So when looking at the circular that was sent to my house I see that Khol's is trying to have some "funny and clever shirts" but the only ones that are funny and clever are direct rip-offs of Threadless shirts.


NOT COOL KHOL'S NOT COOL!

I am from Texas however Last year I visited the Chicago/Evanston area for a speech tournament. The tournament took place on Saturday & Sunday. However we were still there on Monday, and had to go up to Northwestern to pick something up. When I went up on Monday we parked in the lot that we had parked in for the tournament went and got what we needed and then came out to our rental car to see a ticket on the rental car. I did not know that me parking at the back of a half empty lot that I had been parking in for the 2 days prior would get get me a $50 ticket. In Texas when a private place like a University Gives you a ticket and you have no ties to the University there is not really anything that they can do about it. If you go to the school they can hold your credits/diploma/charge your account, but if you are not a student they just hope that you are dumb enough to send them a check because there is no legal enforcement that the private university has. The problem lies in the fact that the car was rented under a co workers name and Northwestern contacted the rental car company and the rental car company contacted my co worker and told them they needed a $25 nusence fee and that he owed Northwestern $50. I am not up on my IL Law and was wondering if Northwestern is just asking in hopes that I will pay them $50 for parking in a half empty lot that I had been parking in for 2 days or if my co worker enters the State of IL and gets pulled over he will have a warrant out for his arrest for failure to pay traffic tickets? I know that many of you are from the Chicago area or at least IL so if you might be able to shine a little light on the subject that would be very helpful. I am not out to "stick it to the man" at Northwestern but I am not paying them $50 for being a visitor of their university and parking in a half empty lot for 20 minutes.

Many of us know that threadless can be not only a great way to kill some time but can many times turn into an obsession. I will say that when I first started getting on threadless and obsessing over designing t-shirts, checking blogs, scoring submissions, and buying shirts my wife was not thrilled about the amount of time I would spend doing it. She did not really give it a chance nor did she really care to give it a chance. I am pretty sure that I have successfully converted her to a threadless lover. I walked in the other day from work and she was on the computer after spending an hour looking through shirts and told me that she had put some in our cart that she wanted. (I smiled on the inside and devilishly thought “hmmm I wonder if this good experience of trying new things can be converted to the bedroom?....* oh sorry this is still a family blog*) I have now converted my entire family over to Threadless lovers. Even my 2 year old will look at me when I’m wearing a threadless shirt and say “ I yike your shirt daddy” (at 2 he has a little trouble with his “L’s”) He also loves his “Cowboy Shirt” – Optical Illusion Kid and his “Dinosaur Shirt” – We’re on the Same Level, and ask to wear them regularly.

I say all of this because I wanted to share my real family with my Threadless family and encourage you to do the same as well and post pics of you and your family/friends in threadless gear here in this forum.

I use the term family loosely. I know that we are not all at the same life stage so good friends, BF/GF, Pets (though that might be creepy however if others post pics of their animals I will get a threadless shirt for our dog Molly and post a pic of her. )

I don’t want to take away from the street team stuff but I thought that this would be more group photos and hopefully everyone in your pics is not super cheesey in the same shirts.

Here is some of my family sportin their threadless gear!

I recently received a gift card from itunes for $25. I find that when I go to itunes with out a plan and purchase willy nilly I leave spending too much money and unsatisfied with my purchases because quite frankly I buy stupid crap. I find that with too many choices I make bad choices. So I want to know what you would buy or recommend buying. I have very eclectic taste so really no suggestion is a bad one. (Except scream-o it gives me tired head really fast.) So if you would share with me how you would spend $25 itunes dollars It would be cool.

Tycoon's beauty contest for his FIVE mistresses ends in tragedy - when spurned woman drives him and four rivals off a cliff
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 6:43 PM on 17th February 2009


A married Chinese tycoon who could no longer afford to support his five mistresses during the credit crunch held a contest to decide which one to keep.

But when one of the women was eliminated because of her looks, she decided to take revenge - and drove her former lover and her four competitors off a cliff.


The coastal city of Qingdao, where the man met the woman who would change his life so dramatically
She was killed in the crash, while the man and four other women were hospitalised, according to the Shanghai Daily.


At first, officials believed the car crash was an accident.


Then details of the bizarre contest emerged in a letter left by the dead woman, a 29-year-old former waitress named only as Yu.

The woman met the entrepreneur, surnamed Fan, at the restaurant where she worked in the coastal city of Qingdao in 2000 and became his lover.

Fan later introduced her to the four other mistresses - two of his employees and two former clients - with all given a £500 monthly allowance and rent-free apartment, the report said.

However, when Fan's business ran into tough times, he decided to lay off all but one woman.

He hired an instructor from a modelling agency to run a private contest where the women were judged on beauty, singing ability and capacity to drink alcohol held at a hotel in May.

The cash-strapped businessman did not tell the women about his intentions.

Yu was eliminated in the first-round beauty competition and a woman surnamed Liu eventually won after dominating the drinking round, the report said.

When Fan told Yu she was dismissed and that he was selling her apartment, she took matters into her own hands.

She convinced the group to go on a sightseeing tour with her before returning to her home province - then drove them all off a remote mountain road.


After the accident Fan paid Yu's parents the equivalent of £60,000 as compensation for her death.


The other four mistresses left him - as did his wife once she learned of his affairs.



The Contest seems like a pretty good way to save money in tough economic times, but when your "employees" show such insubordination, it really makes you feel sorry about the position that this man gets stuck in. But ultimately I guess he saved money seeing that he no longer has to take care of any of them, or his wife. I doubt there are Chineese alamony laws (but I don't pretend to be an expert in Chinese divorce law).

In the wake of finding the new Chinese Threadless I thought that it might be good to translate the slogans I am pimping into how they might look on the bizarro threadless:
with bizarro sloganeers

iquitjustsmoking
Hungry Monster nice eating
davidflomdarras
Blind Dog is good date
klokun
Superstition All Time Happy
simpretinlobot
Follow others I'm Cool!
Lbthachel
Bad remorse is good feeling
trooplesent
A Pibb in a doctor is Mr. Pepper






PIMPBOT 5000 here letting you know it is within my program to show these hoes!

It is my job to get the people what they want and if they don’t want what I have I must cut a bitch! So listen up or get cut!

My new product line is simple and today I am showcasing two different slogans that deserve your attention and votes.

This first slogan comes from someone who is out there everyday working their ass off but not getting the cred they deserve and quite frankly their slogan reminds me of what my ladies say about me. And let me tell you I am always hungry!

ivejustquitsmoking

Monsters are really nice. Until they get hungry.

This second slogan is from one of Threadless’s new golden boys that is the hottest piece out there right now and can be had for a few simple votes. Get him while he is red hot and still reppin the greater metroplex of Dallas Fort Worth!

davidfromdallas aka. DFD

Blind dates go much smoother with guide dogs.




There are also a few old hoes I keep around that I would like to mention so you can tap these too if you are feeling up to it.

Krokun Superstitions are better than Normal Stitions

Simpletinrobot Follow me I’m going somewhere cool

Rbthatcher I have never felt remorse… and I kind of feel bad about it.

Toopersent Pibb might be the man, but Pepper’s got a p.h.d.

My Friends and I always debate Hypotheticals that would put one thing/person/animal up against another thing/person/animal in a fight to the death. Nerdy… absolutely, but fun to think about. I have put many of the different hypothetical fights we have debated and thrown them into a bracket. If you would like to comment on them predict, debate, or fill out your bracket to see who would be the Victor in the end here are the different situations. If you would like to add your own hypothetical I am open to those debates as well, but this is just something fun to ponder when you have nothing better to do. And if you get called out on one of your answers be prepared to defend it, you may not be wrong but you will have to give a good answer for it J

North
1 Spiderman Vs Batman

2 He-Man Vs. The Hulk

3 Norwegian Black Metal Band Vs. Swiss Guards at the Vatican

4 AquaMan Vs. Flipper (The Dolphin)



South
1 Harry Potter (7th year) Vs. Luke Skywalker (Still training to be a Jedi)

2 Terminator Vs. Jedi

3 Kangaroo Vs. Professional MMA Champion

4 Bo and Luke Duke Vs. Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello (cops from Chips)




East
1 Tiger Vs. Spitting Cobra

2 Silverback Gorilla Vs. Grizzly Bear

3 Giraffe Vs. Baby Brontosaurus

4 ALF (80’s TV Character) Vs. A Bobcat


West
1 Nessie (Loch Ness) Vs. Giant Squid

2 Hippo Vs. Shark

3 Crocodile Vs. Alligator

4 Mutant Chernobyl Chipmunk Vs. Rabid Squirrel

Do you feel that having an updated percentage of the votes that a slogan is getting is a good thing? I think that it skews the voting making the first few votes crucial. If a person has a high score then on some level I think that the voters will want to like it or give it a better score or at least a benefit of the doubt to find a way to like it. And in turn they will also look at a slogan with a low score and tend to vote it down or find it much easier to vote it down. I feel it is similar to seeing polling numbers during an election or seeing results from states and people like to vote for the winner to say they are on the winning side. It sounds stupid but any good campaign manager will tell you that it is very important to get positive poll numbers out in any way shape or form to keep people voting for you. I am not saying that people don’t know how to make up their mind or are lemmings that just follow the crowd, I am saying that on some level I feel the percentage skews the numbers and gives you higher totals or lower totals due to peoples need to be on the right side. I would just like to know your thoughts on the subject.

Ultimately I think that a good slogan is a good slogan and a bad slogan is a bad slogan ( I have plenty of the latter) but I do feel that some scores would change if the percentage was not always on top and easy to see.

I’ll just hang up and listen…

I am now organizing my slogans by weeks. I have gone through and cleaned some of them up. I have gone through and made cuts for what is still in the running. Many of my slogans are like minor league baseball players, they have no chance in hell of making it big but they were able to fill up space on the roster. Some of the ones that I really liked are no longer in the running and I am going to try to cut them quicker if they are not going to look like they will make it. I would ask that you come in side and look around and see what you like. Feedback on the slogans would be greatly appreciated and because I have changed this post up drastically just ignore the big misunderstanding in the first few responses.




Week 6

· A bull in a china shop is better than a bee in your underwear.

· The Spork proves not all hybrids are efficient.

· Why is the Grapefruit the only fruit that gets its own spoon?

· Snow Cones are a much better idea than Lava Cubes

· Deep Down, My Heart Is Organic.

· Volcano’s are just earths little pimples

· Any mystery can be solved with a magnifying glass and a pipe.

· Soccer is like Cuba, hated in the US but loved by everyone else.

·Disk Golf: because real golf requires shoes and frowns on die dye

· In Sumo Wrestling the Fat Kids Get Picked First.

· My Favorite Vegetables are Jelly Beans and Candy Corn

· After I score a touchdown I spike the controller

·Gum is really just a treadmill for your jaw.







Week 5

· When pigs fly the price of bacon will skyrocket.

· When dolphins grow thumbs humanity will be screwed.

· I bet the first guy to hang glide was probably suicidal

· Suppose We Eliminate Hypothetical Situations

· Long Story Short… THE END

· I have an allergic reaction to Spelling Bees.

· The Big Bad Wolf Had Great Lung Capacity.

· I like my women like I like my jokes, practical with a good laugh

· I accidentally burned a bridge at my last job, Wooden Bridges INC

· When we colonize other planets proctologist will live on Uranus

· Cheese Balls: Tasty Snack, Terrible Nickname

· I can play any song in EXPERT MODE on my air guitar.

· The Pinky Swear: When a binding legal contract just won’t do.

· Triple Dog Dare: Challenging Your Manhood Three Whole Dogs.

· I know the meaning of life, but I pinky swore I’d never tell.

· Your hair looks as cool as my jean shorts and fanny pack.

· I wear my “J.esus I.s H.oly A.nd D.ivine” bracelet.



Week 4

· What’s So Special About The Bee’s Knees Anyway?

· Only lesser people will call me pretentious.

· Real Lava will just melt the lamp… and the table and floor

· If I had a nickel for all my miscalculations I’d have 47 cents

· Labeling things “INDIE” is a nice way to say It Sucks!

· Where are we going and why are we in a hand basket?

· Would blacking out from sniffing white-out be ironic?

· Hummus is tasty, Hamas is not!

· I like my smurfs like I like my cheese…Bleu…and in chunks

· Just because you are louder doesn’t make your argument better.


Week 3

· If you start to see your carbon footprint you need new shoes

· Stop drop and roll doesn’t work if you’re on fire because of lava

· If that warm fuzzy feeling continues, you should get tested.

· If you get hit with a boomerang you can only blame yourself.

· BTW just because you get louder doesn’t make your argument better

· Seekers get all the snitches

· More people would play badminton if they renamed the shuttlecock

· Badminton: it will smack you in the shuttlecock.

· In Sports: The Biggest Mouth Usually Has The Cleanest Uniform

· I pick my bracket by the toughness of their mascot

· NASCAR: Giving every kid with a mullet a hero to look up to.

· The last time I got to third base was little league.





Week 2

· Come See our Band! We can almost play 8 songs in Expert Mode!

· 2 wrongs don’t make a right… but 3 lefts do.

· Death by Chocolate is the tastiest way to die

· Nerds vs Geeks ( a war that never gets very violent)

· Spelling Bees or Killer Bees: Only one kind killed my self-esteem

· If that warm fuzzy feeling continues, you should get tested.

· Blue Tooth: it’s like getting a platinum grill for your ear.
· Chocolate Rain over Vanilla Ice is a pretty good cocktail

· Do Nutcrackers ever feel they could do more with their lives?

· I tell my secrets to giraffes, because they don’t tell anyone.





Week 1

· Tickling people’s fancy can lead to a restraining order

· Lets Play totalitarianism, and I’ll be the dictator

· A baby seal walked into a club…

· Books: Killing the rainforest one page at a time! ‘

· Hansel and Gretel’s parents suck!

· The Pirate Movie was rated “Arr” for too much booty

· Sure, tofu tastes like meat. Bad gummy meat

· Blogs: a way to entertain 5 of the 8 people who read it.