Great minds think alike: what ideas have you had only to see somebody else come
Great minds think alike: what ideas have you had only to see somebody else come up with said idea and implement them? When they built the skydome in Toronto I thought it was really cool that the roof would open and that you could fit any kind of sports activity there including a rink. Maybe 8 years ago, I suggested to my brother-in-law that they should put the rink in the skydome and open the roof and play hockey under the stars... the same way kids learn to love to play hockey (local outdoor rinks are everywhere in Canada). They could tell the fans to bundle up and serve them hot chocolate. Now they have these classic hockey games outside in lots of cities every winter in open air stadiums.
My dad asked me to order cookies for the grandkids of a friend of his. They called my dad "cookie monster" and he wanted something special for them. I went to a caterers in August and asked if they would do some gingerbread men only dress them in beachwear. They did a fantastic job. Now you see decorated, cut out cookies everywhere in every city, in every season.
Skinner In both instances I felt particularly inspired when the idea entered my brain. When things like this happen I think there should be a website where you can go and 'give away' your good ideas. A place where people could go to get inspired. Where their minds could be expanded for a few minutes. We already see people coming up with the same great political ideas at the same time in the blogosphere, not just the DU. Why not have a group on the DU dedicated to good ideas of all kinds that could then be reccommended to rank them.
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My wife and I were sitting in a theater decades ago....
and didn't have anywhere to put our drinks... I told her "You would think they could easily put holders on the seat arms."
It was about a year or so later we entered a theater with cup holders! I said finally!
One of the simplest things that bugs the heck out of me lately... I have to use a laundry mat to wash my clothes.... Not one has automatic door openers or sliding doors. Everyone you have to put your basket down or hold it up against the building to open the door. 
.... that I didn't see anyone do for 20 years after I thought of them.
(Of course, I was going to do them but fell ill as I enetered young adulthood.)
Just 1:
I always felt that fuzzed-up electric rock guitar (through some really heavy amps like Mashalls) would pair up with the traditional horn section of a Swing band really well. But not lead rock guitar. Rhythm rock guitar. Big, fat chords worked into the arrangement in unison with the horns.
Now... Brian Setzer does this exact thing every night!
Surely we should be getting sinecures for our outstanding brilliance.
back in the early '80s. I wanted to go to some small city and run an independent, or in a few cases, even a network affiliate station.
Eventually most of the frequencies were snapped up by right-bent outfits like Sinclair or fundie dollar-a-holler outfits. All because no one wanted to listen to an Autistic teenager. 
is suddenly also the title of a midseason replacement TV show. But I thought of it first! I've been using this title for almost two years now. Dang it! Harumph! 
La de da. 
