ITT: Original Story Ideas

[axod]

Iy syarts out like a movie that's gonna be set at a resort or some vacation spot, but the opening scene w9n't end. The characters keep remembering things they need to pack or having to go to the bathroom for two hours and never get past the driveway.

I like this. The things they've forgotten can get increasingly strange and surreal.

A growing nostalgia develops between them.  It's difficult to dermine what for; they increasingly feel a sense of having neglected something.  The obstinant absence of this object leads them to further develop obsessive rituals to explore the most extreme range of bizarre interactions possible with the 'increasingly strange and surreal" props.  The attempt to brute-force memory recall is devastating, with terminally degenerative results.

Ha! Sounds like something Cronenberg would have done early in his career. (Ever seen Crimes of the Future?)

I don't think I saw that one - gonna try and check it out in a sec (though I hope it has a better end

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

A young white house aide discovers that he has the ability to switch bodies with anyone he anally penetrates. He uses this ability to persue aggressive reforms, by repeatedly sodomizing congressmen in order to impersonate them (and then sodomizing his own body, which he has left restrained in a white house broom closet, in order to switch back).

Is the abillity bound to the body?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

A young white house aide discovers that he has the ability to switch bodies with anyone he anally penetrates. He uses this ability to persue aggressive reforms, by repeatedly sodomizing congressmen in order to impersonate them (and then sodomizing his own body, which he has left restrained in a white house broom closet, in order to switch back).

Is the abillity bound to the body?

No, the ability is bound to his personality. So, he could switch bodies with Ted Kennedy and then use Ted Kennedy's body to pork Joe Liberman, leaving Ted Kennedy in his body and Joe Liberman in Ted Kennedy's body, and him in Joe Liberman's body. But, that means that he can't get back to his own body in any less than linear time.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

A group of social justice warriors, citing multiculturalism, starts a campaign to protect the rights of religious extremists to express their culture through murder and intimidation.

EDIT:
Another idea:
I've had a vague idea rattling around in my head for a while about a parody of "Dr.Who" featuring a time traveling pickup artist known only as "The Bachelor" who travels through time and space picking up loose women with the aid of his wingman, "THe Associate". (In reference of course to "The Doctor" and "The Master" who are both named after graduate degrees. The parody's time travelers however are undergrads.)

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

The kafkaesque tribulations of a young couple trying to have sex in the dystopian near future where, (due to the gradual expansion of the definition of rape by various special interest groups), every stage of intimacy is accompanied by the filling out and notarization of written consent forms, a drug/alcohol test, production of photo ID for verification of age and identity, and a psychological examination.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Ghosts, formed from the juxtaposition of traumatic deaths and strong dying wishes, live outside the bounds of time but have limited effects on the physical world unless they possess someone. However, possession is difficult, and works best when the ghost is possessing someone similar to themselves (and when the person they are possessing is not lucid). Under these circumstances, a ghost possesses the body of himself in the past while asleep in order to solve the mystery of who murdered him -- and in the course of his investigations, sets up the series of circumstances that led to his murder.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

An allegory for copyright law in which the baker and the fishmonger sue Jesus of Nazareth following the miracle of the feeding of the multitude, demanding payment for the miraculous duplicates of the bread and fish. It ends with both of them burning in hell in the seventh pocket of Malabolgia

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Cats are capable of understanding and speaking in human languages, but avoid doing so because of a deep-seated and long-standing taboo against using the inferior languages of inferior races. A pair of stray cats decide to defy this taboo in order to use their support network to help a small group of anarchists develop a voluntary commune in the middle of new york city, but this breach of conduct is so extreme that these stray cats must fear for their lives, and it is up to the anarchist group to navigate the complex diplomatic web of new york's stray cat culture in order to save these cats from the syndicate hit-cats that have been paid to take them out. In the end, they prove themselves (and thus, humanity) worthy of cat respect, resulting in a series of major cultural shifts that eventually result in cats being able to vote.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Cats are capable of understanding and speaking in human languages, but avoid doing so because of a deep-seated and long-standing taboo against using the inferior languages of inferior races. A pair of stray cats decide to defy this taboo in order to use their support network to help a small group of anarchists develop a voluntary commune in the middle of new york city, but this breach of conduct is so extreme that these stray cats must fear for their lives, and it is up to the anarchist group to navigate the complex diplomatic web of new york's stray cat culture in order to save these cats from the syndicate hit-cats that have been paid to take them out. In the end, they prove themselves (and thus, humanity) worthy of cat respect, resulting in a series of major cultural shifts that eventually result in cats being able to vote.

A+ would read!

[Meunster]

Cats are capable of understanding and speaking in human languages, but avoid doing so because of a deep-seated and long-standing taboo against using the inferior languages of inferior races. A pair of stray cats decide to defy this taboo in order to use their support network to help a small group of anarchists develop a voluntary commune in the middle of new york city, but this breach of conduct is so extreme that these stray cats must fear for their lives, and it is up to the anarchist group to navigate the complex diplomatic web of new york's stray cat culture in order to save these cats from the syndicate hit-cats that have been paid to take them out. In the end, they prove themselves (and thus, humanity) worthy of cat respect, resulting in a series of major cultural shifts that eventually result in cats being able to vote.

Would read, and then would fear about the new furry anarchist fandom.

[minuspace]

A Cationary A.I. Tail [or why I am so absent]

After Pip returns from his local user's Cellar, a GNU module developes strange dependencies that are irreconcilably at odds with legacy OpenCV transparancy standards.  Failure to recognize a way link across different included libraries causes a kernel panic because user's bash shell profile did not reference proper magic cauldron paths:  insisting on the use of serpentine root Frameworks.

Instead of brewing a proper homemade Caffe interface, a monstrous jambalaya results.  Consuming all alabaster versions before it, Babel spreads the tiered legs of pythonic Makefile reserves.  This sucks the Xenon from the sails of Great Expectations, chucking richly at the end Pip's 'built from source' release.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

I've got this half formed idea about a parody of Lord of the Rings about a recent divorcee who goes back to the Hawaiian island where he had his honeymoon to throw his wedding ring into a volcano.

[rong]

am i the only one that wishes there was a book that was basically the content of this thread? 

[LMNO]

So long as you get the permissions, you could do it yourself.

[rong]

that sounds an awful lot like work

is this some kind of trick?