Idea Province

I have more ideas than I'll ever use: ideas for movies, inventions, utopias, T-shirts, businesses, and more. I could hoard them, but what would be the point? If you have ideas that you're squandering, send them to me - Rhys Southan - at mrsouth (-at-) gmail (-dot-) com. I'll post them for the world to take... if the world has any use for them.

July 1, 2009

Impractical Jokes

From Michael Bluejay:

So you’ve heard of “practical jokes”. I’ve never really understood what was so “practical” about them. But I started thinking of completely useless pranks, so I figure I might as well call them IMpractical jokes. For example, you make a whole bunch of signs that say WET PAINT and post them throughout the subway. Everyone sees them and thinks there really is wet paint. But it’s actually just the signs, there’s no wet paint at all, so THE JOKE’S ON THEM! Ha ha ha ha! Or not.

Eventually, people will get so desensitized to wet paint signs, they’ll assume they’re a joke and become careless around them. Then the joke will doubly be on them.

8 months ago

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