So, I just bought $600 worth of tees. Combine this with my past purchases and, should I get around to taking photos, I could have $500 or so in credit to my account. That said, I think Threadless has become the home of the poorly drawn shirt.

Here! Here I have drawn, in a bland and uninspired way, what I think will fit the title of my t-shirt. "YES! WE WILL PRINT THIS!" Threadless yells. Meanwhile, at shirt.woot, better shirts are sold for $10 every day. And they're drawn better (other than yet another goddamn no-talent Yeticorn shirt by you-know-who) AND AND AND!!!! They're ALWAYS printed on American Apparel!! By Americans! Union Americans! With a tolerance for a CEO's misogynistic tendencies! (um, ok, let's not dwell on that last one) And the selection process is straight forward! If we say print, they PRINT!!

$600. Don't disappoint me more than you already have, hipster Threadless.

Hey, post your favorite slogans that Threadless has dropped from the contest. Why did they drop the slogans? Who knows. They were too incompetent to have the site ready for the relaunch traffic and too incompetent to have a slogan voting system that wasn't completely infuriating... maybe they're just too incompetent to have reasons for anything they do. (Angry much? I am. All the damn time. Haw Haw.)

Mine (with guesses about the reason in bold):

Calvin pees on a brand from which you have purchased products
of 31 votes, 19% like it
Mentions someone named Calvin. Bill Watterson or some Coolidge descendant may sue for some reason

I'd flirt with you if my freezers weren't full already.
of 22 votes, 27% like it
Threadless is staffed by people who run to their cars with airhorns in hand?

Proud holder of the Earth's most perfect nipples
of 18 votes, 11% like it
Nipple envy.

Some of my black friends are gay.
of 22 votes, 18% like it
OMG! Soooo controversial! For 1983.

This robot is trained to smash your camera
of 31 votes, 23% like it
Reference from a crappy comic book nobody read, so, like, imaginary lawsuits and stuff.

Watch Oprah daily! Kids can't be trusted to neglect themselves!
of 22 votes, 14% like it
Oprah is a saint, as is every overpaid, under-worked suburban stay-at-home mom who watches her and how dare I, sir. How dare I!?

Yes, I have class. Craploads of it, in fact.
of 23 votes, 22% like it
MY GOD!! HOW CAN I SAY THE WORD "CRAP" ON A SITE THAT SELLS SHIRTS WITH UNICORNS HAVING SEX ON THEM?!?! I have certainly overstepped!

You'll pay for the day you bought an Anarchy shirt at Hot Topic
of 17 votes, 12% like it
Hot Topic may sue and then sell the very same shirt!

Dig it, I am not so blind that I don't see the low % on many of these. Then again, can you get an accurate sample from 20 or so votes? Hell no. Only the truly incompetent would assume that 20 votes... oh, wait, we're talking about Threadless. Yeah, that was probably all it took.

Anyway, what are your favorite dropped slogans. Give us your guesses as to why Threadless hates what you love, too.

Two, two, two shirts I'll have to get. Oh My Virgin Eye and 1984 Gran Hermano vs. El Liberal. While I have no interest in the Purple is the new... Type Tee, I very much like how the blue text looks purple on the red thanks to the tight lines/gaps in the text. I hope it leads to more designs employing this to creatively get past the 4+1 color limitation. I hope it doesn't lead to more X is the new Y slogans.

Blather
I've been putting this idea up on a couple different blogs, so I might as well put it here: The slogan voting box needs an additional button for those who have submitted designs in the past. An "I'd design it" button. What exactly it would do, I don't know. Maybe it would just allow the designer email the sloganeer. Maybe it would send a link to a special submission page to the designer, with joint credit and built in prize distribution should it get printed. Maybe the designer would be selected and contacted if the slogan makes the Type Tee cut, and asked to add elements to the shirt. Because, really, what Type Tee couldn't be improved with at least some design elements added to it? This slogan/design partnership ingredient of OMG Clothing shouldn't have been left behind.

IDI
I've been avoiding this last part since Type Tees hit the shelves, but I'll go ahead with it now. I'm not self important, I'm not trying to be all, "My Slogans Are SO Awesome!"-- which is why I've held off. I'm just a guy with a dark, dirty, destructive mind without the artistic ability to transfer idea from mind to paper. But, here it is: if a designer out there likes any of my slogans enough to want to use it, this is the blog to use to contact me. This is your all-in-one I'd Design It button. Hit it or don't. In any case, I'd like to see other slogan writers put up their own IDI buttons.

Now, if you don't mind, I have 4 other blogs to get back to neglecting. Damn you, interbunny.