humor/odd
humorous or odd ideas
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The Tribe of Woolgatherers
In 1992 I got my first email account (@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu) and like everyone at the time, whenever I’d open up Pine at one of the university provided terminals, I’d have an inbox full of jokes someone forwarded to me. I loved the jokes, but I was always annoyed by the endless scroll to get down to…
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The Society of Postmodern Archaeologists & Mailcarriers
Ever have a word and you try to come up with it would mean if it was an acronym or initialism? I have found myself doing that quite a bit. One time I found myself wandering the city of Boston, entering random CVS stores and asking the people working there if they knew what the…
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No Bell For You!
In the process of updating this website, I reviewed all my old ideas and one struck a timely nerve (The Onion Article That Wasn’t) as it featured unlikely recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time I wrote it, it was considered something only The Onion would write an article about, but today, I’m…
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Novelty Hearing Aids
We happened to be visiting “The Shack” today looking for a sort of novelty Xmas present and next door was a hearing aid store. Quickly an idea came to me – why not novelty hearing aids? On the one end of the spectrum you could have the “hearing voices” model which records random bits of…
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GraviTees
Perhaps a little bit morbid, but why not a line of T-Shirts that point out that life isn’t always perfect and happy? Won’t some people want “heavy” t-shirts just to point out the irony of it all? Here’s a list of slogan ideas:
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Governmints
How about a line of breath mints called Governmints?“mmm bureaucralicious!” “even bigger flavor” “ in original incumbent or new challenger flavors!” “made & approved by the FDA” “take a bite out of big Governmint” “only $1,000 for the trial size”
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The Games People Play
American/Yankee Roulette I think I came up with it in Junior High (so like 1987) when a group of my friends and I were walking down the street and goofing off. Pushing around is fairly common around boys that age – I guess and so we would. I came up with the idea that when…