Bad Ideas, Inc.
Written by Jeffrey L Tucker on November 19th, 2009I had intended to post this by Halloween since it was between Halloween and the “holiday shopping propaganda blitz” that inspired this… One year my brother and I got bored and decided to come up with a list of really bad ideas for the Christmas season and called our fledgling new enterprise Bad Ideas, Inc. Here is some of the products that for some reason we decided against developing:
For the adults shopping list:
- Shower Toasters – for the really busy person who doesn’t have time to stop for breakfast
- Pet Bees
- For the adult who despises cats…Claymores for Cats, a home pest control kit for the do-it-yourselfer to be marketed under the name “Kitty Kitty Bang Bang”
- Claymores for Canines, to show we weren’t going to discriminate (names were still under development but included such marketing gems as “Bark Bark Boom”)
For the kids:
- My Own Pet Piranhas for the tub
- My Own Home Radioisotope Lab for kids
- My Own Guillotine
- My Own Autopsy Kit (think of how much we would’ve made here with the immense popularity of the “CSI” television shows
- My Own Home Surgery Kit
And somehow, with brilliantly inspired ideas like this we remain impoverished…genius is never appreciated in its own time…
Jeff