Weird story ideas

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We've all had some story ideas that are "out there". Post them here.
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In late 2008/early 2009, I came up with a story where two stoners twist the nipples of random people (about 18, if memory serves) around Seattle. It's kinda based on the serial killer stories, but nobody gets killed.

I had an idea where a writer's evil characters come to life and kidnap him and his good characters have to rescue him.

Exactly what constitutes "weird" is hard to define, but here goes a recent plot bunny: Vikings and Nubians fight each other and then team up together against Greeks.

It's fantasy.

A 20-year old man awakens from a 10-year coma and realizes that what he has experienced since the accident that put him in the coma has all happened inside his head ... until he reads a news story about another 20-year old man in another part of the same country who just fell into a coma. The second man's history over the last 10 years is exactly what the first man remembers from his own coma. This includes both receiving near-fatal head injuries when they were both 10 years old ... on the same day ... at the exact same time ...

It's way in the future, and those google goggle things they've said are gonna come out have become as universal as clothing. You are fitted with one birth, and they are periodically upgraded and resized as you grow. People never interact with each other, and never see the real world. Until, one day, in a secret room where no one can find them, a young boy and his friend decides to take the goggles off and look at each other...

I think this is one of those storylines that pops up all over the place. Whenever I write something, chances are it was astoundingly similar to something I read/saw/heard before, and without realizing it I've copied someone's idea (though I've never seen nor heard of "Outer Limits"). I can never come up with anything "original".

But maybe it's like music--yeah, like a million people have used that chord progression before, and there are scraps of that melody that other people have used in other songs, but it's arranged in a different order, so it's okay.

Or maybe not.

OMG that sounds awesome.

I've probably never heard of it because last time it was on, I was two...

OK, here's my story idea.
There's this website for people with a certain problem that some see as an affliction.
On this website there's a thread for weird story ideas.
A chap posts a one sentence idea, and another chap says OOooooo, I like that.
The first chap flips out.
Then the minders of the website sanitize the thread and make the posts disappear.

The famous author Phillip Jose Farmer said he once came up with a title for a story but could never come up with the story to go with it. Since he has gone to that great writing studio in the sky, I assume the title is up for grabs.

It's "Two Blue Einsteins."

Any ideas ?

A genius-type person with two distinct personalities that are aware of each others' existence (but not each others' thoughts), both of whom are unhappy with the knowledge that they must share the same body with someone else, so they both try to devise ways to excise the other without the other finding out. Of course, being in the same body and living in the same house, each one eventually finds out what the other one's plans are, and thwarts them.

Until one day, a strange woman makes an even stranger offer...

Good stuff.

Thanx! I can come up with a story synopsis in no time, but actually writing the story is difficult.

Good job there, Fnord.

How about this one? I have no idea where it came from. I've tried to come up with a story for it, but I always say 'meh'.

The Ratcatcher Of Crocodopolis.

Didn't bite on that one, eh?

OK. I started one about Ambrose Bierce being brought forward into the 1930's somehow to track down and stop Aleister Crowley from murdering all the archeologists who opened King tut's tomb.
Couldn't crack it.

I thought of a crazy one last night.

Allah goes up to the prophet Muhammad and gives him a mission, travel to the future and slay all the cartoonists who draw him because people aren't supposed to know what he looks like. Muhammad then puts on a mask so the audience gets to see his face (and its cool because they know its a mask).

The story is simple enough, but they way you tell it has to be dead on. You've got Muhammad riding on a flying steed into the future with a bad-ass sabre (heavy metal style) looking for a bunch of cartoonists. Ocassionally he might run into a woman not wearing a hijab, so he'd bean her with a rock from 50 yards away and knock out some of her teeth as a warning.

Then he gets to a cartoonists house, the cartoonist tries to run or plead or something, and Muhammad cuts the guy in two (to a heavy metal soundtrack). Then the cartoonists wife and son come downstairs to see what all the fuss is about, and Muhammad impales the guys kid so he doesn't have a vengful son to worry about, then he consumates his victory with the cartoonist's sexy widow, then takes her to his floating palace (that he gets to on his flying horse) to be a part of his harem.

The rest of the story had Muhammad finding the rest of the cartoonists, and the same thing, slaughter to a rocking soundtrack, take wife to floating harem. I mean it has to get changed up a little bit, but those basic things have to happen.