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Since 100 heads are better than one, here are some ideas for ideas that I can’t do anything with, but will barter for some of your ‘dough’ that would otherwise never make it to the oven:
yard-sized tar pit to catch neighbor’s dogs, kids, etc.
BarBQ Mitzvah and similar themes
magnifying
glass cigarette lighter
large, wet, rubber, dog tongue for cooling off in hot weather
nicotine incense/candles
cyber road rage (trolling, etc.) alleviation or prevention
Bought by [we_dont_eat_them]
Nicotine_20Candles
...but what did [FarmerJohn] get in return? [theleopard, Jul 31 2007]
Don't give them away, gamble them away!
Halfbakery_20Poker
[normzone, Aug 11 2009]
Cheese Sweets
Cheese-Tella
[theleopard, Aug 13 2009]
Diosma
http://www.google.c...AA&biw=1301&bih=678
[pertinax, Jan 28 2013]
[link]
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I have half a dozen assorted death spikes you can have in exchange for your large wet rubber dog tongue for cooling off in hot weather. swap? |
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They all seem pretty self-descriptive to me... |
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// here are some ideas for ideas that I can’t do anything with // |
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Umm, isn't that what we get around here on a regular basis anyway? |
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Actually, when I was little my dad in an attempt to get my
mom to stop smoking got her a "solar" cigarette lighter. It
was a shiny curved silver dish with a fork that stuck up to
hold the end of the cigarette... put it out in the sun and
eventually it would light... I guess... she never did try it. |
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po...OK, I'll put them on my spike-heeled golf shoes and wait quietly in a sand bunker. |
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Ray...Big...So if I just add a little creative prose? |
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Aur...Jeeze, even my too-crappy-to-post ideas are baked. |
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Have: tomato wedg(i)e remover, mocha-log-a-shit gum, domain name pictionary, SandwichMaster 2000. |
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FarmerJohn: OK, if you're asking. Late one evening we wrote
down "Ferrite Clips" on a post-it note and stuck it on one of our
monitors as a to-do URGENT for the next day. When we got in
the next morning, we found the note but could not work out from
the pencil scrawl what we had meant to tell ourselves. It looked
for all the world like "Ferret Glue". We spent all morning puzzling
about Ferret Glue (Glue for ferrets ? Glue made from ferrets ?)
unitl a colleage asked us had we ordered any Ferrite clips (Used
in electronics testing). Then we realised what the note ment, but couldn't get the idea of ferret glue out of our mind, and the
wildly implausible scenarios in which one might require such an
unusual product. |
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PS we are pleased to see that your recent suggestions display a
lower degree of potential lethality than your notorious "lightning
barbequeue" idea .....(bitter bitter bitter) |
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thats a pun Steve, (cinnamon toast) |
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It is oddly appropriate that the idea I have been bandying about in my head lately is a "Halfbakery Sale" which, fits the description of this post perfectly. But, more specifically, the Bake Sale would be a returning to ideas that we didn't do so well with the first time around in the hopes that others might recycle them better with clearer thinking. |
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For instance, if I thought I had a shot at making [AO]'s reusable potato jackets a smash hit, then I could post an announcement to that affect. If [AO] agreed (which he probably never would) then he would delete the post and I would try to bring it up from the dust (so to speak. BTW, [AO], if it weren't for the fact that all of your other ideas take off like wildfire, I wouldn't use you as my example...). |
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Also, if I had an idea of my own, in this case "Penthouse Drum Circle" that I had done wrong by, I could post a "Creator Wanted" ad to try and hound out a brave soul to bring that idea with real legitimacy back into the forum. |
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I always get to these things too late. All of the good stuff is gone. (eyes [po] and her new rubber dog tongue jealously) (sighs and picks up the nicotine incense/candles) They'll bone me for sure. I'm not going on the Antiques Road Show with this. |
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you know its a funny thing, I've had it a year now and never get tired of it :) |
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get your eyes off it, world. |
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[k_sra] you mean mash hit? |
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Have 'Tree Shirt'. Will exchange for anything involving chocolate. |
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'Apocalypso' has been turning around in my head and I can't do anything with it. Or 'Apocalloipe.' |
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//large, wet, rubber, dog tongue for cooling off in hot weather//
Could you possibly explain what you intended to do with this? |
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There's an Australian shrub growing in my back garden which, when alive, smells pleasantly of lemon and pine but, when burnt, smells exquisitely of toasting cheese with herbs. There's got to be an idea there somewhere, which should probably start with me finding out what the hell the shrub is called. I can imagine standing transfixed, oblivious to an advancing bushfire, just breathing in that smell. Oh yes, and it's very good for *starting* fires as well (like a lot of Australian plants, it must have a high oil content); I like to use a bundle of it in the grate instead of a firelighter. |
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Interesting how [FarmerJohn]'s throw away nicotine-candle idea has actually been submitted to the bakery since. [linky] |
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yummy [pert]-- cheese and herb kindling sticks. |
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That's it. I'm leaving work and getting something to eat. |
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I think [zen_tom]'s maximum security joke shop belongs here (unless he's going to bake it himself). |
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[leopard] Hey! That was supposed to be mine! I was going to post it any day now. |
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So it was a third-hand idea? (You were probably better off without it. Nicotine dough doesn't make many buns.) |
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It strikes me that there is only a very
narrow window between having a doughy
idea and being able to post it. How can
you have //magnifying glass cigarette
lighter// lying around as dough and yet be
unable to bake it to the extent required to
post it as an idea? It's a bit like saying
"Here's an idea which I have almost had...." |
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(considers posting [leopard]'s "third hand" idea) |
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Some dough I've been kneading but can't quite get the salt content right: |
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Roll of cheese sweets for neutralising pH value in your mouth when down the pub. |
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Whale Style (sexual maneuver inspired by a double whale breach) |
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Nothing the God of Biomechanics wouldn't let you into Heaven for, eh ? |
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[bigsleep] "Wii Prayer Mat" pretty well stands by itself (though it does sound like a bone-magnet in the making). |
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I want "Ferret Glue" even though it would just sit on the sideboard. |
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"Halo Ring Toss" : either a pacification device or a celestial game of horseshoes.
"Rubik's Cubicle" : Title in search of a post.
"Pickup Balls" : battling the fake bull's balls phenomenon: a pair of 2" solid steel balls in a fine chainmail sack... can be used as a cosh in an emergency.
"Remote Shoulder Tapper": a collapsible car aerial with a little plastic hand on the end for getting somebody's attention in a crowded bar. |
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(I've a few on my page, but most of them are already completely fleshed out between my ears, waiting for the writing muse to come sit in my lap) |
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Ha! Didn't realise I'd put the Cheese-Tella idea here on the
dough-exchange, over a year ago too! [linky] |
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I've got it, I've got it - it's a diosma (see July 2007). And I was wrong about it being native Australian; it's really from South Africa. Apparently, according to Wikipedia, the name "diosma" is also wrong, but that's what they call it in garden centres around here. And it still smells delicious when you burn it. |
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I'd like to offer some dough for adoption: |
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• Hand Satinizer: Makes your hands look satiny? [prehistoric]
• Hovercraft office chair [2018-02?]
• Some method by which you could do something like translate the
HRTF
for
one frequency range to another frequency range, for the purpose of
enhancing perception of sound directionality (i.e. hear directionality of
low
pitches as well as you can for high pitches) [2018-06-29]
• Crowdsourced executive summaries on Halfbakery ideas [2018-10-31] |
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Alright, I can check those off now: 61/381 |
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(By the way, how do you do a line break on here without making a
paragraph break? I see it done in the third annotation before mine.) |
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Left-angle-bracket br right-angle-bracket |
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In other words, it's the html tag for "break". |
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Ah, thanks. Reminds me of using restricted HTML tags in
blog comments about 15 years ago, before rich text editing
and Markdown were available/common. |
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