tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216505162009-02-21T02:22:36.328-05:00What good do ideas do gathering dust in a drawer, bogarting electron holes on a disk? No good. So might as well share them. Maybe they can do you some good. Not asking anything in return.Peter Muchahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719758672604968311noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-1152155550508922562006-07-05T23:09:00.000-04:002006-07-17T01:39:59.386-04:00

Sorry, Blogger. But when I found that wordpress makes using categories easy, I decided to switch. Plus, wordpress permits the easy creation of permanent pages. So take the jump to the new location for Steal My Ideas, Please.

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How do people react when they have everything?

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Two-person TV show. No, two-person showdown. Total knockdown debating, intellectually at a very high level, but "fighters" wear boxing gloves and dance around a ring, landing verbal jabs. It’s a play, it’s philosophy! Every week a new profound, always relevant topic. Could be a play, actually.

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Yo, this also works in Chicago, New York, Miami and other cities. Anyplace with a rich legacy of dastardly illegalities. Forget those namby-pamby horsebleep-and-buggy rides. Instead, get into a long black limo that's riddled with bullet holes. In fact, your guide, Vinnie "Oyster Crackers" Badabing, will grunt, as he waves his tommygun, "Youse'll get in if youse knows what's good for youse." He'll

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"Vote for Me! My ugly opponent's pro-death and he wants to raise everybody's taxes! This ad, brought to you by the Committee to Re-Elect Joe Jerkweed at Any Cost, not only just wasted $20,000 that could have gone for several children's health-care premiums, but it may cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, gullibility, insensitivity, and major regret. Use only as directed by a mental health

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There's sports talk. Opinionated political talk. Even shows all about money. But why not TV-movie-music-media-Web-celebrities-and-maybe-also-a-little sports-and-sex talk? Key to good talk radio is having two lively hosts who often disagree (a la WIP in Philly), and who can juggle several hot topics at once, to hook a wide audience. Keep the whiny politics out of it, unless major news intrudes. Or

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This would be a popular product. Sure, people license cartoon characters for T-shirts and games and underwear. Fun stuff. But aren't laughs even more needed during disgusting chores, like changing a catbox? Look forward to this every week at my house! Anyway, people love Garfield, people love cats, people love jokes, so market some catbox liners with cartoons and jokes and call them: Garfield's

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Saw a page marked "This page intentionally left blank" in a brochure, and thought of the Zen-like message "This mind intentionally left blank." Thought it might make a good bumper sticker. A Web search, of course, reveals it's been whispered into the empty minds of other souls as well.

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Seeing some old guy waddle to the mound in striped flannel pajamas is pretty ridiculous. And a majorly missed marketing opportunity. Put coaches in knit or other casual shirts with team logos, and fans might buy more. (You can pretty much buy anything with a team logo these days.) Theory was you needed a uniform to walk onto the field. (a) Who says? (b) In these days of electronics, why let them

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Baseball's too slow for me. Make two strikes a strikeout, three balls a walk. That'll force pitchers to throw strikes and batters to swing. Could shorten the game, create more tense full counts, and lengthen pitcher's careers.

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If celeb baby news is beaucoup bucks (People mag paid millions for pics of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's newbie, Shiloh), well, celebrity baby publishing is bound to become its own industry. People begat Teen People, so why not Baby People? Babies are people, too, after all. And plenty of advertisers are out to Pamper the world. So to speak.

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OK, I'm doubting Chrysler going to call, and pay me for this great idea. But, honestly, as anyone who's driven in a city knows, it'd be great to see a car revamped just for cities. It should have ... bulletproof glass ... a removable glovebox you can carry away ... a removable ignition you can cart off in the removable glovebox ... wheels that turn 90 degrees for sideways parking into teeny

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Contestants compete at tapping the power of TV to turn great ideas into fortunes. Starting with a bankroll of, say, $25,000 each, they have to buy, sell, invent, promote, invest, beg and otherwise scheme their way into making $1 million free and clear. Gonna take some real imagination, like those people who rented forehead space to advertisers via eBay. Or that guy who traded up, starting with a

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Here's an idea I'll probably never do. But it's one that has long intrigued me. Some people have amazing laughs. Shrill. Staccato. Lilts. Snorts. Wouldn't it be cool to sample great laughs and compile them into a song? Hey, email me a clip of a wild laugh from your family or office, and I'll start a collection here, so someone can turn them into a song.

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Arf!

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Seriously. Think about it. Does it makes sense to measure cholesterol after you've fasted? OK, sure, gotta establish a baseline, see how high it always is. But think. Some people with high cholesterol never have heart attacks, while some with low cholesterol do. Uh, could it be because some low-baseline people chomp on Dorito and, kablooey, LDLs through the roof, while some high-baseline folks,

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Think an old person could be on Apprentice? Hah! But lots of people start new careers in middle-age. So how about a challenge? The Geezer Throwdown. Team of aging characters against a young, buff, cocky crew. For the right to form a new business and get it bankrolled.

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I have a dream. I go to schools, conduct creativity workshops. Help kids learn to invent. As individuals, or as a group, they keep all the rights. And hopes. Wouldn't it be great, as part of this dream, if poor kids could get patents for free? America's slipping, some say. People worry about future generations, what they might be able to achieve. Imagine the ripples on a school, a town, even a

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... is that we're taught to be of one mind. I mean, don't we always have multiple reactions? Self-interest says, Darn, I'm disappointed, I wanted that job. Some higher side, your heart says, I'm happy that my friend got it. Everything is a mixed blessing, someone said. I think it was Gay Talese. Life's full of paradoxes. Why fight it? Negative capability. This way lies creativity.

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New line item on federal income-tax returns: Number of $1 chances you'd like to buy to have all of your income taxes refunded. Bet 50 million people would buy at least a single chance. You'd keep drawing tickets till half the pot is awarded. Profit for feds: $25 million or more. Earmark for a worthy cause, like cancer research. Maybe have secondary prizes like a year's free postage. OK, we'd all

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Here's my nightmare: I'll buy a winning lottery ticket but forget to ever check it. Here's my solution: Lottery ticket subscriptions. It's like having season tickets to a sporting event. Every game, or every so often, you get the same numbers. If they ever hit, this computerized system automatically contacts you. No waiting in line, can't lose if you win, good fortune waits in the wings. Bet a

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Gotta love Peeps, those marshmallow chicks and bunnies from Just Born. Assorted permutations appear for various holidays: ghosts, pumpkins, hearts, snowmen and Christmas trees. But departing from the holiday idea, how about this: Hot chocolate duckies! Instead of regular marshmallows, you float cute little creatures. Ducks are archetypal floaters, but swans and whales and octopi are also possible

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Lots of American adults need more education. Could a kind of home schooling be an answer? Grants or government funding could set up a service or registry that would help students form groups taught by volunteers or family members. Perhaps parents who home-school high schoolers could invite an adult or two into their sessions, maybe even get some kind of grant or free materials in return.

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Hot grapes, mmm. Try it.

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Elementary schools don't really teach science, which is a system of thinking, not a set of facts. Suppose, for example, in kindergarten, a running endeavor is to list observations about water: It's wet. It's sticky. It freezes. It flows. Ice floats. Snow has little crystals. Steam is hot. It forms drops. It splashes. Fog is water. Rain is water. We need it to live. And so on. Don't tell. Let the

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