I was gone for about two years. I'm a daddy now, slowly regaining some time to spare. Let's waste it on threadless!

Here will be my latest slogans, right now there are only two:

2011-03-14: Squirrels only get food if it's in a nutshell.
Now I gotta say that I really like that one... it has double meaning and it's about fooooood and also has fluffy animals in it and and and... and it's still open for voting, ain't that amazing?

2011-03-13: Floor clocks are the easiest to rock around!

Hi threadless, please make the slogan submission timer work with different time zones... It seems like it transfers a timestamp without time zone information to the browser and then relies on a piece of javascript on the client computer to calculate the remaining time...

FRICKINAWESOME had a fine thought in the comments down there... he said it would be nice to just have a limit of one slogan per day without having to bother about the time of day. I've done some thinking on this. Obviously it would have the same time zone related problems. When does a new day begin? Also from a database/session related point of view it might be difficult to handle.

So my latest thought is: Give us a contingent of 7 slogans per week. Just attach a counter to each user id and once per week issue the refills. Then everyone can really submit his slogans in is own time.

Have couch potatoes been done to death? Oh well, doesn't really matter. I just got a Wacom Bamboo and tried to doodle in Illustrator with it for the first time. Next I will try to use the same Bamboo to make it into vector shapes. Still in the process of getting used to it.




First vector shapes are taking shape and color and whatever...



Should I make that potato more fat, still? I am thinking about making the couch really flat under the weight of that bugger. Maybe...


Instead of man-tits I gave him fat cheeks... that way he could even be a she, for all I care : ) Equality for all couch potatoes!




Now with more unfinished ideas... there is the human-size remote control buried in the ground. Also I think I will finish the design off with some sky and leafs above the ground.




I now moved the fertilizer bottle away from this unholy place RIGHT BETWEEN THE LEGS! Also I wrapped the arm root around the remote, pressing one button. Should the wrapping pattern change?



Still thinking if I should make it into a whole underground family of 'tatoes. Everyone doing his/her stuff somewhere in the soil.


Going for the family idea, for now. Might still release singles, eh? The next doodle shows a potato taking a hot bath. The skin hangs on a hook on the wall.





Filling in the shapes. Sadly I have to call it a day, now. My free time is quite sparse.




Trying a little brightening on a charcoal shirt...




Retreating to the one shirt, one potato thing... also trying another color scheme.




Feel very free to leave comments : ) Also feel free to eat potato products and just change the channel. It's ok.

Enjoy and vote happily ever after!

Here is all I got: My Slogan Page

And here is what this blog is about. Little doodles to make our slogans more enjoyable.



Click on the pics if you want to vote for one. Also feel free to throw in your own slogan doodles to promote your stuff : )

This slogan by bygrinstow gave me the idea of sitting down under a very shady character and pondering about hypothetical situations...

Feel free to include little situations of your own, the only rule of the game is that every situation has to end with one character saying "I was in an interesting hypothetical situation the other day..."

Here goes:

I was in an interesting hypothetical situation the other day... I was already way too early for work on a Monday morning when I noticed that my watch was running backwards. "Oh my", I thought, "isn't it I haven't been wearing a watch since the late 90s?" There was obviously something wrong with the way Time had decided to behave, lately. I stepped outside to fetch the paper but immediately was trampled down by wild horses. Later the day a guy with a painted face tickled me awake with a feather. When he noticed I had come back to my senses he said: "I was in an interesting hypothetical situation the other day..."

Did you also come across this buggin' bug about slogans being cut off in weird places just because of some " or &?

Just in case nobody at threadless knows why this happens:
It most likely happens because the length of the database field to store a slogan is set to exactly 65 chars. Before saving a slogan, special chars get converted to HTML representations like "& q u o t ;" or "& a m p ;" so the slogan gets longer and doesn't fit in the database column any more.

The solution is:
Always store the original in the database, never a changed version. The conversion should only be done on output.

If you feel that this creates too much stress on the server because that way the conversion has to be done every time the slogan is displayed then you could, of course, also extend the length of the database field. You just need to check the slogan's length once before converting special chars. The database field would have to allow for 390 chars (65 * 6) to cover the worst case scenario.

While slogans are surely not as easy as ABC, many of them are made up of just that. When looking through my collection I found quite some slogans beginning with the same ones, there especially seems to be a huge I in Slogan.

Trying to think up my own Slogan ABC should be a nice exercise to rattle up the brain!

If you do the same, let rbthatcher know. He had the same idea a few days earlier then me and will sure link to your blog!

Mine looks like this:

Tons of great words get used every day, don't let them go to waste!

Recycling is the key!

Successful slogans should be made of successful words, so the idea here is to try to make a slogan which is made up exclusively of the words used in the 6 latest and greatest typetees.
To make it more fun the slogan has to contain at least one word from each shirt and should ideally stay within the 65 chars limit.

Hit it!

Latest News:
Top 100 List now shows only slogans which are max. 365 days old.
Now showing the latest OSC members's slogans with a direct link to the member's slogan page.
Now showing printed slogans in the Top 100 List with yellow background.
Now showing the OSC Top 100!


Slogans are one of the truly fun parts of threadless, even though it lacks some functionality. One big baddy is the absence of a comment function but sloganeers have found ways around that by building up communities. If you love slogans and you have a feeling that your precious words are not really appreciated by the slobbering masses then hop on over to a brighter place: Official Slogan Club.

Of course word loving natures may also like numbers, so I have set up a simple Slogan Statistics page which can cough up a quick sum up of what the OSC member have up and running. Just hop on over:

Slogan Statistics Page

Try not to stress the server too much, it is a cheap one. Comments are welcome.