The yin-yang-ish swirl of nerdy and pop culture, w/o the typical "hey, baby..." of pickup lines.

Cute - and I've never had anyone use a pick up line on me. I think it's quite funny.

ever heard of typography?

Good concept, much less annoying than I thought it would be. However, it needs some work aesthetically speaking.

funny. but to get the nerd point across, maybe in the shape of something else. a mouse or a keyboard perhaps? $3

I like it a lot.

Aw, that's cute.

Make it in the shape of a mouse and you'd hit the point home.

haha, those are hysterical (the nerd ones) and i like that the last "pop culture" one is "nice shoes" lol. ya, the shape of a mouse would be funny, and i don't know how much i did the white on black...maybe try some other colors (the text colors looks good)

this is so awesome... agreed that it needs a tweak, but i'd ever wear it as-is... made me laugh a lot.

hahahahahahah @ im dna helicase and i can unzip your jeans lololololol

I don't think this really works on a t-shirt, no matter how well executed it is. It works on a bulletin board in a dorm or something like that.

What if the second half were sarcastic responses? I think that would be a better opposite.

I'd buy it with a little tweaking.

Some of those are really funny but I'd be so insulted if someone really used some of those lines on me.

visually very uninteresting. sorry.

My favorite is "nice shoes".

I like the concept, but perhaps you can make the tee color white - or of any other as long as the design background's color is the same as the shirt.

this is rockin'

Oh my god. I don't know how I feel about it on a t shirt, but I would absolutely die if someone used one of those nerd lines on me. I will have to think this one over and come back because I'm laughing too hard to consider the aesthetics.

cute concept, but yeah, it needs a little tweaking. my only gripe is the helicase one should be spelled 'genes'...

by the way,

"nice shoes... wanna fuck?"

is my favourite line Ever!

Ha! "Can I test the k of your bedsprings?"

That's just bad. Love it!

maybe instead of a yin-yang use a piece of crumpled paper or something? i don't like the way the phrases are so contained, they need to be spilling out or something like that. Otherwise, it would keep me entertained. maybe just abandon and container altogether and just let the phrases scroll along the shirt, randomly placed.

Ha ha love it! Someone in biology told me the DNA helicase one the other day.

I'll bet you spent a lot of time on that text circle. But at the sacrifice of time spent on colour choices and design. Work on that some more. It's also difficult for lazy folks (like myself, I'll admit) to want to bother reading the text.

Hello, All!
Thanks a bunch for your feedback. I've gotten a few ideas from some of your comments. This is my first shirt, so I'm quite new to this -- would I need to incorporate some of the suggestions in a new design and re-submit it after the voting, or is there some way to edit the image here?

haha And I was a biology major, so I do know that it should be genes instead of jeans, but I wasn't sure people would get it. Perhaps I should've put "genes... er, jeans?"

The design was initially created to fit a Petri dish, held by a gloved hand. But I kinda liked the simplicity of the solo swirl.

I also originally had a few lines of text depicting the pick-up lines running across the shirt, but it looked a tad complicated.

Again, thanks muchly! :)

I like the last line on the right:

nice shoes.

ftw.

i don't like it so centered...maybe in a corner or bigger and wrap around the side? the type looks tiny, and it's always a bit awkward staring at people's chests trying to figure them out.

Love this! $5.

I love the idea and I like the colors of the words. Though the words should deffinitly be bigger and I'm not a fan of the white on black. I also think it would be cooler in the shape of some computer related thing, but I would so buy it in the shape it's in.

I just got "Baby -- wanna test the 'k' of my bedsprings". Wow physics, grad-school is coming back to me...I actually feel nerdy again.

OMG I LOVE this shirt my boyfriend's a total dweeb $5 and a buy! I'd give it a 15 if I could

fix up some typographical errors (in the way of typography) and it would be a thousand times better. If you are unable to, it is still awesome! I loves it~ $5

Yeah, it should be "I wish I were a derivative..."

But I thought that one was hilarious.

I like this, but I'd like some consistancy in the capitals starting sentences, maybe a capital I instead of an i, and actual italics instead of /this/. Oh yes, and I agree you should use the subjunctive in the derivative one!

I thought I was the queen of lame pickups (seriously I'd make a super guy), but I bow down to you, O Great Master. Love the math ones. But I agree with some people that the general appearance of the design could be improved on. And maybe on a white background, with no clear definition to the circle shape? Yeah.

'Are we in a submarine? 'Cause I feel like I'm drowning in your gaze/Do you have a Band-Aid? 'Cause I just fell for you' should be included, those are classics, like the CPR one.

why a ying-yang? doesnt look that great but i like the idea of putting pick up lines on a shirt. 3

i like it once i took the time to actually read what was on it. my favorite's the "can i be your homework? i could sit on your desk and you could do me all night" one. if it were bigger on the shirt so people could see it better, i'd probably get it.

oh man thats sweet....i wish you could make it more shirt like

I think it is a great idea, I agree it could do with a bit of work, but for those who complain about too much text, they can ......................... right off!

i think if you make the whole shirt white, and remove the black circle and make the design bigger, the design would be better.

I dunno if I'm diggin' this one so much... It looks sort of like the Pepsi emblem at first glance. I do like the line itself though, so maybe rework the design.

Amusing, but not much to look at. And don't force your text into aligement, just go in and kern it. It looks shitty as is.

cool concept... maybe have it written on crumpled paper... change the font to something less, umm, boring...

you must be an angel, because i wanna have sex with you.

NICE!!

i don't think it works well visually as it is, but the concept is funny...i agree that sarcastic responses on the other half would be funny

yeah sarcastic responses. but they should float around the shirt and there should only be a few

Absolutely love the cheesy pickup lines. Not so keen on the actual layout, partly because it is really hard to read. But it gets a thumbs up for the lines ;)

I love the concept. It's interesting how you use /s to indicate italics. Kind of nerdy, since that's an IRC/MUD thing, but you could probably just use actual italics. :)

One suggestion... maybe it should be in the shape of a double helix or a test tube or something more science related rather than a yin-yang.

You copied almost ALL of these off of existing t-shirts and facebook groups.

Thats theft, and the shirt sucks to boot.

This should never have gotten past review.

love it but i would leave it all one color in the background

5$

These are all pick-up lines that I've heard from various friends, or that I made up myself. I did recently join the "DNA helicase" Facebook group, but I first heard that line about five years ago. I doubt any of the information is copyrighted.

Would the design look better with lines running across the shirt? I had that initially, but it looked a bit confusing with the central circle. I was also thinking of putting the text into an Erlenmeyer Flask-ish shape. Or perhaps a computer mouse next to a 'real' mouse...

To incorporate some of the commenters' suggestions, should I just redesign and resubmit? What's the official process?

resubmit and use your own handwriting to make it :)

i think its a pretty awesome idea :D even if it's not my thing but it's pretty funny XD

I love how "nice shoes, wanna f*ck?" Is there, but cut off.

Use some caps. Good idea, though.

And a different shape. Or no shape?

LOL @ the first nerdy one

nice shoes :) haha

'not copyrighted' does not mean 'original.'

This site isn't about compiling existing premises into unattractive t-shirts.

By that standard alone, this fails.

alevander...harsh...too harsh

i dig the shirt, and think that jeans should stay jeans because that's how the line goes. i do think that the shape/delivery needs some work, but i dig it, i really do!

Too harsh? Hardly.

It's stolen material, the shape doesn't make any sense, and most people have agreed that both the typography and graphics are bland and uninspired.

I don't understand how anyone could still vouch for something that is clearly a ripoff of other t-shirts.

cool concept, but eh design

nerds can spell.

Lil metaphor for ya'll here on Threadless regarding originality:

John Williams (of ET, Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc...) is a world famous and extremely wealthy composer, but any musician will tell you his music, while entertaining, fitting to the movie scenarios, and quite lovely to listen to, is completely "ripped off." You can pick out phrases from Mozart, Haydn, Wagner, etc...from each and every song that man wrote.

Now, this does not mean that the work he does is unoriginal and bad. There are only so many notes in the scale, but what he does is fit them all together in a way that is aestetically pleasing and works for that situation.

The argument, therefore, should not be the originality of the theme, but instead how well it was executed. There have been complaints of pandas, skeletons, milk, and other such common appearances on Threadless, but the way designs should be judged is through content, graphics, and the whole shebang put together. "Original" ideas are great, but we're a planet of 6+ million people. While people come up with new ideas every day, this doesn't mean that old ideas are suddenly moot.

In that vein, I love these pick up lines...I think they're great, and I'd love to see them on a tshirt. However, I'm not sure about the execution of this fine idea....and if I had any further thoughts I will most certainly share them with you, izzel.