Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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 Better Christmas Weather  pottedstu  Oct 11 01 
 Move Christmas to a warmer time of year 
 
 Intra-car communication  Lemon  Oct 11 01 
 Allow occupants of a car to easily communicate with each other. 
 
 Animal Mine Clearance  CasaLoco  Oct 11 01 
 Use unwanted pets to clear minefields. 
 
 subway train pot pourri  lyla2  Oct 11 01 
 air fresheners located in the air vents of trains 
 
 spring mounted quarterstaff  technobadger  Oct 11 01 
 kendoish sproingyness 
 
 random towny music  technobadger  Oct 11 01 
 [dance music] 
 
 Meeting's Over  Skybird  Oct 11 01 
 Put this card down, and the meeting is finito 
 
 remix scrapheapchallenge  technobadger  Oct 11 01 
 d.js mixing dodgy old tunes 
 
 use for robots rising up and fighting humanity  technobadger  Oct 11 01 
 misanthropy machine 
 
 Bullshit Time  Skybird  Oct 11 01 
 Dodge that crap 
 
 Drunk emails  Skybird  Oct 11 01 
 The drunk brain never lies 
 
 soup cooler  andkad  Oct 12 01 
 cools samples of cooking food 
 
 Shrink-wrap popcorn  phoenix  Oct 12 01 
 Fun for the whole family! For about five minutes. 
 
 lifelong university  joshdavi  Oct 12 01 
 force everyone to take a little bit of school a year for life 
 
 Lice-B-Nice  pottedstu  Oct 12 01 
 Sign of clean hair 
 
 Industry Standard Granny  st3f  Oct 12 01 
 Yet another pedestrian crossing idea. 
 
 Result Blocking Glasses  safetyboy  Oct 12 01 
 Stops you finding out the result if you have taped the match 
 
 Anti-hijacking nanny  rayfo  Oct 12 01 
 Use word-recognition technology? 
 
 Parent nanny  rayfo  Oct 12 01 
 The flip side of "nanny' software 
 
 The Random Truck  AfroAssault  Oct 12 01 
 800 trillion million billion times better than the ice cream man 
 
 Half & Half Sheet Sets  OICU812  Oct 12 01 
  
 
 Pre-Power Mute  blahginger  Oct 12 01 
 Mute your Television before you turn it on 
 
 Keyboard Clipboard  blahginger  Oct 12 01 
 Copy and paste across computers connected to the same switchbox 
 
 CPU Smelly Stuff  CasaLoco  Oct 13 01 
 Oil/Perfume stuff that you put on your hot CPU heatsink 
 
 Tag the Builder  po  Oct 13 01 
 electronically tag your builder 
 
 public: attacks  rrr  Oct 13 01 
 orginal low-tech high impact attacks on society 
 
 Effigies R Us  KindlyRat  Oct 13 01 
 Market Realistic Effigies 
 
 Crazy Glazing  salachair  Oct 13 01 
 Like crazy paving, but with windows 
 
 removeable tint  mhh5  Oct 14 01 
 removeable like a tinted post-it-note 
 
 Swimming Pool Movie Theatre  sinator  Oct 14 01 
 Watch Movies in a Heated Swimming Pool 
 
 Hair Raiser  thumbwax  Oct 14 01 
 Raises Hair 
 
 Disciplinary Child Car Seat  Guncrazy  Oct 14 01 
 Tired of threatening, "Don't make me stop this car!"? Well, now you don't have to. 
 
 Database of Current Thinking  PotatoStew  Oct 14 01 
 Do most researchers *really* think that? 
 
 Buckyballs & Black Holes  cameron  Oct 14 01 
 Use Buckminsterfullerene to hold a quantum black hole while you dump matter into it and extract energy. 
 
 Microwave Popcorn Single-Serve Packets  lewarcher  Oct 14 01 
 Do you really need to eat the whole bag? 
 
 Microwave Popcorn Readiness Detector  lewarcher  Oct 14 01 
 So monitoring the bag in the microwave is slightly easier... 
 
 Projectile Burger  sdm  Oct 15 01 
 When fast food just isn’t fast enough... 
 
 Esco-slide  gizmo  Oct 15 01 
 Travel to and from destinations via a network of escalators and slides 
 
 DNA Gun Control  moonsprite  Oct 15 01 
 The most secure form of gun registration. 
 
 dining pool table  technobadger  Oct 15 01 
 eating instead of pool/snooker 
 
 Touchscreen Reflection Dampener  barnzenen  Oct 15 01 
 Some times you just need to be able to see 
 
 "Go Before Me" light  barnzenen  Oct 15 01 
 When you can't decide who should go first at a 4-way stop 
 
 Target Urinal Mints (TUMS)  vermn  Oct 16 01 
 Those smellerful urinal mints with red and white concentric circles forming a bullseye 
 
 GFP Mink Stole  vermn  Oct 16 01 
 Use the pelts of genetically engineered animals to get really outstadning effects in blacklight 
 
 Hug Vouchers  Mygo  Oct 16 01 
 For the furtherance of hugging 
 
 stud fixings  Mygo  Oct 16 01 
 Universal body studs 
 
 White Noise Entertainment  AfroAssault  Oct 16 01 
 Don't have a channel? Don't worry! 
 
 No-YOU-wait-for-me  rrr  Oct 16 01 
 Puts call-centre employee on hold waiting for caller to get back to phone 
 
 Mousse out OBL  pussygalore  Oct 16 01 
 Flush him out with hair mousse 
 
 bath-o-matic  gizmomum  Oct 16 01 
 bath water/temperature guage 
 
 Differentially compressible soles  hello_c  Oct 16 01 
 Gradually stretch your hamstrings as the heels of your shoes compress with walking 
 
 Porn Circus  dj_photon  Oct 17 01 
 Combine two popular forms of entertainment! 
 
 Gore-Tex™ Mouse  pottedstu  Oct 17 01 
 Stop sweaty mouse problems 
 
 Bring your problem to work day  stupop  Oct 17 01 
 Set your colleagues to work on your problem. 
 
 judo tango  technobadger  Oct 17 01 
 judo throws and dancing 
 
 intelli-sticks  kaz  Oct 17 01 
 chopsticks that are surrounding aware. 
 
 door towel  holloway  Oct 17 01 
 Door towel drying rack 
 
 Loaner Dog  Susen  Oct 17 01 
 Avoid withdrawal while your dog is on a "sleep-over" 
 
 Press-on Toenails  lsenater  Oct 18 01 
 Fashionable feet - Conveniently! 
 
 Smirnoff Icee Ice, Arctic Blast  dj_photon  Oct 18 01 
 Combination of Smirnoff Ice, and Icee drink 
 
 Dog-Safe Chocolate  dj_photon  Oct 18 01 
 Engineer Some Chocolate to Make it Edible for Dogs 
 
 BYO Recipe Restaurant  pottedstu  Oct 18 01 
 Got a recipe? Get the experts to make it. 
 
 10 words or fewer express queue  stupop  Oct 18 01 
 For the quick moving time constrained among us 
 
 Carrot Holster  1kester  Oct 18 01 
 A convenient way to hold carrota 
 
 Yahoo! Instant Messager Virtual Pub  hippo  Oct 18 01 
 Add-on to basic instant messaging 
 
 Slip resistant shoe laces  phoenix  Oct 18 01 
 Until Velcro takes over completely. 
 
 Solar brick  phoenix  Oct 18 01 
 More power generation, less surface area. 
 
 Paper Shooter  marc1919  Oct 18 01 
 Spreads papers over large areas 
 
 Box ID  dekoi  Oct 18 01 
 give every post (mail) box a unique ID number 
 
 moron marker  lewisgirl  Oct 19 01 
 stops rant ideas from getting back on the recent list 
 
 Cashier competency indicator  stupop  Oct 19 01 
 Still on the topic of queues. 
 
 Modern Moats  pottedstu  Oct 19 01 
 Water filled trenches as a security feature 
 
 Strip Tease Pizza Delivery  Leah  Oct 19 01 
 Food and Entertainment delivered in one! 
 
 Multi numbers w/distinct rings  awolfe_ii  Oct 19 01 
 Multiple phone numbers with distinguishing ring patterns 
 
 Job interview obstacle course  phoenix  Oct 19 01 
 *Prove* you want the job! 
 
 PEDANT PEDANT PEDANT virus  seal10  Oct 19 01 
 Punish those who use the word "pedant" too much. 
 
 Firecracker Gauntlet  prometheus  Oct 19 01 
 firecracker-resistant metal gauntlet 
 
 Male Pregnancy Cravings  pottedstu  Oct 19 01 
 An excuse to eat weird combinations 
 
 Comp-o-meter  daruma  Oct 19 01 
 Get paid as the day wears on 
 
 Park Here flag  phoenix  Oct 20 01 
 No more trolling the parking lot 
 
 Anthrax in cocaine  dare99  Oct 20 01 
 Has anyone thought about this potential disease delivery system that could be used by Bin Ladin 
 
 Random Anti-Voting  PurpleBob  Oct 20 01 
 Some unknown guy on the street could do a better job. 
 
 Type on a piano keyboard  PurpleBob  Oct 20 01 
 Text entry in C major. 
 
 Tenderizing stilts  pottedstu  Oct 20 01 
 Make animal flesh soft and juicy with ease 
 
 Bagel Surprise  fatmess  Oct 20 01 
 why hasn't any one thought of this yet? or have they... 
 
 Glowing Gerbils  eat the damn crayon  Oct 20 01 
 Nature's most suicide-prone creature just got better. 
 
 Real World Automotive Pod Racer  mrkillboy  Oct 21 01 
 As seen in The Phantom Menace! 
 
 flame-wear  po  Oct 21 01 
 let me slip into something more comfy...... 
 
 rotate-o-wall  gizmo  Oct 21 01 
 wallpaper changes with your mood or the time of day 
 
 Pothole Gauge  Mygo  Oct 21 01 
 Advises on depth of waterfilled potholes 
 
 Anti-ringtone device  afroman  Oct 22 01 
 A must for all nokia phones 
 
 Bad Table Manners Restaurant  snarfyguy  Oct 22 01 
 Release tension by violating rules of etiquette 
 
 Smile Detector  cameron  Oct 22 01 
 Using signal characteristics to detect smiles in spoken speech 
 
 TPPCPPC.com  angel  Oct 22 01 
 Make translation easier. 
 
 Mail CO2 Oven  CasaLoco  Oct 22 01 
 Bake all mail in an Over filled with CO2 to kill all biological agents. 
 
 Irradiate the mail  seal10  Oct 22 01 
 Irradiate mail like we irradiate food. 
 
 Most ___ on Halfbakery  dekoi  Oct 22 01 
 more stats, yay 
 
 in-jokes  RobertKidney  Oct 22 01 
 all your what? 
 
 Vibrating Breast Implants  prometheus  Oct 23 01 
 haptic jubblies 
 
 Venereal Archipelago  lsenater  Oct 23 01 
 Temptation Island Sequel 
 

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