In - Ven - Tion
 

So, any budding inventors on here? Ever come up with any whacky contraptions or generally funny, weird stuff?

If so what? Did it work, or fail miserably?

(this is a humorous thread, so try to be humorous)

I once designed a cow slinging device. I have no idea why, I just got bored one day, and found the idea of hurling bovine to be amusing. It had everything, including an overly elaborate array of pulleys, levers, catches, valves, and a belt fed magazine of stacked cows.

I think I was about 16 when I drew it. But I re-did it last year as a blueprint styled design, and got it printed on a t-shirt. So it turned out cool in the end.

Pffft. My friend (a stoner, coincidentally) invented that years ago. Cattle-pult, he called it. Or, in my alliterative version, Bovine Blaster. :D

Yeah, and whenever I try to invent something, it turns out it already exists, and I feel like a fool. Like the water-bike. Apparently they exist. Which sucks. I coulda made millions.

And as it turns out, I can't be funny on command, so I can't succesfully "try" to be funny. Sorry for my blinding lack of hysterical jokes and sarcastic wisecracks, Mister Dino Sir. :( So very sorry.

Curse you! There I was thinking that I was original and all along it turns out to just be something that stoned people tend to invent.

Maybe the sacred herb is trying to tell us something? Perhaps what the world really needs is a good quality cow chucker?

Yes! As a symbol.... of.... uh.... vegetarianism? Like, to get rid of cow meat? So we can't eat it? I dunno. :confused:

But I do know that I love inventing stupid stuff, but I could never pull any of it of. I think most of the stuff I try to make could not physically exist. But I AM making a hovercraft out of a piece of wood and a leafblower engine. It'll be great, I swear.

Send them back to India...? They need them more than us. ;)

I remember whne I was a little humanoid, I thought I'd build a robot dog. My plan was:
1. To buy a dog and remove the insides.
2. To purchase cogs and wires.
3. Insert them into the dog anyway possible.
I thought it would work. But I sort of got stuck on step one. Mum said no. :p

Why don't you just purchase a dog, and forego the rest of steps 1, 2, and 3. That way you'd be able to have an awesome fully functioning biomechanical robot dog!

Yeah. More advanced than anything my awesome 'cog' robotics could achieve!

Yep, another idiot child I was.

That's why Mojo's signature is so good.

"there are no stupid questions, only stupid children"

So true.

I once tried to make my own shampoo useing plants from a neighbors garden. The result was a pale green flora mixture not unlike a viscus material. It smelled like heaven though!

When I was small, I would always try to imitate things I saw in movies. Home Alone was one of my favorite childhood movies (next to Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, of course). I fell in love with that annoying little kid's "clever" traps.

Anyway, I would always attempt to "invent" traps... for... well, I don't know who these traps were supposed to be for, but my innovative little mind had to be satisfied by something. They were always so lame. The only one I remember is a "trap" consisting of my attempt to suspend a toy helicopter from a couch and a table (which were several feet apart, mind you) using only masking tape. I only accomplished making a mess, which is just fine because I had no idea what I set off to accomplish in the first place.

I did get really frustrated, though.

God, that's not funny at all. Oh well.

All the damn inventions I come up with have already been invented/patented.

You want weird patents? Check this out.

This was my idea!!!