Idearrhea 3!

Here are some more ideas I had to get out of my head. Hopefully someone will do something with them.

1. I work in a preschool so a good portion of my job is wiping noses. When I started working with infants and toddlers I realized that wiping a child's nose is the WORST THING YOU COULD EVER, EVER DO to a child. At least, that's what the children keep telling me as I try to wipe their noses.

I also noticed that children don't mind when you grab their face with a puppet, pretending the puppet is eating their face.

I put the two together in my mind and came up with the idea of a puppet you could use specifically to wipe noses. You pretend the puppet is eating, or "noming", their face and wipe their nose in the process. The mouth would hold onto a tissue, and the puppet would be washable.

I tested my idea with Peepers Puppets:

That worked pretty well. I'd like someone to make a puppet specifically for wiping noses. I don't know if it would work or how long it would work. But I think it is worth a try.


2. This last week was Dr. Seuss's birthday. I think a place that makes slippers should make slippers that look like the socks from Fox in Socks.

They look comfy as all getout and I would totally buy a pair.

3. Finally I have an idea for a commercial compaign for a certain sandwich chain. Many years ago they had a terrible commercial that involved one of their people who make sandwiches dancing as a rap song played about their new wrap sandwiches. I thought it was one of the worst commercials I'd ever seen. My friend Chris Hockley agreed with me and told me about his idea for a good sandwich commercial. Today I made that commercial:

My idea is that this specific sandwich chain could ask for people to make and send in commercials for them to use instead of their not good commercials (only one of their "funny" commercials has ever made me laugh, and I only laughed the first time I saw it). This would be much like what Doritos has done in the past. People could send them in via youtube or another video site.

Or they could set up a neutral background in each sandwich shop with a video camera that would link to a specific site and they could send in their commercials that way.

I don't know if they would want to do this, how much it would actually cost, etc. But I do know that it would result in better commercials than whatever they currently use.

That's it for now! More ideas as soon as I think of them.

Idearrhea 2

Here's some more ideas:

1. Every college campus should have Ramen Noodle machines in the student center. They probably exist somewhere, but I did not have one in my campus center AND THAT WAS A SHAME! I think if there were a way to get ready-made ramen noodles from a vending machine, it would make the owner a lot of money.

As usual, all images that aren't photos I took are stolen from google image searches.

2. There should be more common words that start with X. That way we could have alphabet cards for school children and other people who are learning to read with pictures other than Xylophones, X-rays, and things like eXtra.

I know there are other X words out there, but they are either things that school children know nothing about or they are proper names like Xavier and Xander. Or they are attached to something commercial.

3. I would love to be able to buy Chinese Food flavored microwave popcorn. There is bacon flavored popcorn:

Cheese popcorn:

There is even popcorn that tastes like a movie theater:

Popcorn is my all-time favorite food. I also like to eat Chinese food. I would love to combine the two and have a new favorite flavor besides salt and butter.

I tried to make Chinese Food popcorn myself once with garlic salt and powdered ginger. It didn't work. There's got to be a way to do it.


That's all I have for now. More idearrhea as it floods out of me.

Ideas...

I get ideas from time to time that I would love to use, but don't have time or money or abilities to realize in tangible form. I hear zefrank calls this "brain crack" as in ideas that stay in your brain and you think about all the time (I think...). I would like to come up with my own word for ideas that you get out because you have to get them out.... I'll come up with it later...

1. I would love there to be a membership card you could buy that would get you into any hotel pool in the world.

(as always, any pictures I didn't take myself are stolen from a Google image search)

I love swimming in hotels. I would love to be able to swim in hotels and use their water slides and such even when I'm not actually staying there. If there was a card I could buy that would let me swim in hotels even if I'm staying with friends or something, I would pay a good deal of money each year for the privilege.

I am no business person so I have no idea how this could work. Maybe it would have to be one specific hotel per card. That way only that hotel would get the money from your membership, but at least you would have hotel pools available to you without renting a room. I would prefer it to be at least a few different hotels, that way there would be a better chance that there would be a pool nearby.

2. I would love to see an art exhibit where someone would trace a bunch of chalk outlines on some blacktop.

Then a group of preschoolers that have no concept of death would be set loose to draw and color with chalk in these outlines. Or, instead of chalk, they were given red fingerpaint.

I would love to see the results.

3. I think everything should cost 5 dollars. I wrote about this on my tumblr. I will copy and past it below the picture of 5 dollars.

This is how I think money should work.

Everything should cost 5 Dollars.
“How much is that pizza?”
“5 Dollars.”
“How much is that gumball?”
“5 Dollars.”
“How much is that very expensive-looking boat?”
“5 Dollars.”
“Great! I’ll take them all and eat a pizza on my boat and then chew gum!”
Everybody’s paychecks would read “A lot of 5 Dollars.” And we could all afford everything.
“How much is that light purple octopus?”
“5 Dollars.”
“And how about those bags of popcorn?”
“5 Dollars.”
“For how many bags of popcorn?”
“However many you need.”
“Good because I need a lot of bags of popcorn to feed my new octopus. I’m sure glad I get paid a lot of 5 Dollars!”
“Hey! That’s how much I make!”
And then they give each other a high-five (dollars.)


That's all of my ideas I needed to get out at the moment. I may do these from time to time.

I got it! Idearrhea! An over-flowing of ideas that just need to spill out all over the place!