May 2008
10 posts
Restaurant Skit
A skinny patron at a restaurant panics after realizing that every item of his meal precisely matches the meal of a patron sitting near him who is grossly obese. He tries to eat the meal daintily to absorb fewer calories, but the obese person eats even more daintily than he does.
Failed Pilots Channel
A cable station that plays nothing but failed television pilots. Problem is, I bet a lot of those tapes were destroyed.
"Ask Me About Debtor-In-Possession Financing"
From Joseph Weisenthal comes this idea: a T-shirt that says, “Ask Me About Debtor-In-Possession Financing”. This time Joe had the idea for the slogan and to put it on a T-shirt.
Want to Hail a Cab? Move to NYC
The other day I saw an ad for a local taxi company. It showed a man on the street, screaming and waving to hail a cab, but none would stop for him. The point of the ad was that you could call a number and order a cab to come right to your door.
I thought a better way to use this concept would be to have a man on a suburban street - a suburb of Dallas, maybe - trying to hail a cab, but of course...
The Benevolence of the Butcher
If Joseph Weisenthal had a butcher shop, it would be called “The Benevolence of the Butcher,” a reference to Adam Smith’s classic statement in The Wealth of Nations that:
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
In this case, it would be. Joe’s butcher shop would be...
"Some of My Favorite Presidents Were Gay" Tee
From Joseph Weisenthal, possibly with some help from David Askin, comes this T-shirt. It says “Some of My Favorite Presidents Were Gay,” and has a picture of Abraham Lincoln.
I always suspected Mary Todd Lincoln was a beard, and this shirt proves it.
Correction: David Askin informs me that he came up with this slogan and the picture to go with it. Joseph Weisenthal had the idea to...
A Bar for Thoughtful Loners and The Deaf
A bar or club with music so loud that it’s physically impossible to communicate with another person through speech. I know there are clubs that come close to this, but this one would be so loud that even speaking directly into someone’s ear drum wouldn’t work.
Plus, the music is so unmelodic - it’s basically noise - that it’s pointless to try to dance to it. So...
Wes Anderson Movie About Well-Dressed Homeless...
Every single Wes Anderson movie, except for Bottle Rocket - which he made when he hadn’t figured out his signature style yet - is about people with money to burn and the inclination to burn it. This isn’t the same as every Wes Anderson movie being about rich people, because actual rich people have to somehow earn their wealth and do work to maintain and grow it.
The characters in Wes...