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I recommend buying an extra shirt for your imaginary friend from West Xylophone

Congrats DeadFrog! well deserved!

Zaza wrote:I notice the chest width on the women's XL is 18 3/4". How much stretch is there in these shirts? Would this fit a 40" bust? Or am I safer with a men's medium?

girkabob wrote:I'm about a 38 inch bust, and the women's XL fits me pretty well there. I gotta say, though, they're pretty slim fitting and not too forgiving if you have much of a belly. They also tend to shrink a bit after the first wash. I haven't bought any of the men's shirts.

Exactly what she said. I'm a 38C bra, and the women's XL is just barely big enough after washing to look good. I can fit myself into a WL, but only to wear around the house--it's not uncomfortable, but it's stretched enough (especially the design) to look awful. And I also haven't tried a men's shirt, but since I'm usually a unisex M and we're told the men's shirts run small too, I'd suggest at least an L for you, maybe even an XL.

Probably too late, given the time you posted, but there you go anyway.

chrisprender wrote:Hey Woot: I'm not a big fan of white shirts, but if you ever decide to reprint this on, say, a tan shirt with a dark brown design, I will buy all of them.

Yes.

All of them.

Seconded, tan for the win

Excellent design, very clever! It's nice that it fit in with the derby but the shirt stands on its own even without knowing the theme. Should have won first.

nooliegoo wrote:Excellent design, very clever! It's nice that it fit in with the derby but the shirt stands on its own even without knowing the theme. Should have won first.

+1.

In for a Mens M.

drgebert wrote:I didn't vote for this shirt, having missed the reference, but now that it's being printed and having read some of the commentary, find it quite clever. That is, until I get to Fanglekai's little pedantic screed, here. I looked up "self-aggrandizing" in the original old French, and there was F's picture.

I actually appreciated Fanglekai's post. Provided the information was accurate, it was a net positive for me.

Maybe this is a good time to ask for a Womens XXL option.

Please woot, please?!

You've got lots of normal-sized women who want woot shirts that fit our woot boobs.

Womens XXL! Womens XXL! Womens XXL!


(Also, incidentally, the sun is a mass of incandescent gas; a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. The sun is hot. The sun is not a place where we could live.)

That is a gorgeous shirt with or without the band reference (which I didn't get until I read comments either but who cares.)
Thank You!

Hooray, my first shirt.woot purchase! ☺

Excellent concept design + gray scale image on white + TMBG/Don Quixote reference + inexpensive w/no s&h charges = resistance futile

MadamAtom wrote:Exactly what she said. I'm a 38C bra, and ... I can fit myself into a WL, ... but it's stretched enough (especially the design) to look awful...

Like anyone would notice!
;)

Welven wrote:I actually appreciated Fanglekai's post. Provided the information was accurate, it was a net positive for me.

Yeah, he's interpreted my work correctly, except that don Quixote's real name was Alonso Quijano (Quixano). Additionally, his comments on the use of "don" and "doña" are correct.

Now, for what it matters, every woman I know who buys/wears Woot! shirts buys them one size larger than their normal t-shirts, including my darling Dulcinea.

Clever design!

Incidentally, their kids albums are fantastic. We took my daughter to see them do a family show in Pittsburgh last weekend based on our love of the band and her love of "Here Come the ABCs" and "Here Comes Science", and the band was spectacular. Not too loud, tons of energy, and three separate confetti cannon explosions!

We bought their other two kids albums "No!" and "Here Come the 123s" on iTunes for the trip, and they also have some great songs. They're just as silly as their regular stuff, just not as dark and in the case of the "Here Come(s)..." albums, they're generally based around a theme. "Science" is the best of the set, but I'm a science teacher, so I'm biased. The videos (on DVD or download) are great, too; this is one of the best: Why Does The Sun Shine?

Anyway, their tour is over for now, but as a fan and a parent, I highly recommend joining their mailing list so you can go see one of their shows, either rock or family (or Flood, where they play their most popular album beginning to end). I've seen them four or five times and each time I've been amazed by how much fun and energy they have.

Wow! I mean, I just took one look and said "I need this."

Speaking of 90's cartoons, anyone remember Don Coyote? He went around with his little friend Sancho Panda. Always getting up to all those kooky adventures...

In for one. Love this design.

I'm going to join the group of women wanting a XXL version. The XL isn't all that XL to begin with, and after a wash or two it's even less so. I got the men's L this time around, won't be a perfect fit, but I won't look like I'm trying to squeeze into my daughter's clothes either.

It's great to see this hit print. (And not just because I've seen the Johns in concert a few times.)

Hell yea. He's my boy.

AnotherJenny wrote:Wear this shirt: while pondering how the sun works.

I'm in.

The Sun in a mass of incandescent gas,
a gigantic nuclear furnace!
Where Hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees!

bendersgame wrote:Obligatory xkcd reference: xkcd

They are starting an alternative energy revolution!

It's funny, because xkcd is referencing Don Quixote with the knight-looking dude at the end. I think shirt is more referencing Don Quixote, though. He mistakes a bunch of windmills for giants and attempts to fight them. That section of the story is quoted in the caption, actually.

Great shirt! If it hadn't been for my Humanities class, I wouldn't have understood it. I'll have to wait to buy it, but I will get this one. It's just too good to pass up

madcow19 wrote:Congrads DeadFrog, you got me to buy my first full price woot shirt. Always had a birdhouse in my soul for the Don, and the Giants.

Anyone remember when they did a whole episode of Tiny Toons around their songs? Anyone remember Tiny Toons? Bueller?

I had that episode on video. I think only two of the songs were from They Might Be Giants.

What is it about white shirts that makes them impossible to love? Great design, certainly one of the most clever derby winners I've ever seen (compared to the corny stuff that usually fares so well) and yet the white instantly kills it for me. Well I am at least glad that other wooters aren't letting it get to them.

Nice job DeadFrog

I've actually been to the supposed windmills that the story is based on. They're pretty cool. :]

I LOVE this shirt! Wish I'd checked in on the derby this week. I'm sure my one vote would have put it over the top. But about the white...

Here's a suggestion for our benevolent woot overlords. Remember Classics? Remember how you were going to reprint an old shirt weekly, dub it a "classic" (with a nod to Coca Cola after the New Coke debacle), and teach us the meaning of regret? This shirt will make so many more people happy printed on anything but white.

I'm waiting.

-Imp

Too bad I don't wear white. I might buy it for a friend though.

Sp4cerobotfive wrote:The Sun in a mass of incandescent gas,
a gigantic nuclear furnace!
Where Hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees!

In case you missed it, their latest album "Here Comes Science" contains a retraction/correction to that song. In their current concerts they explain how it would have been too expensive to take the song, "The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas" off the album, so they added the correction song, "The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma". :-)

Ichinisan wrote:I had that episode on video. I think only two of the songs were from They Might Be Giants.

They Might Be Giants has a DVD out called "Live From Brooklyn" that contains the two Tiny Toons videos ("Particle Man", and "Istanbul (not Constantinople)") in addition to their own videos. It's a GREAT collection.

somethingoriginal wrote:What is it about white shirts that makes them impossible to love? Great design, certainly one of the most clever derby winners I've ever seen (compared to the corny stuff that usually fares so well) and yet the white instantly kills it for me. Well I am at least glad that other wooters aren't letting it get to them.

Nice job DeadFrog

I think it's that white shirts tend to attract dirt/stains/marks, show them off a bit more than we'd like, and develop those lovely yellow armpits quicker than other colors.

I'm torn on buying this shirt. One the one hand, it's an homage to my greatest work, on the other hand, it's white.

If the Woot! Overlords guarantee that they'd reprint it on cream or tan, I'd be in so fast...

Cervantes3773 wrote:Now, for what it matters, every woman I know who buys/wears Woot! shirts buys them one size larger than their normal t-shirts, including my darling Dulcinea.

Hahaha love it, and this shirt. Boughtened all up.

Congrats, Deadfrog, this is a spectacular drawing!

Twowoot wrote:

This shirt could be improved by printing the Woot description on the back!

I don't really understand this comment at all, no matter who says it. Consider standing in line behind someone who had a whole page of text printed on the back of their shirt. Would it look good? Would you get it? Would you care to even read it? Because that is who you'd be if you wore a woot shirt with the description on the back. If you look at it rationally, there's no positive aspect to it from a wearable standpoint.

I just don't know why ad copy would improve a shirt. Have you ever felt that your coca-cola experience would be better if, upon opening your bottle, it sang the "Always Coca-Cola" jingle?

AdderXYU wrote:I don't really understand this comment at all, no matter who says it.

I think what s/he's trying to say is that some people would rather not have to give a lengthy explanation of a shirt.

madcow19 wrote:Congrads DeadFrog, you got me to buy my first full price woot shirt. Always had a birdhouse in my soul for the Don, and the Giants.

Anyone remember when they did a whole episode of Tiny Toons around their songs? Anyone remember Tiny Toons? Bueller?

One of the best eps of Tiny Toons ever!

It is about the band, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

I loved that Tiny Toons!

madcow19 wrote:Congrads DeadFrog, you got me to buy my first full price woot shirt. Always had a birdhouse in my soul for the Don, and the Giants.

Anyone remember when they did a whole episode of Tiny Toons around their songs? Anyone remember Tiny Toons? Bueller?

Total n00b question: Does anyone know what the fabric content is?

(Crossing fingers for 100% cotton.)

Welven wrote:I actually appreciated Fanglekai's post. Provided the information was accurate, it was a net positive for me.

It's accurate. I have an MA in Spanish lit, and I actually had a class one semester on only this book and articles written about it. What I wrote is all pretty basic and you can (and should) google it to check for yourself.

I'm sorry if another poster found it self-aggrandizing, as I wanted to provide a little more info for people who haven't read the original and who think his first name was Don, as the ad copy implies. Learning a little doesn't hurt. Being rude is completely unnecessary. If you want to go through life being rude to people who have studied something and want to provide a little more info, then by all means be impolite and stay ignorant.

Also, Cervantes3773, his name was never given with certainty: "Quieren decir que tenía el sobrenombre de Quijada, o Quesada, que en esto hay alguna diferencia en los autores que deste caso escriben; aunque por conjeturas verosímiles se deja entender que se llamaba Quejana. Pero en esto importa poco a nuestro cuento; basta que en la narración dél no se salga un punto de la verdad." That's at the beginning of the first chapter of the first part.

Calling himself don Quijote de la Mancha is funny because he wasn't a nobleman. "Don" and "de la Mancha" imply nobility, but he was only an hidalgo. The suffix "ot" is one that implies something is bigger (aumentativo). It's an allusion to the libros de caballería, or knights tales, where the knights have names that make them sound important.

It's really a very funny book, and for those who don't read Spanish, I recommend the John Rutherford translation by Penguin Classics. Everyone should read el Quijote at least once.

TGHanks wrote:Total n00b question: Does anyone know what the fabric content is?

(Crossing fingers for 100% cotton.)

They're American Apparel 100% cotton made in USA tshirts. I own quite a few and I'm very happy with the quality.

I knew the moment I saw the shirt and the derby title who the referenced band was! I've seen the Two Johns 5 times now and have loved them since the first time I saw "Don't Let's Start" on MTV, back when they actually played music videos.

For all you ever wanted to know about They Might Be Giants try thier own site TMBG.com and the wiki They Might Be a Wiki

girkabob wrote:I'm about a 38 inch bust, and the women's XL fits me pretty well there. I gotta say, though, they're pretty slim fitting and not too forgiving if you have much of a belly. They also tend to shrink a bit after the first wash. I haven't bought any of the men's shirts.

My bust is a 34G at the moment (I'm pregnant, it went up a cup size). All my Woot shirts are men's mediums. They fit very well, but it's true that there's not a lot of give in them.

mewatson wrote:Flood. That's a great album.

it's they might be giants' BRAND NEW ALBUM, flood.