Apr 30, 2008

Stupid Idea of the Day

An imaginary reader writes:

Dear Uncle Steak;
What's the stupidest idea you've come across on the internet all day?
Sincerely, StubbleBoy

Well, StubbleBoy, the stupidest idea I've read about all day would have to be Falindromes which I found through a link on Andrew Sullivan's Blog.

What is a "falindrome"? Well, falindrome.com defines the neologism as "fake palindromes. Although they cannot be read the same forwards and backwards (like their sister palindromes), their peculiar structure make them appear as if they can."

For example: "Ray, eat a ripe pirate tea. YAR!!"

See? You look at it and it has that palindrome "feel," but if you actually examined the sentence, it's clear that it isn't actually a palindrome. Backwards, it reads, "Ray, aet e tarip epira tae. YAR!!"

I know! It's crazy, isn't it!? But that's the wacky world of falindromes for you!

Andrew Sullivan calls falindromes "really fun."

I call falindromes MISSING THE FRAKKING POINT OF PALINDROMES, YOU DUMMY.

Instead of coming up with some falindromes of my own, I thought it would be more fun to come up with ideas that are almost as stupid as falindromes. Here's a couple:

FOSSWORD PUZZLES: Just like a crossword puzzle, except none of the words match the clues. And some of the lines are just filled in with gobbledygook words and random characters.

FUDOKU: Sudoku puzzles filled out to look like you solved them correctly. But if someone looks at it closely, he'll see that you really just used numbers twice in the same lines. Also known as "cheating on a sudoku puzzle."

If you have an idea that is just as stupid as falindromes, add it in the combox.

4 comments:

Internet Peasant said...

Hmm . . . Fword Finds? Fonnect the dots? They don't quite have the same ring, do they?

Kelly said...

ummmm.. how 'bout 'Flexicon'. It could be a book of words that sounded like they were words and their definitions, but they wouldn't actually be words or definitions.

Anonymous said...

Yo Steak!

How about Fonata Form, where the recapitulation happens up a 5th, and the piece doesn't so much have a development section as an 'open vamp' with the bassoon section getting to riff away to their hearts' content?

NAT!

Anonymous said...

How 'bout the FONEBOOK in which you have thousands of random names and thousands of random numbers that look like phone numbers but are not.