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Persephone
14:40 / 28.02.02
Temporarily foiled in my plot to subvert the Hallmark kiss kiss bears, my frustrated ambitions turn to tee-shirts.

Every once in a while a Barbe-thread yields a tee-shirt concept, and why not make these into actual tees? All you need is an inkjet printer, a packet of iron-on transfer paper, and a stock of plain shirts.

So I am going to make some. My initial product line will include the Rothkoid ("POTATO JOKES ARE NOT FUNNY") and the Flyboy
("MUSIC SAVES LIVES").

Feel free to nominate your tee-ideas on this thread, but I think that I will say that the qualification is that the idea has to come out of a discussion on an actual Barbethread--preferably when it gets to the point of someone saying "I wish I had a tee-shirt that said that."

Feel free also to turn ideas into designs and post or link here.

And feel free to critique ideas and designs here, too.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
14:43 / 28.02.02
I think that it should be mandatory that everyone own a David Hauslehoff T-shirt.

This should include a full listing of every Haus name that has been suggested in the thread that I can't find.

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deja_vroom
15:21 / 28.02.02
Well, once a barbeloid whose nick I forget expressed his desire to have a T-shirt with the saying: "STOP ANAL FISTFUCKING PLANET EARTH", which was uttered at a certain point of a long forgotten thread.

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Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:41 / 28.02.02
The one I saw once that had "I'm Immortal..." on the front and "...so far" on the back remains a fave with me.

How about "No kiss-kiss bears for you, Queer Granny"? "Potato-Fucking Mad!" would be a good one, too.
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
15:47 / 28.02.02
In homage to the comical exchanges on "Crime and Stigma", and the return of ReformedRobotMan, I think a nice "NONCE PATROL" T-swhirt would be not only attractive but highly useful.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
15:55 / 28.02.02
Wow. I'm quite honoured to think that someone might actually make a 'MUSIC SAVES LIVES' t-shirt - how much do you want for one?

My big idea/desire at the moment is a 'WHAT WOULD CHOMSKY DO?' tee...
 
 
Sauron
15:57 / 28.02.02
I want a David Hauslehoff one. And one with a picture of Knowledge with the word 'PLANK' enscribed underneath it.

Only joking Knodger; I know you're watching.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
18:12 / 28.02.02
Ever been to the Washington Vietnam Memorial Giftshop?
"I saw my buddies die face down in the mud at Iwo Jima, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt!"
 
 
the Fool
18:58 / 28.02.02
My favourite tee idea from ages ago. Someone's response to RRM noncery (was the title of a thread)...

 
 
gridley
19:42 / 28.02.02
I'd buy a "No Kiss-Kiss Bears for You, Queer Granny!" t-shirt in a new york minute. Hell, I'd buy a few...
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
09:04 / 01.03.02
Something in me really wants to see a shirt that says, in small, serif letters:

nobody knows I'm a fatbeard

Ahem.
 
 
Laughing
10:39 / 01.03.02
I'd really like a shirt that said: "My parents went T-shirt shopping and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."

T-SHIRTS -- They Disseminate Psychocultural Memes So You Don't Have To.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
10:47 / 01.03.02
My significant other posted on Barbelith and all I got was this two-ply tea-towel.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
11:00 / 01.03.02
[insert meme here]
 
 
Persephone
11:12 / 01.03.02
Well that depends if you think of the "T-shirt" as being wholly separate from "you." I mean, if the meme comes from a discussion that you have with other yous, and you turn that idea into a design, and you set up your ironing board & iron and press that design into a T-shirt that you wear... isn't that basically *you* disseminating the psychocultural meme?

Rothkoid: There should be two of those shirts, the other one saying in equally small letters everybody knows I'm a fatbeard.

All right, I know it's just T-shirts but the ones I'm going to make I want to be about ideas and not personalities. On my list so far:

*POTATO JOKES ARE NOT FUNNY
*MUSIC SAVES LIVES
*STOP ANAL FISTFUCKING PLANET EARTH (that's a good one, too)
*NO KISS-KISS BEARS FOR YOU, QUEER GRANNY (oh yes indeed)
*POTATO FUCKING MAD
*NONCE PATROL
*WHAT WOULD CHOMSKY DO
*HEY ASSHOLE STOP CLOGGING THE REVOLUTION WITH YOUR PSYCHIC WANKFEST (nice design already)
*NOBODY KNOWS I'M A FATBEARD
*EVERYBODY KNOWS I'M A FATBEARD

Fool: That design is fab, did you do that? That seriously shows why people besides me should pitch in with designs, I'm always amazed at what people think of that I never do.

Biz: Just tell me you're kidding...

Flyboy: Well you should see if you like the design first... I am just finishing the world's most comprehensive job application, so I can start probably this weekend & I have to figure out how to work Illustrator, so it might be a tiny while... but, if you like it, in the spirit of the revolution I would barter. Though thinking of you, it flashed in my mind that these shirts might really move at Hot Topic, bless my stars I'm going to be rich!

Hm. Barbelith brand T-shirts. 10% of all T-shirt sales go to the server fund? I was just flipping through the first few pages of Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point about how Hush Puppies went from zero to hero in sixty seconds...

[Edited because I left out Potato Fucking Mad, which I'm going to do in the same stylee as Potato Jokes...]

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pointless and uncalled for
11:16 / 01.03.02
quote:Originally posted by Persephone:
*NOBODY KNOWS I'M A FATBEARD
*EVERYBODY KNOWS I'M A FATBEARD


These really should be front and back of the same T-Shirt or only sold in pairs for couples.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
12:30 / 01.03.02
While it's not particularly Barbe-centric, I have to say that I'm pretty keen on a shirt like this:


Ah, photoshop:


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pointless and uncalled for
12:35 / 01.03.02
I always wanted a Big Nasty Bastard T from WWF but I didn't want The Big Slow on the other side.

Another favourite that I've seen is "All crack and no dope makes Jack strung out"

Sorry for the thread rot, back to the barbelith T shop.
 
 
grant
12:48 / 01.03.02
I bet, if you're quick enough, Advocate readers would buy *buttloads* of Kiss-Kiss Bear t-shirts. 10% of which would make Tom, Our Exalted Barbelith Archon, very happy.
 
 
gridley
14:25 / 01.03.02
And it would in it's own way be at least a nod to social justice, because whenever people asked you about your "No Kiss-Kiss Bears for You, Queer Granny" t-shirt, it would give you an excuse to tell them the story, and thus the annoyance with Hallmark might actually spread....
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
14:29 / 01.03.02
Hows about an "I beat off for Tom and the BBC".
 
 
deja_vroom
14:46 / 01.03.02
And how could we forget:


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Persephone
16:16 / 01.03.02
[ot]Frith in a basket, *finally* finished job application. Writing/editing job for a travel guide, application process is practically a) do the job, b) get the job. Or not.[/ot]

Very well, I will start with "NO KISS-KISS BEARS..."

Off to Hallmark for reconnaissance. Funny, that's where I was left off when I started this thread...

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Sauron
16:19 / 01.03.02
quote:Originally posted by I'm Not Here de Jade:
And how could we forget:


[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: I'm Not Here de Jade ]


I am getting this tomorrow.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:30 / 01.03.02
Has anyone said "My freinds went on holiday in Selfawaria and all I got was this lousy T shirt" yet?
 
 
Sauron
20:15 / 01.03.02
"My freinds went on holiday in Selfawaria and all I got was this lousy Haus"
 
 
Persephone
23:54 / 01.03.02
Ideas, not personalities... please.

Designs, actually, are what this thread needs now...
 
 
videodrome
00:36 / 02.03.02
This is one I've meant to do for a while, scanned off a crusty old package of sutures found in an old mental asylum.



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The Return Of Rothkoid
10:26 / 02.03.02
Actually, I think a Huggles! shirt would be great. In a very, very flowery script.

I can do some design stuff, if we come up with some ideas...
 
 
Not Here Still
10:36 / 02.03.02
Crap at design, but can't stop thinking of bear's:

"You guys are great. I'd buy you all a balloon if I could!"

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Cherry Bomb
10:51 / 02.03.02
When can I get a shirt that says "Theory Beeyotch" ?

And I want a Selfawaria shirt, too.

I'm all ready jealous of Fly's "Rock N' Roll Is Killing My Life" shirt, but what's a girl to do? Which is strangely the oppposite of the music shirt, methinks.

And wasn't it "Hey AssholeS Stop Clogging Up The Revolution With Your Psychich Wankfest?"
 
 
Jack Fear
11:33 / 02.03.02
Something Grant Balfour said to me, way back in the day:

"Slogans Are Inherently Fascist"
 
 
gridley
13:44 / 02.03.02
quote:Originally posted by Jack Fear:
Something Grant Balfour said to me, way back in the day:

"Slogans Are Inherently Fascist"


Didn't the Chink (that was the character's name) say that in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues?
 
 
rizla mission
10:05 / 03.03.02
Not very Barbelith related, but I'd still kill for a 'DEATH TO VIDEODROME - LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH' T-shirt.

Of course, it means absolutely nothing outside the context of the film, but boy does it sound cool.
 
 
videodrome
11:59 / 03.03.02
quote:Originally posted by Rizla Year Zero:
[QB]Not very Barbelith related, but I'd still kill for a 'DEATH TO VIDEODROME - LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH' T-shirt.[QB]


...hey.
I'm just not sure how I feel about that...
 
  

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