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DrVSP aka Virginia Price is 40.43 years old, has been a member since January 12, 2007, has scored 18,187 submissions, giving an average score of 1.55, helping 185 designs get printed.

Mar 12 '07 by DrVSP
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I have been trying to make an effort to rate slogan submissions, and I have become rather frustrated. It has taken me hours (while doing something else, I admit) to try to get through the list, with only a very few original or interesting ideas.

I think we might be able to see (and therefore vote for) the good ideas if there weren't so many garbage submissions. Could you possibly add a few suggestions to the slogan submitting page?

A few ideas:

1) Anything you've already seen on a T-shirt or bumper sticker is not a new idea.
2) Check your submission for spelling and grammar mistakes. (Your/you're and there/their/they're are common problems.) Then we can tell if the "mistake" is part of your idea.
3) Read and score a few submissions before entering. You'll soon see what kind of stuff is already there. Try to be different.
4) Look at the slogans that have been printed on shirts to get an idea of what works on a shirt. Your slogan may be brilliant, but does it make sense as a shirt design?
5) Then be creative, write something concise, witty, and original.

I don't want to censor anything. The voters will speak to that. I just want people to be more careful before they submit so that it is possible for each idea to get more than 50 votes.

Thanks
DrVSP

Polyester Jones on Mar 12 '07 at 12:48am

okay, uh, see...

Jane Austin for President?

is that mis-spelled Jane Austen or is there an actual Jane Austin running around the States somewhere?

-yours, confused.

peater on Mar 12 '07 at 1:31am

You must be a doctor or premed, Ms. Price? I take it the last slogan is from personal experience. I like that one.

That said, I don't think you're in a position to judge others' slogans when yours show a misunderstanding of what Threadless is after. I, too, am a staunch supporter of the scientific method; but with business in mind, would you think it is prudent to take sides on issues of faith, let alone with such an antagonistic stance?

I have, per your suggestion, examined the previous slogan prints, and none have dealt with these issues in quite that manner.

Am I even a marginally good sloganeer? Of course not. But I don't give suggestions, either.

TheArtRobot on Mar 12 '07 at 2:03am

Concise Witty and Original

FRICKINAWESOME on Mar 12 '07 at 2:44am

I just KNOW you've heard of The Official Slogan Club, right my man?

FRICKINAWESOME on Mar 12 '07 at 2:47am

and by "man", i meant "girl that is almost defintely not a man parading around Threadless as a chick."

peater on Mar 12 '07 at 2:54am

theartrobot ftw

FRICKINAWESOME on Mar 12 '07 at 4:12am

i hate the phrase "ftw" more than i hate crappy slogan tees.

DrVSP on Mar 12 '07 at 10:46pm

I am not saying my slogans are perfect. I was happy to get the feedback of the votes. I submitted them after only rating slogans for an evening or two. After I submitted my slogans I thought I ought to take some more time to rate others for two reasons: 1) I would know what everyone else thought was worth submitting. 2) I could vote for other ideas I thought were good. I have not submitted any more slogans since my first group.

Many of my submissions are political because I saw other political (granted, not in regard to evolution) entries. I was also responding to the many racist, homophobic, and misogynistic slogans. Again, I don't want to censor. Voting "NO" to a racist slogan is a perfect way to deal with it. I agree that the already printed slogans are not political. This does not mean that politics and religion are not proper topics for submission. If the voters don't want a slogan they can vote it down.

My blog stems from my frustrations in trying to rate others' submissions. There are so many that are obviously posted without much thought (I would exclude "theartrobot". Your slogans ARE concise, witty, and original in my opinion.) that you can't get to the good ones. I posted my suggestions as just that.

Thanks for the heads-up about the contest.

ps. Yes, I am a doctor, a woman (not a girl), living in a small rural community filled with creationists who have decided thinking isn't worth doing.

pps. Apologies to the great Jane for misspelling her name!

schleb on Mar 12 '07 at 10:48pm

FRICKIN FTW.

........

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*runs*

peater on Mar 12 '07 at 10:53pm

ha, yeah, that's fair. I can relate to how some value bellyfeel over their.. more developed senses.

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DrVSP on Mar 23 '07 at 11:53pm

New complaint:

People should delete their slogans that are not doing well. This will let the good slogans get more votes. I've tried to remove any of mine that wasn't doing better than 10% after 30 or so votes, or better than 20% after 50 votes. If you can't get that many people to like the slogan, it's not going to go anywhere. Not everyone should follow my personal rules, but maybe they could make their own policies about when to delete.

sectionbb on Mar 23 '07 at 11:55pm

Okay, sounds good.

We'll all make our own policies.

roundredhead on Mar 24 '07 at 12:14am

More slogan pet peeves

1) Everyone knows you're naked under your tee.

2) Yes, we get it, if you are a girl and you have writing on your chest then people seem to be staring at your breasts.

3) Misspelled announcements of having won a spelling bee are just hillarious.

4) anything having to do with pie, pi, or 3.14 etc. etc.

5) Insulting people's mothers, so mature and witty.

6) If you are writing slogans for threadless we will take it for granted that you are a nerd and so are we.

7) There are some excellent children's books used in toilet training called "Everybody Poops" and "Everybody Farts", we are familiar with the basic tennets of these works and do not need them on our tees.

Thank you for letting me get that off my chest

Feel free to write in defense of these slogans - I'd love to hear your arguments.

I'll go back to reading slogans now. I'm sure I'll be back with more pet peeves later.

FRICKINAWESOME on Mar 24 '07 at 3:15am

One of these days Schleb, i'm gonna be able to catch your punk azz before you can taunt me like that *shakes fist vigorously at screen*

As for everyones complaints on this blog, i agree pretty much with everything on here...i've got another one to add to your list of complaints roundredhead

8) As we all have connections to the internet, we to can figure out when you have just merely taken another t-shirt site's slogan and submitted it here.

9) We are also pretty well-versed in awesome and not-so-awesome jokes comedians, philosophers, writers, etc. have said before you were "inspired" by them to completely rip off their ideas wholesale and submit them here.

10) Yes, most of us like math, and nearly all of us are sick to death of the 8,000 times you'd like to be my derivative and lie tangent to my curves. Although my man-boobs are harldy anything you'd want to cuddle up against.

11) Emoticons and other type-ity nonsense isn't funny on a t-shirt, even though lots of people seem to

FRICKINAWESOME on Mar 24 '07 at 3:15am

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FRICKINAWESOME on Mar 24 '07 at 3:16am

(insert emoticon for heart here) it.

This is why Nintechno and I specifically started the Official Slogan Club, so people who were serious about the art of the slogan and wanted to rate other people's slogans that demonstrated original thought would have a place to go easily. Check it out and become a member if you really wanna get some attention to your slogans and make some witty ass contributions to this site's slogan collection.

jenraskopf on Mar 24 '07 at 3:24am

Roundredhead, I think that my particular "your mom" slogan was actually pretty good.

I'd say have a look and tell me if it needs defending. :)

roundredhead on Mar 24 '07 at 8:58pm

I'll have to make an exception for jenraskopf - anyone who can work a classical greek referrence into their "your mom" slogan deserves the benefit of the doubt.

martiandrivein on Mar 24 '07 at 9:00pm

there's no true formula to win. but the advice is pretty good

victimofopportunity on Mar 24 '07 at 9:03pm

I think my slogans are pretty good

They're not as great as some peoples, but still

DrVSP on Mar 24 '07 at 9:09pm

hey! FA, (your name is way to long to type out) you found my blog again! (I was too clueless to know who you were when you first appeared.) RRH and I (we know each other well) are both stupid thirtysomethings just figuring out how to use the net for something besides shopping. I was so glad to find the slogan club. Some kindred souls! Thanks for visiting.

FRICKINAWESOME on Mar 24 '07 at 11:11pm

no prob!...tell redhead to come on over and join the club as well...we need some old fougies (myself included) to get theser young whipper snappers in line with the old skool Monty Python and Shakesphere references! All it costs is a membership card and an easy peasy 5 1/2 hour long ceremony involving lamb's blood and writing on the ceremonial blackboard "i will never submit a slogan someone else has thought up" 3,000 times to test your stamina. So, pretty simple.

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