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Steelrails

Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:19 pm Post subject: The crackpot ideas thread. |
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Similar to the random thoughts, except these should be big on the random and small on the thought. Absurd ideas and absurd answers to society's absurdities.
One thing, in order to keep this thread mirthful and whatever, try to limit controversy and keep it out of the political radar. Ron Paul or gun control or immigration or realistic foreign policy or spitting ajosshis or abortion or stuff like that is not on the table. We're talking problems that don't exist. If you are going to tackle the issues, keep the answer mirthful, ironic, and absurd or at the very least something that rocking chair-n-shotgun granddad would say. Now just because they're absurd, doesn't mean they have to be without merit (although those are fine as well).
Here are a couple of mine-
Bring back duels. (Thanks Floating). Too many innocent victims in the crossfire? A machismo culture? Reduce peripheral violence by bringing back legal duels. Pistols at dawn.
Blow up the moon. I'm tired of it looking down on us earthlings. Time to wipe the smirk off of its face.
An upside down room in my dream house. A room where the floor looks like the ceiling and the ceiling looks like the floor. Furniture and whatnot bolted to the ceiling.
A black & white room. A room where everything is a shade of grey and styled so it resembles a house form a black & white movie.
Costume & Theme national holidays. Medieval day. Victorian day. 1940s day. Disco day. Wild West day. Communist regalia day. 1950s Space Style day. Speak like Shakespeare day. Random electric blackout day (summertime- everyone grills and drinks all the beer before it gets warm, party in the bar by candlelight). |
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UknowsI

Joined: 16 Apr 2009
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:00 am Post subject: Re: The crackpot ideas thread. |
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Steelrails wrote: |
Blow up the moon. I'm tired of it looking down on us earthlings. Time to wipe the smirk off of its face.
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Or even better, make it into the largest ad billboard in the world! The first person to paint the moon might get rich. A comb which makes a pattern in the sand should work as a paint brush since there is hardly any sand movement/wind. |
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The Floating World
Joined: 01 Oct 2011 Location: Here
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:21 am Post subject: |
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As is well known, I'm not one to back down from a fight. I do not believe in being the non action 'bigger man.' If someone disses you, you call them out on it and they apologise or you diss them back and then maybe have a fight. Big deal.
That said, actual duels with weapons would result in death and rubber chickens would just be silly.
So I suggest the two duelists, in order to defend their honour and obtain satisfaction should use wit as a weapon in a 'mickey taking' contest.
The rules are that the challanged gets to decide which novelty costumes each man must wear.
They must then meet at dawn in a sectret location in front of an audience of their peers and commence to take the mickey out of each other.
Nobody would die and I envisage that most would end up at a pub together afterwards getting drunk and making up.
Aw. |
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