What Other Silly Activities Can We Come Up With?
April 3, 2008
Give me a freakin’ break, I’m begging you! 
I saw a TV news magazine show last night that explained the world of Doga (pronounced just like yoga, but with a “d”). It’s a combination of yoga and…dogs. Seriously, I’m not making this up. This is April 4, not April 1.
Puh-leez.
As I was watching the people stretch and bend along with their dogs, I couldn’t help but wonder if the dogs felt a tad bit embarrassed. I could swear I saw one dog mouth the words, “Help me.”
Clearly their owners were having the time of their lives doing the “downward facing dog” — with their dog!
This is just another example of how our society has too much money and not enough things to spend it on. Mind you, I don’t want people to be poor, but aren’t there other things that are more productive and meaningful than stretching with your dog? I mean, stretching WITHOUT your dog is more meaningful than stretching with your dog.
Are you with me?
Here’s a thought: why don’t we all come up with ideas like this one and we can all cash in on them? What do you say?
Bloga — the act of bending down from a standing position to reach your laptop on the floor to blog.
Kleenex-agami — like origami, only with Kleenexes.
Bring your fish to work day — we need more business-minded fish.
Cat signing — teaching sign language to deaf cats
Synchronized swimming — oh wait, that’s already been thought of. Moving on.
Bird waving — not that they can wave back, but it’s your way of saying you appreciate them even though they haven’t a clue of what you’re doing.
Come on, folks! What else can you come up with? Leave me a comment so we can get rich!
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Blogging in your sleep… I have done this actually! I have literally fallen asleep while blogging.
Mind Blogging - you can automatically publish what you’re thinking… oh wait, isn’t that coming out with WP version 2.6, which will be due out in what… 4 more hours? Crap, many posts might not make it past Spam Karma and Askimet. Damn…
Lightening Energy Retention - Think of the possibilities! Collect all the energy from one lightening bolt and power your local city for a month! Now that’s green baby!!!
Laptop Night Lights - Sell your own and outdated laptop on eBay but list it for sale as being advertised as a new and stylish laptop night light! Totally a collectors item for the computer buff! Just think, you can be one of only few to be a proud owner of a laptop night light. PepperJam would love it!
Laptop Night Light eBook - Give away the secrets of how you can make your own laptop night light by writing an eBook and promoting it on ClickBank. All the adults faking to 13 year old MMO bloggers would love it!
Matt Cutts …?? - Start a blog called Matt Cutts …?? and title every post ending with what Matt Cuts. As a bonus, I’ll write the first post for you titled, Matt Cutts The Cheese!!!!
Resell Dog Crap on eBay - Seriously, if you’re going to do Yoga with your dog, why not take your dog’s waste and make cute shapes out of it. Make a statue, form figurines and impress your friends with the first dog crap 1/32 scale replica of The Statue of Liberty.
Launch eBay Dog Crap Statue eBay Store Hire the neighborhood kids to collect fresh dog poop and make funny things out of it. Sell it on eBay. Open your own “Build a Crap” store and put Build A Bear out of business.
Offer Build a Crap Franchise Opportunities - Collect on royalties by offering franchise and affiliate opportunities for your Build a Crap store. Marketing and promoting will be a breath of fresh air… Askimet will love you!
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@Garry
But to make all the “crappy” ideas really take off, you need a catchy name for the product like “Play-DooDoo”. With a name like that, people are sure to overlook the fact that they’re really playing with crap.
Sounds like someone’s full of crap today.
Of course, there’s another market that could be based on that idea: Play-DooDoo aroma therapy. You could sell different kinds of smells to change the smell of your Play-DooDoo statue.
As always, Garry, you bring a lot of good ideas to the table, buddy. Let me know if you need any help with the paperwork to get them started.
LOL
Cracking me up! “I couldn’t help but wonder if the dogs felt a tad bit embarrassed. I could swear I saw one dog mouth the words, “Help me.”
Laughed so hard and so loud, my son thought I was nuts LOL!
I needed that!
As for more odd things… hmmm….. Sorry my brain is stuck on the dogs :)))
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Well, Mark,
As a nurse who works with therapy animals, I think you are shortchanging the good that dogs can do by getting their owners off their butts to move at all.
And I thought you’d like to know that the dog and cat sign language thing has already been done worldwide. So, no more market there.
But Garry did have an idea with the dog poo, although it’s not necessary to form statuettes. Something similar was done on eBay a few years ago with great success. An innovative marketer took cow patties (slightly bigger than dog patties, but just as fragrant
) and shaped it, and dried it and varnished it, then stuck a clock face in it and sold LOTS and LOTS of them on eBay.
Since I have an animal sanctuary, I have lots of the raw materials. I’m ready for some stinky suggestions to get rich! This internet marketing thing hasn’t been all that lucrative, so I’m open to other ideas.
Brennan
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@Diane
Thanks for taking the time to share it.
LOL I’m so glad you had that reaction.
@Brennan
Well, I do agree that us humans do tend to be a bit lazy. I’m being considered the poster child for that, btw. And are you serious? There is actually cat sign language?
Yup, Mark,
There are lots of dogs and cats that are born deaf but they are easily trained to sign language. Their owners treasure their special furbabies, many of whom are some of the most beautiful animals on the face of the earth.
I myself have rescued a blue-eyed Dalmation from being killed and several blue-eyed white cats. All were stone-deaf but followed hand signals very easily.
I met a man who had trained his deaf Great Dane (magnificent!) to do the most amazing things, all with sign language.
Animal lovers all over the world have been using sign language with deaf animals or years.
It’s the truth!
Now, any suggestions for selling poo that won’t involve sculpting it, as Garry suggested? TeeHee!
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Sadly when I was a kid I had a white kitten with blue eyes that was deaf. I only had it a few days because my dad ran it over. The kitten was sleeping behind a tire and didn’t hear the engine start up.
On another note about crap… a few years ago, I saw replica dog crap being sold where there was compartment where you could stick your house key in… not that was a pretty cool invention for sure.
Garry Conn’s last blog post..Anyone Know Of A Good Online Planner?
@Brennan
Well how about that. I had no idea. I’ve heard of hand signals for animals, but never knew about using it for deaf animals.
As for the ideas, I’m sorry, but I’m all pooped out. LOL
@Garry
I think I’ve seen that one, too. The person who invented it is probably on the beach somewhere spending his millions.