# What if we had some swag?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314
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**Created:** [November 30, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314 "2007-11-30T15:17:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/21 "2007-12-01T20:12:00Z")
Just a thought. Goat felching: the logo
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/22 "2007-12-01T20:51:09Z")
There was a brother of a Doper on Beauty and the Geek this season - imagine the free advertising if he could have worn a Straight Dope t-shirt (of some variety that wouldn’t have gotten blurred). I’ve never really understood why the Straight Dope has such a crappy swag section - one gross t-shirt and a coffee mug? Everybody and their dog have a wide selection of tees and crap these days. It is a truism - geeks love geeky swag.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/23 "2007-12-01T22:20:44Z")
T-shirt suggestion:
**I got your
1920’s style Death Ray
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### Author:  [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/24 "2007-12-01T22:22:05Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou]
…never really understood why the Straight Dope has such a crappy swag section - one gross t-shirt and a coffee mug? Everybody and their dog have a wide selection of tees and crap these days. It is a truism - geeks love geeky swag.
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Ah, sigh of relief. I _had_ hoped I was not alone in finding that an utterly un-wantable T-shirt. 😃 White T-shirt, boo, hiss. Unfortunately T-shirts would be lighter things than coffee mugs or books to ship across that big pond.
[edit. cos of typo]
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### Author:  [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/25 "2007-12-02T04:07:02Z")
[QUOTE=drewbert]
Plus, none of these terms originated, or are unique to the SDMB.
I just want the front of the shirt to say “Cite?” (And no ‘got’.) The logo, official slogan, and URL on the back.
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Oops. Actually, I meant to type the first shirt idea without the ‘Got’. Got carried away with my edits.
**Equipoise** , no harm, no foul. I’m not married to altering the slogan, just trying to throw some ideas out there. (Although, after Ted Stevens’s comment, I can’t help but refer to ‘teh intratubes’ sometimes - it may be an incurable psychosis, but I am taking meds for it… 😉 )
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/26 "2007-12-02T04:54:23Z")
If they start selling a t-shirt with a big “Church of Cecil” in the front I’ll buy a dozen.
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### Author:  [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/27 "2007-12-02T05:06:17Z")
Would the Church of Cecil get offended and upset if there were also a teddy bear named Cecil? 😃
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/28 "2007-12-02T18:21:48Z")
I’ll pitch in to do some design?
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/29 "2007-12-02T18:28:40Z")
It might be kind of fun if you could select from a list of possibilities and then have your username embroidered on it as well.
Hm.
On further contemplation, someone bearing the name of any of our resident medical professionals _and_ offering free pelvic exams should be viewed with a smidgen of skepticism.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2007, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/30 "2007-12-03T11:39:25Z")
I think this is a nice idea. I’m not sure how much market there would be for any given product, especially those with just text comprising a popular phrase or in-joke here - I mean, I think a T Shirt with _I Burning You Dog_ on it is a funny idea, but I wouldn’t buy one.
But there must be plenty of other, perfectly saleable designs people could contribute - not necessarily with any specific site-related theme. As long as submissions all went through TPTB (and if it were to be a single coherent storefront, there’s not really any other way anyway), then I reckon it could be a nice little moneyspinner. We have enough witty, artistic people here to support it, I’m sure.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/31 "2007-12-03T19:31:55Z")
I made a shirt for JonathanChance once that said “3. Hi Opal” on it. (He asked me to.)
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### Author:  [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/32 "2007-12-03T19:52:39Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
But there must be plenty of other, perfectly saleable designs people could contribute - not necessarily with any specific site-related theme. As long as submissions all went through TPTB (and if it were to be a single coherent storefront, there’s not really any other way anyway), then I reckon it could be a nice little moneyspinner. We have enough witty, artistic people here to support it, I’m sure.
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This is essentially what [shirt.woot.com](http://shirt.woot.com) does for their Friday-Sunday products. Some of the shirts turn out to be pretty cool.
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-we-had-some-swag/428314/33 "2007-12-04T02:56:01Z")
I’d buy all kinds of SDMB crap. Hell, if I weren’t so lazy, we’d have SDMB bumper stickers.
We do need to remember that stuff like pie & lolcats is not at all SDMB related. I do like the idea of a “Gotcha ya” milk-style shirt, and maybe some teeming millionth could create a 1920’s Style “death ray” drawing for a shirt. Ooh, how about this- fraction-style:
## Teeming
1,000,000
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