Profile for NGee - Consigning slogans to the grave

NGee aka Neil Gregory is a boy, has been a member since June 4, 2004, has scored 4249 submissions, giving an average score of 1.99.

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May 19 '09 by NGee

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Consigning slogans to the grave

I have a few slogans that have been around for a while (got over 100 votes) and scored OK but onviously not been selected; just wondering if there's much point keeping them in the running - has anyone had a slogan printed a long time after it was subbed?

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courtney pie on May 19 '09 at 1:32pm

ladykat did

that swallowed a kitten one was up for like, 2 yrs i think

NGee on May 19 '09 at 1:35pm

Thanks Courtney, that's interesting...then again, that was a really good slogan.

While we're on the subject, how you haven't been printed yet I do not know.

Maltzmania on May 19 '09 at 1:37pm

it's cool to see a printed designer who is dedicated to slogans, I'd say the majority of alumni just think we're (I'm) a joke!

hehe :P

courtney pie on May 19 '09 at 1:37pm

i had no idea she'd had it up that long until it was printed! 2 yrs is forEVER. lol.

aww thanks! that's mighty kind of you to say. :{D

Maltzmania on May 19 '09 at 1:37pm

or slogans in general

Maltzmania on May 19 '09 at 1:38pm

my "i high five strangers" one had been up for a little less than a year I think before it got chosen by the threadgods

courtney pie on May 19 '09 at 1:40pm

i think with the twitter tees it's going to be even harder to not be a joke. i mean make a joke. and get printed.

Maltzmania on May 19 '09 at 1:41pm

yeah it's getting really cluttered out there!

NGee on May 19 '09 at 1:42pm

Thanks Maltz - I love being a sloganeer, even if it is stupidly addictive!

Hear what you're saying about the twitter tees too courtney...and I agree!

courtney pie on May 19 '09 at 1:45pm

it's uber addictive! i have 1/2 slogans littering my notepad at work. and the notes feature on my cell. lol.

yea... le sigh :-/

NGee on May 19 '09 at 1:49pm

I guess some people might hear/see something at work etc and then spend the next hour trying to figure out a slogan that would work from it, hypothetically speaking, of course.

Maltzmania on May 19 '09 at 1:51pm

If i kill off a slogan I always make sure to re-work/re-word it later on, it paid off for a couple of my printed shirts.

NGee on May 19 '09 at 1:57pm

Intriguing information Maltz, I guess it depends on having great ideas (as yours have been) in the first place though!

courtney pie on May 19 '09 at 2:15pm

good to know maltzy, i should do that.

i listen to the radio all day at my desk while bloggin, er, working. so i get inspired.

NGee on May 19 '09 at 3:37pm

So that's the secret of your power!!!

HaloGirl on May 19 '09 at 3:47pm

Maltz, are you willing to share which slogans you reworked to success (and where they began)? Did you leave a lot of time between dumping and resubbing the new versions? I've heard that reworking and resubbing a slogan too much too quickly doesn't do well. This is a great blog topic.

NGee on May 20 '09 at 12:35pm

Bump for anyone interested :)

courtney pie on May 20 '09 at 12:44pm

oh yes, tell us maltzy.

lol @ ngee! yes. my secret is out! hahaha

NGee on May 21 '09 at 2:00am

courtney pie on May 20 '09 at 12:44pm:

oh yes, tell us maltzy.

Tell usssss!!!

goliath72 on May 21 '09 at 12:52pm

i was wondering the same NGee... 2 yrs is a long time...

courtney pie on May 21 '09 at 12:53pm

i tried this cleaning up slogans page thingy. it was hard and i think i failed at updating my 365 blog. lol

NGee on May 21 '09 at 12:54pm

The best laid plans...

courtney pie on May 21 '09 at 12:56pm

exactly! lol

i'll sort thru it all ... someday

bygrinstow on May 21 '09 at 1:14pm

The more time goes by, the more I think scores, 'freshness' and length of your list don't matter nearly as much as just happening to catch a staffer's eye and them thinking "yeah, that's a shirt!"....

And I say that in hopes that a staffer will see that statement here in this blog, and think, "this guy is smart -- he's got it figured out... wonder what his slogans are like"

...and that statement just made them not actually want to look....

brakes on May 21 '09 at 2:03pm

hahaha. bygrinstow, I just watched your rise and fall in one comment. I had high hopes for you but now, the staffers will just pass you by. But maybe, if I say.........
"Boy I think bygrinstow has some great slogans that should be looked at."

Think that will help?

NGee on May 21 '09 at 3:10pm

Maybe we should just post blogs entitled:

HEY, THREADLESS STAFF, DO YOU THINK MY SLOGANS DESERVE A PRINT?

courtney pie on May 21 '09 at 3:43pm

YES

you should

NGee on May 21 '09 at 3:46pm

I'll do it, but you have to do it first!

brakes on May 21 '09 at 4:11pm

I think my blog title will be

THREADLESS STAFF: CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO SELL 100 MILLION T-SHIRTS.

Then, I'll have a link to PuppetMeat, staffell, rossmat8, or Larlar.

NGee on May 21 '09 at 4:12pm

I think you're on to something there, brakes!

bygrinstow on May 21 '09 at 4:51pm

brakes on May 21 '09 at 2:03pm
"Boy I think bygrinstow has some great slogans that should be looked at printed the hell out of."

That's gonna be my blog title....

bygrinstow on May 21 '09 at 4:52pm

hmmm my html strike-through failed.... : (

bygrinstow on May 21 '09 at 4:52pm

oh

and so did my italics.... : ((

NGee on May 21 '09 at 5:07pm

Blasted html failure!

courtney pie on May 21 '09 at 5:09pm

pffft. my blog title will be NAKED NAKED NAKED

and then a bunch of slogans

Spam69 on May 21 '09 at 5:09pm

You've got to cut the chaff out quickly, the longer they stay around the harder they are to delete. I have a slog that's been around for nearly 2 years ( frisked in airports ) and to delete it now would be like sacrificing my own flesh and blood.

NGee on May 21 '09 at 5:12pm

OK Courtney, your title wins!

I know what you mean, Spam. I have the same problem with this one:

How come nobody wants to be new-school anymore?
of 130 votes, 53% like it

In my heart I know it won't get a print now, but I still like it, and then Jess went and put it on that awwesome blog she made - bittersweet!

courtney pie on May 21 '09 at 5:14pm

jess is too awesome!

NGee on May 21 '09 at 5:19pm

I know, that's why I put that extra, seemingly pointless, 'w' in my post up there.

*shuffles unconformtably*

courtney pie on May 21 '09 at 5:22pm

'w' where?...

NGee on May 21 '09 at 5:26pm

Um...nowwhere......

courtney pie on May 21 '09 at 5:58pm

HA! i found it! :p

bygrinstow on May 22 '09 at 1:12am

courtney pie on May 21 '09 at 5:09pm
pffft. my blog title will be NAKED NAKED NAKED

*still expecting to find this...*

*looking*