Yeah, 'zackly.
We can use phrases all we want.
How about “Take it to The Pit”. With maybe a stylized cop pic, pointing.
We got a million of 'em!
That hasn’t been decided.
And yet you are still a “guest”. Hmmm…
Look, I’m not anti-supportive. I would pay for the official-logo’d version. But it seems silly to pay a premium for non-protected words or phrases shirts especially since we seem to be dragging them into this.
And for what it’s worth I love Slugs work.
ETA: Either way, I offer my contribution freely.
I sort of like that one. Simple and yet it really does make the viewer want to ask “dude, tell me about your shirt.”
Here’s a better version for a Tshirt. Ignorance screaming from the darkness ha ha.
Request from the “Who Speaks Icelandic” thread.
Linky?
Click on the arrow next to the person’s name in the quote box.
It is never going to happen. If it was going to happen, it would have happened by now. Get it over it, people. Move on with your lives.
Is there a problem here that needs to be gotten over? Is someone stuck in some kind of t-shirt deprived rut? Is anyone’s life kinda stalled because of this thread?
Dang, I didn’t realize things were that dire. I thought it was just a bunch of people who like t-shirts!
Oh silly, naive me. :o
Peace,
mangeorge, just jonesin’ away for a t-shirt.
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“Peace,
mangeorge, just jonesin’ away for a t-shirt.”
Me too **mangeorge
**A nice big one (XXX and maybe another X) showing I’m a Doper.
Extra tall, too.
PS: For ten years now I’ve been wondering about your user name. Are you a man named George?
Or are you an Orge with mange? 
Inquiring minds… etc. etc.
Jack
Right back atcha.
My old girlfriend, 25 or so years ago, called me that. I have no idea why, but she and her best friend would giggle when she said it. 
It’s man-george.
She also called me “Jaws”, but we needn’t talk about that. 
Aw, common, we gotta hear about “Jaws!” Did you bite something you shouldn’t have? Are you secretly a shark?
I KNOW! You ate jawbreakers. The kind that come in pairs. On women. Maybe? 
Nah. She was just referring to my enthusiasm.
No, here’s essentially what happened:
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For years folks have complained about not having SDMB-themed merchandise that they want to buy, and they’ve complained about the Evil Ed, the Terrible Tuba, and the Diabolical Dex (with some complaints made about the artwork of the Satanic Slug).
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The Terrible Tuba says “OK, we’re going to do it” and solicits the SDMB community directly for ideas.
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Suddenly, the folks who were complaining for so long don’t have any ideas to put in front of folks. Huh.
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But wait, there’s a technicality - some say without the official “Straight Dope” logo, it’s all worthless, the whole effort pointless, call in the dogs, piss on the fire. Never mind that they can use “SDMB”, “Cite”, and innumerable other words and phrases, without that “Straight Dope” logo, it’s a hollow mockery.
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Time passes…and a few people try to come up with some ideas, to a somewhat thundering silence from folks, especially those who were asking for the merchandise in the first place.
…and that’s pretty much where things left off. Or do I have that wrong? Were there a flood of t-shirt ideas from the folks complaining that I didn’t see? Or a flood of “yea/nea/maybe” posts for the ideas so far? Maybe posted on another board? Or someone’s Livejournal? Deadjournal? Undeadjournal? Facebook? Myspace? Semi-defunct Geocities account? Crystal Ball C-64 BBS system? Perhaps skywritten in pink smoke over Akron, Ohio? Relayed verbally by Navajo Indians? Recorded backward in the Spice Girls Two Become One? Posted on a tavern wall in the City of Greyhawk? Give me a link if I got that wrong.
In other words, “CITE”!
Anyway, I thought I saw some enthusiasm here. And the old t-shirts are mostly sold out.
I think there is a huge amount of talent among the SDMB community, and developing a shirt would be a great way for someone to display their talent. I’m deliberately being a bit flippant and silly in my prior post, but I am also a bit disappointed that the enthusiasm seemed to end as soon as the “go-ahead” was given.
I want one that says Straight Dope on the front. On the back it should have a syringe with the world “knowledge” on it. Our logo would look nice on a beige or brown background because of the color of the letters.
The syringe would be a play on the word Dope of course. It should be sufficiently weird and confusing to the general population in order to please the crowd here.
Hell, any well designed shirt with “The Straight Dope” on the front would sell. Though that would mean you’d have to find someone who knows what he’s doing.
I think the idea is good - maybe someone here with artistic talent can give a shot at it (I freely admit I have no drawing talent).