i like

stupid... sorry

lost the text. the illustration is cool. 5

it's not stupid. don't listen to that nut. and i doubt he's really sorry.

great drawing.

keeep text!
looove 5$

please print, threadless!!

you can't just go around making t-shirts out of bad puns, there are consequences

This... is really cute.

I dig the font, too.

i love the illustration but would not wear a pun on a shirt. 4 because i cannot reconcile those two things.

i can't reconcile the "cannot reconcile" comment but funny pun.

Love the illustration, hate the text. Let strong images speak for themselves!

whoever said to get rid of the text...i completley disagree.

i like this a lot. it's lame & cute...but that's what makes it funny. i would buy it.

The text is worthy, but you should have done something interesting with it. Cuz straight, plain text on a stylized angled design doesn't look good at all.

I'm laughing over here, but Pifman is right.

gotta have the text. but it can be stylized. nice

The tragedy of all this, sadly, is that I uploaded the wrong image. I created several versions with hand-rendered type (an element common to most of my work), but I also tried a couple with regular typefaces, just for the sake of comparison. The hand-rendered was clearly better, but unfortunately, I mistakenly chose the wrong image during the upload process. And being a Threadless newbie, I was sad to learn that you cannot replace or update images. So, there you go. I won't make that mistake again. I've gotten psycho now during the submission process, checking and re-checking to make sure I have the right one...

Cool shirt. I would prefer without the text.

aww!! that's sad, but it's still an awesome idea and should be a shirt, you can submitt the same idea just change the font, but honestly, either way I'd buy it.

keep the text. And it's not a pun.
5$

You're right, matildaben. It's NOT a pun. It's a mixed metaphor. Thanks for pointing that out...

it wouldn't make any sense w/o the text. not sure about the font, though. can't think of a specific one that would be better. hmmm mabey look online @ some type foundries, or something. i dunno

rocket science/brain surgery?

i agree with everyone. it stands alone....lose the text, awesome illus....just let the shirt's title doe the 'splaining...

lose the text.

I think the text is great, the image doesn't convey fully the mixed cliche of rocket surgery. I'd have liked to have seen the proper image but I'm 5$ this anyway.

Lose the text, please. It stands by itself. Great work.

Great concept and play on phrases. Don't cut the text, give it a custom font or something.

I think you should keep the text, otherwise it won't click when people look at it. I think this is pretty clever, it always irritates me when people say that cause there's no such thing.

I think the word "bad" and "pun" do not belong in the same sentence.
Puns are great.
Shirt is great.
$5

shirt is awesome.

love the shirt. Without the text, it will be confusing.

tehe it's silly

keep the text. eventhough the graphic is great, the text adds the extra little piece of the metaphor/pun (whatever you want to call it). Great shirt! 5$

the companion shirt, it's not brain science? ...

next time, just upload a link to the new art and people will see what
you intended.

LOVE IT.

you are a funny man!

clever.

puns are great.
mixed metaphors are even better.
$5

cute! =D

i hate when people say "rocket surgery" NO. it's rocket science OR BRAIN SURGERY. "it's not brain science."

therefore.

i love this.

I like the design, but I'd like it even more if the text was gone.

I don't say that often, but this design really does stand alone. :)

take out the text

love it
leave the text

rocket science? you mean??

look, this shirt is awesome, and I need it.

not a pun. thus this design annoys me

THESE WORDS ARE FROM A MOSSIMO TSHIRT (i dont know if u have mossimo everywhere but we have it in australia and when i went shopping last tuesday i saw it ) blatent rip off

I like it!

I love it. I would prefer without the text however. The joke is evident on it's own. Nice style.

Handsome imposter: let me assure you that (A) I have never seen the Mossimo shirt you mention and (B) the phrase has existed long before as an inadvertent mingking of the phrases "rocket science" and "brain surgery". Mossimo did not invent it, And I SERIOUSLY doubt my shirt looks anything like the alleged shirt. It's not a rip-off at all, let alone a "blatant" rip-off...

Yeah, I mean to type "inadverent MINGLING". Although, "mingking" IS funnier...

Wow, I'm am such a lame typist. I meant to type "inadvertent" that time. Geez.

excellent font... $5

Haha, I love it.

Haha, I would definitely buy this.

I don't see why people are telling you take the text out. I'm glad to see that most of the people that have commented can see the metaphor/pun, but I doubt most people would.

I get confronted all the time about my shirts. I hate having to explain things to people about them because they can't figure it out for themselves. I'm pretty sure if you took the text out and I wore this shirt, I would get numerous, "I don't get it"s throughout the day. With the text, it clears everything up.

This is definitely a great shirt. As someone who appreciates a good mixed metaphor, I say keep the text intact!

I was Googling 'Rocket Surgery' today and lo, here I am. It's not a pun and I love the image, but seeing as the blended metaphor is used in the negative - i.e. something is NOT rocket surgery ergo you should be able to manage - why not have a thought bubble that adds a twist, rather than just a label for stupid people who 'don't get it'?

Gary Larson is brilliant at these nuances - e.g., "When the monster came, Lola, like the peppered moth and the arctic hare, remained motionless and undetected. Harold, of course,was immediately devoured." (if you don't know that one, she is sitting in a print floral dress on a print floral chair in a room with a print floral carpet and print floral wallpaper). The genius is in one word - "When".

So for me, the guy should be thinking something like "Actually, this IS kinda tricky" or "OK, now for the science bit".

FYI, my current favorite 'new cliche' is "let's shoot this pig into space". Kind of appropriate...

This is fantastic... because my father actually says "it's not brain science" all the time.. and it's a strange thing because.. my mom and I know what he means... On a similar note, he often suggests that we should "make a bee hive"...(this is worse than a mixed metaphor..) By the way.. this is not a pun.. everyone has to stop saying that.

I love the design. I just started a postdoc with NASA and my wife just started her residency in surgery. I need to have two of these t-shirts as quickly as possible. Please let me know when they are out or if you post it on Cafe Press. Nice work.

I think that this needs to be seen again. And then printed.

This shirt seriously needs another chance. I would love to buy this shirt, and would as soon as it becomes available!

Mixed metaphors are always fun. But being the super geek that I am, this image also reminds me of when Spock and Bones "performed surgery" on a photon torpedo...

Of course I would buy this shirt.

I say this all the time. I was all prepared to submit my own shirt, thinking I was a genius and this is such a funny original idea. When I saw yours, I was infuriated to find it was not printed. Its well done. I would have like to have seen your custom type, but it still rocks. Threadless, please print!

Awwwwww. I'd love to buy it!

I'm thinking this has something to do with Trailer Park Boys?