adweek.com:
The Better Marriage Blanket sounds like, and should be, a B-grade Saturday Night Live ad parody. But it's apparently real. Leaving aside the question of whether the market demands a military-grade fart-absorbing blanket, are they...
Smell Fast Food
Little Drooling Bear Food
Watery Coffee
Herpes Pizza
Smart Noshery Makes You Slobber
OK Chinese Food
Wet New Modern Age Dining Room
Meat Patty Explode the Stomach
Restoran Fatso
Come & Wait...
To a carpenter, every job looks like it needs a hammer. To a lawyer, everything situation looks like a legal problem and not a strategy question, as Steve Blank describes:
The issues our lawyer had...
LIFE magazine has put together an interesting collection of dumb inventions.
External Turkey Roaster, 1966. Just in time for Thanksgiving.
Baby Holder, 1937. Can you say slingshot?
Finnish Portable Sauna, 1962. Never Let 'Em See You Sweat.
Mini Television,...
Does this sound like you?
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A Bend, Oregon policeman had a perfect spot to watch for speeders, but wasn't getting many. Then he discovered the problem -- a 12-year-old boy was standing up the road with a hand painted sign,...
Of course it’s a fake, but it’s funny.
via This is True on Facebook.
YODEL METER, 1925
An early version of American Idol?
VENETIAN BLIND SUNGLASSES, 1950
It was a bad idea then, it's a bad idea now. Sorry, Kanye.
TV GLASSES, 1963
MUST see TV.
DOG RESTRAINER, 1940
Yes, it's so much easier to use...
Having just posted about a store that only sells mayonnaise, I was reminded of the “commercial” for the fictional Spatula City within the movie UHF by “Weird Al” Yankovic.
In the movie, Weird Al plays a...
Sentinel-Standard:
Jim Patrick of Winn rejects the label “contraption†to describe the Do Nothing Machine put in his care by his older brothers.
This conglomeration that greets Ionia Free Fair spectators entering the Floral Building is made...
Ruth Haldeman moved to rural Hot Springs, Ark., in 2002 and promptly took in a couple of orphan chicks. She soon discovered chickens poop--a lot. According to Entrepreneur.com, in the interest of keeping her house...
Is this the kind of place you’d go for shoe repair?
via Criggo.
Here's one from last Sunday's Close to Home.
There's a long line in front of the women's restroom, and no waiting at all for the men's room. An enterprising business person has set up a...
The editors at Esquire mined Google Patents for the strangest culinary creations going back to 1935, then looked into whether they're being produced today. You know, just in case you want a hamburger bun shaped...
Time for a little bit of Friday humor: CPC Strategy has put together the following infographic style flowchart to help eCommerce newbies and pros alike figure out where exactly to promote their wares online....
Although Chen Guangbiao is more worried about awareness than profit, he has still done something not many people could have expected. He has found a way to take something free and make a little...
The Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic is now selling elephant dung to their visitors as an unusual souvenir that can also be used to fertilize garden plants:
“I believe that garden owners will...
Did you know that some companies have symbols hidden inside their logos?
Goodwill
Goodwill’s logo is a stylized letter “g” that doubles as a smiling face.
FedEx
Negative space between the letters “E” and “X” creates an...
