# \[T-shirt Design\] Ed, please answer this question. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 25, 2009, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722 "2009-03-25T11:07:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/181 "2010-12-19T05:04:51Z")
> [@scrapiron](#): > > Only few truly appreciate Slug’s work and respect him as a human being. All the rest of you bastards who are caught-up on his “schoolboy” style and “pseudonym” name should realize that Slug has accomplished more in his life, than all of you computer geeks combined. Uh oh. Slug’s been huffing his Sharpies again. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/182 "2010-12-19T05:11:57Z")
The T-shirt never happened because people were afraid of malwear. ---
**Author:** ![scrapiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@scrapiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scrapiron)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/183 "2010-12-19T05:24:05Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Uh oh. Slug’s been huffing his Sharpies again. Haha. Close, but no cigar. A minion, perhaps. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/184 "2010-12-19T05:26:04Z")
> [@scrapiron](#): > > This poorly written poem should be stricken from the boards. It’s a public slap-in-the-face to Slug and I can’t believe YOU MODS would stand for it. This is ridiculous. > > \ > > Slug doesn’t like you either Musicat. I hope one day a bird shits in your eye. > > ``` > Cheers. > > ``` Since that post was made 19 months ago, it has stood the test of time and is now embedded in the national consciousness. I don’t claim to be a pundit poet, but your complaint is a little late. If you read thru this thread, you may see that many others are not fond of Sig’s illustrations, either. I just put it to verse. If you can do better, be my guest. I would welcome you to the boards, but joining just to insult me isn’t a really nice way to make friends, no? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/185 "2010-12-19T05:46:25Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I would welcome you to the boards, but joining just to insult me isn’t a really nice way to make friends, no? Wait wait, we covered this in the second grade. It means he likes you! That said I’d love a slug shirt! ---
**Author:** ![scrapiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@scrapiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scrapiron)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/186 "2010-12-19T06:07:54Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Since that post was made 19 months ago, it has stood the test of time and is now embedded in the national consciousness. I don’t claim to be a pundit poet, but your complaint is a little late. > > If you read thru this thread, you may see that many others are not fond of Sig’s illustrations, either. I just put it to verse. If you can do better, be my guest. > > I would welcome you to the boards, but joining just to insult me isn’t a really nice way to make friends, no? Yes, I am a bit late I suppose. I wish I would have known the bashing of a legendary artist’s style was at hand back then, maybe I would have been here earlier. I did not join just to insult you, I joined for other reasons. I just happened to search the illustrator Slug Signorino and saw the harsh words directed towards his style and YOU were the most offensive in my opinion. Someone who puts time into writing a poem about how you dislike the illustrator of a column, whom you’ve never met, to me, is asking for negative attention and well, now you’ve got it. Here’s my ode to you, Musicat. You have no talent, Musicat Most likely bald, flaccid, and fat. Good taste in art is what you lack Slug himself, should kick your sack. You have no talent poetically, I couldn’t sell your shit, for free. The only real question to me, Is regarding your sexuality… Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/187 "2010-12-19T06:16:05Z")
Knock it off, **scrapiron**. Our first rule here is “don’t be a jerk” and you’re off to a bad start. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/188 "2010-12-19T06:20:09Z")
> [@scrapiron](#): > > Here’s my ode to you, Musicat. > > You have no talent, Musicat > Most likely bald, flaccid, and fat. > Good taste in art is what you lack > Slug himself, should kick your sack. > > You have no talent poetically, > I couldn’t sell your shit, for free. > The only real question to me, > Is regarding your sexuality… Now you’ve got the spirit! 🙂 I’d give it a 3. It’s got a nice beat, but you can’t dance to it. But weren’t we talking about Slug? Or T-shirts? And I’m not bald, flaccid, fat. Or a poet. ---
**Author:** ![scrapiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@scrapiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scrapiron)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/189 "2010-12-19T06:30:42Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Knock it off, **scrapiron**. Our first rule here is “don’t be a jerk” and you’re off to a bad start. So, all of you long-time members can bash Slug, but no one can stick up for the old man and talk a little smack to the haters… okay, I guess that’s fair seeing that he’s not here to stick-up for himself. I guarantee, NONE of you would have the courage to say you hate his art to his face. I obviously do not care about being new, I will not get scared off by your legion of long-time members, set in your ways and more self-righteous than the definition itself. I didn’t come to make friends, or enemies, but I also did come to leave my opinion, just as everyone else is able to do so. So I will, and I have, there it is. Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/190 "2010-12-19T06:32:20Z")
Praise or bash his art all you like. You’re not allowed to insult other users in this forum. That’s only allowed in the BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/191 "2010-12-19T06:33:12Z")
It had been my intention, years ago, to have a pile printed up for the next Aussie Dopefest but the next Aussie Dopefest never happened. I even went as far as clipping the top left rectangle and creating a BMP file which I uploaded to a printer’s site and checked out the completed t-shirt in ash grey with the logo starting at the right breast. I assumed that since the logo is only a trademark and not subject to copyright non commercial use is OK. I didn’t intend to sell the t-shirts just give them away to fellow Dopers as a gag. I used [these guys](http://www.vistaprint.com.au/) who I have used before. They would have looked like [this.](http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/6361/sdtoc.png) I see they are offering a free one for the next 2 days. Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![scrapiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@scrapiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scrapiron)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/192 "2010-12-19T06:33:22Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Now you’ve got the spirit! 🙂 > > I’d give it a 3. It’s got a nice beat, but you can’t dance to it. But weren’t we talking about Slug? Or T-shirts? > > And I’m not bald, flaccid, fat. Or a poet. 3 out of 5 or 3 out of 10? In comparison to yours? In which make-shift phonetics exist? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722/193 "2010-12-19T06:34:31Z")
There was no need to bump this thread in the first place, so I’m locking it now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-shirt-design-ed-please-answer-this-question/490722.md?page=9)