople. Only fair, right? The specialty will be foot-long hot dogs, but when they serve them the customer will find out they are actually only 5 inches.

I told this to a coworker and he said he had basically the same idea except the restaurant will be called Peckers and the specialty is doughnuts.

I guess I should add, since I'm not sure if other countries have them, that I am spoofing the Hooters chain.

I thought about a distance mesure instrument for runners. GPS doesn't always works in all terrain (forest or high building cities).
So it's like measuring a magnetic field between the 2 shoes that differs because the shoes aren't always at the same distance from one other, because your pace isn't the same all the time, for example when you're running up a hill. Actually that's the most important problem with the Heart Rate Monitor offered by POLAR.
In my way of thinking you could measure the length of every step by the difference of the interference of the magnetic field a bit the same as with a bicycle computer, but you would need a steady magnetic field, So you could calculate by the increasing or decreasing of inference of the magnetic field the length of every pace...

the magnetic field wouldnt be constant enough to measure such a small difference