What Unexplored Ideas Can We Discover on Brian Wilson's 65th Birthday?

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The discussion centers on the concept of originality in ideas and inventions, with participants expressing skepticism about the existence of completely new concepts. They argue that most innovations build on existing knowledge, citing examples like the lunar landing module as adaptations of prior designs. Personal anecdotes highlight attempts at creativity, particularly in cooking, where participants share their experiences with unique recipes and inventions, such as flavored ice creams and marinades. The conversation shifts to humorous and absurd ideas for products, like themed microwave popcorn bags and meat-flavored beverages, showcasing a blend of creativity and humor. Participants also touch on the generational gap in humor and cultural references, reflecting on how certain jokes resonate differently across ages. Overall, the thread emphasizes the interconnectedness of ideas and the playful exploration of creativity.
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Some thing that has not been thought of in some way before.
 
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Nothing. Even if there is, once someone thinks of it to post it here, the designation no longer applies.
 
I remember reading once that the lunar landing module was a totally original concept but I'd disagree as it seems to me to be an obvious adaptation of the shore boats ships have used for hundreds of years.

I do not think it is possible to have a completely new idea. All discoveries and inventions seem to arise from small steps building on knowledge already accumulated.
 
I invented the Tootsie Roll Blow Pop. :devil: I had a dream about a tootsie roll pop that had bubble gum instead of tootsie roll in the middle. I woke up thinking that would be absolutely gross and no one would actually buy one.

Then some time later Tootsie Roll came out with the blow pop.
 
I invent stuff in the kitchen - mostly sauces and marinades, but that's hardly "new" since good cooks do it all the time. I'd love to participate in one of those cooking competitions where the cooks don't know what ingredients are available until the competition starts. Many of my best sauces and marinades started out this way - "Hmm, let's see what we've got for ingredients...OK, now what can I do with 'em?" My marinade/basting sauce for grilled jumbo shrimp came together in about 5 minutes during one of these sessions, and I haven't changed the recipe one bit since the first version - my wife would throw a fit!

My pizza sauce took a few tries before I got it to its present form, but that's another recipe that is "untouchable" by spousal decree.
 
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EDIT: Maybe only the chemists get this one...
 
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What's new is what's not old. I'm new compared to Wolram. :wink:
 
Sticky toffee bog roll.
 
Meat flavored beverages:

Rocky mountain oyster float
Dr. Pepper [made w/10% real doctor juice]
Bacon bubbly
Red Bull
Sparrow sour
Kitty Cola
Beef tea
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Beef tea

I love beef tea (Bovril in hot water). :-p
 
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Hmmm, Kitty Kola: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Kola

Looks like Ivan may have came up with 2 new things: Sparrow Sour, and Rocky Mountain Oyster Float (at least they are "new" to google).
 
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wolram said:
Some thing that has not been thought of in some way before.
You can't get a PhD degree without it. My professor told me my ideas were good and original. Unfortunately, the good ones weren't original and the original ones weren't good.
 
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This is a new reply to a thread that was once new.
 
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I invented chicken ripple ice cream, but it never quite took off.
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I invented chicken ripple ice cream, but it never quite took off.

I like Ben and Jerry's Strawberry Liver Swirl.
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I invented chicken ripple ice cream, but it never quite took off.

Chickens can't fly.

As weird as that is its probably been thought of by that guy Heston Blumenthal that invented snail porridge and smoky bacon and egg ice cream.
 
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I have a pimple on the end of my nose, that's new.
 
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No kidding! When did you grow a nose? :confused:
 
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Danger said:
No kidding! When did you grow a nose? :confused:
Ooh! run and hide, Danger! Evo has omnipotent status here. Well, not quite all-powerful, since Greg clamped down after finding out that the sisterhood was funneling off subscription funds when he discovered the monthly payments to some "Godiva" outfit.
 
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Kurdt said:
Chickens can't fly.

Sure they can if they want to, and their wings haven't been cliped.

Ivan Seeking said:
Meat flavored beverages:

I was going to get some of that Bacon bubbly, but it turns out to be a bubble machine :-p :smile:
 
  • #21
Danger said:
No kidding! When did you grow a nose? :confused:
I see a fish in your future
 
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I invented the Stilton and cherry cake, make a normal cake batter with no sugar and substitute butter for Stilton, add half tea spoon cayenne pepper, quarter tea spoon salt.

Good for the waist line:smile:

What about the (lifter) that was a new way of (flight) levitation.
 
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Ok I will bite. I came up with this idea several years ago. Its a quite simple marketing gimick. I have never shared this with anyone, and I will never do anything with it so I throw it out to you...Microwave popcorn. No really.. You know those bags it comes in?? Well they blow up like balloons right. So how about basketball shaped ones for the nba finals..hockey puck shaped ones for the Lord Stanlys Cup Or football shaped ones for the superbowl and Grey cup.. I am sure the Brits would like soccer ball shaped ones for soccer,,,how about heart shaped ones for valentines day and so on and so on...How about a fat Santa full of popcorn...What do you think...P.S. If you make millions...call me...lol I have had a few inventions in my day..Pretty sure I invented the keyless drill chuck when i was 14,,I just told the wrong person...
 
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glondor said:
Ok I will bite. I came up with this idea several years ago. Its a quite simple marketing gimick. I have never shared this with anyone, and I will never do anything with it so I throw it out to you...Microwave popcorn. No really.. You know those bags it comes in?? Well they blow up like balloons right. So how about basketball shaped ones for the nba finals..hockey puck shaped ones for the Lord Stanlys Cup Or football shaped ones for the superbowl and Grey cup.. I am sure the Brits would like soccer ball shaped ones for soccer,,,how about heart shaped ones for valentines day and so on and so on...How about a fat Santa full of popcorn...What do you think...P.S. If you make millions...call me...lol I have had a few inventions in my day..Pretty sure I invented the keyless drill chuck when i was 14,,I just told the wrong person...
Ooooh, the popcorn bags are actually a great idea.

I was watching American Inventor the other night, oh my. But there was one really cool invention.
 
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One of my favorite SNL skits was the spoof commercial having the punchline: It's a floor wax and a dessert topping.

In line with the sports thinking, how about a couch with a built-in refrigerator for beer. Or, interactive sports events where you choose the ending.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Or, interactive sports events where you choose the ending.

The boys in Vegas would just love that. :biggrin:
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
One of my favorite SNL skits was the spoof commercial having the punchline: It's a floor wax and a dessert topping.
Ah, yes! Shimmer, wasn't it? A skit worthy of the Pythons.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
In line with the sports thinking, how about a couch with a built-in refrigerator for beer.
They already have those. I guess you haven't shopped for furniture in awhile. Even a single lounge chair has a refrigerator for a 6 pack.
 
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Evo said:
They already have those. I guess you haven't shopped for furniture in awhile. Even a single lounge chair has a refrigerator for a 6 pack.
Can we get a futon with a sushi bar, too?
 
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Evo said:
They already have those. I guess you haven't shopped for furniture in awhile.

I don't shop. :biggrin:
 
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How about cooked sushi?
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Yep!
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75ishimmer.phtml

Very good. I never would have come up with the name.
I may be older than you. At 55, I remember some stuff that my dad can't get and my nieces/nephews can't appreciate. Is our window for situational humor/topical humor that small?
 
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Landshark. Tounces the driving cat. Battle cats.
 
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turbo-1 said:
I may be older than you. At 55, I remember some stuff that my dad can't get and my nieces/nephews can't appreciate. Is our window for situational humor/topical humor that small?

Oh yeah you're way older than me. :rolleyes: ...okay, by a few years.

As for our narrow window, I guess so... never thought of that way before but so it seems. But sometimes the joke requires that you were there - the two-for-one sales pitch is dated I think. Assuming that it was a genre of commercials that came and went, then the implicit humor wouldn't be obvious to everyone.

Likewise, I've read many threads here in GD that were apparently very funny but I have no idea why. I think I get what the joke is supposed to be but it doesn't strike me as being funny. Clearly the young people here see it differently.
 
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Fish flavored gum.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Oh yeah you're way older than me. :rolleyes: ...okay, by a few years.

Hang on just one flippin' second here. He's a few years older than you, at 55?! :bugeye:
All of this time I've been looking to you as a grandfather figure, and you're younger than my wife?!
Even worse, that means that you're within a couple of years either way of me.
This is a total violation of the laws of chronology.
 
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Danger said:
Hang on just one flippin' second here. He's a few years older than you, at 55?! :bugeye:
All of this time I've been looking to you as a grandfather figure, and you're younger than my wife?!
Even worse, that means that you're within a couple of years either way of me.
This is a total violation of the laws of chronology.

I like keeping you old guys confused. :biggrin:
 
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V8 powered zimmer frames ideal for the over 55 hairy wrinkly.
 
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Spoken like a true Englishman (ie: incomprehensible).
 
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a wheel made out of sliced bread.
 
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moe darklight said:
a wheel made out of sliced bread.

Since cheese already comes in wheels, does this mean that we might be riding around on sandwiches?
 
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So Hot Wheels would become Grilled Cheese Sandwiches? And we would hear statements like, "he was spreading cheese for at least a block"?
 
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The horrible part is the mayonnaise in the burn-out box.

Ivan, sometimes I wish that I wasn't an atheist just so I would have somebody to blame for you. :biggrin:
 
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Nothing worse than losing the crust on a high speed turn.
 
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Danger said:
The horrible part is the mayonnaise in the burn-out box.

Ivan, sometimes I wish that I wasn't an atheist just so I would have somebody to blame for you. :biggrin:
Holy cow! give me some hot pastrami and rye so I can catch the debris at the launch!
 
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Danger said:
The horrible part is the mayonnaise in the burn-out box.

Ivan, sometimes I wish that I wasn't an atheist just so I would have somebody to blame for you. :biggrin:
Blame Charles Darwin - none of this would have happened if he hadn't developed the theory of evolution. :smile:
 
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Astronuc said:
Blame Charles Darwin - none of this would have happened if he hadn't developed the theory of evolution. :smile:

Yeah, that's right! Let's burn the bastard in effigy... oh, hang on... that's already been done in Kansas...
 
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I don't get it... must be an old guy's joke.

I will code it into my geriatric translator and see if it makes any sense. :biggrin:
 
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