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There are weird aliens from some planet or other, maybe more than just one, they’re everywhere. They claim they want to take over the Earth. Jerks!
Somehow they expect every human to just leave the planet and they don’t care that we don’t have mass transit between planets yet.
So, what great plan do you come up with to save the day?
There is a huge prize (cash money) for whoever writes the best new anthem for their province or state. Write the lyrics and add music if you like.
You’ve become an internationally famous belly dancer. One day you get an invitation to dance in a small Middle East country you hadn’t even heard of before. Deciding to go, the pay offered was really great and you wouldn’t mind a visit to a new place knowing you will be staying first class all the way.
On the last night of your tour, just as the curtain falls and you begin picking up the veils you dropped in dancing, a man comes backstage and grabs you. He bundles you into a crate, ignoring your struggles.
Where are you when the crate is opened and what happens next?
Write an application for a career, pick something. But, create the application, not as the person filling it in but as the person in human resources who has to come up with the right questions for the applicants to fill out. What unique questions can you come up with? Which questions would really help you pick the right person?
Describe a landscape from a painting or photo. Do you start with the scenery near or from farther away? What kind of description is more interesting, the foreground or the background? Which information tells you more about where you are and how you would need to dress for the climate?
The genie pops out of his bottle and it turns out this one is a bored trickster type. Instead of giving you three wishes he offers to let you put bits of paper into a hat, all things you would like to change about your life. He will randomly pick three things out of the hat and you will get your wishes. But, you have to write at least 10 things you would change about your life. What are your ten?
A baby has been kept in a sound-proof bubble for six months cause surgery was needed to correct a hearing problem. So, until now, the baby has never heard a sound outside it’s Mother’s womb. Today is the day the baby will be able to hear for the first time. What should be the very first word the baby hears?
A relative visits, they are endlessly demanding you serve them food, fetch them stuff and make you feel you are something like an indentured servant. As soon as you do one thing they are giving a list of there more things they need, right now. For the first time you understand the saying about being run off your feet.
How do you get rid of them and dispose of the body?
Weird Aunt Milly gives you an imaginary horse for your birthday. You humour her. But in the morning there is a horse eating your front lawn. Only you are able to see the horse. Everyone you ask just gives you looks, like you’re crazy or playing a trick on them.
Now you know how Aunt Milly picked up the name Weird Aunt Milly.
What does your horse look like? What do you do with it now that you have an invisible horse of your very own?
Lucky you… you’re in the Army now. But you’ve been hired as the new fashion designer. Suddenly they want all the uniforms revamped and given some style. You can pick any colours, no restrictions but they do ask that you remember there has to be at least one uniform they can wear into battle which gives them camouflage. Of course, they don’t mention what or where they need the camouflage? It occurs to you that camouflage would be different things in different places.
Come up with a design for camouflage uniforms which can be worn in the train or subway station, another in the middle of a busy shopping centre and yet another at a bridal or baby shower.