quote:Originally posted by The Genuine: Anyone know where I can get a Hatrack-themed t-shirt?
So... what would a Hatrack t-shirt look like? Would it include Hatrack memes like "It doesn't do anything -- that's the beauty of it!" Would it have "So*" on the front or "dude cool peek-a-boo" with a Mountain Dew logo under it?
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I would like a shirt with a reproduction of the image in the banner. Back when I joined, it was a bigger image, which is now cut off by the oval. It's Taleswapper and Alvin, IIRC. I remember it came up elsewhere, and Hatrack can't sell prints or anything, because, I think, they don't have the rights. But I still think a shirt with that image would be muy cool.
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I was surprised that this forum's store didn't offer them. Perhaps OSC can set something up through Cafepress if he doesn't want to go through the trouble himself?
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I don't think CafePress is shoddy, but I agree that it wouldn't be the best choice for that type of thing.
I rather like designing t-shirts though. If anyone has an idea they'd like me to make, I'll try my hand. If there's a specific image you'd like me to use, shoot me an email.
I'm going to try to make a "It doesn't DO anything..." shirt to start.
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quote:Originally posted by Juxtapose: I don't think CafePress is shoddy, but I agree that it wouldn't be the best choice for that type of thing.
I rather like designing t-shirts though. If anyone has an idea they'd like me to make, I'll try my hand. If there's a specific image you'd like me to use, shoot me an email.
I'm going to try to make a "It doesn't DO anything..." shirt to start.
Get permission before you use the name "Hatrack River." As I recall, it was preferred that you not.
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I bought my wife a CafePress shirt once. Within one washing, it was peeling. Within four months or so, it was unwearable. Shoddy, I say!
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quote:Originally posted by Juxtapose: I don't think CafePress is shoddy, but I agree that it wouldn't be the best choice for that type of thing.
I rather like designing t-shirts though. If anyone has an idea they'd like me to make, I'll try my hand. If there's a specific image you'd like me to use, shoot me an email.
I'm going to try to make a "It doesn't DO anything..." shirt to start.
Get permission before you use the name "Hatrack River." As I recall, it was preferred that you not.
Using the quote without mentioning Hatrack would be okay, though, right? I mean, if we're going for super-secret inside jokes, would we really need to say whence they come? Posts: 3932 | Registered: Sep 1999
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I don't believe "It doesn't DO anything . . ." is intellectual property of the Cards, anyway.
(Although it could be argued . . . if you can demonstrate that the meme began here, which some of us suspected it did. But I'm sure inside jokes would be just fine.)
Not that I'm anybody to be making pronouncements. I'm only doing so until someone else comes along.
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No, we aren't the only forum, but I think we were the infection point for the rest of the internet. Back when the thread was first made, a google search turned up virtually nothing. Now the meme is everywhere, and at least one write-up mentions a starting date for the meme that is after the date the thread was started.
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quote:Originally posted by Shigosei: No, we aren't the only forum, but I think we were the infection point for the rest of the internet. Back when the thread was first made, a google search turned up virtually nothing. Now the meme is everywhere, and at least one write-up mentions a starting date for the meme that is after the date the thread was started.
Interesting. I had heard people express the idea that it started on Hatrack, but I'd thought at the time that they were joking around.
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I have a "Kiss me, I'm a jatraquera" t-shirt, but I'd be willing to get another one, if someone organizes this.
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I believe OSC has explained that he does not own the rights to make t-shirts bearing the tree logo.
There might be ways to legally make shirts with "Hatrack River" without permission, but I wouldn't assist in that endeavor or buy any such shirts made without OSC's blessing.
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It means "thank you for more or less restating my posts, without, you know, acknowledging them"? Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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quote:Originally posted by brojack17: The shirt should say something about being real.
I like my "KamaCon: Prove Your Existence" shirt. It was one that survived the great T-shirt purge of '08.
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I've purchased two shirts from cafe press, and I don't have problems with either of them. They wash just fine and the image doesn't fade or peel.
The shirt is of my own design, it's a simple black and white picture of Jesus crucified and a Roman Centurion stabbing him in the side with a spear, and the text "Jesus Christ is in Valhalla." So maybe the secret to getting quality shirts is blasphemy?
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Hmm . . . the one I bought says "Grammar is for Lovers," so would that confirm your theory or contradict it?
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At one time we had a t-shirt thread, with us thinking up slogans, and trying to get something that wasn't coyrighted. It's been years. Maybe it was coinciding with the first WenchCon?
"Stilson had it coming" was my own contribution, and one I still remember as having been my favorite, which says something about my vanity, I guess. Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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I started out simple. Feel free to use the image, of course. I'm going to have to do some actual drawing for the "it doesn't do anything shirt" so it's going to take me a bit longer.
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