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Back when I was in college I decided to double-major and roll it all up in a five year Master's program. In one of my marketing classes I came up with an idea to put little printed butterflies, flowers, etc. on toilet paper and market it to parents potty-training their children. My idea was to have commercials showing toddlers children dancing around and playing with the paper and such. You know, basic shit in that regard. My tagline was "making potty time party time." So a few months ago I was walking through the supermarket and what do I see? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000EFFUXI/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=3760901&s=hpc Those sons of bitches at Kimberly Clark took my idea. Damnit, i still have the whole project, including powerpoint about how to market this shit on floppy disks. Yes, I'm old enough that usb storage devices were still not in use. Now I have gigs of crap on my keychain (Isn't that a nifty way to carry proprietary product materials and software?) Has anyone else here ever had an idea that a corporation actually put into use? Now I have to come up with a few more ideas like this one and whore myself to corporate America.

So you take this massive system of tubes, and you send information on trucks down them. You can't just shove them in though.

LOL @ puppy in a submarine.

Yeah it was crazy...one day I was walking around and I came up with this theory of relativity...only to realise some fucking jew had stolen my idea before I was born. That kind of stuff just makes me want to hurt someone.

you should ask max what he did when Pepsi stole his idea (http://maxbarry.com/2007/08/09/news.html), Coke came close to his other idea (http://maxbarry.com/2006/04/10/news.html), People selling naming rights (http://maxbarry.com/2006/10/19/news.html), People fought over shoes (http://maxbarry.com/2005/02/23/news.html).

think that's all of them :p

Yeah it was crazy...one day I was walking around and I came up with this theory of relativity...only to realise some fucking jew had stolen my idea before I was born. That kind of stuff just makes me want to hurt someone.

Damn you are funny. This is serious though. I was excited that my idea was actually being used, and pissed that I wasn't the one who put it into play.

Have you read Syrup?

Have you read Syrup?

No. But I drink syrup.

Damn you are funny. This is serious though. I was excited that my idea was actually being used, and pissed that I wasn't the one who put it into play.

I have a really good idea, one that would truly help revitalise aboriginal languages here in Canada, and possibly abroad. I don't want to go into details, though I have with other people, because I'd still like to pursue it. But ultimately, if someone else 'stole' the idea or came up with it on their own, yes, I would feel happy that it was being done. I would also feel a bit bitter that I didn't get working on it in time. However, I'm a serious slacker. I'd be able to convince myself that the effort wasn't worth it, and I would live my days content, poor, and blissfully putting off everything until I shuffle off this mortal coil.

To do otherwise might actually hasten my demise, as I vent entirely too much spleen on 'what might have been'.

you should ask max what he did when Pepsi stole his idea (http://maxbarry.com/2007/08/09/news.html), Coke came close to his other idea (http://maxbarry.com/2006/04/10/news.html), People selling naming rights (http://maxbarry.com/2006/10/19/news.html), People fought over shoes (http://maxbarry.com/2005/02/23/news.html).

think that's all of them :p

Now that would totally make me nuts.

WWE stole an idea i had that i did in a fanfiction on Fanfiction.net...

WWE stole an idea i had that i did in a fanfiction on Fanfiction.net...

Homoerorticism?

Sorry, i forgot the naming the baby for a $100 gas card (http://autos.canada.com/news/story.html?id=aa97cc37-34ee-4f37-befa-0f11932a9086) to my list for naming rights.

Have you read Syrup?

Mrs. Buttersworth read it to me.

Homoerorticism?

lol, well, not exactly, you dont think about things like that when your younger..

lol, well, not exactly, you dont think about things like that when your younger..

YOU might not.

The rest of us were going down on our same sex friends at age 15.

Okay, well, some of us.

Okay, maybe just me.

I was running a couple of years ago a role-playing game, set in the UK a loose version of the Marvel universe. My players were working for an Intelligence agency charged with investigating meta-normal incidents, termed MI-13, which prior to his death (in my verse), Captain Britain was also working for.

Fast forward a year and what comic do I see coming out on the shelves: Captain Britain and MI-13

Curse You Marvel!

An aunt of mine claims that she invented the quesadilla.
I don't think she's got much of a claim, though.

Back when I was in college I decided to double-major and roll it all up in a five year Master's program. In one of my marketing classes I came up with an idea to put little printed butterflies, flowers, etc. on toilet paper and market it to parents potty-training their children. My idea was to have commercials showing toddlers children dancing around and playing with the paper and such. You know, basic shit in that regard. My tagline was "making potty time party time." So a few months ago I was walking through the supermarket and what do I see? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000EFFUXI/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=3760901&s=hpc Those sons of bitches at Kimberly Clark took my idea. Damnit, i still have the whole project, including powerpoint about how to market this shit on floppy disks. Yes, I'm old enough that usb storage devices were still not in use. Now I have gigs of crap on my keychain (Isn't that a nifty way to carry proprietary product materials and software?) Has anyone else here ever had an idea that a corporation actually put into use? Now I have to come up with a few more ideas like this one and whore myself to corporate America.


was your idea SPECIFICALLY printing a special character on the sheet of toilet paper that marks the spot where the child should tear?

YOU might not.

The rest of us were going down on our same sex friends at age 15.

Okay, well, some of us.

Okay, maybe just me.

Wasn't just you!

Back when I was in college I decided to double-major and roll it all up in a five year Master's program. In one of my marketing classes I came up with an idea to put little printed butterflies, flowers, etc. on toilet paper and market it to parents potty-training their children. My idea was to have commercials showing toddlers children dancing around and playing with the paper and such. You know, basic shit in that regard. My tagline was "making potty time party time." So a few months ago I was walking through the supermarket and what do I see? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000EFFUXI/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=3760901&s=hpc Those sons of bitches at Kimberly Clark took my idea. Damnit, i still have the whole project, including powerpoint about how to market this shit on floppy disks. Yes, I'm old enough that usb storage devices were still not in use. Now I have gigs of crap on my keychain (Isn't that a nifty way to carry proprietary product materials and software?) Has anyone else here ever had an idea that a corporation actually put into use? Now I have to come up with a few more ideas like this one and whore myself to corporate America.

Your idea was ... well, a shit idea.

When those kids grow up, and are arrested for defecating in florist's shops ... or after years of psycho-analysis, pin down that "potty time is party time" as the reason they can't form lasting relationships with anyone they find attractive ... thank your lucky stars you don't own the copyright on your shit idea.

Yeah, I have lots of good ideas. I want to host a website for "open source" (ie NOT copyrighted) good ideas that visitors can implement for themselves. It would need to pay for itself, but the point would be specifically NOT to make money from the ideas, but to give them away.

Your shit idea would not get on my site.

I had this brilliant idea to make a fighting game where you played as monsters like Godzilla and got to fight through cities and destroy everything. That was a few years before they made this game.
http://n-force.ru/uploads/posts/2007-12/1198530209_561529_front.jpg

Your idea was ... well, a shit idea.

When those kids grow up, and are arrested for defecating in florist's shops ... or after years of psycho-analysis, pin down that "potty time is party time" as the reason they can't form lasting relationships with anyone they find attractive ... thank your lucky stars you don't own the copyright on your shit idea.

Yeah, I have lots of good ideas. I want to host a website for "open source" (ie NOT copyrighted) good ideas that visitors can implement for themselves. It would need to pay for itself, but the point would be specifically NOT to make money from the ideas, but to give them away.

Your shit idea would not get on my site.
thats a good idea!

there are so many good ideas that go unexplored because of lack of resources. after a while you realize that you will never develop that combination toaster/iron and are willing to pass it on to anyone else who might be able to do it.

was your idea SPECIFICALLY printing a special character on the sheet of toilet paper that marks the spot where the child should tear?

It was not specifically for teaching them how much to use. This was the only difference between my product and theirs.

It was not specifically for teaching them how much to use. This was the only difference between my product and theirs.
that is the KEY difference. it takes it from an advertising scheme to a new product with a marketing plan.

thats a good idea!

there are so many good ideas that go unexplored because of lack of resources. after a while you realize that you will never develop that combination toaster/iron and are willing to pass it on to anyone else who might be able to do it.

Randomly - http://www.goodideas.com - it seems to be similar to www.stumbleupon.com, random websites.

Some company, I think it's J&J, puts out conundrums on the web where anyone can give the solution and get paid for it. For example, they'll have trouble congealing a toothpaste formula and they'll just stick it on the web for anyone to solve.

Truly drawing on the power of reach and cheaper than hiring a specialist.

I'd be very surprised if the type of site NH is proposing is not already out there.

Randomly - http://www.goodideas.com - it seems to be similar to www.stumbleupon.com, random websites.

Some company, I think it's J&J, puts out conundrums on the web where anyone can give the solution and get paid for it. For example, they'll have trouble congealing a toothpaste formula and they'll just stick it on the web for anyone to solve.

Truly drawing on the power of reach and cheaper than hiring a specialist.

I'd be very surprised if the type of site NH is proposing is not already out there.
might need a good marketing campaign...

Yeah it was crazy...one day I was walking around and I came up with this theory of relativity...only to realise some fucking jew had stolen my idea before I was born. That kind of stuff just makes me want to hurt someone.

LMFAO!!!

That song Just Like You by Three Days Grace. I wrote that for a contest on poetry.com. The only used a few parts of it though :rolleyes:

Then again, I wrote that years ago when I was still in high school, so who even knows. It sounds eerily similar though...

I had this idea that someone in the Middle east had WMDs. Unfortunately, they went after the wrong country.:tongue:

yeah. a under-desk exercise bike, the idea being you can gently cycle and burn off calories while you work. had the idea years ago and seen that on sale quite recently. maybe it wasn't an original idea when i had it (probably not), but i certainly hadn't seen it before then.

also learned recently Sir Alan Sugar is moving into a market i wanted to get into. he'll be up there, i'd be down here, but it was still a bit :eek2: when i heard it on TV.

i still have a cool idea for a novel (which i've started) that i have yet to see... thankfully. and i had an idea for a game like a cross between Spore and a MMORPG and the Sims, which would just be huge. but, of course, anyone can have an idea. i can imagine a machine that turns me into god for a day. its total bullshit unless you can actually do something about it (even just design it, whatever)

I have a really good idea, one that would truly help revitalise aboriginal languages here in Canada, and possibly abroad. I don't want to go into details, though I have with other people, because I'd still like to pursue it.

Whatever the idea is, I would love that. I have a major obsession with languages, and it frustrates me that there are so few resources for learning Native languages, especially ones other than Navajo. My grandmother is a quarter Mohawk and I've always wanted to learn kanienkehaka, but I can barely find any resources, even in New York. :(

lol, well, not exactly, you dont think about things like that when your younger..

Speak for yourself, some of us have been dirty-minded since childhood.

YOU might not.

The rest of us were going down on our same sex friends at age 15.

Okay, well, some of us.

Okay, maybe just me.

Wasn't just you!

Not for lack of trying. *sigh*

Yeah, I have lots of good ideas. I want to host a website for "open source" (ie NOT copyrighted) good ideas that visitors can implement for themselves. It would need to pay for itself, but the point would be specifically NOT to make money from the ideas, but to give them away.

You mean like the Halfbakery (http://www.halfbakery.com/)?