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sparrowhawk69 wrote:I see eyes & innuendo.

No. In YOU endo.

Meat! It's all I ever eat. (tm)

thesecondplace wrote:I totally didn't get the joke until I noticed the quotation marks./sarcasm

Sans quotation marks, I would be buying this shirt instead of typing about it.

I agree on the quotation marks. Unnecessary.

No "shirt" for "me."

Reminds me of the old Letterman joke: A butcher shop with the slogan "Pleased to meet you; Meat to please you."

I think I'd like it better if it said, Pleased to "make your acquaintance," so the reader would have to work a little harder. It is Val's Day, so maybe woot is just trying to put a steak through our hearts.

ddrirc wrote:I would have bought this shirt if meat didn't have quotes around it. totally unnecessary

Agreed. The quotes completely ruined anything that was funny about this shirt.

If history repeats itself, this little guy better watch out for unicorns. I've heard they're not very friendly this time of year.

http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=16929

skatimmy737 wrote:I don't get it... Some kind of screw lodged in a Jell-O mold?

I think the mould is of a pregnant woman's thighs, butt and belly, pictured from the side. Though I could be wrong.

Maybe there's something subtle going on here - note the thread is missing from the screw, making it look like a tack - but then why would a tack have a slot in the top?

You could punch somebody in the face and then give them this shirt to take the sting away.

Though you might want to refrigerate the shirt first.

So, are the quotes supposed to have something to do with sex then? I don't think it is very clear and if I hadn't read the comments I don't think I would have though of that. Good thing I didn't print out the cards.

This is undoubtedly one of the dumbest shirts I've seen here. And that's saying something.

I'm sure I could design something better. I could definitely beat this meat.

ddrirc wrote:I would have bought this shirt if meat didn't have quotes around it. totally unnecessary

Same feelings here. The loss of all subtlety ruins it for me.

A food oriented shirt not from a derby. The Ethiopian Editors have struck again.

A little disturbing.

Awww, they missed the chance to put a steak over your heart! Not as good as a stake through the heart but hey it's Valentine's day. =D

FenStar wrote:So, are the quotes supposed to have something to do with sex then? I don't think it is very clear and if I hadn't read the comments I don't think I would have though of that. Good thing I didn't print out the cards.

I don't think they're supposed to, but they do anyway. The slogan without the quotes would be decently amusing. Adding the quotes turns it into something sexual, I think. I just picture some sleazy guy saying, "I'd sure like to "meat" her, ifyaknowuddimean. Heh heh."

ddrirc wrote:I would have bought this shirt if meat didn't have quotes around it. totally unnecessary

Precisely what i said the moment i saw it. :/

jennnbread wrote:Agreed. The quotes completely ruined anything that was funny about this shirt.

Actually, the quotes themselves are part of the deeper satire of this shirt.

Sure, when the first man holding up a piece of mutton to his new acquaintance utter'd this one-liner (presumably with quotes, as to highlight the punchline), the other probably chuckled loudly at the advent of this new joke.

However, over time, it came to be that every speaker of the English language was famililar with the joke, so quotation marks became unneeded.

The reason the quotes are used here are to imply that the joke is a new one, such as in the days of the men I mentioned. But, the joke is an antique, and therein lies the humor.

I'd prefer a more carnivore styled shirt with the tagline "Pleased to Eat you!"

jmmbell1987 wrote:This became the beef for the taco in yesterday's shirt.

Must not be a Taco Bell taco then ;)

This shirt greatly reminds me of cheesesandwich's Yay Broccoli.

Anyone know what the font on this shirt is? My graphic designer friends and I are kind of in love with the C and G shapes. Is it a custom font?

zwartepaard wrote:Anyone know what the font on this shirt is? My graphic designer friends and I are kind of in love with the C and G shapes. Is it a custom font?

Neither C nor G appear on the shirt. This leads me to assume that you were kidding about something.

The quotes kill the shirt. Wish I could Asphalt-out them. :P

Assassin15 wrote:Neither C nor G appear on the shirt. This leads me to assume that you were kidding about something.

Sorry, I should've clarified. The valentine's that woot released today has the same font on them and they have the C's and G's I was referring too. Sorry 'bout that...I'm actually not intentionally trying to make myself Jatravartid for a change. ;)

ShadowDragoonFTW wrote:Okay, who else thought the entire last paragraph, as well as the basis of the shirt itself, is just terrible innuendo? Am I just that much of a pervert?

Yes. ;-)

This shirt design, along with the rest of their so-called "printable woot valentines," is just woot being weird. Heck, they would probably have rejected at least one of those designs -- like the "I can't stand you" one -- had someone actually submitted it as a derby entry.

The steak could use some marbling...

Thank god there are quotations around "meat," otherwise I would have never gotten the joke.

oh puhleez, why couldn't you print Toucan Sheds His Tint by cmdixon2 instead of this Sirius GPP-o shirt?

I love bad puns.