I see ''staff", I think staph infection. Besides, no matter how priceless, the cost would have been beyond me. Moderating the board would have driven me mad.
I’ve got a signed book too, from little Ed. And we know what that means. 
Well are we talking US$ or A$? Because if the latter then…
I want a pet squid.
<Making logical deduction>
So, when were you a mod, then? 
Put me down for a couple XXLs as well. I’m in the same boat as you are on the merch and possibly more of a shirt-addict than most people. I would be nice.
(And putting in a vote with any of the turkey designs or art)
Cafe Press was the first thing that came to my mind too. It seems an almost no-brainer to set up a storefront there. I’m tragic enough to want a mug.
The Straight Dope doesn’t own any of the Slug Signorino illustrations, and he is unlikely to enter into any kind of licensing agreement. So SD stuff would probably be limited to the logo with the SD colors and the SD motto.
Yep, and these days there are tons of “on demand” merch options. The problem is that none of them are cheap since the stores take their cuts up front.
On the other hand, they do nicely circumvent all those silly arguments about inventory and, you know, hard work. Upload a few files with the logo and you’re good to go. Shirts! Mugs! Keychains! Marital aids!
A Medium? Nothing larger? Hmm, I could wear one on my hand like a glove
Count me in if there is ever Doper Merch. T-Shirts, Mugs, etc.
There has got to be a Doper on Etsy that can make this stuff happen and can work out a revenue share with Ed.
Speaking as an anti-fan of The Sluggo, that would be a good thing.
Because apparently, while selling merch is so easy it keeps death metal bands solvent, the formula continues to escape the PTB on the SD! (Yes, even though we’ve been asking for a full decade!)
Oh, they still have some of the hideous original material. Which did not and will not sell, of course. (They can only move the mugs by giving them to the mods! ) But so far, the failure to sell that original hideous merch, is why we can never, ever again, venture into merch sales.
In times past the teeming millions have begged for a plain shirt with the masthead/logo on the front, and ‘it’s taking longer than we thought’ on the back. All to no avail.
(I have one that I often wear! But I made I myself!)
They came for me the first time in 2002. I hid out in a maximum security prison. They didn’t find me there until about 3 years ago, but I hid out in the solitary confinement unit. I’ve been safe there so far!
If they find me there, I’m heading to the supermax prison!
Late 80’s for me. Found it in the late and much lamented Coliseum Books on W. 57th St in NYC.
My SDMB t shirt disintegrated a long time ago. Cafe a Press is a superb idea. How do we get release for the logo?
Drat. But I could still live with that with no problem.
I so want an SDMB tee. Come on guys/gals…there is a great thing going on here.
Heck I will even buy two or three just so I can explain this place is not about dope…
Yes, that question arises. Hopefully I have directed folks here for useful discussions.
It comes up more when you bump into some friends along the turnpike. “Where am I going? Oh – out east for a Dopefest to see some Mumpers I know”
Come to think of it, that family hasn’t talked to us since.
:smack:
My staff mug sits in the corner, alone and unremorseful. It remains silent and still, but I caution my visitors to not be fooled, to not give in to what appears to be a peaceful innocence. “It knows what it’s done!” I plead with them to understand. “Don’t turn your back on it,” I urge them, “for, do you think it’s ever held coffee? It hasn’t, you know, not coffee, not soda, not water or wine. No rum.”
They stare.
“Dreams!” I fairly shout. “It devours them! I wanted to be the God-King of the Moderators! I wanted to command the invisible bumpy lizard people who—no, no! Don’t turn away; don’t run! It sees you when you run. It wants you to run.”
“Don’t you see?”
The shirt? I dunno. The shirt’s probably in a closet somewhere.
See? Spreading (err, fighting) the ignorance. We need T-shirts just so we can recognize each other.
I’m up for a shirt or a mug. I don’t think I’d want a marital aid, but mugs and shirts would be nice.
I’ve still got my SDMB Staff Irish Whiskey mug.