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Wow, every shirt in the fog is by ***. Good job dude. Where did you come from, anyway?

a) Off-topic. There's about as much mystery here as there was in Crank 2. If, say, there was a Sherlock-Holmes-with a-pipe-and-magnifying-glass silhouette, that would be fine. But this book could be a western for all we know.

b) Not PG-13. Granted, violence going as far as gunshots is fine in a PG-13 movie. But graphic depictions to the point of showing the viscera ejected from the guy's head? Nu-uh. Someone else used the CSI example, and it's a good one.

c) The worst use of halftones I've ever had the displeasure of bearing witness to. Everything above the silhouettes is pure wankery on the part of the artist, and is going to look absolutely hideous on a shirt.

Rejection please? Pretty please? With sugar and a cherry on top?

Re: tonight, a tail of murder

Forgive me, but I really don't see how this fits the theme.

greg4734 wrote:Wow, every shirt in the fog is by ***. Good job dude. Where did you come from, anyway?

HOLY COW! GIVE THAT MAN A CIGAR FOR NOTICING EVERY ENTRY IS BY ***








Now, back to reality, did you not read the special circumstances of this week's derby?

mrwednesday wrote:Actually most mysteries start with a body. This shirt isn't about the mystery. It's about the murder because there's really no mystery......the girl shot him in the face.

See, this is showing the start of the murder mystery...the two intertwining lines are the book/story that results from the act. Considering other entries, it is ridiculous to argue that this is not on topic.

godierst wrote:Forgive me, but I really don't see how this fits the theme.

He used Alfred Hitchcock's already copyrighted silhouette and added crows to it to attempt to change it. Because everyone on woot seems to love crows/ravens

neonix wrote:There's no Mr. Moneybags piece that I know of. He would have had to kill the little scotty dog or the cowboy.

Or the iron. :-)

RukasuFox wrote:See, this is showing the start of the murder mystery...the two intertwining lines are the book/story that results from the act. Considering other entries, it is ridiculous to argue that this is not on topic.

I would be OK if this entire derby was rejected, to be honest. But thank you, RUKASUFOX, for your clearly unbiased report.

JadenKale wrote:He used Alfred Hitchcock's already copyrighted silhouette and added crows to it to attempt to change it. Because everyone on woot seems to love crows/ravens

Heh, so it is.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Re: Why, Oh why did She swallow the Fly?

Not creepy. Not really cute, either. Absolutely freakin awesome. Love it. GMV.

Re: A Mysterious Conspiracy

While the bunnies are cute, as a woman I don't want that ugly hunter featured prominently on my breast.

narkus wrote:u haven't gotten your red t yet! i hope it wins just for that : ) but i really like it too gmv

Thanks Narkus! C'mon bears!

Re: tonight, a tail of murder

I want this shirt. It's amazing. Brilliant idea.

Awesome!!

re: triangular aeronautical mystery

I'm probably just plane illiterate but what are the stick-figure-foot looking things under the nose?

Re: Mystery of the Three Seashells

hoho, I love it... I don't know if I'd personally wear it, but I'd buy it for a gift.

I hope it picks up steam, soon.

mrwednesday wrote:Holy.....what happened to that poor cat?

(whether we should be forgiving certain artists for their intentions the fact still does remain that there is no logical connection between clue and cats which does ruin it for me a bit. Even with the best of intentions it still boils down to, "I like Clue. I like cats. Let's do Clue with cats.")

But you see, I think it safe to assume that cats naturally don't like rats/mice and vice versa (don't know why, but...), as graphically represented by Tom and Jerry. So in the illustration above, each cat has the palpable motive to kill the rat. But we don't know which one actually did it! Dress the cats up in multifarious garments, and voila, an awesome representation of the game Clue!

@Jaden - I think you just ruined my Saturday afternoon!

JadenKale wrote:I see your cat, and I raise you Chase

I certainly wish I could unsee that.

Re: A Mysterious Conspiracy

DUDE!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??? PM me if you want to keep your identity completely secret with no clues.

Glad you're back. Missed your style.

Re: Murder Mystery

So, we're ok with violent murder on shirts now?

And... mystery. Remember? It's that thing called a theme that the shirts are supposed to follow...

Unlike Adder, I think that there is at least one shirt that belongs perfectly. See how it stuck to the theme?

RukasuFox wrote:See, this is showing the start of the murder mystery...the two intertwining lines are the book/story that results from the act. Considering other entries, it is ridiculous to argue that this is not on topic.

But this doesn't show any of that. It doesn't hint at any of that. All it shows is that the designer, bored to tears, decided that it was time to try yet another way to slip one in that isn't quite on topic, and flouts the guidelines just a little bit more than the previous times said designer has done so. It's way over the top in regard to being non-PG-13, and it'd be off topic if woot actually followed their guidelines on topicality.

but they don't. As far as the theme goes, there's enough here that woot'll call it on-topic. The only question is whether they'll stick to their Woot.com!-wide rules about PG-13, and reject it. This is not a derby issue, really, but a Woot.com! issue. Are they going to follow what has, up to now, appeared to be a company-wide policy not to allow anything (except advertisements) more risque or graphically violent than what they call PG-13? or are they going to allow their shirt site to print a shirt that depicts in clear detail, bits of brains and skull spattered out of the skull of some victim of a gunshot, in which we see the act as it happens? It seems like an open and shut rejection to me, but I guess we'll see on Monday.

Re: Whooo Are You?

Who, who, who, who?!!

Re: Upon Closer Inspection...

Why on earth are they penguins?!?! Seriously, I want a good reason.

ensmind wrote:Wow! Thanks for the compliment, considering this was done from scratch and not knowing that... Guess great minds think alike... Where's yours?

I don't see where you saw a compliment in what I said.

mrwednesday wrote:Actually most mysteries start with a body. This shirt isn't about the mystery. It's about the murder because there's really no mystery......the girl shot him in the face.

Mr. Holmes? Is that you?

lindab53 wrote:Unless that is a fake cow being beamed up, I don't get it.

I agree... maybe putting a stick of dynomite protruding from the cow would show that the kidnappers were in for a surprise...

is it supposed to be a wooden cutout or something?

Re: Windows of the Soul

i like this!!! but i would like it even more if it were on black or a dark gray instead B^(

as for the placement on the ladies... heck no that's perfect placement!! B^) TOTALLY Mesmerize men he he

Josephus wrote:But this doesn't show any of that. It doesn't hint at any of that. All it shows is that the designer, bored to tears, decided that it was time to try yet another way to slip one in that isn't quite on topic, and flouts the guidelines just a little bit more than the previous times said designer has done so. It's way over the top in regard to being non-PG-13, and it'd be off topic if woot actually followed their guidelines on topicality.

but they don't. As far as the theme goes, there's enough here that woot'll call it on-topic. The only question is whether they'll stick to their Woot.com!-wide rules about PG-13, and reject it. This is not a derby issue, really, but a Woot.com! issue. Are they going to follow what has, up to now, appeared to be a company-wide policy not to allow anything (except advertisements) more risque or graphically violent than what they call PG-13? or are they going to allow their shirt site to print a shirt that depicts in clear detail, bits of brains and skull spattered out of the skull of some victim of a gunshot, in which we see the act as it happens? It seems like an open and shut rejection to me, but I guess we'll see on Monday.

it's an abstract representation; YMMV. And if w00t rejects it for violent content then that's one thing, but I don't think it takes much to see that calling for its rejection based on theme is an unreasonable demand by bitter people with some mystifying vendettas.

JadenKale wrote:::breathes:: THANK YOU! Someone else that gets it.

I don't get it. English is the only language in the world right?

AdderXYU wrote:I would be OK if this entire derby was rejected, to be honest. But thank you, RUKASUFOX, for your clearly unbiased report.

This derby is definitely disappointing. And of course my report is biased because its my opinion. What are you implying?

Re: Giallo

Another impostor? If so, this is the best of the bunch.

Re: Mystery of the Platypus Solved!

first!

kylemittskus wrote:Why on earth are they penguins?!?! Seriously, I want a good reason.

Because elephants would be too big.

Re: Upon Closer Inspection...

I LOVE this. And the penguins make it even more entertaining for me...

Re: The Other Mystery Machine

No pentacle for Wicca either. Also, why does Pi count as text and got rejected and these don't? Just curious.

Re: Secret Admirer

I'm not sure if that will count as a shirt comp...Hope so! It's a very sweet sentiment.

WowARealMystery wrote:And I wonder who left this comment, *laugh*... as you may find out I went to extra lengths to hide my identity for this one... the way the derby was, designs were not being very mysterious. I guess I'll stay hidden until Thursday... I don't know if anyone will find the reveal all that exciting (hopefully it won't be predictable!)- the fun part is just sating the curiosity, right?

Oh why the suspense!?!?! It's killing me! Hahaha, I'm glad you're making this as fun as it had ought to be. There were just too many accidental revelation in this mysterious derby.

Re: Mystery of the Platypus Solved!

So here's my first entry for this week's derby! And I'm liking the end result. And I hope you do too.

Basically, Mr. Duck is upset because he suspects the new hatchling belongs to the milkman, Mr. Beaver.

Give me a vote if you like it! Thanks!

xtinaftw wrote:You should edit your first post to direct people towards your resub so that you aren't losing votes because people voted for this one still by mistake.

Great idea, however I can't find my post in the general discussion page.

Re: Stonehenge

Re: Murder Mystery

I like the shirt.

WHO IS WOMAN?

That's the mystery if you're wondering.

And for those complaining this shirt should be banned because it's Rated-R or whatever, this is America. Sex is bad and violence is good, m'kay?