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This page is a place to put nifty tshirt slogans that you may (or may not) want to see on a tshirt, or would wear yourself.
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This page is a place to put nifty slogans that you may (or may not) want to see on a tshirt, poster, badge or so forth.
   
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Don't limit to tshirts either. Badges and Demotivational posters may also apply
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== One Liners ==
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'''Ideal for badges'''
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== T shirts ==
  
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* Disclaimer: My wearing of this tshirt slogan does not imply an endorsement of western industrialised economic practices
  
 
* People are animals too
  
* People are animals too
 
* Apostrophe Criminal's Alphabet: abcdefghijklmnopqr'stuvwxyz
  
* Apostrophe Criminal's Alphabet: abcdefghijklmnopqr'stuvwxyz
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* Apple Alphabet: abcdefghi™jklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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** not original to me, I think I may have seen this on a Tshirt already?
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* The end is extremely fucking nigh
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** from 28 Days Later (quote on a wall)
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* Lab Experiment
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* from spam subject line:
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** If you act crazy all your life, they'll never be able to commit you
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** I am not fat... I prefer to think of myself as subcutaneously gifted
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* "me! I'm an exception"
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{{quote|right|<poem>Cookie Monster + Death Metal = C is for cookie AND YOU CAN BURN IN HELL!</poem>
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|Olivia S}}
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* from webcomic 1/0
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** 124 (paraphrased): "And I shall rule with ... A FIST OF CHEESE!"
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** 165: "You're ranting like a supervillian. What you're doing must be wrong"
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** 195: "Your memories are wrong, and the universe is inherently nonsensical."
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** 266: "What is man, but a fiction of God?"
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** 496: "Vagueness. Enemy of all those who seek to.... y'know. Stuff." (author commentary)
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** 627: "I am not a punchline"
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** 648: "Faux-intellectual"
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** 737: "Omnipotence means never having to roll for things"
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** 914: "Life as we know it would crumble if people stopped doing pointless things"
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** 965: "Everyone likes to speak for the masses. No one likes to be a part of them." (author commentary)
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** 985: "shoulnd't, shmouldn't"
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** 1000: "there is no non-creepy way to exit a plane of reality"
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* "when life deals you zombies, make a disaster movie"
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* a couple from larry
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** ABCDEFUCK
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** Go Lemmings Go (set font to descend down a cliff, starting about the 'g' of lemmings)
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* zombies love you for your brains, not your looks -- paraphrasing from a webforum, thanks to Nerissa
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* man, if nobody thinks you're mad you're really in trouble. -- Jason G
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* "it's not that I look young. It's everyone else who looks OLD" - for those lucky peopole with youthful appearances.
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* Official Audience Member
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* Person of Interest (maybe with subtext: "I am officially interesting")
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* You should put a bag over your personality (derived from War Games - The Dead Code)
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* There can be only one 'i' in 'megalomaniac'. --http://www.covertcomic.com/
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* Ultimate Red Alert (from (new) Doctor Who - end season 4)
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* When I was your age, I wasn't a crotchety old fool
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* ...I decided I need a badge that says "making the world a better place, one apostrophe at a time" --Nerissa
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* "is that art, or can it go?" - from Mr oCean who saw it on fridge magnets in germany
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** perhaps with an icon of cliche art (mona lisa or venus de milo) in a trash can :)
   
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{{quote|right|<poem>'''Govt Agencies make Conspiracies'''
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* "Space. It's cooler than you are." --Nemo. — https://www.facebook.com/nemothorx/posts/10151898584628216?notif_t=like
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...that's not a paranoid theory...
  
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''that's their job description''</poem>|[http://arstechnica.com/journals/law.ars/2008/12/23/aw-man-the-cables-out Julian Sanchez (Ars Technica)]}}
  
   
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* The teddy bears from here:
 
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[http://www.google.com/patents?id=KyEjAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=animated+character+inassignee:microsoft&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=1&as_miny_ap=2000&as_maxm_ap=1&as_maxy_ap=2003&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2009&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=2009 (a microsoft patent)]
  
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* Scientists: Creating our future so they can destroy it too! [add picture of zombies and/or nukes, etc]
  
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* Amanda suggests "Nemo World Tour 2009"
  
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** Tasmania
  
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** Brisbane
  
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** Victoria
  
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** The Moon
  
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** Funkytown
  
   
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{{quote|right|<poem>
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♥ أنا
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نيويورك
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</poem>|
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This translates to "I ♥ New York" in arabic.<br>
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Translation by Google translate.<br>
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(edit: unsurprisingly, been done:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robin_Williams.jpg }}
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* I suffer from pedanticism --for Nerissa
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* "لا غير قراء العربية تحمل هذا الشعار هو ضد الحضارة الغربية؟" - "Do non-arabic readers assume this is an anti western slogan?" (Political statement from Nemo) Translation from Google.
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* You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life." -- from /usr/games/fortune
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* "Censored is a dirty word"
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** funny version: maybe with 'censored' in the black bar style, as if it WAS censoring something.
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** 'cause' version: regular lettering, emphasize 'censored' some other way.
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** See here: http://blog.thorx.net/2009/10/hey-hey-its-controversial/
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* "I hate pornography ... I haven't even got a pornograph!" -- 'Angry of Mayfair'. - see [[wikipedia:Kenny_Everett#Quotations_and_catchphrases]]
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* "Where zombies come from: When mummy and daddy are loving each other's brains, usually raw." - Nerissa
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* Crackpot Xing - http://www.xkcdb.com/?654 - (23:18:49) Nerissa: we could put it outside the Scientologist's centre
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* "bling's shit" - written in diamontes on a black tight tshirt...
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* 'wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses - http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-05/
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<poem>
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(23:02:46) nemo: can I put "support the war on ephemera" on a tshirt?
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(23:02:58) Terri Warner: Definitely!
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(23:03:19) Terri Warner: If only to find out how many people ask you where ephemera is...
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(23:03:31) Terri Warner: Is it, like, near Greece?
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</poem>
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* Nothing really metas
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* quotes like this shouldn't be on tshirts
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* Mispen: write wrongly
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* "if god hadn't meant them to be eaten, He woulnd't have called them MEALworms"
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* "if god hadn't intended me to wear tshirts with stuff on them, He woulnd't have made them funny"
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* I (x2+y2-1)3-x2y3=0 U
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** The implicit curve (x2+y2-1)3-x2y3=0 yields a better approximation of the heart shape.
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*** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_%28symbol%29
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*** Also: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HeartCurve.html
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* Fuck off and Hug. (in either rainbow flowers style, or angry metal style. which?)
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== T shirts / Signs / Posters ==
 
{{quote|right|<poem>
  
{{quote|right|<poem>
 
<Screwtape> Thinking good! Slogans bad!
  
<Screwtape> Thinking good! Slogans bad!
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</poem>|* From [[IRC]] (#afda), August 2004}}
  
</poem>|* From [[IRC]] (#afda), August 2004}}
   
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* Disclaimer: My wearing of this tshirt slogan does not imply an endorsement of western industrialised economic practices
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* The teddy bears from here:
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[http://www.google.com/patents?id=KyEjAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=animated+character+inassignee:microsoft&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=1&as_miny_ap=2000&as_maxm_ap=1&as_maxy_ap=2003&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2009&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=2009 (a microsoft patent)]
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* Scientists: Creating our future so they can destroy it too! [add picture of zombies and/or nukes, etc]
   
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[[Image:Motivational gullibility.jpg|right|250px|border]]
  
 
* Picture: blank
  
* Picture: blank
 
:404
  
:404
 
:Demotivational not found
  
:Demotivational not found
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[[Image:Motivational gullibility.jpg|right|250px|border]]
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* Image: Albert Einstein's in a birdcage. Caption: "Nobody appreciates my genius"
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* Image: Eye in a pyramid. Caption: CAUTION. Do not build your pyramid using eyeballs. To do so may cause structural failure of your polygon.
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* Image: as if a begger holding a cardboard sign: "Will wrap my arms around you for hugs"
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* Dr Evil is my lifecoach
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** inspired by http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/27/2697646.htm
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** Other life coaches: Mr T. Macgyver. Dr Horrible. Doctor Who. Captain Jack. Faith. Willow. etc.
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* I <font color="red">♥</font> Craftian adventures
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** With a cthulhu plushie picture. Maybe without the "I" ?
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** or even just "I <font color="red">♥</font> Craft" with the plushy...
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* A calculator-like device with the LCD font text showing "A suffusion of yellow"
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== Badges ==
  
== Badges ==
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''Note that many of the Tshirt ideas can be badges with little or no variation''
  
''Note that many of the Tshirt ideas can be badges with little or no variation''
   
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:Demotivation is our goal.
  
:Demotivation is our goal.
   
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{{quote|right|<poem>'''Govt Agencies make Conspiracies'''
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...that's not a paranoid theory...
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''that's their job description''</poem>|[http://arstechnica.com/journals/law.ars/2008/12/23/aw-man-the-cables-out Julian Sanchez (Ars Technica)]}}
 
* Being weird isn't enough (as seen in the intro sequence to 'Pump up the Volume')
  
* Being weird isn't enough (as seen in the intro sequence to 'Pump up the Volume')
   
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* Various warning signs from here:
  
* Various warning signs from here:
 
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/87547772@N00/sets/72157594323393196/
  
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/87547772@N00/sets/72157594323393196/
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{{quote|right|<poem>Cookie Monster + Death Metal = C is for cookie AND YOU CAN BURN IN HELL!</poem>
  
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|A friend (I need to check MSN logs from early 2006)}}
  
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* "The end is extremely fucking nigh"
 
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** from 28 Days Later (quote on a wall)
  
   
 
* This set from Nerissa, originally Tshirt ideas
  
* This set from Nerissa, originally Tshirt ideas
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** Try again in four drinks.
  
** Try again in four drinks.
   
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* Lab Experiment
  
   
 
{{quote|right|<poem>
  
{{quote|right|<poem>
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''Do not throw panties''
  
''Do not throw panties''
 
</poem>|http://sinfest.net/d/20060429.html}}
  
</poem>|http://sinfest.net/d/20060429.html}}
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** from spam subject line:
  
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** "If you act crazy all your life, they'll never be able to commit you "
  
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** "I am not fat... I prefer to think of myself as subcutaneously gifted"
  
   
 
* From the ruminations list
  
* From the ruminations list
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:> >
  
:> >
 
:> > (James Knowles)
  
:> > (James Knowles)
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:> > Just because it's catchy doesn't mean
  
:> > Just because it's catchy doesn't mean
 
:> > it's good, and just because it's stuck
  
:> > it's good, and just because it's stuck
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** --Nemo in email, inspired by http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/our_visual_system_has_future_seeing_powers_study
  
** --Nemo in email, inspired by http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/our_visual_system_has_future_seeing_powers_study
   
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* Three shirts with a Toyota Sera on it: Tri-Sera Tops.
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:> "I'm an optimist.
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:> I only think SOME stuff is fail"
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:-- Nemo
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:> Some of the stuff is always fail, all of the stuff is sometimes fail, but all of the stuff isn’t always fail
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:-- Terri in response
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"You have the right to remain silent. Why don't you try it for a while" (from Altered Carbon)
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:> Hi Fun Kou Gai
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:> This Japanese term is a kind of righteous, miserable anger, a frustration
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:> and despair over a situation that seems terrible but cannot be changed.
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:> Like corruption in a government, or a friend's bad treatment.
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:> Sample Sentence: "Oh, god, listening to old white dudes arguing about women's rights just fills me with Hi Fun Kou Gai."
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== other images ==
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* http://archive.boasas.com/?c=871 - crows, for Alison
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* http://archive.boasas.com/?c=873 - motto
   
   

Latest revision as of 21:21, 6 February 2018

Contents

This page is a place to put nifty slogans that you may (or may not) want to see on a tshirt, poster, badge or so forth.

[edit] One Liners

Ideal for badges

  • People are animals too
  • Apostrophe Criminal's Alphabet: abcdefghijklmnopqr'stuvwxyz
  • Apple Alphabet: abcdefghi™jklmnopqrstuvwxyz
    • not original to me, I think I may have seen this on a Tshirt already?
  • The end is extremely fucking nigh
    • from 28 Days Later (quote on a wall)
  • Lab Experiment
  • from spam subject line:
    • If you act crazy all your life, they'll never be able to commit you
    • I am not fat... I prefer to think of myself as subcutaneously gifted
  • "me! I'm an exception"
“

Cookie Monster + Death Metal = C is for cookie AND YOU CAN BURN IN HELL!

”
—Olivia S
  • from webcomic 1/0
    • 124 (paraphrased): "And I shall rule with ... A FIST OF CHEESE!"
    • 165: "You're ranting like a supervillian. What you're doing must be wrong"
    • 195: "Your memories are wrong, and the universe is inherently nonsensical."
    • 266: "What is man, but a fiction of God?"
    • 496: "Vagueness. Enemy of all those who seek to.... y'know. Stuff." (author commentary)
    • 627: "I am not a punchline"
    • 648: "Faux-intellectual"
    • 737: "Omnipotence means never having to roll for things"
    • 914: "Life as we know it would crumble if people stopped doing pointless things"
    • 965: "Everyone likes to speak for the masses. No one likes to be a part of them." (author commentary)
    • 985: "shoulnd't, shmouldn't"
    • 1000: "there is no non-creepy way to exit a plane of reality"
  • "when life deals you zombies, make a disaster movie"
  • a couple from larry
    • ABCDEFUCK
    • Go Lemmings Go (set font to descend down a cliff, starting about the 'g' of lemmings)
  • zombies love you for your brains, not your looks -- paraphrasing from a webforum, thanks to Nerissa
  • man, if nobody thinks you're mad you're really in trouble. -- Jason G
  • "it's not that I look young. It's everyone else who looks OLD" - for those lucky peopole with youthful appearances.
  • Official Audience Member
  • Person of Interest (maybe with subtext: "I am officially interesting")
  • You should put a bag over your personality (derived from War Games - The Dead Code)
  • There can be only one 'i' in 'megalomaniac'. --http://www.covertcomic.com/
  • Ultimate Red Alert (from (new) Doctor Who - end season 4)
  • When I was your age, I wasn't a crotchety old fool
  • ...I decided I need a badge that says "making the world a better place, one apostrophe at a time" --Nerissa
  • "is that art, or can it go?" - from Mr oCean who saw it on fridge magnets in germany
    • perhaps with an icon of cliche art (mona lisa or venus de milo) in a trash can :)


“

♥ أنا
نيويورك

”
—

This translates to "I ♥ New York" in arabic.
Translation by Google translate.
(edit: unsurprisingly, been done:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robin_Williams.jpg
  • I suffer from pedanticism --for Nerissa
  • "لا غير قراء العربية تحمل هذا الشعار هو ضد الحضارة الغربية؟" - "Do non-arabic readers assume this is an anti western slogan?" (Political statement from Nemo) Translation from Google.
  • You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life." -- from /usr/games/fortune
  • "Censored is a dirty word"
  • "I hate pornography ... I haven't even got a pornograph!" -- 'Angry of Mayfair'. - see wikipedia:Kenny_Everett#Quotations_and_catchphrases
  • "Where zombies come from: When mummy and daddy are loving each other's brains, usually raw." - Nerissa
  • Crackpot Xing - http://www.xkcdb.com/?654 - (23:18:49) Nerissa: we could put it outside the Scientologist's centre
  • "bling's shit" - written in diamontes on a black tight tshirt...
  • 'wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses - http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-05/

(23:02:46) nemo: can I put "support the war on ephemera" on a tshirt?
(23:02:58) Terri Warner: Definitely!
(23:03:19) Terri Warner: If only to find out how many people ask you where ephemera is...
(23:03:31) Terri Warner: Is it, like, near Greece?

  • Nothing really metas
  • quotes like this shouldn't be on tshirts
  • Mispen: write wrongly
  • "if god hadn't meant them to be eaten, He woulnd't have called them MEALworms"
  • "if god hadn't intended me to wear tshirts with stuff on them, He woulnd't have made them funny"
  • I (x2+y2-1)3-x2y3=0 U
  • Fuck off and Hug. (in either rainbow flowers style, or angry metal style. which?)


[edit] T shirts / Signs / Posters

“

 <Screwtape> Thinking good! Slogans bad!
 <nemo> can I put that on a tshirt?
 <Screwtape> Sure.
 <nemo> Deal. I'll give you credit.
 <Screwtape> :))))

”
—* From IRC (#afda), August 2004
  • Disclaimer: My wearing of this tshirt slogan does not imply an endorsement of western industrialised economic practices
  • The teddy bears from here:

(a microsoft patent)

  • Scientists: Creating our future so they can destroy it too! [add picture of zombies and/or nukes, etc]
  • Picture: blank
404
Demotivational not found
Motivational gullibility.jpg
  • Image: Albert Einstein's in a birdcage. Caption: "Nobody appreciates my genius"
  • Image: Eye in a pyramid. Caption: CAUTION. Do not build your pyramid using eyeballs. To do so may cause structural failure of your polygon.
  • Image: as if a begger holding a cardboard sign: "Will wrap my arms around you for hugs"
  • I ♥ Craftian adventures
    • With a cthulhu plushie picture. Maybe without the "I" ?
    • or even just "I ♥ Craft" with the plushy...
  • A calculator-like device with the LCD font text showing "A suffusion of yellow"


[edit] Badges

Note that many of the Tshirt ideas can be badges with little or no variation

  • Picture: Marvin (from HHG)
Life, don't talk to me about life.
Demotivation is our goal.
“

Govt Agencies make Conspiracies
...that's not a paranoid theory...
that's their job description

”
—Julian Sanchez (Ars Technica)
  • Being weird isn't enough (as seen in the intro sequence to 'Pump up the Volume')
  • Picture: PBF Guntron
TEAMWORK
Not always in your best interest
RELAX
You're expendible.
  • "not g33k" or "I /= geek" (or maybe "!geek", but that's probably too geeky ;)
    • ...in a geeky font/colourscheme (green courier/terminal font on black?)
  • "evil incarnate" (idea)
    • In my original email I stated: (I think two versions of this could be done. One in a super-cliche gothic font, red on black, etc... and one in a bright pastel coloured flowery font, all hippy looking! ;) Whatchya reckon?
  • This set from Nerissa, originally Tshirt ideas
    • Genetic experiment.
    • Blood and bone.
    • Caution - genetic testing in progress.
    • Sorry, I'm not *that* drunk.
    • You look better from a distance.
    • Try again in four drinks.


“

CAUTION

High testosterone area
Do not throw panties

”
—http://sinfest.net/d/20060429.html
  • From the ruminations list
> > There are very few things that can not
> > be improved by the addition of a bayonet.
> > Heck, it even works with another bayonet!
> >
> > (James Knowles)


> > Just because it's catchy doesn't mean
> > it's good, and just because it's stuck
> > in my head doesn't mean I like it.
> >
> > (Daniel Pagan Connell)
  • Three shirts with a Toyota Sera on it: Tri-Sera Tops.
> "I'm an optimist.
> I only think SOME stuff is fail"
-- Nemo
> Some of the stuff is always fail, all of the stuff is sometimes fail, but all of the stuff isn’t always fail
-- Terri in response 
"You have the right to remain silent. Why don't you try it for a while" (from Altered Carbon)


> Hi Fun Kou Gai
>
> This Japanese term is a kind of righteous, miserable anger, a frustration
> and despair over a situation that seems terrible but cannot be changed.
> Like corruption in a government, or a friend's bad treatment.
>
> Sample Sentence: "Oh, god, listening to old white dudes arguing about women's rights just fills me with Hi Fun Kou Gai."


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