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Maybe it's just me, but my best ideas seem to come from half-heard conversations, or half-seen articles. Most memorably, I recall seeing a picture of some funky moulded bath which was actually porcelain or something, but which I, from first glance, thought was inflatable.
"Cool!", I thought, "an inflatable
bath!"
I was very disappointed to realise that it wasn't, but on reflection, decided it was still a cool idea. It led me on to various other, equally cool inflatable bathtime-related possibilities, which I'll tell you all about, some other time.
So I propose a cuttings service with a twist: a roomful of little wizards cutting out newspaper and magazine articles on topics which are specified by the subscriber, then posting really really bad photocopies to them. In attempt to decipher what the article really says, the reader may well stumble - entirely by mistake - across something truly brilliant.
I await in fear the inevitable garbled postings .
Visual assistance for the heart of herring
http://www.baltic.v...les/chapter6.3.html [normzone, Nov 16 2004]
(??) Your wish.....
http://maps.phoenix.gov/pmo/MainFS.asp .....is confusing me, but.......... [normzone, Nov 17 2004]
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You know, there could be something in that. The subconcious is more likely to let us know what it's up to if we leave it some ambiguity to slip up on. Since it's the subconcious that is most likely to come up with something useful, any methods that are going to help it out of its shell sound like a good idea to me. |
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I think that if, instead of wizards, you had "administrative assistants", it wouldn't quite so unfeasible :-D |
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Was I talking to myself again? |
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Oh, "wizards", I thought you said "lizards". |
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The bat-transform is good for garbling. On this post's first paragraph, for instance:
Perhaps it's hardly me, but my best ideas appear to amount from half-heard conversations, or half-seen articles. Most memorably, I recollect beholding a depict of a roughly fetid moulded bathroom, which was really porcelain or entity, but which I, from beginning glimpse, thinking was inflatable. "Chill!", I thought, "an inflatable bathroom!" |
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A putting service ? I don't think the people I know that golf would be interested. |
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Oh "wizards", I thought you said "schizophrenics". |
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Was just thinking the idea should be extended. An electronic gag could be added to the TV, muffling it at critical moments.
And the wizards stay. There just aren't enough employment opportunities for them, poor things. Lizards would be hopeless, they'd cut out all the wrong stuff and then probably try and eat it. Same with administrative assistants. |
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I'm all for this. Anything that aids the random collision of disparate things has to be a good thing. Some of the best creative thoughts come as the result of cognitive thought-traffic accidents. |
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this in, in essence, one of the raisons de-better of the half-bakery. |
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I think he's too young to be hard of hearing. |
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[bristolz], maybe the link will help. |
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At a glance I thought it said "Half-beard Genius" and I thought to myself, "Hm, attractive." |
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I think the link should have been to a map of the city of Phoenix. |
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Your wish is my command..... |
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Now, zoom in around his house . . . |
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A similar effect can be produced using the babelfish translation service. For example, after translating to chinese and back to english, the last paragraph of this idea becomes: |
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So I propose a margin service by the curve: A room diminutive witchcraft teacher obliterates the newspaper and the magazine article in the topic which assigns by the subscriber, then posts truly truly the bad copy to them. Deciphers any article in the attempt truly to believe that, perhaps the reader gushes out trips entire - wrongly - stretches across really the brilliant matter. |
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Which is something different entirely! Perhaps the reader gushes out trips entire? Perhaps! |
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Oh, you said <<liberate>> Iraq. Oh well, my mistake. :) |
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'Half-beard Genius..."attractive."' - well, it has been quite a few years since I had a beard, but you got the rest right. I don't recall it, but obviously you've met me at some point. ;-) |
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Yeah, zoom on in [norm]. You know the way; east. |
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A half-beard genius... which half? |
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Or is he/she only half genius (and all beard)? |
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I had no idea I was writing about a hairdresser with a talent for facial hair and attention deficit disorder. |
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Mmmm... nori. Haven't had sushi in a while. |
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Just been looking at the links... I fear the Phoenix thing is waaay too subtle for me, sorry. But the baltic one really does make a great HB nuclear option. Charming. |
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You don't have the full information on the Phoenix thing, [moom]...it's just about half there. |
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Huh. Still brooding over a website full of dead fish. |
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I was just looking at Google News and thought I saw the
headline, "Girl or Soy" over a picture of a baby. |
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Maybe this idea could be a Halfbakery feature -- the
randomly edited idea view. |
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Umudun sýrasýný bekleyenlerimiz, hayatýn zorluklarýný henüz fark edemeyen çocuklarýmýz var. Bu umudu onlara verelim, onlarý gücümüz oranýnda destekleyerek yaþama kazandýrmanýn onurunu yaþayalým. Duyarlý bir toplum olarak sizlerin adýna da birileri yürüsün, geleceðe umutla baksýn. Tedaviler ve ameliyatlar konusunda bilgi almak isteyenlerimiz derneðimize baþvurabilir. |
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Actually, just listening to a conversation
in Dutch could work just as well for
English-speakers. As others have
noted, Dutch sounds like English, but
the words don't make sense. The
rhythm and the phonemes are so
similar that you will often hear what
sound like bizarre (and sometimes
inspiring) English sentences spoken by
Dutchmen ("Can you put milk islands in
the bus-stop?" "Nets can hold 'em or we
haven't eaten.") |
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That last anno looked to be implying that the King James Bible contains arabic language misheard as english non-sequiters.... must be half-heard |
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<In a north-of-England variety club
frequented by physicists> "No, no,
Albert, I said 'Eeeh, see the M.C's flares'
" |
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<In a native American sex-club
frequented by Greek mathematicians>
"No no, Mr. P, I said "The squaw on the
hippopotamus..." |
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No no, Abe, I said 'Fourscore and seven
beers to go.' |
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i had mine severed years ago also. |
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Wasn't that 'Lots of snot, Angus? |
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<Statistician at a topless breakfast bar near the uranium mine > "I said, 'Bomb d' top. Mine us top d' bottom. O'er? Bomb Bomb!' " |
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<July 1969, NASA> "Errrr, Sir? It's
Kennedy. He says well done, but really
he just wanted to send a man to Des
Moines...." |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Beard Genius? There may be legal issues. |
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Sound a bit like Bryon Gysin's cut-up method. |
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I meant to say "pass the butter". Instead I said "you've ruined my life you cold-hearted bitch!" |
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My hovercraft is full of eels. Bun |
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Whenver I watch those old Nazi war rallies, it occurs to me, that the germans really were opressed, and it really was cold up there. |
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So mnay people shouting out "Got mittens?" in unison... |
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Today I learned that you can write Turkish with thorns and eths (letters not actually found in Turkish) and Google Translate can still translate it to very sensible English. |
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