explain it to their heart

Tell them you have no idea what it means and it's just for picking up hipster chicks.

Educate them my friend. EDUCATE THEM! lol



Glad you like the shirt :)

I HATE when that happens...it makes the shirt lose a little something.



Like I wore "Some Choices Are Just Out of Reach" one day to school and several people asked me "Why is there a REFRIGERATOR (when it is CLEARLY a vending machine) on your shirt?" and when I explained that it was a vending machine they answered, "Ohhhh, so why is he reaching into it?"



Uh...did you even LOOK at the shirt? Geez...

That's why I always stick with the simpler designs...y'know...like Permafrost Pollution. Not much explaining to give for a polar bear.



And although Magritte is actually my favorite artist (and it was Treachery of Images that won my heart over), AND I had my video game phase too, I don't think I'd wear this and go through the trouble of explaining it to every single person. Because I highly doubt I'll run into anyone who'll see it and just smile.

I've gotten a number of compliments on the shirt, but maybe it's because I'm a grad student and the people who I hang out with are cultured geeks. :-P

i hate that...i mean i first see shirts and get them immediately...i thought maybe it's just cause i'm on threadless so much, but c'mon it's pretty freaken simple...i hate having to stand there for 10 minutes trying to explain...it sucks all the fun out of even having such a cool shirt:[

i need to be educated. i want to buy it for my love of mario and my love of genee, but i feel stupid because i dont get it.

what the hell's a mario?

I don't explain my shirts to people.

just kill them, thats a pretty good explaination.

I don't go that far, but I have been known to whip my dick out and piss on them.

man, you must be the weirdest teacher ever

Yes.



Yes, I am.



*cough*

O_o



LOL!

Do like i did the year i dressed up as hellboy for halloween.



When ever a dumb drunk Skanky Pochahontas, or Skanky Fairy or Skanky Angel asked me what i was i hauled a copy of a hellboy novel out of my trench pocket and showed them the cover then walked away. I didn't even have to open my mouth.



When you wear the t-shirt carry a print out copy of Magrittes Pipe with the same caption in your pants pocket... Haul it out, show it to them, walk away.

I just tell them it's from the internet and keep walking.

nonono, that's the great thing about THIS one.

it seems like the one that if they'll get it they'll love it, if they won't they'll think it's probably just some nice pic.



or just say "it's a super mario reference" (if the person would know who magritte was" or "it's a famous art pic reference" (if the person would know who mario was)





then again,

i spent some time a coupla days ago explaining my thinkgeek's "you are dumb 2.0" to someone who, as i walked by, said "hey, the matrix!"

(the design is binary stuff printed vertically)

people are stupid, don't explain, just tell them to look it up......

But don't you LOVE when someone takes one quick look at your shirt, gets it in an instant and looks at you with awe and says, "that is a great shirt!" and you know you've had a true meeting of the minds? I say that T'less shirts are a super quick way to weed out the idiots you wouldn't want to hang with anyway :-)

this shirt is incredible, magritte is one of my favorite artists too and the only people who ever get it are other visual arts majors at my school, its such a feeling of satisfaction to have someone look at it and get both references cause otherwise if all they get is magritte and for some sick reason they've never played super mario its long explanation that its a plumber that fights monsters to save a princess and shoots down pipes for extra coins

Don't explain it to them, sheesh. Just party down.

This shirt is too brilliant to say the message doesn't matter. The comment Magritte was making about art's place in the world, the symbolic and the real, is here reformulated to question what is real in our media driven consumer culture. If Magritte's pipe was meant as a representation of reality, does the fact that this representation of what is itself a representation (Mario's representation of a pipe represented on a shirt) mean that what is real in our society is the very act of representation itself? The late philosopher and art critic (who's philosophical project definitely had roots in dada) Jean Baudrillard would certainly say yes.



But it's true- the only downside of the shirt is that most people won't fully understand it's genius.

haha, 1 vote and an average of 5.00.



you're funny guy

Yeah I just joined today. Here's the one shirt I've voted for so far:



http://www.threadless.com/submission/125050/Hooked



As someone who appreciates Situationalism, I think you will understand why I gave it a five.

If you bought this shirt then I would hope that you would not give two slints whether or not anyone gets it or not. You bought this shirt because you liked it. If a couple of morons have detracted from your enjoyment of it, then you are just as stupid as they are.

There are the occasional "whats that shirt mean" moments with every threadless shirt. Sometimes I explain, other times I respond "its just a shirt"



Much better is when you see someone look and just smile knowingly. It feels like being a member of a secret club

I was excited about receiving this shirt, so I wore it the very next day to school. It was lame though. Nobody understood my shirt, even though there are loads of people who wear Threadless at my school. I bought the shirt because I liked it, but I was disappointed that I couldn't get any other reaction other than "Huh?" from my shirt.