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Posted: 8/21/2014 6:33:05 PM EDT

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:36:08 PM EDT

[#1]

A couple of small ones and one really bad one.

Never bothered me much, although I did borrow a concept from a friend for a short Scifi story and he forgot I asked. He got a little miffed.

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:37:15 PM EDT

[#2]

GOOD QUESTION!

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:37:50 PM EDT

[#3]

oh yeah

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:38:07 PM EDT

[#4]

I've never had an idea

...

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:38:54 PM EDT

[#5]

anothe gd gd delivery

lollergator

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:39:00 PM EDT

[#6]

Napster

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:42:53 PM EDT

[#7]

The wheel

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:44:20 PM EDT

[#8]

The question mark.

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:44:42 PM EDT

[#9]

Nice

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:45:28 PM EDT

[#10]

I once had an idea... And then i promptly forgot it

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:46:20 PM EDT

[#11]

My dad and uncles swear on their lives that my grandad designed the system that coal cars use to dump coal and it was stolen out of his locker at work. My family would have probably been worth a lot had he been able to patent that.

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:46:48 PM EDT

[#12]

This. No shit.

Posted: 8/21/2014 6:57:58 PM EDT

[#13]

I invented squeezable mayonaise.

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:00:38 PM EDT

[#14]

Yup.

Wife and I had a business idea. We foolishly shared it with someone.

Things happened...yada yada yada. Nothing that would have made us bazillionaires, but it would have made us wealthy. Oh well.

Shame on us.

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:02:23 PM EDT

[#15]

Well, apparently this guy I'm working with invented Google. Yes, THE Google.

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:15:48 PM EDT

[#16]

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In the spirit of New Fergustan, I am doing my part to redistribute intellectual capital.

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:17:29 PM EDT

[#17]

When I was a teenager I was smoking marijuanas. Late at night I was lying there and the idea for the greatest Table Top Role Playing Game came to mind. I fleshed out all the races, classes, and basic rules for my d12 game. The moment I went to write it down I forgot.

Stolen by the marijuanas.

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:17:54 PM EDT

[#18]

I invented nip slips.

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:23:45 PM EDT

[#19]

While working a booth at the SHOT Show a few years ago, and watching all of the Tactical Timmys all OAF'd out in their Crye Precision clothes (not that there is something wrong with that, mind you), I came up with a great idea. Find a company that makes Santa Claus beards and get them to make 'Chris Costa Tactical Beards' (TM, MFers) and sell them at show.

Sure enough. Apparently this year someone is making and selling a 'Tactical Beard.'

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:25:12 PM EDT

[#20]

Not sure if I could call them stolen, but I've had a few ideas that showed up years later.

Mistletoe belt buckle. Thought of it at a Christmas party in high school. Five years later Jimmy Kimmel walks onto the Man Show with one.

Digital picture frame. Right after VGA flat-screen computer monitors came out, I was on a road trip with my GF and thought about taking one and putting a wood frame around it and hanging it on the wall. Only problem was I couldn't figure out how to hide the cord.

I'm always coming up with ideas that pop into my head. I tell my wife "million dollar invention" , spit out the details, then promptly forget all about it until I see something similar hit the market years later. I really need to focus better, and apply myself. I'd be retired by now.

Don't you hate it when you realize all your teachers were right? Damn A.D.D. keeps me from staying on a train of thought for more than five minutes at a time.

ETA: one of the most recent ones... I've been telling the wife for years that there should be some type of board game/game show titled "that guy from that show" focusing on all the supporting actors that everyone recognizes but don't know they're name.

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:27:33 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/21/2014 7:33:25 PM EDT

[#22]

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A guy I used to work with invented the internet. He also predicted the Bird Flu.

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:36:20 PM EDT

[#23]

People steal thread ideas often. Most will call the second one a dupe.

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:42:17 PM EDT

[#24]

Posted: 8/21/2014 7:46:10 PM EDT

[#25]

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Ouch! Gotta find some fun tonight, no protestors, no cameras, not even a QuickTrip to loot.

Posted: 8/21/2014 9:27:14 PM EDT

[#26]

I had thought of a custom ford 9"center section based portal axle when I was in auto shop in high school, even had a crude high school kid "blueprint" of it in my notebook for the class. A few years later overkill engineering came up with the design I sort of had and made a bunch of money off of it, they called it the "atomic axle."

Posted: 8/21/2014 9:29:37 PM EDT

[#27]

My idea for an awesome social media site was stolen by a dick bag named mark......

Posted: 8/21/2014 9:36:38 PM EDT

[#28]

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I'm a big fan of your work.

Posted: 8/21/2014 9:43:40 PM EDT

[#29]

I invented the internet. AlGore stole it.

Posted: 8/21/2014 9:59:31 PM EDT

[#30]

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That bastard..

Posted: 8/21/2014 10:02:15 PM EDT

[#31]

I invented 8 Minute Abs.

Then some jackass came along and invented 7 Minute Abs.

Think about it, you walk into a video store and see 8 Minute Abs sitting there.
There's 7 Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick?

Posted: 8/21/2014 10:04:24 PM EDT

[#32]

Posted: 8/21/2014 10:09:51 PM EDT

[#33]

http://i62.tinypic.com/262xlvn.jpg

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