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posted by
Tremac
on October 30, 2004 at 7:38 PM
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tremacc,
yeah, I believe you! Really!! hehe.
posted by
Julia.
on October 30, 2004 at 7:21 PM
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I so totally do. In fact, I was going to write a post asking bloggers
if they'd ever had any totally original ideas, sat on them and saw someone else act on that very idea! Seriously.
posted by
Tremac
on October 30, 2004 at 7:08 PM
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pickles, LOL.
posted by
Julia.
on October 30, 2004 at 5:27 PM
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Alf,
that was my point exactly. The ideas are already "out there" so they exist on that level, and then at another point they may exist within a human's brain. So technically, two (or more) people could have the exact same "totally original idea." Of course, I'm not saying this is the way it really is...just that it
could be.
posted by
Julia.
on October 30, 2004 at 5:27 PM
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hmm, is this where I mention that the topic for this post
has been made before????
posted by
littlemspickles
on October 29, 2004 at 11:57 PM
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Quirky,
OK, my concept of an original idea is a little different than yours. My definition is that an original idea is one that has not slid across across the synopsis of a humans brain before. In that case I think there are tons of oringinal ideas left. The collective consciousness of the universe is another matter indeed. That's like God right? In that case I will stick to the re-packaging philosophy.
posted by
A_Norseman
on October 29, 2004 at 10:29 PM
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Alfster,
You could give me a million "new" ideas but there is no proof they are not already out in the collective consciousness of the universe. Just because no one has discovered them yet, that doesn't mean they aren't already there. Just my opinion of course. But hey, I can always use "new" ideas, so fire away!!
posted by
Julia.
on October 29, 2004 at 7:44 PM
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jem,
I thought it was, you should always ask it because "there's no such thing as a dumb question." LOL
posted by
Julia.
on October 29, 2004 at 7:41 PM
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justsouno,
And may I say once more, YAY!
posted by
Julia.
on October 29, 2004 at 7:40 PM
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grouch,
ROFLMAO, oh gads thanks for that much-needed bit of levity.
posted by
Julia.
on October 29, 2004 at 7:39 PM
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it's not about new ideas
it's about repackaging, it's about "making it new," as the poet said. Got a funny hitchcock story which i've told before -- so stop reading at this point if you remember it:
hitchcock decided to keep a notebook to record ideas he could remember in his unconscious mind. first night, he wakes up in the middle of the night, writes down his idea, falls asleep. Next morning he reads his idea:
boy meets girl boy loses girl boy gets girl
He never used the notebook again.
better i suppose to adapt stories where Boy Dresses as Boy's Mother and Kills Girl in Shower ... tg
posted by
tbgroucho
on October 29, 2004 at 7:28 PM
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Quirky - glad it made you laugh dear. And yes, it would be a blockbuster.
posted by
Hollee
on October 29, 2004 at 6:24 PM
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Norseman
I still think there is time for the stand-up pee thingy. Pamper with a tube down the pant leg may be a beginning. You see I am not sure I want to stand in the middle of the lake in a canoe. The tube makes me think maybe I could hang a leg over the side. Too a norseman might know how cold a shinny hinny gets in the cold. Good luck to both of you on original ideas!
posted by
Justi
on October 29, 2004 at 6:21 PM
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What a great question Quirky...
It's not my writing ideas that get stolen, it's my inventions. I invented a new chain saw case, too late! I had an Idea for this thing called the "equalizer" that would let women pee while they were standing up...you scoff? Think about being in the middle of the lake fishing...do you really want to row all the way back to shore? Anyway, somebody else marketed it under another name. Your premise that all ideas have been thought of I disagree with, just because I can't bring myself to accept it. 2000 years ago people thought the same thing I'm sure, but they were wrong. There are new ideas! I'm going to think of one and give it to you so that you can write about it.
posted by
A_Norseman
on October 29, 2004 at 4:08 PM
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Always happens to me!
Isn't there some advice floating around that if you have a certain question in class you should ask it no matter how stupid you think it is, because if you have the question, chances are someone else does as well?
I guess the same goes for "original" ideas.
posted by
Jemmie211
on October 29, 2004 at 3:40 PM
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Quirkyalone
OH!! Looky, looky I'm fixed!!!
posted by
Justi
on October 29, 2004 at 3:09 PM
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Quirkyalone
I think it would be fun to have some bloggers reading the minds of other bloggers and we could stop some of the outward bashing.
posted by
Justi
on October 29, 2004 at 3:08 PM
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Ariala,
Everyone who "starts young" has a few of those manuscripts in their files. I recently found a short story of mine written when I was probably 14 or 15, gads it was pretty awful.
posted by
Julia.
on October 29, 2004 at 1:52 PM
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Quirky, lol...I would have to find it first. I wonder if I kept it? It
would definitely have to by typed in since it was before the days of computer, and perhaps typerwriters, too!
posted by
Ariala
on October 29, 2004 at 1:46 PM
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Ariala,
Does that mean you are judging the piece as no good? Maybe it's a masterpiece, huh? You should post it for me!!
posted by
Julia.
on October 29, 2004 at 1:36 PM
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When I was just a kid I used to think about this subject and it motivated
me to write a fiction piece called Life on a Piece of Dust. Yes, I was a strange child and might have been oxygen deprived once or twice.
posted by
Ariala
on October 29, 2004 at 1:29 PM
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Hollee,
It will be a blockbuster for sure.
Torando...hahaha!
posted by
Julia.
on October 29, 2004 at 1:19 PM
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Tornado Alley - ROFLMAO at my typo
posted by
Hollee
on October 29, 2004 at 12:53 PM
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Quirkaroni, I have this one about a young girl in the midwest's torando
aley who hits her head and goes to a dream land called Og and meets elves, and flying bears chase her through the woods, and she meets the fairy of Og, and the good troll and wicked troll of the west, and.........how's this sound so far?
posted by
Hollee
on October 29, 2004 at 12:53 PM
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