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I was briefly number 1 on the Deals Woot rankings last week. My wife treated it as a dubious honor.

[Sigh] bring on all the trite pop-culture memes. "Most arrows taken to the knee." "Most zubats captured." "Most younglings slaughtered." "Most sonic screwdrivers forcibly inserted into [mod: bad visual images for highly creative minds]" [Eyerolls]

Prediction: 6/9 fog entries will have to do with video games in some way.

Any restrictions on Pop culture designs or Industry references? Thanks

clarinerd wrote:Prediction: 6/9 fog entries will have to do with video games in some way.

That's like predicting tomorrow is Friday.

endangeredomega wrote:[Sigh] bring on all the trite pop-culture memes. "Most arrows taken to the knee." "Most zubats captured." "Most younglings slaughtered." "Most [mod: bad images to the brain! Anvilania]" [Eyerolls]

oooh!
//cranks up MSPaint//

endangeredomega wrote:[Sigh] bring on all the trite pop-culture memes. "Most arrows taken to the knee." "Most zubats captured." "Most younglings slaughtered." "Most sonic screwdrivers forcibly inserted [mod: bad visual images for highly creative minds]" [Eyerolls]

Most Arrows in Knee was the first thing that came to mind for me as well, along with Bin Laden Hide N Seek Champion - which a quick Google search reveals many t-shirts relating to that already exist. Time to dig deep!

taternuggets wrote:That's like predicting tomorrow is Friday.

Well since my derby predictions are usually wrong, I guess I was hoping that stating it on the forum would make it less likely to come true.

What about "Most First Sucker on Shirt.Woot"? Narfcake FTW!!

"Derby Topic least likely to produce a Great Winning Design"

aramis525 wrote:What about "Most First Sucker on Shirt.Woot"? Narfcake FTW!!

Um, I don't think that would be very good because "First Sucker" doesn't really read like that, and it would be in poor taste to knowingly go with it anyway.

But this is a good time to revisit the "Overindulgence" theme. And since bunnies are so popular, I'm thinking we'll see something like "Most marshmallows shoved into tiny cheeks."

endangeredomega wrote:[Sigh] bring on all the trite pop-culture memes. "Most arrows taken to the knee." "Most zubats captured." "Most younglings slaughtered." "Most sonic screwdrivers forcibly inserted into [mod: bad visual images for highly creative minds]" [Eyerolls]

Damn. Was gonna go for the most arrows to the knee too.

Hmm... most marios on a shirt... most bunnies eating meat... most pandas eating bananas... most shirt designs submitted to woot (Josephus! But I'm third...)

"...women are still worth 10 points more than men in all age brackets, but teenagers now rack up 40 points, and toddlers under 12 now rate a big 70 points. The big score: anyone, any sex, over 75 years old has been upped to 100 points."
For some reason, I envisioned a SUV-driving soccer mom with 'kill points' on her back window instead of those stick-figure things. I must be having some road-rage issues
/edit: Ooo, wait - how about the stick figure thingies, with the hash-mark kill numbers next to them? (Don't be on the road when I leave work today. Just sayin'.)

This is a tricky one!
This is my first sketch, it is ridiculous!

nathanwpyle wrote:This is a tricky one!
This is my first sketch, it is ridiculous!

Made me lol! Can't wait to see the finish product...if you decided to submit it

I call "Cheezburger Champion"

Similarly, this would be an accurate shirt for me to make/wear toooo

SkekTek wrote:Hmm... most marios on a shirt... most bunnies eating meat... most pandas eating bananas... most shirt designs submitted to woot (Josephus! But I'm third...)

Most pop culture references silhouetted against the moon?

I really hope people give it a break but unless they specifically ban Pop Culture References, there will most likely be an abundance of it. If so, give me the "Least $%!+ Given About The Derby" award.

taternuggets wrote:Most pop culture references silhouetted against the moon?

Now I'm imagining Link, Mario, Vader, and some cute fuzzy animals all howling at the moon..

CrescentDebris wrote:I really hope people give it a break but unless they specifically ban Pop Culture References, there will most likely be an abundance of it. If so, give me the "Least $%!+ Given About The Derby" award.

I think the competition for that would be fierce.

tanadora wrote:Now I'm imagining Link, Mario, Vader, and some cute fuzzy animals all howling at the moon..

No, TN is thinking aliens.

most Twinkies stuffed in mouth?

Most tacos?

mrsstudrobinson wrote:... And since bunnies are so popular, I'm thinking we'll see something like "Most marshmallows shoved into tiny cheeks."

It's been done.

As for my first sucker/last wooter count ... I think I'm only at 9 and 8 respectively. It just so happens that four of them happen to be the same shirt, that's all.

CrescentDebris wrote:I really hope people give it a break but unless they specifically ban Pop Culture References, there will most likely be an abundance of it. If so, give me the "Least $%!+ Given About The Derby" award.

This.

CrescentDebris wrote:I really hope people give it a break but unless they specifically ban Pop Culture References, there will most likely be an abundance of it. If so, give me the "Least $%!+ Given About The Derby" award.

Hmmm. Given this and cmdixon2's agreement, methinks we have hit upon the shirt.woot anomie under discussion in the Community "World of Shirt Woot" thread. Somewhere along the way, there was just one too many bunnies or zombies or Marios for a good many of the artists we've come to know and love around here.
I has a sad.

paigeg wrote:Hmmm. Given this and cmdixon2's agreement, methinks we have hit upon the shirt.woot anomie under discussion in the Community "World of Shirt Woot" thread. Somewhere along the way, there was just one too many bunnies or zombies or Marios for a good many of the artists we've come to know and love around here.
I has a sad.

I think the floodgates opened around Derby #211 "everyday 8-bit"
I imagine it's frustrating as all hell to put a lot of work into a unique, creative, well executed design only to watch it beat out by a bunch of cheap, shoehorned Pop-cult references.

as I'm incapable of entering myself at this time (new comp with none of the needed programs on it...the hubby has promised photoshop so I'm excited for that) but if someone want to run with it I was voted most meek in high school (yeah...most meek...I thought it was a Dot's Poetry Corner award and they were just searchin for something to say about me...) feel free to run with it if you can think of anything!

I'm working on a roadside attraction for cats, if you know your Weird Al songs you can probably guess where I'm going with it. : )

tgentry wrote:It may not be quite as bad as some might think. Since Derby #211, around 44 of the winning derby shirts were not pop-culture related. 23 were pop-culture, about one out of every three. That means non-pop-culture tees still dominated the derby 2 to 1.

And the statistics, ratios and percentages for Pop-Culture entries to Non-Pop-Culture entries are?

I'm going simple and silly this week.

tgentry wrote:It may not be quite as bad as some might think. Since Derby #211, around 44 of the winning derby shirts were not pop-culture related. 23 were pop-culture, about one out of every three. That means non-pop-culture tees still dominated the derby 2 to 1.

This is partly because we still put no pop-culture rules into place, such as the recent Underwater, Motivation, and Winter derbies. Also, there are plenty of times when we allow pop-culture and the winners are still largely non-pop-culture related, such as the recent Letter A and Overindulgence derbies -- only 1 out of 6 of those winners was pop culture related, even though it was completely allowed.

A LOT of our audience loves pop-culture related stuff. A big portion of our audience doesn't. You both are here, and we'd ideally like to make you both happy. This is why we mix it up between the two. Because we run pop-culture allowed one week doesn't mean we're trying to stick it to the pop-culture haters, and vice-versa.

This is interesting and even surprising! Good to know that voters appreciate good non-pop concepts that can stand on their own.

endangeredomega wrote:[Sigh] bring on all the trite pop-culture memes. "Most arrows taken to the knee." "Most zubats captured." "Most younglings slaughtered." "Most sonic screwdrivers forcibly inserted into [mod: bad visual images for highly creative minds]" [Eyerolls]

As Skyrim tracks how many innocent bunnies you slaughter it would be a better option than arrows. And fit woot better too.

specsmachine wrote:I'm going simple and silly this week.

God, I wish I didn't like this as much as I do. Nicely done.

Spiritgreen wrote:I'm working on a roadside attraction for cats, if you know your Weird Al songs you can probably guess where I'm going with it. : )

"Biggest Ball of Yarn in Minnesota"? :->

Dunno if this'll get rejected or not, but it's all I got. Comments?