Shirt.Woot

ZOMG i saw Death on a Pale White Unicorn today . While woot shirts are nothing new these days, something that epic, and that old is always cool.

I have to say, I had the most awesome siting today. Simply because I never thought I'd see the combo together, except perhaps, in my own house. Two guys crossing the street near the UW-L campus (one on a bike and one walking beside him) were wearing The Cake is a Liar and Dental Damned




I wondered if they even realized they were by the same artist or not.

JadenKale wrote:

I wondered if they even realized they were by the same artist or not.

If browsing the forums here has taught me anything, it's that if you told them they were designed by an artist at all, they'd immediately disrobe and burn the shirts.

EWW ARTISTS! I FEEL LIKE A HIPSTER NOW!

AdderXYU wrote:If browsing the forums here has taught me anything, it's that if you told them they were designed by an artist at all, they'd immediately disrobe and burn the shirts.

EWW ARTISTS! I FEEL LIKE A HIPSTER NOW!

I think the word 'hipster' should officially be modified by the woot censors to something like 'Crow bags'...


oh... wait...

JadenKale wrote:I think the word 'hipster' should officially be modified by the woot censors to something like 'Crow bags'...


oh... wait...

how about 'keister' ?

2 more sightings to report.

Saw "Epic Begins" again today near 51st and 8th Avenue. (The second time I've seen this shirt 'in the wild'.)

Also, one of my co-workers on the weekends is definitely a woot shirt fan. Last Saturday he was sporting 'Too Hungry'. I had on 'Heavy Monster Sound'. Once more, no comments were exchanged. :p

ONE DAY, I will have the courage to introduce myself and compliment a 'boss shirt'. Maybe ...

On Saturday, my boyfriend and I saw Filthy Hippies at the Farmers Market in Salt Lake City.

Had my first shirt.woot sighting today! It was around 1pm MST at the University of Alberta campus. I saw a guy wearing Pandora's Friends - it actually looked fairly decent in the sunlight. The guy didn't know the name of the shirt though - he said he'd received it in a random. Still exciting!

Unfortunately I wasn't wearing a woot shirt. I'm wearing Killer Khameleon from Cameesa today - one of my favourite shirts.

JadenKale wrote:I think the word 'hipster' should officially be modified by the woot censors to something like 'Crow bags'...


oh... wait...

How about it's censored to "people with eyes", since it's usually used as a derogatory slang for people who have taste in what their wearing?

That said, I had two sightings today. One on the Red Line at MIT (tgentry's "We Rule the Air"), and another in Davis Square (fatheed's "It Came Out of Nowhere"). Travis's looked far better in person. fatheed's looked fine, but the graphic seemed more generic in person, so I was staring a bit to make sure it was what i thought it was.

i obviously need to hang around more comic book conventions or colleges cause i still have not seen a shirt in the wild

AdderXYU wrote:How about it's censored to "people with eyes", since it's usually used as a derogatory slang for people who have taste in what their wearing?

The definition of 'hipster'-ism must be a bit variable then. In my experience, it generally refers to over-privileged, pretentious idiots, generally aged 16-35, who spend obscene amounts of their parents' money on the ugliest, tackiest, clothing they can find in an effort to appear 'unique'. Ironically, they all end up looking very much the same.

For examples, please see: http://www.latfh.com

I'm at Anime Weekend Atlanta.

Besides seeing a duo I could have gone without seeing (those who know, know), I spotted these shirts today:

A Wonderful Day
friends
Sun Wukong (The Monkey King)
Listen to your Conscience

Some sightings to report.

Despite living in the middle of god-damned nowhere, I've had the pleasure of seeing several shirt.woot shirts come and go. I guess working in (the better) one of 2 movie theaters in the 3rd largest city in the state helps out a little bit :p.

Down to the sightings:

Donut Panic!
DaVinci Blue Shell
Battle Fungale

(side note, Blue Shell and Fungale were as a couple, and how I wanted to say something, but alas, I was paralyzed by the awesomeness).

Despite seeing several woot shirts (several occurrences of Donut Panic!) Ive never seen one on campus (RVC), however, so I'm still disappointed.

And since I'm posting, I may as well ask:
A)What are your views on being confronted about wearing a woot shirt? And
B)What would you say if you were indeed found to clad in woot-gear?

SailorButterfly wrote:I'm at Anime Weekend Atlanta.

Besides seeing a duo I could have gone without seeing (those who know, know), I spotted these shirts today:

A Wonderful Day
friends
Sun Wukong (The Monkey King)
Listen to your Conscience

Hoorah!

This kid in my English class is a wooter too! I saw him wearing

Jungle Within


and

Baha, I Has Nets too!

goldenthorn wrote:Ha! Are they shiny and dead-eyed in person?

One of them is definitely dead-eyed.
Anyone who wants some more information (i.e., dirt) pm me.

I spotted a few more shirts today:

Cthulhu BBQ
Sore Thumbs (was probably the recent reprint)
Say No to Scurvy
Can't Stop the Signal

I also saw some Woot-Off lights connected to a computer in the Art Show.

Saw a guy tonight at the San Diego Dave And Buster's wearing A Wonderful Day.

A busy week here in the Dallas area. On Wednesday, I saw "Steamworks Operatica" at the Flying Saucer.
Yesterday (Saturday) at Oktoberfest in Addison, I saw "Needed," "You Are a Pirate" and "The Cake is a Liar."
And today, at Operation Kindness's Dog Day Afternoon, I saw our very own forum posting faughtey sporting, "Perched Among the Blossums."
And of course, none of these days was I wearing a Woot shirt myself. Agh, the injustice of it all.
No, I did not use the "Boss shirt, boss" phrase. I hate that. I did talk to Pirate and Cake, though.
And I had a bullhorn when I saw faughtey. So yeah, everyone heard that she was wearing a Woot shirt. Her dog is really cute.

endangeredomega wrote:The definition of 'hipster'-ism must be a bit variable then. In my experience, it generally refers to over-privileged, pretentious idiots, generally aged 16-35, who spend obscene amounts of their parents' money on the ugliest, tackiest, clothing they can find in an effort to appear 'unique'. Ironically, they all end up looking very much the same.

For examples, please see: http://www.latfh.com

oh no, that is the definition of hipster everywhere.

Except woot. Here, "hipster" is used to insult any shirt that has worth outside of an anime or comic-con

goldenthorn wrote:Yeah, while latfh chronicles the true visual definition of hipster, here (and everywhere on the net) people just call anyone a hipster who a) disagrees with him, and b) has "pretensions" to "elitism." Basically, anyone halfway clever with an opinion and some knowledge to back it up. latfh hipster = take a shower with an electric toaster ; internet hipster = I have no problem with this. Adder, you are an internet hipster. Revel in it. Cuz you know: when you wrestle with the devil, you're gonna get wet with fire.

I am glaring at you through my shuttershades.

not really a sighting, but on a message board i visit someone has easy optimism as their avatar...

I was walking in the Seattle Breast Cancer 3-Day walk last weekend...and because of the abuse my body was going through I can't remember where or what day I saw it, but I did see it, I'm sure.

It was Curious Little Turtle. I have no idea what I said to the man, because I was focused on the pain in my hips and the loss of feeling in my toes.

All in all, a very successful walk: personally raised >$3300, Seattle raised > $5.5 mil, and I saw a Woot shirt in the wild.

kernel32dll wrote:
And since I'm posting, I may as well ask:
A)What are your views on being confronted about wearing a woot shirt? And
B)What would you say if you were indeed found to clad in woot-gear?

I would LOVE it if someone would say something to me. Even just a passing, "Boss shirt, boss" would make me defecate rainbows for at least one hour.

On an unrelated note, I happened to pass by a girl while we were both wearing "Shiny." It was in a cross-walk and it took me too long to realize what had just transpired in order to react in time.

Not too long after that I was at a lecture by D. Hebdige (can't type his first name because of the adorable filter) about that dreamboat Takashi Murakami and ended up sitting next to a guy wearing "Knife to See You." I said the obligatory, "Boss shirt, boss," and his response was something like, "Uh, uh, thanks."

I have yet to see one in the wild. I live in a college town, and there are technically 3 colleges here: 1 university, 1 tech, and 1 private. Still no sitings. Makes me sad

However, I've gotten a couple compliments while wearing The Aviator(the first woot shirt I ever got!). A couple months ago, someone asked me where I got it and I said "shirt woot" and someone else in the room piped up and said "who just said shirt woot?!" We continued to talk about the awesomeness that is shirt.woot, but I have yet to see him wearing one. To all of you in southeast MN, start wearing your woot shirts!

I had two shirt sitings at one event this past Monday. I saw Pirate Exercises and Pirate Penguin in New York at the Dr. Horrible charity screening with Joss Whedon being interviewed by Ira Glass. I was wearing my Breakfast Club shirt.

MiKEYxCORE wrote:I would LOVE it if someone would say something to me. Even just a passing, "Boss shirt, boss" would make me defecate rainbows for at least one hour.

i am so going to steal that line

MiKEYxCORE wrote:I would LOVE it if someone would say something to me. Even just a passing, "Boss shirt, boss" would make me defecate rainbows for at least one hour.

... I said the obligatory, "Boss shirt, boss," and his response was something like, "Uh, uh, thanks."

Yeah, I've said "Boss shirt, boss," in a couple of cases of sitings, but I usually just get weird looks...Not everyone is in on the joke, or they don't like weird chicks making comments about their chest covering...

I'll keep saying in case anyone has your reaction, however.

some dude on conan is wearing a madness of miss stereo.


seriously, does that shirt get on tv more than any other?

I saw "Jimmy ... Is That You?" in Singapore of all places. Somebody getting off the MRT at the Dhoby Ghaut station was wearing it!

A guy in my Molecular Biology lab today had on The Epic Begins. I had worn it two days ago and had on Dystopia today. First woot shirt sighting ever and it was in my own class.

On a whale watching boat from Port Townsend to Friday Harbor with only 30 people on it, I traveled with a guy wearing Vincent's Alternative yesterday but I didn't see it until about 5 minutes before we got off and docked. (They suggested we wear layered clothing.) I had on I'm Sorry, and we exchanged a few words. Can't do the whole Boss shirt, but the 1st thing I said was "Cool woot shirt."

Small woot world.

8p

At the world beer festival in Durham, NC today I saw Dystopia, The epic begins, and Larkitecture. There may have been more... but there was also copius amounts of beer around which had my attention.

Was at a chili cook-off this afternoon sampling the food. While sitting on a bench chowing down, a guy walked by with Curious Turtle (one of my own favorite shirts). He was maybe 15-20 feet from me, and it was a loud event, so I just shouted, "Boss shirt, boss!" when he looked in my direction.

His smile told me that he knew exactly what I was talking about and, also, that he was slightly embarrassed.

The girlfriend tried to be irritated with me, but I think she was secretly amused by my wootian antics

My husband and I went to the Leavenworth Oktoberfest today and saw Coffee Levels Critical. I was a little surprised that we only saw one woot.shirt; especially because Washington is always lit up on the sales map.

MastaHanky wrote:I saw "Jimmy ... Is That You?" in Singapore of all places. Somebody getting off the MRT at the Dhoby Ghaut station was wearing it!

Seriously? Woot shirts are being spotted in Singapore, and I can't find one in the entire state of Maryland? It's so unfair!

I had my first Woot sighting today. It was pretty awesome. I was in a WaWa in Florence, NJ and I saw a woman wearing PolarSnugglePhant. I figured it would be weird if a high school kid approached an older woman, so I kept my mouth shut. I was wearing Edgar's Air, but she didn't seem to notice.