Profile for Trimm Trabb - First thing I thought...

Trimm Trabb aka Anouk (aka t3h N0ukz0rz!) is a 24.44 year old girl, has been a member since November 23, 2004, has scored 5624 submissions, giving an average score of 1.86.

Jul 30 '07 by Trimm Trabb

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First thing I thought...

about Human Nature

... when I saw this design was:

"It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches, it only takes one match to burn a thousand trees"

From the song "Thousand Trees" by the Stereophonics.

I like that song and therefor I like this shirt. :)

Vindemiatrix on Jul 30 '07 at 1:45pm

I think it was deliberately based on that song. :)

thekevinmcgraw on Jul 30 '07 at 1:54pm

yeah, first thing i thought as well. they changed it to 10,000 which sort of suggests they're aware of their own plagiarism. oh well. enjoy the money, sir.

thekevinmcgraw on Jul 30 '07 at 1:54pm

ahem, 1,000,000*

Vindemiatrix on Jul 30 '07 at 1:56pm

Plagiarism? Are you serious? References and homages are not the same as plagiarism.

thekevinmcgraw on Jul 30 '07 at 1:56pm

man i need to read EVERYTHING before saying stuff. however, it's slightly a little more than "inspired" i should say. it's essentially just a diagram of the hook from the song. and not in a biggie was right sort of way, cause that's at least a parody and not a literal same meaning same translation pictorial version of what the artist was saying. ok, done.

Vindemiatrix on Jul 30 '07 at 2:02pm

I think Biggie Was Right was exactly that - "a literal same meaning same translation pictorial version of what the artist was saying". And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's a pop-culture reference, and an interpretation of the idea in a new format. And in this case, it's spreading the message that the artist wanted to get across. So yay!

ludicrous louisa on Jul 30 '07 at 4:11pm

Yes, I thought automatically of the song and then I read the description - it is based off a thousand trees.

^PS, that wasn't actually the message of the song. The 1000 trees bit was a metaphor about rumours.

Anoxia on Jul 30 '07 at 7:13pm

The saying is older than the song
anyone is Scouting remember it?
How many situpons do you think had that embroidered on them?
How many people remember situpons????

Tonteau on Jul 30 '07 at 7:15pm

What Anoxia said^^

And I had to tell that to the last blogger who posted about this as well. Cultured times we live in.

jedivampirasasin on Jul 30 '07 at 8:38pm

I REMEMBER SITUPONS IN GIRL SCOUTS.

Trimm Trabb on Aug 01 '07 at 3:58pm

I wasn't sure if it was a saying or not, that's why I said it reminded me of the song. I'm dutch, so I'm not aware of all English sayings. But that's an oldie then?

5 days later

Jebs on Aug 06 '07 at 4:12pm

hi everybody...plagiarism? i am a little sad that people think about plagiarism with this design, it's a tribute, an illustration of a few words. That was the forst thing i said when i submitted it... Anyway...i'm still glad, it' s not my favorite design, but being printed on Threadless is a REALLY special feeling