Strange Ideas that just might work

[Kagen4o4]

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.

[Cheyenne]

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?

[wolf]

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.

[Pi]

Originally Posted by wolf

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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[fargon]

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.

[lumberjim]

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.

[SteveDallas]

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.

[Kagen4o4]

these are great! keep em coming

[Kagen4o4]

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

[Cyclefrance]

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?

[limey]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

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!

[romuh doog]

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....

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

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.

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

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.

[Spexxvet]

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