Private Pirate Monkey Brainstorming...

[Silverwolfpet]

Originally Posted by fatjoem

I am speaking for myself here, but I can't imagine anyone reading through

your huge list there. It is not funny reading through huge lists, in which at most 1 or 2 items

are really funny. I'd suggest posting only the beast of your ideas.

Okay... I understand your opinion. Brainstorming, for me, means throwing any ideea on the

table, any ideea at all. Stupid ideeas, funny ideeas, serious ideeas as long as they are

related to the subject.
I work with teams, I am a movie director and an actor, I had a rock band, I was involved in

several computer games projects (that sadly never got finished), and currently I am writing a

movie/theatre script. So, I'm "in da business", meaning that I have had plenty of brainstorming

sessions with my friends/team parteners.
It is true that we never made lists, such as the one I just posted, but if we would've written

down every ideea, the result would be very simmilar in "hugeness". Maybe someone will use a

stupid/not-funny ideea of mine and use it better, change it and get a final result with much

more "Monkey Island-ness" in it.
That being said, I have picked the ones I allready posted and consider to be funny. In return,

I'd wish to get a feedback from you and tell me if you like them
Thanks!

Books:
“Acupuncture OR How to poke someone for fun and profit”
“Voodoo Princess: Poke-a-lot Barbie”
“Voodoo Lady Biography: I am NOT Whoopi Goldberg”
“A needle in your butt, better than a sharp stick in the eye”
“TTG: The story of the Tall Talking Gorillas”
“The Lord of the Strings” by Edward Van Helgen
“Her hand in marriage: The Graveyard Robber”
“Voodoo Zen: It hurts to think about”
“There and back again…and again…and again” by LeChuck
“Learning from parents’ mistakes: Birth Control”
“Porcelain: Origins”
“I know something you don’t know” by Ron Gilbert
“Schizophrenia and me, and me, and me”
Voodoo Therapy: Tell me about your mother
Flying Welshman Briography: I CAN'T Actually Fly
The Toothrot Code
The Totthrot Code Broken: We've Found his Pants
I Ate my Voodoo Doll: Medical Cases
Stan: Hysteria - Case Study
Murray: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Case Study
Sigmund Freud on Voodoo: I Got High
Voodoo in da Hoodoo: Talking to your Teenage Kid
Zombies: She Wrote
Beyond the Grave: Coorporative Chances by Stan
Water. It's Everywhere. Get Used to It.
Murphy's Laws G: Rule no. 108 - "LeChuck will ALWAYS come back!"
Lemonhead: Schizophrenia - A case Study
Goodsoup: Egocentrism and Food - A case Study
"You're Right, Dear": Handling a Marriage, For Men
Financial Voodoo: Be a Prophet, Make a Profit

Winds:

The Wind that Wanted To Be a Real Boy
The Wind that Couldn’t Care Less
The Wind that Has a Drinking Problem
The Wind that Didn’t Feel Like a Brother to Pocahontas
The Wind that Broke my Marriage
The Wind that Thinks He’s Funny but He’s Not
The Wind that his Own Mother Didn’t Recognize
The Little Wind that Could
The Wind that Had a Neurotic Breakdown
The Wind that Cleans Up Behind the Fridge Too
The Wind that Stood Still Just to Annoy Us
Barney the Wind
The Wind that Borrowed my Roof and Never Returned It
The Wind that Got High
The Wind that Though it Was Really Funny to Steal My Wife


Pirate Name Remains:
Captain Silverwolf Pet OR Captain P. Silverwolf

[Gryffalio]

I think Wolfy has some pretty good ones, actually.
I cut out about half of my brainstorms, but who knows? Maybe that's one of the ones that would have made the dev team laugh

[AndyBundy]

Originally Posted by Silverwolfpet

Books:
“Voodoo Lady Biography: I am NOT Whoopi Goldberg”
“Learning from parents’ mistakes: Birth Control”
“Schizophrenia and me, and me, and me”
I Ate my Voodoo Doll: Medical Cases
Voodoo in da Hoodoo: Talking to your Teenage Kid
Financial Voodoo: Be a Prophet, Make a Profit

Those are the booktitles I'd like to prefer. In case of Guybrush and Elaine ever having children, the Birth Control book and the Voodoo in da Hoodoo would be very useful. Especially the last one if you wanna get what your kids are saying.

I already wrote some book titles and descriptions for each. That's what I'm missing in those lists. You know you can write any title, but only the explanation makes it really funny in the end. Some write too obvious book titles where only a good description could make it out... and even then it's not that funny. How many 101 Voodoo books did we already have? 7? 8? And how many had a description? 1... maybe 2?

For the windy thingy: I'm not into that, so I don't even try that.^^

[xfinitex]

"Voodoo vs Vodun: How to confuse people with etymology"
"150 hoodoo recipes to cook with rum"
"Baba Yaga's big book of moving your magical hut around."

The wind that carries a faint hint of dog breath
The wind that comes off a windlass (ha!)
The wind of a turned page.
My first Wind: A cautionary tale
The wind that comes off of flailing away at guitar strings until they break.


Pirate Name:
Aloysius von Fidget-tooth

[Kohlstream]

Book:
So, You Became A Zombie: An Un-dead Survival Guide by Dead Derrick. Guybrush comments "There only seems to be one page that has words...and it says '4. Itchy. Tasty.' "

Wind:
The Wind that Missed the Mill

[CaliMonk]

"What would Voo Doo?"
"Hexpacular"
"Cauldron Chronicles"

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by fatjoem

I am speaking for myself here, but I can't imagine anyone reading through your huge list there. It is not funny reading through huge lists, in which at most 1 or 2 items are really funny. I'd suggest posting only the beast of your ideas.

Even though it wasn't posted towards myself, I'll post a short defense of huge posts anyway. As far as myself, and huge lists, I don't generally know WHAT IS or ISN'T the best of my ideas. So I post all of them. I do go back later through my posts and edit out the ones that I find to be enormously silly, but the ones that still make me chuckle or smile I can't help but leave in. (I'm easier or harder to make laugh than most though).

EDIT: Maybe looking through ideas and posting the best out of them isn't a bad idea though.

[fatjoem]

I didn't mean to attack anyone. I just mean, I skip the huge lists, and just read the short lists. It isn't intentional, it just comes naturally to skip the large ones. Maybe I am the only one, who reads like this.

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by fatjoem

I didn't mean to attack anyone. I just mean, I skip the huge lists, and just read the short lists. It isn't intentional, it just comes naturally to skip the large ones. Maybe I am the only one, who reads like this.

What? No no. I didn't take it like that. I actually wondered if long lists were a good idea when I started. But for people with a lot of ideas, it just comes naturally to make large lists.

[Silverwolfpet]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

What? No no. I didn't take it like that. I actually wondered if long lists were a good idea when I started. But for people with a lot of ideas, it just comes naturally to make large lists.

Yep, it comes naturally for me as well. But I figured that he's right and we should filter the Bestest-Best ones just for the sake of it, and just in case the TTG Team doesn't have the time to check them all.
By the way, how DO you manage to come up with so many wind names? :-)) I find them most difficult, and bizzare as a task.

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by Silverwolfpet

Yep, it comes naturally for me as well. But I figured that he's right and we should filter the Bestest-Best ones just for the sake of it, and just in case the TTG Team doesn't have the time to check them all.
By the way, how DO you manage to come up with so many wind names? :-)) I find them most difficult, and bizzare as a task.

Well, for me books are way harder to think of. So I just decided in the end to stick with winds. It's easy to say The Wind That - Blah Blah Blah. The trick is making it funny. I made huge lists basically to experiment with wind names, but then to go back and get rid of the ones that made no sense, or weren't funny.
But making them for me is an easy task. And a fun one. Right now I'm trying to lower my list to around twenty-five of the funniest ones. But it's hard as I like most of them a lot.

[Lena_P]

Originally Posted by Pantagruel's Friend

... and all the letters between the ""s are only the initials, I assume

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6nlrERIDDE

[AndyBundy]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

Well, for me books are way harder to think of.

haha and I just create book titles and their descriptions. It's somewhat more fun to think of something voodoo-ish. I write up some titles and then think of nice descriptions. While writing I delete some of the titles again because some were not that pretty. I read the descriptions over and over again. If I can still laugh innerly it's good, if not... red button and *BOOOOM* the library ship is sinking.

[Gryffalio]

The wind so putrid that it made Blackbeard scream in terror and hide under the bed
The wind that ruined my hair
The wind that ruined the paintwork on my lovely pink ship
The wind that ran away with the milkman
The wind that lulls you into a false sense of security until you're climbing the crows nest
The wind that's lactose intolerant
The wind that collapsed my treehouse... I mean... evil fort of terror!
The wind that sonicbooms innocent bystanders at random
The wind that sounds like a constipated owl
The wind that whistles like an incredibly guilty person acting nonchalantly
The wind that climbs every mountain, floats through the fields, twists through the town, and is scared of water.
The wind that wafts past every wagon and winds through every wetland, until it whatsits in the willow-trees.

[AndyBundy]

Very black humor is on the way and here it comes:
"Handsome Ransom" - How to get more pieces o' eight out of your slaves and other goods.

[tektikkir]

1 (books) - How to create a zombie horde. And survive it!
- Complete guide to all things voodoo, mambo, jambo and cha-cha-cha;
- The zombie inside you: learn how to cook brain deserts;
- Black magic with health: learn how to use low-fat and cholesterol-free ingredients in your everyday voodoo!
- Interview with the voodoo lady - unrated!
- 1001 voodoo spells you must cast before you die


2 (wind) - The wind that has nothing to say
- the wind that has nothing to blew
- the wind that is no wind

3 (Pirate name): Lemón Tricabecerée

[RockNRoll]

"A Million Little Curses"

[RockNRoll]

"How To Hex Friends and Possess People"

[MintyMcGinty]

Books:
Horton Hears a Dead Man
Pride and Prejudice of Zombies (actual book so it probably won't do)

Wind:
The Wind that Broke the Monkey's Back
The Wind that Shakes the Monkey
The Wind that References Meta-cultural Humor

Pirate Name:
Minty McGinty

[RockNRoll]

"Memoirs of a Shaman"

"Yellow Specimens" by I.P. Freeley

"If I Did It" by Miss Cleo