gary@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Gary Sclar) (12/13/84)
It's time for a few more moneymaking ideas. This time I've got two of them.
But, say; listen you people out there, why don't you put a few ideas of your
own? All it takes is one really good idea to hit it big. As I've heard it
said of Francis Crick, the Noble prize winner who discovered the structure
of DNA; "It wasn't that he was particularly clever. It's just that he had a
lot of ideas...if you have lots of ideas, a few of them are bound to be
good ones." Be inventive; give free reign to your creative juices...you
just might get rich or something, and have a good time doing it.
Idea #1) The turning of the millenium is just a few years away (2001). This
is something that doesn't happen every day and it would seem to merit
celebration on a scale not previously seen on the face of the planet
(especially if the planet happens to make it that far). Idea 1 is therefore
for a party of some kind to start on New Year's Eve 2001 and go on for,
say, a month or so. I haven't quite figured out the theme, but it would be
something like "2001- dawning of a new era". Above and beyond that my
conception of it is a bit hazy, but I would definitely like to rent the
space shuttle, or maybe a few of them, to go up and set off a special
fireworks display, in orbit, that could be seen by at least 1/2 the planet
at once. In order for this to occur I would like to set up a corporation to
develop the party's theme and the event, sell shares in the enterprise, and
then start selling tickets, to raise capital, around 1990. I would like to
encourage net discussion of this idea.
Idea #2) Last year at Christmas Cabbage Patch dolls were all the rage.
However Christmas is not only for kids; it's for adults. I would like to
market a line of dolls for adults; kind of like little kuddly paternal and
maternal figures, perhaps with a built in recording, that would offer
practical advice for daily living; ie- an Uncle doll that would offer
common sense advice; a little Mafioso doll that would offer advice on how
to get even; a little financier doll (maybe that looks like John Houseman)
that would tell you how to get rich; a Dr. Ruth doll that would tell you
how to have good sex; a Hunter S. Thompson doll that would offer advice on
how to tell whether your pharmaceuticals were pure; a Mr. T. doll that
would teach you how to keep people from stepping on you (make that a Gloria
Steinham doll if you're a woman or feminist); a Jewish mother doll
that makes chicken soup when you're feeling ill and yells at you for going
out in the rain (and maybe curses in Yiddish); how 'bout a Rabbi doll to
dispense wisdom?
As always, your comments and criticisms are elicited (ilicited?)
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