I Want a New SD T-Shirt design

[Waenara]

@raz

But definitely a monkey butler shirt. It would have a drawing of a monkey standing upright with a little butler outfit on, holding a tray with food or something, and he would be wearing a monocle. Underneath the monkey would be the caption “A monkey that I wish for.”

Brilliant!

[Helen_s_Eidolon]

I also really wouldn’t mind if the style was slightly different. While I do love the old t-shirt to sleep in, it’s not so flattering to the female figure to wear out in public.

[AncientHumanoid]

@Brynda

I second Twickster’s idea of just the masthead. I also second her dislike of Slug’s art. Yech.

Thirded. Or fourthded or fifthded, whatever we’re up to now. I may not know art, but I know what I like. And I don’t like Slug’s art.

A tee shirt, hat, coffee mug, or Porshe 911 with the masthead design would be so nice…

[Man_With_a_Cat]

A series of t-shirts. These three would make a good start…

• "Top Ten Reasons to be a Doper: (1) To prove you’re smarter and cooler than “them” (2) You have an extra $14.95 burning a hole… (3) Hi Opal!

• “Like my T-Shirt? Bring Pie!”

• “Hi Opal!”

Ooooh, a double-double reverse entendre…

[TubaDiva]

@treis

There has been precisely one Straight Dope[sup]tm[/sup] (rather simple if you ask me) T-Shirt and one coffee mug design since I have been reading the Dope. If you ask me this is a woefully small amount. I think there definately should be at least 2-3 more designs. Now you might be asking yourself “Self, where is the Straight Dope going to come up with 2-3 more T-Shirt designs?” Where in the world could we find talented people to design a T-Shirt for a pittance (read: nothing)? The solution is to have a contest and let the Teeming Millions design and then vote on the best.

So Cecil, whats the chances of us seeing a T-Shirt design contest in the near future?

It may be a while before Cecil gets to this, so I’ll try to answer on his behalf. I’m not speaking FOR Cecil (Cecil speaks for himself and Ed handles the details), but I can pass along what I know on this issue.

All of you are well intentioned, but we have no official Straight Dope t-shirt contest in the works for the same reason there’s not a “design a Mickey Mouse t-shirt” contest.

The Straight Dope name, the logo, etc., are all the property of the Chicago Reader and they decide who has use of it for reproduction. We have requested that they allow the sale of some other items besides the basics in the Straight Dope store, but this request has not yet been granted. They keep very tight control over these rights and they are picky as to content and quality.

If it were up to me you’d be able to buy Straight Dope hockey pucks and shot glasses and underwear, but it’s not up to me.

Y’all have fun coming up with ideas and slogans – and we’ll even submit your proposals to the Reader – but please know unless/until we get official permission, this is all in the realm of the maybe at best.

your humble TubaDiva

[Giant_Spongess]

Okay…every time I see this thread I think it says “I want a new STD.” :eek:

[Cat_Whisperer]

Party-pooper.

I still want a t-shirt with the Straight Dope logo on it. Every other team has a uniform; we should too.

Can we do a write-in campaign to the Chicago Reader to let us have t-shirts? Sort of a Bart and Lisa Simpson thing - we’ll all keep writing in until they let us have t-shirts, so they might as well let us have them now.

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[NurseCarmen]

@featherlou

Somebody around here has t-shirts with “Cite?” on them - that’s also good.

I hope this doesn’t come across as pimping, since “Cite!?” isn’t soley a SDMB phenomena.

[twickster]

I suspect the info they need is what our humble tubadiva will pass on: viz., that there’s a whole slew of people who have no intention of ever buying the only T-shirt that’s currently available, but that these same people would pay money to buy a T-shirt with the logo on it. Lots of people would pay money. Lots of money.

[treis]

@TubaDiva

It may be a while before Cecil gets to this, so I’ll try to answer on his behalf. I’m not speaking FOR Cecil (Cecil speaks for himself and Ed handles the details), but I can pass along what I know on this issue.

All of you are well intentioned, but we have no official Straight Dope t-shirt contest in the works for the same reason there’s not a “design a Mickey Mouse t-shirt” contest.

The Straight Dope name, the logo, etc., are all the property of the Chicago Reader and they decide who has use of it for reproduction. We have requested that they allow the sale of some other items besides the basics in the Straight Dope store, but this request has not yet been granted. They keep very tight control over these rights and they are picky as to content and quality.

If it were up to me you’d be able to buy Straight Dope hockey pucks and shot glasses and underwear, but it’s not up to me.

Y’all have fun coming up with ideas and slogans – and we’ll even submit your proposals to the Reader – but please know unless/until we get official permission, this is all in the realm of the maybe at best.

your humble TubaDiva

Thanks for the reply. I can’t imagine the reader turning this down as we are basically offering to do all the work for no cost.

[Cat_Whisperer]

Wait a second - Straight Dope underwear? Would that be…moderator underoos?

(Can we get jackboots and mod hats, too?)

[AncientHumanoid]

@twickster

I suspect the info they need is what our humble tubadiva will pass on: viz., that there’s a whole slew of people who have no intention of ever buying the only T-shirt that’s currently available, but that these same people would pay money to buy a T-shirt with the logo on it. Lots of people would pay money. Lots of money.

Exactly.

If we just had nice, NORMAL looking item to buy, I bet many more would move.

I’ve purchased several books and coffee mugs, both for myself and as gifts, but that shirt is atrocious. I wouldn’t put it on a dead cat to bury it. I’m sure not going to subject a friend to such a monstrosity.

;j

[elbows]

So, I’m just curious.

If I were to build the described prototype, just for my ownself, didn’t sell it to anyone or anything. And just wore it around, I barely leave my house in reality.

Would I be breaking the law? Would I get into trouble? I am, in another country and everything.

Just want to know beforehand, that’s all.

[Maastricht]

@JohnBckWLD

I envisioned something like this

That’s awesome. …everything from trainwreck to deathray. Now, if only you could get a "How YOU doin’ " somewhere in there…