Steal My Ideas, Please What good do ideas do gathering dust in a drawer, bogarting electron holes on a disk? No good. So might as well share them. Maybe they can do you some good. Not asking anything in return. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516 2006-06-24T21:34:56Z Blogger
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 true Peter Mucha 2006-06-24T17:07:00-04:00 2006-06-24T21:11:16Z 2006-06-24T21:11:16Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-115118347648980090 Friday Night Philosophy Fights Two-person TV show. No, two-person showdown. Total knockdown debating, intellectually at a very high level, but "fighters" wear boxing gloves and dance around a ring, landing verbal jabs. It’s a play, it’s philosophy! Every week a new profound, always relevant topic. Could be a play, actually. false Peter Mucha 2006-06-24T17:07:00-04:00 2006-06-24T21:34:54Z 2006-06-24T21:34:54Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-115118489433764215 Reality TV Show Idea: Reverse Survivor How do people react when they have everything? false Peter Mucha 2006-06-22T21:14:00-04:00 2006-06-23T01:56:10Z 2006-06-23T01:41:57Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-115102691775255982 The Great Philadelphia Crime Tour Yo, this also works in Chicago, New York, Miami and other cities. Anyplace with a rich legacy of dastardly illegalities. Forget those namby-pamby horsebleep-and-buggy rides. Instead, get into a long black limo that's riddled with bullet holes. In fact, your guide, Vinnie "Oyster Crackers" Badabing, will grunt, as he waves his tommygun, "Youse'll get in if youse knows what's good for youse." He'll false Peter Mucha 2006-06-16T23:21:00-04:00 2006-06-17T03:26:32Z 2006-06-17T03:26:32Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-115051479280001133 Make Political Ads Admit Side-Effects "Vote for Me! My ugly opponent's pro-death and he wants to raise everybody's taxes! This ad, brought to you by the Committee to Re-Elect Joe Jerkweed at Any Cost, not only just wasted $20,000 that could have gone for several children's health-care premiums, but it may cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, gullibility, insensitivity, and major regret. Use only as directed by a mental health false Peter Mucha 2006-06-13T19:55:00-04:00 2006-06-14T00:06:37Z 2006-06-14T00:06:37Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-115024359707668173 Pop Culture Talk Radio Station There's sports talk. Opinionated political talk. Even shows all about money. But why not TV-movie-music-media-Web-celebrities-and-maybe-also-a-little sports-and-sex talk? Key to good talk radio is having two lively hosts who often disagree (a la WIP in Philly), and who can juggle several hot topics at once, to hook a wide audience. Keep the whiny politics out of it, unless major news intrudes. Or false Peter Mucha 2006-06-12T21:44:00-04:00 2006-06-13T02:09:57Z 2006-06-13T02:01:14Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-115016407401990952 Garfield's One-Liners for Your Catbox This would be a popular product. Sure, people license cartoon characters for T-shirts and games and underwear. Fun stuff. But aren't laughs even more needed during disgusting chores, like changing a catbox? Look forward to this every week at my house! Anyway, people love Garfield, people love cats, people love jokes, so market some catbox liners with cartoons and jokes and call them: Garfield's false Peter Mucha 2006-06-11T21:32:00-04:00 2006-06-12T01:41:22Z 2006-06-12T01:34:56Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-115007609677295677 Bumper Sticker: This Mind Intentionally Left Blank Saw a page marked "This page intentionally left blank" in a brochure, and thought of the Zen-like message "This mind intentionally left blank." Thought it might make a good bumper sticker. A Web search, of course, reveals it's been whispered into the empty minds of other souls as well. false Peter Mucha 2006-06-11T13:15:00-04:00 2006-06-11T17:20:14Z 2006-06-11T17:20:14Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-115004641463843503 Heretical Baseball Idea: Two Strikes, Three Balls Baseball's too slow for me. Make two strikes a strikeout, three balls a walk. That'll force pitchers to throw strikes and batters to swing. Could shorten the game, create more tense full counts, and lengthen pitcher's careers. false Peter Mucha 2006-06-11T13:15:00-04:00 2006-06-11T17:35:04Z 2006-06-11T17:35:03Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-115004730348993492 Profitable Baseball Idea: Coaches Wear Knit Shirts Seeing some old guy waddle to the mound in striped flannel pajamas is pretty ridiculous. And a majorly missed marketing opportunity. Put coaches in knit or other casual shirts with team logos, and fans might buy more. (You can pretty much buy anything with a team logo these days.) Theory was you needed a uniform to walk onto the field. (a) Who says? (b) In these days of electronics, why let them false Peter Mucha 2006-06-09T22:40:00-04:00 2006-06-10T02:49:08Z 2006-06-10T02:44:22Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114990746298474312 You Know It's Coming: Baby People Magazine If celeb baby news is beaucoup bucks (People mag paid millions for pics of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's newbie, Shiloh), well, celebrity baby publishing is bound to become its own industry. People begat Teen People, so why not Baby People? Babies are people, too, after all. And plenty of advertisers are out to Pamper the world. So to speak. false Peter Mucha 2006-06-07T22:58:00-04:00 2006-06-08T03:18:54Z 2006-06-08T03:18:54Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114973673456781160 The Dodge City: The Ultimate Urban Car OK, I'm doubting Chrysler going to call, and pay me for this great idea. But, honestly, as anyone who's driven in a city knows, it'd be great to see a car revamped just for cities. It should have ... bulletproof glass ... a removable glovebox you can carry away ... a removable ignition you can cart off in the removable glovebox ... wheels that turn 90 degrees for sideways parking into teeny spaces false Peter Mucha 2006-06-05T22:38:00-04:00 2006-06-06T03:04:10Z 2006-06-06T03:04:10Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114956305051882327 'Get Rich Quick!' Reality TV Show Contestants compete at tapping the power of TV to turn great ideas into fortunes. Starting with a bankroll of, say, $25,000 each, they have to buy, sell, invent, promote, invest, beg and otherwise scheme their way into making $1 million free and clear. Gonna take some real imagination, like those people who rented forehead space to advertisers via eBay. Or that guy who traded up, starting with a false Peter Mucha 2006-05-30T22:01:00-04:00 2006-05-31T02:02:07Z 2006-05-31T02:02:07Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114904092794765257 Girls Scouts Should Sell Doggie Treats, Too Arf! false Peter Mucha 2006-05-30T22:01:00-04:00 2006-05-31T02:21:26Z 2006-05-31T02:21:26Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114904208610945317 Turn Sampled Laughs Into a Song Here's an idea I'll probably never do. But it's one that has long intrigued me. Some people have amazing laughs. Shrill. Staccato. Lilts. Snorts. Wouldn't it be cool to sample great laughs and compile them into a song? Hey, email me a clip of a wild laugh from your family or office, and I'll start a collection here, so someone can turn them into a song. false Peter Mucha 2006-05-30T21:27:00-04:00 2006-05-31T01:31:00Z 2006-05-31T01:31:00Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114903906092817321 Measure Pig-Out Cholesterol Seriously. Think about it. Does it makes sense to measure cholesterol after you've fasted? OK, sure, gotta establish a baseline, see how high it always is. But think. Some people with high cholesterol never have heart attacks, while some with low cholesterol do. Uh, could it be because some low-baseline people chomp on Dorito and, kablooey, LDLs through the roof, while some high-baseline folks, false Peter Mucha 2006-04-24T20:09:00-04:00 2006-04-25T00:13:03Z 2006-04-25T00:13:03Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114592398353848337 Geezers Vs. Whippersnappers Think an old person could be on Apprentice? Hah! But lots of people start new careers in middle-age. So how about a challenge? The Geezer Throwdown. Team of aging characters against a young, buff, cocky crew. For the right to form a new business and get it bankrolled. false Peter Mucha 2006-04-14T20:58:00-04:00 2006-04-15T01:37:38Z 2006-04-15T01:11:48Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114506350853894035 Discount Patents for Kids I have a dream. I go to schools, conduct creativity workshops. Help kids learn to invent. As individuals, or as a group, they keep all the rights. And hopes. Wouldn't it be great, as part of this dream, if poor kids could get patents for free? America's slipping, some say. People worry about future generations, what they might be able to achieve. Imagine the ripples on a school, a town, even a false Peter Mucha 2006-04-14T20:57:00-04:00 2006-04-15T01:01:07Z 2006-04-15T01:01:06Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114506286699074133 One Reason We Go Crazy ... ... is that we're taught to be of one mind. I mean, don't we always have multiple reactions? Self-interest says, Darn, I'm disappointed, I wanted that job. Some higher side, your heart says, I'm happy that my friend got it. Everything is a mixed blessing, someone said. I think it was Gay Talese. Life's full of paradoxes. Why fight it? Negative capability. This way lies creativity. false Peter Mucha 2006-03-29T23:39:00-05:00 2006-03-30T04:52:00Z 2006-03-30T04:51:59Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114369431998705757 National Total-Tax-Refund Lottery New line item on federal income-tax returns: Number of $1 chances you'd like to buy to have all of your income taxes refunded. Bet 50 million people would buy at least a single chance. You'd keep drawing tickets till half the pot is awarded. Profit for feds: $25 million or more. Earmark for a worthy cause, like cancer research. Maybe have secondary prizes like a year's free postage. OK, we'd all false Peter Mucha 2006-03-27T23:47:00-05:00 2006-03-28T04:53:00Z 2006-03-28T04:53:00Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114352158064294973 Lottery Ticket Subscriptions Here's my nightmare: I'll buy a winning lottery ticket but forget to ever check it. Here's my solution: Lottery ticket subscriptions. It's like having season tickets to a sporting event. Every game, or every so often, you get the same numbers. If they ever hit, this computerized system automatically contacts you. No waiting in line, can't lose if you win, good fortune waits in the wings. Bet a false Peter Mucha 2006-03-27T16:14:00-05:00 2006-03-27T21:28:45Z 2006-03-27T21:22:04Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114349452473172121 Marshmallow Duckies for Hot Chocolate Gotta love Peeps, those marshmallow chicks and bunnies from Just Born. Assorted permutations appear for various holidays: ghosts, pumpkins, hearts, snowmen and Christmas trees. But departing from the holiday idea, how about this: Hot chocolate duckies! Instead of regular marshmallows, you float cute little creatures. Ducks are archetypal floaters, but swans and whales and octopi are also possible. false Peter Mucha 2006-03-25T11:43:00-05:00 2006-03-25T16:55:32Z 2006-03-25T16:55:31Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114330573123047775 Home Schooling for Grownups Lots of American adults need more education. Could a kind of home schooling be an answer? Grants or government funding could set up a service or registry that would help students form groups taught by volunteers or family members. Perhaps parents who home-school high schoolers could invite an adult or two into their sessions, maybe even get some kind of grant or free materials in return. false Peter Mucha 2006-03-22T20:23:00-05:00 2006-03-23T01:23:51Z 2006-03-23T01:23:51Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114307703169992921 I Put Grapes in My Tea Hot grapes, mmm. Try it. false Peter Mucha 2006-03-22T20:08:00-05:00 2006-03-23T01:22:07Z 2006-03-23T01:22:07Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114307692708901465 Teaching True Science Elementary schools don't really teach science, which is a system of thinking, not a set of facts. Suppose, for example, in kindergarten, a running endeavor is to list observations about water: It's wet. It's sticky. It freezes. It flows. Ice floats. Snow has little crystals. Steam is hot. It forms drops. It splashes. Fog is water. Rain is water. We need it to live. And so on. Don't tell. Let the false Peter Mucha 2006-03-22T19:51:00-05:00 2006-03-23T01:08:27Z 2006-03-23T00:53:22Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114307520233715339 Short "Break Size" Cigarettes That Pack Sideways Gasp. I can't believe I'm posting this idea, since it could encourage smoking. But (a) I'd be surprised if it hasn't been thought of already, and (b) if not, it might actually reduce smoking or some of the risks. Simple thought: Instead of cancer sticks as long as a pack's longest dimension, make them only as long as the width. (So they fit sideways, not lengthwise.) Advantages: Instead of 20, false Peter Mucha 2006-03-05T22:16:00-05:00 2006-03-28T04:54:57Z 2006-03-06T03:51:57Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114161711703610759 Charitable Tax Deduction Swaps Could charities parlay tax breaks into bigger donations? Scenario: Generous Jill is in a 15 percent tax bracket. If she donates $1,000 directly to her favorite charity, she saves $150 on her taxes, right? But say the charity is also supported by Benefactor Bob, who is in a 30 percent bracket. He could give the charity even more without costing either of them an extra penny. Here's how: She relays false Peter Mucha 2006-03-03T19:46:00-05:00 2006-03-23T00:48:35Z 2006-03-04T01:25:02Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114143550279900427 TV Show: 'You Catch It, You Keep It!' Big opening: Bills are dumped off a high roof. Out of the crowd below, the two or three couples who snatch the most cash (without stealing or injuring anyone) become contestants on You Catch It, You Keep It! Each round has any kind of test that fits the title. That opens the door to all sorts of wild stunts. To win a new Infiniti, you have to catch keys dropped from a helicopter ... or catch a false Peter Mucha 2006-03-03T19:23:00-05:00 2006-03-04T00:37:44Z 2006-03-04T00:37:44Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114143266455825114 FREE MONEY?! Sell Ads on $1 Bill Imagine if our currency had a little "Brought to you by" section. Sell enough sponsorships, and voila, free money! Blasphemous! Sacrilegous! Tacky! you say. But this could be an ideal form of welfare. Free money for the poor, at no cost to taxpayers. Couldn't possibly raise a dollar per dollar-bill? OK, how ads on coins. Surely on pennies, the Treasury could turn a profit. And you could, too, if false Peter Mucha 2006-02-28T16:32:00-05:00 2006-02-28T22:03:59Z 2006-02-28T22:03:59Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114116423956767711 'Know News': So That Explains It! Imagine every day your newspaper had on its front page a little box labeled "Know News." In that box, you'd find a single timely word, term or name with a simple definition. Could be old: Arraignment. Concerto. Insurgency. Or relatively new: Stem cells. Keylogging. Podcast. Finish with a quick teaser or page number to a story that uses the term. The aim is to create a more educated audience -- false Peter Mucha 2006-02-27T22:39:00-05:00 2006-03-01T20:25:15Z 2006-02-28T04:07:12Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114109963293821880 Lighter-Than-Air Snacks Ever notice how bags of chips or popcorn or cheese curls resemble puffy balloons and weigh almost nothing? Why not take that concept a step or two further? Fill bags with helium for a truly "light" snack. Better yet, figure out how to make snacks that float in mid-air. Maybe whip helium into the mix to trap the lighter-than-air gas in cheesy bubble chambers. Pop a few Hee-Lee-Yums in your mouth false Peter Mucha 2006-02-27T22:39:00-05:00 2006-02-28T03:39:47Z 2006-02-28T03:39:47Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114109798738158114 The Positive Police They give out tickets -- lottery tickets? -- for good deeds. false Peter Mucha 2006-02-25T00:31:00-05:00 2006-02-25T05:51:20Z 2006-02-25T05:51:20Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114084668056993907 Comic Strips: The TV Show Present a weekly whirlwind tour of all sorts of newspaper cartoons, from both comics and editorial pages. Shows inspired by a single strip pull a narrow audience. But delivering a variety of toons at a rapid-fire rate could appeal to almost everybody, young and old alike, in an easy, breezy, short-attention-span kind of way. DO NOT HAVE HUMAN HOSTS! Argh! Nothing worse than yakety yak about false Peter Mucha 2006-02-25T00:11:00-05:00 2006-02-25T05:24:19Z 2006-02-25T05:24:19Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114084505956230833 Return to Sender Stamps: No More Junk Mail! Junk mail drives me crazy! Don't you wish there was a way to stop it from coming? Best would be a National Do Not Send Unsolicited Mail List. But, failing that, how about a Return to Sender Stamp? You slap one on an unwanted envelope not only to have it sent back, but to deliver your instructions about future mailings. A checklist like the one above might do the trick. Of course, we'd need some false Peter Mucha 2006-02-22T23:15:00-05:00 2006-02-23T04:41:44Z 2006-02-23T04:41:44Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114066970449080672 Drawstring Desalinization Devices Going to have to post a drawing soon, but until then a description will have to do. Imagine a dome made of a clear semi-flexible plastic. Now curl the bottom edges inside to create an inner trough. If you floated this plastic hemi-bubble on a body of water out in the sun, evaporation and condensation would sooner or later fill the trough with pure water. Could a device like this be low-tech false Peter Mucha 2006-02-22T23:03:00-05:00 2006-02-23T04:14:53Z 2006-02-23T04:14:53Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114066809398607875 Double Google, or Yahoo Times Two Dear Yahoogle: I wish I could search for two things at once, so I could see at a glance which term shows up more often. Or just find something faster. Say I'm not sure if the country is Furkino Baso or Burkina Faso. I plug one into Google A, the other into Google B. Boom, there I see the results side-by-side: Gotta be B, because, look, Furkina Baso shows up only 10 times. (That many??) Not only false Peter Mucha 2006-02-19T00:25:00-05:00 2006-02-19T06:03:53Z 2006-02-19T06:03:53Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114032903387116366 Negatrends: Reasons to Fear for the Future OK, this is basically a packaging concept based on a pun. Megatrends was a fascinating bestseller that forecast the future and spawned a set of sequels. Being more of a pessimist than is healthy (and always a prankster), I thought: Why not Negatrends, a gathering of gloom-and-doom scenarios into one book? Global warming. Emergent diseases. The death of privacy. Asteroid disaster. Religious false Peter Mucha 2006-02-18T00:35:00-05:00 2006-02-18T05:56:32Z 2006-02-18T05:56:32Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114024219277314371 Radically Rethinking the Golf Course Par 3. Par 4. Par 5. Hmm. There are other options. Wouldn't it be cool to have a golf course where you tee off from a mountain and watch the ball soar and bounce and bounce toward the hole a mile away? You hop in your Jeep and zoom after it. Maybe the hole's par 19. But the next hole is just 11 feet long, par 1. No way to get a birdie on that baby. Most radical of all: The totally tree-obstructed false Peter Mucha 2006-02-17T20:26:00-05:00 2006-02-18T02:47:11Z 2006-02-18T02:47:11Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114023083140298534 Novel Thoughts About Calling 'Dibs' Are some ideas ruined by being publicized? That's a worry of mine. Take ideas for novels or movies. Here's one idea: a futuristic geo-political legal thriller in which the world sues America for -- take your pick -- military adventures, resource monopolizing, global warming, bad taste, government destabilization, dastardly business practices, or all of the above. There, the cat's out of the bag. false Peter Mucha 2006-02-15T19:58:00-05:00 2006-02-16T01:15:15Z 2006-02-16T01:04:34Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114005187445431274 New Reality Show: Beer Factor Hic. How wry I am. Anybody could brew a batch of wild possibilities. In fact, each episode could be a takeoff on some other reality show. Extreme Makeover: Beer Edition. Survivor: Beer Island. Beer Apprentice. Beer Swap. Weakest Clink. Who Wants to Chug Like a Millionaire. America's Top Beer-Ad Model. Or maybe this whole premise should be the situation for a sitcom. Hmm, think there might be a false Peter Mucha 2006-02-15T19:28:00-05:00 2006-02-16T00:54:17Z 2006-02-16T00:54:17Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114005125785755878 Fight Asteroid With Asteroid In the movie Armageddon, Bruce Willis saves the world by planting a nuke on an Earthbound asteroid. Such a strategy is unlikely to work, however, because asteroids are aggregates of rubble whose bits would absorb the blast, a report concluded a few years ago. Hmm. How about this idea: Don't wait until it's almost too late. Consider a Flash Gordon pie-in-the-sky possibility. Capture our own false Peter Mucha 2006-02-15T19:28:00-05:00 2006-02-16T00:56:48Z 2006-02-16T00:36:06Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-114005016645706647 The Big Toe-Tappable Computer Keyboard Remember the movie Big starring Tom Hanks? In it, he hops on a giant musical keyboard, stomping out a tune. Typing on a regular keyboard may exercise the brain, but it can almost atrophy the body. So why not have a workout workstation, where the keys are clicked with your feet? Depending on the design, you'd reach to push them -- or you'd have to hop all over the place. You wouldn't and couldn't false Peter Mucha 2006-02-13T17:03:00-05:00 2006-02-13T22:20:33Z 2006-02-13T22:20:33Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-113986923315513157 Mobile 'Millionaire' Back when the ratings of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? were falling, I offered an explanation and a solution in a newspaper article. Diagnosis (besides overexposure and foolishly butting heads with other strong shows): Viewers like to think they could win. Questions seemed fairly easy (making it fun to watch with your kids), and the process seemed open to anyone (just call up and take a quiz). false Peter Mucha 2006-02-12T03:50:00-05:00 2006-02-12T05:56:30Z 2006-02-05T04:32:14Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-113911393420104618 Flaps: Handier Than Wraps We've all seen wraps, those round tortilla-like flatbreads handy for holding all sorts of tasty ingredients. But they're often so oversized, the carbs and calories add up. Got me to thinking: How about making them smaller, just big enough to fold over a veggie burger, or sideways over a hot dog? Call 'em Flaps instead of wraps. Should be cheap. And much easier to fit inside that brown bag you take false Peter Mucha 2006-02-12T03:45:00-05:00 2006-02-12T05:47:17Z 2006-02-05T04:29:23Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-113911376342381732 Don't-Shake-a-Baby PSAs Saw another case where a baby supposedly died from being shaken. Maybe it would save lives to do public-service ads on TV and radio stating what seems so obvious: Hey, never shake a baby, because you could kill it. But the obvious often fails to register. Witness Britney Spears driving with her baby in her lap. And while we're at it, add a mention that, oh, put a baby on its back, not on its false Peter Mucha 2006-02-12T00:19:00-05:00 2006-02-12T05:50:23Z 2006-02-12T05:24:36Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-113972187656291431 The Amazing Red Cube Maze Coincidence Speaking of others having ideas first, I once got obsessed with an insight about mazes: The reason most are so boring is that you can see the start and end at the same time. What if ... you had to flip the maze? Or if it was on the six sides of a cube? I built such a cube maze. Each face was a grid 12 spaces across and 12 up and down. Painted it red. A few weeks later, in a toy store, saw a dead false Peter Mucha 2006-02-11T23:51:00-05:00 2006-02-12T05:17:23Z 2006-02-12T05:06:51Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21650516.post-113972081164160612 Thesaurusapedia Or would it be a Wikisaurus? Ever use a Roget's thesaurus? It's fine if you want fine language and literary reference. Look up enormous and you'll find colossal, immense and Brobdinagian. But you'll find few fun, pop culture options, no gigundo, no Burger King ginormous. It'd be great if folks could add their own suggestions, a la Wikipedia. Even mention metaphors. A metaphorapedia? How big was false