# I need suggestions for geeky shirt(s) to wear to GenCon
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 30, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283 "2010-03-30T01:14:25Z")
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### Author:  [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/1 "2010-03-30T01:14:25Z")
My wife and I will be manning a booth at this year’s [GenCon Indy](http://www.gencon.com/2010/indy/default.aspx), so I’m looking for suggestions of the geekiest t-shirts to be found on the net. We’re there for 4 days, so are looking for as many as 4 different shirts to wear.
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/2 "2010-03-30T01:31:56Z")
[Think Geek](http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/) has awesome t-shirts for geeks. I think my brother-in-law, the Mac consultant, will be getting [rock paper scissors lizard spock](http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/b597/) for his next birthday. Or maybe [You read my t-shirt; that’s enough social interaction for one day](http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/a69c/).
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/3 "2010-03-30T02:56:20Z")
Do you have a Napoleon Dynamite T-shirt?
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/4 "2010-03-30T03:02:08Z")
A couple of geeky t-shirts which _I_ will be wearing to GenCon:
[http://www.threadless.com/product/1951/LightSaver](http://www.threadless.com/product/1951/LightSaver)
[http://www.threadless.com/product/2076/They\_re\_Real](http://www.threadless.com/product/2076/They_re_Real)
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### Author:  [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/5 "2010-03-30T16:33:26Z")
I think any of the OOTS t-shirts (“Evil: A Growth Industry”) would be a good choice.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/6 "2010-03-30T17:29:41Z")
Why old GenCon T-shirts of course - bonus if they are from the Milwaukee or better yet Parkside or Lake Geneva era.
In the same theme - T shirts from other game conventions.
Brian
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### Author:  [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/7 "2010-03-30T17:37:45Z")
Good teeshirt slogans include:
The voices in my head keep debating the lyrics to “Hotel California.”
and
I’m donating my body to Science Fiction.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/8 "2010-03-30T20:45:12Z")
[ThinkGeek](http://www.thinkgeek.com/) definitely has geeky shirts, as does [J!nx](http://jinx.com/) (including official shirts for WoW and other Blizzard games). [Threadless](http://www.threadless.com/) can supply quite a few shirts that would qualify as geeky, up to and including the tongue-in-cheek [Three Keyboard Cat Moon](http://www.threadless.com/product/1960/Three_Keyboard_Cat_Moon).
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### Author:  [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/9 "2010-03-30T20:50:48Z")
Oooh oooh! What booth? I’m finally going in a sane way this year (don’t ask), and I may even do the 'hall… I could wave hi and you could wonder, “Who the hell is that guy?”
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/10 "2010-03-30T20:58:02Z")
Is there not a standing Dopefest at geek cons in general? If not, why not?
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### Author:  [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/11 "2010-03-30T22:11:35Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#):
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> Oooh oooh! What booth? I’m finally going in a sane way this year (don’t ask), and I may even do the 'hall… I could wave hi and you could wonder, “Who the hell is that guy?”
We’ll be at our own vendor booth, peddling my wife’s handmade GEEKSOAP™.
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#):
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> Is there not a standing Dopefest at geek cons in general? If not, why not?
I’d never even heard of this thing until a week ago - my wife is the gamer in the family.
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### Author:  [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/12 "2010-03-31T16:41:51Z")
If you go to Cafe Press and type “dungeons” into the search bar you will find 14,900 designs from various makers on shirts and related gear, some of them well-designed. Sample sayings: “When the DM smiles, it’s already too late!” “Shirt of Invisibility (currently deactivated)”
If nothing in the 14,900 rolls a natural 20 for you, create your own saying/photo/design, set upan account on Cafe Press, post your thing and then buy your own shirt or other gear from yourself (I believe the account is free and Cafe Press gets a minimum fee for all merchandise sold). If a number of other people also buy your design you might even make a little money.
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/13 "2010-04-01T03:20:30Z")
That’s what I did to make this: [http://www.cafepress.com/FlavorD.126336181](http://www.cafepress.com/FlavorD.126336181)
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### Author:  [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/14 "2010-04-01T12:54:44Z")
You really only need one good geeky t-shirt to start, as there are a billion vendors that you can buy them from (if you have the time, of course). I’ll probably take my Jayne “You are beginning to damage my calm” t-shirt, my “You’re not the DM of me” t-shirt, and a couple others that escape me at the moment…
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/15 "2010-04-01T15:49:02Z")
> [@palindromemordnilap](#):
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> If nothing in the 14,900 rolls a natural 20 for you, create your own saying/photo/design, set upan account on Cafe Press, post your thing and then buy your own shirt or other gear from yourself (I believe the account is free and Cafe Press gets a minimum fee for all merchandise sold).
My two cents: as of my last experience with CafePress (several years ago, so things might have changed), they’re overpriced for low quality. The prices are mostly jacked way the hell up, and while text is on a shirt is all right, any images are done as heat transfers, which looks (to me at least) really cheap, \*and \*isn’t very durable at all.
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### Author:  [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/16 "2010-04-01T15:55:46Z")
Geeksoap, now THERE’S an idea whose time has come.
Enjoy,
Steven
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/17 "2010-04-01T20:03:24Z")
> [@Mtgman](#):
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> Geeksoap, now THERE’S an idea whose time has come.
Unfortunately, the people who need it won’t use it. I’d suggest GeekFebreeze.
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/18 "2010-04-02T23:48:23Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> My two cents: as of my last experience with CafePress (several years ago, so things might have changed), they’re overpriced for low quality. The prices are mostly jacked way the hell up, and while text is on a shirt is all right, any images are done as heat transfers, which looks (to me at least) really cheap, \*and \*isn’t very durable at all.
Who else offers one-off one-print shirts? I’m really asking.
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/19 "2010-04-02T23:56:32Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> Unfortunately, the people who need it won’t use it. I’d suggest GeekFebreeze.
Geek ShowertoShower?
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-geeky-shirt-s-to-wear-to-gencon/534283/20 "2010-04-03T01:08:58Z")
> [@Hamlet](#):
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> Geek ShowertoShower?
Geek Shower
to Shower?
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