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Over at the Times Online is a fun article featuring its picks for the top 20 religious T-shirts. The following one made the list:
What is the most creative T-shirt you’ve ever seen–or worn?
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“Give a man a fish, and he’ll have dinner. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll be late for dinner”.
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I’ve always hated “Christian” t-shirts that just rip off pop culture and replace a brand name with “Jesus.” They seem so uncreative and trite…
That said, I’ve got a few favorites that never fail to make people laugh (or get offended).
One is a bright green shirt with a smiley face on it that simply says, “You’re gonna die.”
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/Yoshiyahu/IMG_2451.jpg
On the back, it has a quote from Ecclesiastes. It never ceases to be an interesting talking point, but reactions have ranged everywhere from “That’s so cool, where’d you get it?!” to “That’s tasteless and you’re a horrible person for wearing it!”
It also tends to evoke dirty looks from old people…
Another one I like to wear is a tan shirt with a logo that is identical to the Dunkin’ Donuts sign, except it says, “Dungin’ & Dragons.”
(America runs on Dungins!)
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I generally consider shirts like this tacky. But shortly after the release of the first LOTR movie, I saw one that I admired – so my husband bought it for me. It uses the same style of writing as the LOTR movies, and it says “The Lord of All Things.” Then in smaller letters at the bottom it says “King of Kings,” and below that, 1 Cor. 8:6, and below that, there’s a jewel-encrusted crown.
Only the words Lord and Things are in really big letters, and people often look at me in puzzlement when they see it and ask, “The Lord of the Things”? But others get it right away and think it’s a great shirt. What probably no one notices – and I had forgotten it myself until I looked at it just now – is that the shadow cast by the golden crown is of a crown of thorns.
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I agree, I usually believe t-shirts like these are tacky. “Jesus is my homeboy”… and the lightness in which some talk about the gruesome death on the cross. For me, I would rather not have Jesus, the King of Kings, compared to a Peanut Butter Cup.
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ATM, I’m fond of one I recently bought from the undergraduate physics organization at my university. It has the Schroedinger Equation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation
but with the wavefunction symbols (normally Greek letter psi) replaced by a university logo that looks a lot like a psi.
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A quote from the inventor: “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; give him Raman Noodles and you don’t have to teach him anything.”
This wasn’t on a t-shirt, but #1 reminded me of it, and it’s a quote I love.
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OK, most of these are just awful. But they (and Mommy’s Raman Noodle comment) reminded me that I wore some of these in college. I had one with a picture of Buddha on a cross with the caption “What’s wrong with this picture?” I was wearing it one day and a deacon at a local church looked at it and was incredulous. He kept saying, “Buddha didn’t die on a cross,” and I kept saying, “I know, that’s what’s wrong with the picture.” I’m not sure he ever got it.
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One of my personal favorites has been one that says:
I’m not crazy, wood really does speak to me.
http://tinyurl.com/6q5cq5
I’m struggling to remember where I saw some incisive conservative T-shirts recently. …
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One of my personal favorites has been one that says:
I’m not crazy, wood really does speak to me.
http://tinyurl.com/6q5cq5
I’m struggling to remember where I saw some incisive conservative T-shirts recently….
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A T-shirt that my daughter wore when she was in middle school had a picture of a little girl holding Jesus’ nail-scarred hand, palm up. She was looking up as into His face. The caption read, “What happened to your hand?”
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Ok. That’s just maddening. Wordpress ate two of my posts…. GRRRRRR…
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One of my personal favorites has been a t-shirt that says:
I’m not crazy, wood really does speak to me.
http://tinyurl.com/6q5cq5
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One of my personal favorites has been a t-shirt that says:
I’m not crazy, wood really does speak to me.
http://www.cafepress.com/wr_store.42070505
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Most religious Tees are too kitschy for their own good.
A guy in line in front of me at Starbucks had a Tee that said, Lord Of The onion Rings. That made me laugh.
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In college I used to wear a Jews for Jesus shirt that read “Goyim for Jesus.” Very appropriate for my college at the time (1/3 Jewish students) and it always got at least a laugh.
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Man. I’m really sorry about all the duplicate posts. Wordpress would NOT cooperate.
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Yoshi – I like your t-shirt.
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I have a black T-shirt with a white guitar chord diagram on it. Any guitarist would recognize it as a Gsus (G, suspended 4th) chord. The caption says “Gsus Saves.”
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Make-it-Man – That’s ok – I was laughing as I was scrolling and reading.
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Thanks, VS.
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Here are some great posters critical of the “Emergent Church.” http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/posters.htm A few of the sayings on those are available on tee shirts http://www.cafepress.com/centuri0n/3596906
Are these, perhaps, what you were thinking of Make It Man?
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One of my favorites is my Crazy Cat Lady tee shirt. My husband bought it for me because he knew this had been my plan if I had not married by the age of 40. Luckily we were married when I was 38 and I didn’t have to go through with it. I was up to three cats at the time and was working on convincing the neighborhood kids that I was a witch.
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I agree with Yoshiyahu in #2.
I think these T-shirts are the furthest thing from creativity. I’d say this is just another example of a large problem in the church. Christians are no longer creating beauty–the standard recipe instead is to take something from the “secular” world and give it a twist of Jesus. Gag.
…and forgive me if I sound like a grouch. I DO enjoy a good, funny T-shirt. I’m just not amused by Christians continually having to rip off someone else’s success in an attempt to be creative.
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Here are some great posters criticizing the “Emergent Church.” http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/posters.htm And a few of the sayings are on tee shirts here.
http://www.cafepress.com/centuri0n/3596906
Perhaps these are the ones you were thinking of, Make It Man?
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I shared this one a few days ago as a side note on another thread:
It’s a T-shirt with Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, Elmo, Gonzo. Underneath:
“I was raised on the Street”
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Here are a few of my favorite nonreligious T-shirts:
**A picture of cartoon character versions of a bottle of ketchup, jar of mayo, and bottle of mustard, with the words, “Practice Safe Lunch — Use a Condiment!”
**Another shows a silhouette of a father and little child and says “Sex — Do it for the Kids!”
**A portrait of Robert E Lee, and underneath is says “Most Likely to Secede — Class of 1825″
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stubob – great chord, even better shirt. love it!
There are some fun, creative Tees online at http://www.bustedtees.com. Check it out. Snorgtees.com too. Some a teensy bit racy, but generally just good puns, innuendo. A few good religious ones, e.g., “What wouldn’t Jesus do?”
http://www.bustedtees.com/jesus
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One of my favorites was a black shirt that said,
“Put me out of my Missouri.”
A friend of mine once had a shirt that said,
“Drink apple juice, ‘cuz OJ will kill you.”
And of course, there’s the immortal:
C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
C:\DOS\GO
RUN\DOS\RUN!
And the variations thereof.
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One that says:
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/5aa9/zoom/
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Graceland, that Robert E. Lee tee shirt reminds of a poster that I saw with a portrait of Henry VIII. underneath it said “The Episcopal Church welcomes divorced people.”
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WordPress doesn’t like me today. I posted another one and it ate it too…
But this one hasn’t shown up at all.
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Let’s try it again:
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those that understand binary, and those that don’t.
http://tinyurl.com/4bfhg
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I am not that fond of Christian t-shirts. Our church camp in the past has done t-shirts with art work based on the theme of camp. They are original and have a real message.
Our son broke his leg on the ski slope while in high school. His t-shirt of choice was this:
Bones Heal
Pain is temporary
Chicks dig scars
But the glory lasts forever
He wore it with pride.
The Dr even had to have that written down.
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I saw an interesting (albeit pretty inappropriate, imho) t-shirt a few weeks ago (it was worn by a dude and had been given to him by his wife for Christmas): “My Wife Is a Hot Mom.”
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Here’s my favorite T-shirt…
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you
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Sometimes it isn’t the T-shirt, but the context that makes the joke. Like the big African man walking down the street proudly wearing a pink T-shirt that says: BABY
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Well, you get the idea. I can’t get it to post the way it should.
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I know what you mean, AJISUUN. It’s like the picture of the fat guy whose t-shirt says, “I Beat Anorexia.”
http://extempore88.googlepages.com/ibeatanorexia.jpg/ibeatanorexia-large.jpg
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A young boy at my church, an autistic math genius, frequently (and I mean frequently) wears a shirt that says “easy as…” and then gives the mathematical number of pi.
My favorites of the ones I own are writing related, such as “Pulitzer Prize winner (in training),” a Writer’s Digest shirt I bought in college to celebrate being hired on yearbook, which I saw as my first big step toward my writing career, and also a shirt with a photo of my dog.
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Tsk, tsk, Cheryl. If the young man is a math genius, then he should know that a numerical value expressed upon the shirt is merely an approximation for pi. Since it is an irrational number, the numerical expression can only be a non-repeating, non-termination decimal. Better for him to stick to the symbol! Actually, maybe the next time he wears it, you should tell him he should be a bit more “irrational” and see if he gets it!
For my wedding to Cameron, I requested that the groom’s cake be shaped (as closely as possible) as the symbol for pi (i.e., two parallel strips and then a cross-piece; pi actually has more of a “tail” on one of the legs, but you get the picture). During the wedding reception, however, I noticed that it was simply an ordinary cake. The lady who baked it apologized profusely, explaining that when she tried to make it the day before, the pieces promptly collapsed on her. She made the “ordinary cake” at the last minute as a backup!
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Make It Man:
I laughed out loud at the binary quote… both times
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Ah… here’s the one I got a chuckle out of the other day!
“Bad Grammar Makes Me [sic]“
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Pi, from memory:
3.141592653
Calculator says:
3.141592654
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I would say it’s a rounding error, MiM, but everybody already knows pi is round…
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FALSE!
Pi are square!!!
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It took almost eight hours for this thread to begin making sense.
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Chas, it took over 3 hours for someone to complete the joke. But at least it now makes sense.
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How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics.
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I know I’m late jumping in here, but have any of you ever seen theose t-shirts put out by some ambulance services, such as the one in Yellowstone National Park? They list crazy things people have done, i.e., please put your child on top of the buffalo for the perfect picture and please step right to the edge of the canyon, etc.? And then at the bottom of the shirt they thank you for your support? My brother has one, and I would laugh every time I see it except that all the things they list have actually happened.
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Austen, I am likewise amazed that all those things are true (who would put their child on a buffalo for the picture?!?). Sounds like a funny shirt, though.
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Two Big Dog Tees
My wife’s favorite Queen of Everything
My favorite is a dog coming through the swinging doors of a saloon, his paw is bandaged and in a sling. He says “I want the man who shot my paw.”
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