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Thread: What's Your great idea?
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01-30-2017, 11:52 PM #26
I say bring back the WPA. Keep the fs out of firefighting and employ thousands to do trail work.
I wrote Barry about it at the height of unemployment. Nothing was done, but he did write back.
And kidstarter, a crowd funding site made for kids to learn business, technology, and a way to bring their imaginations to fruition.
I've got more.Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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01-31-2017, 01:02 AM #27
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01-31-2017, 07:09 AM #28
A wall to keep out the Mexicans.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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01-31-2017, 07:28 AM #29Banned
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More a goof than anything but a Pho place that also sells BBQ (like maybe Asian style) and call it.....Wait for it...
Pho Q. Yep say it out loud. You know the way pho is pronounced... Fu
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01-31-2017, 07:54 AM #30
Rent-A-Dog
For those that enjoy the company of dogs but not the responsibilities of pet ownership.
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01-31-2017, 08:05 AM #31
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01-31-2017, 08:10 AM #32
I think of something almost every day. Nothing gets done, ever.
Recent example: I notice a large amount of the truck traffic through my U.P. town is Canadians cutting through...many french; and I notice the lack of parking. I think: hey, what about a Canadian truck stop (Petro Canada or something) with bilingual signage and bilingual staff and poutine and NHL network in the lounge. It would be a frog trap, all the drivers would know.
It's really not about having the idea, it's about having money to make it happen.
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01-31-2017, 08:58 AM #33
donald trump dog biscuits and chew toys.
off your knees Louie
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01-31-2017, 09:29 AM #34
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01-31-2017, 09:35 AM #35
dehydrated water
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01-31-2017, 09:44 AM #36
I thought the same thing- we have electric UPS trucks here. But he said USPS. I have yet to see an electric mail truck...
Not really my original idea, but a great idea nonetheless: $5,000 cash to anyone under a certain income threshold to get a vasectomy or tubal ligation. It's already free under the ACA, but we need to incentivize that shit.
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01-31-2017, 09:54 AM #37
One percent for the planet was my idea as a ten year old. Amex blew me off among others...assholes.
I have a patent on a better urinal that has a V back drop instead of the bowl shape so you can pee down either side and it catches pee instead of splashing it back on you. That's what I got from my history degree at University of Arizona and it just came from pissing and wearing sandals. It's amazing how much splash there is."One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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01-31-2017, 10:01 AM #38
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01-31-2017, 10:05 AM #39
I've thought birth licenses worth consideration but incentivized birth control may be even more effective.
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01-31-2017, 10:07 AM #40
I live along one of the New England Interstate arteries into eastern Quebec. There is a shit tonne of Canadian trucks that go through my town and there are not one but two exits that have NO places for thee trucks to easily pull off to get fuel, food, and or rest for a bit. IMHO a "rest area" would be a gold mine. But like you said, you have to have money to do it. Additionally, the State of Vermont along with a vocal contingent of "we don't need or like new stuff built around here" complainers would make building such a venue even more difficult and expensive.
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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01-31-2017, 10:16 AM #41
Artillery mail and package delivery.
Daniel Ortega eats here.
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01-31-2017, 10:17 AM #42
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01-31-2017, 10:17 AM #43
I realize why you guys would think a rest area or truck stop would be a gold mine by that observation, but it is not based on fact I'm afraid. If you really want me to explain, I can, but I'd rather not. That's all after absolutely everyone from your neighborhood would say, "Truck stops bring in traffic, crime, and trash" to the point where anyone that allowed it would be voted out of office. That alone keeps them from being built and it's going on in Whitehouse, TN at this very moment. If you want me to tell you why they aren't goldmines, I could, but for the most part I'll just say that truckers take up a lot of real estate, and generally are self sufficient. They absolutely need places to park and there's a shortage of that and it's always getting worse, but from a business perspective most truckers park in the lot, maybe fuel up, come in and use the shitter, dump their trash, cook in the truck and then leave.
You'd probably be better off with a produce stand and huge, flat, dirt lot. < Actually that's a pretty good idea."One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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01-31-2017, 10:22 AM #44
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01-31-2017, 10:37 AM #45
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01-31-2017, 10:43 AM #46
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01-31-2017, 12:40 PM #47
Similar theme: I was in high school in 1999 at the peak of Napster. I distinctly remember telling a friend that people would pay for songs if they could buy them a la carte for $0.50-$1.00. A couple years later the iTunes Store shows up.
Cheaper and easier: All girls get an IUD at, say, 14. They're already free under the ACA (for now), so just make it a requirement to enroll in public high schools like we do for vaccinations. Pick up the scraps by having no-cost no-age restriction Plan B available anywhere you can buy gum.
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01-31-2017, 12:43 PM #48
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01-31-2017, 12:54 PM #49
my latest great idea is that oil change places and nail salons should team up in the same locations
skid luxury
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01-31-2017, 12:56 PM #50
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