That looks like advertising copy for selling the T-shirt. That is, it came after the T-shirt. It doesn’t explain where the t-shirt came from in the first place.
WAG: The younger generation sees her on those commercials for the Christian Children’s Fund and don’t know her from her earlier work. The shirt is a response to them asking who she is.
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…others where the ink is soaked into the shirt and can’t be felt.
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Probably dye sublimation. Dye sub ink does become one with the fibers, but, IIRC, works best with polyester, and not so well, if at all with cotton.
I’ve had som dye sub shirts, and the print lasts about as long as the shirt itself. It will fade a bit, but it won’t crack or peel like the hot transfers that were available in practically every shopping mall basement level in the 70s and 80s.
Not quite. They (T-Shirt Hell) take “idea submissions” from the public, and if they like the idea, they design and sell a shirt using that idea. You submit your idea in text form, basically just describing what you have in mind, and if accepted, their own people create the actual design (and you win $200 and some free shirts).
They do have some jokes that I just don’t get, but mostly the TV-related pop culture jokes, since I don’t watch TV.
Yup, I’ve bought several shirts from them over the years and they’ve all been high-quality, silkscreened shirts (I used to do semi-professional silkscreening).
Posting my reply before looking at the rest of the thread.
The first example: Everyone’s so connected to their devices (particularly iPods and iPads) that they’ve become mindless capitalist sheep. Hence, USheep, to go along with the “i” in iPod.
Two, three and four beat the heck out of me.
As mentioned, I think you are confusing Tshirt Hell with CafePress.
Moved from General Questions to IMHO.
samclem
I thought the second one was a Bison Steve reference, myself, but that might be reading too much into it.
- meh
- OK, quite funny
3 and 4 I don’t get, 4 probably because I don’t recognise who the “bottom” gun is
I can empathize. When I started out, my major expenses were blueline board, graphics tape and Rapidograph tips. Now it’s keeping Creative Suite up to date and replacing monitors. As much satisfaction as my blueline work gave me, I wouldn’t want to go back to it. Nor back to razor-cut film editing. Nor back to a wild mess of audio panels jacked into each other.
I laughed out loud at “My Native American Name is Steve” and “Top Gun, Bottom Gun”. I thought both were extremely funny although I wouldn’t wear either of them. I got all of the others except for Sally Struthers and Toby. Oh, wait, I just got Tobey – it’s a play on the word Obey: Tobey/Obey. But it’s about as funny as Uma/Oprah.
John Travolta. It’s a gay (anti-gay?) joke, based on popular perceptions about the two actors.
I thought the last one might be a reference to Toby from Roots.
T shirt hell baby shirt/outfit/(whatever a baby wears):
Tshirthell used to have a section called “torso pants” which is where most of the unfunny shirts came from. They weren’t meant to be offensive or funny in any particular way, just random. Torsopants was not a hit and was eventually folded back into the main site.
The animal in shirt 3 is a praying mantis