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Awesome!, congrats, its amazing!

tjost wrote:Awesome!

Love this one!!!! I am a fiction writer and work at a publishing company and got into 3 MFA creative writing programs...... I think I might be your target audience ahahahahaahaaha! :-) thank you for this, it rocks

I really like this design/concept... but are white people the only ones that books are about??? Needs some diversity...

beccaness wrote:Yay it won!!
Congrats!!!!
:D Maybe I'll be able to buy it when it's still in reckoning

Borrow $10 from someone now, and pay them back $12 when you have the cash! That's cheaper than waiting and spending $15 later, and I'd lend at that interest, given today's investment options!

I like the shirt, just not for me today.

rom wrote:like! except for the leaf covered adam and eve don't want to wear something with near-naked people in it.

Yeah, that was my thought as well. I really like the idea though!

WOOHOO - first Woot Shirt I bought for ME and not my husband! CAN'T wait to get it!

Way to represent Fresno! awesome job

love this! but, what's the turtle from?

MissJamieD wrote:I love the fact that I can look at this shirt and reference some of my favorite cartoons as a child.

Anyone else find it funny that all of these great BOOK references brought up fond memories of CARTOONS? I lament the TV-alization of our generation(s)

An no offense to Jamie... I am a video game baby and was thinking Pitfall (Tarzan and turtle)and King's Quest (Robin Hood) before I looked closer.

chrisprender wrote:Does Sherlock Holmes really need that magnifying glass to see the octopus?

He's looking for a place to hide... Ahab's aiming for HIM with the spear.

Oh, Woot. You made me "lol" so much at your description, that I practically started to cry.

Love this shirt!

kelliedn wrote:Okay, but isn't that Johnny Appleseed sleeping under the other side of the tree? Or who is that. I need to know so I can explain each and every bit of this shirt to two curious little boys!

Someone mentioned that it was Tom Sawyer, although I am leaning more towards Huck Finn. That is the whitewashed fence Tom tricked others into painting, but I don't remember if Huck was there or not.

EDIT: Has to be Tom Sawyer. He would be the one sleeping under the tree whilst the others painted the fence.

This is an amazing shirt! It's bound to become a favorite of mine. Yay

Congrats on such a lovely print TJost!!

Rob4313 wrote:It is almost great shirt, too bad the artist decided to muddy all those good stories with the fairy tale of the bible as the centerpiece.

Even if it was meant to point out the fiction of that book, having it in the smack dab middle of the shirt would give the thumpers too much satisfaction for me to ever want to wear this.

I agree. Work of fiction. But I'm still buying this AND the Noah's Ark vs. Giant Squid one (if it gets printed ... please please please)! That's just how this atheist rolls!

mcollins48 wrote:love this! but, what's the turtle from?

Aespos Fables - The Tortoise and the Hare.

I also really enjoy how the only open book in the design is holding the "tree of knowledge". Intentional?

pirateysoul wrote:Love this one!!!! I am a fiction writer and work at a publishing company and got into 3 MFA creative writing programs...... I think I might be your target audience ahahahahaahaaha! :-) thank you for this, it rocks

Or someone like me who LOVES to read and always has at least 2 books being read at a time!!!

In for one... great shirt.

coolestghoul wrote:I agree. Work of fiction. But I'm still buying this AND the Noah's Ark vs. Giant Squid one (if it gets printed ... please please please)! That's just how this atheist rolls!

I don't think whether you are a believer or not should have anything to do with appreciating the fact that stories like Noah's Ark and the Fall of Man are important, influential works of literature. If you ask me, everyone should be Bible literate.

For one thing (and speaking as a recent college graduate here), try passing a class on Western art history, or a class on Shakespeare without understanding the Bible stories that influenced them. Or try understanding Star Trek II without knowing something about Paradise Lost, Moby D*ck, and the Bible stories they were both based on.

(woot filter changes D*ck to "homeskillet" in case you were wondering)

Eshto wrote:I don't think whether you are a believer or not should have anything to do with appreciating the fact that stories like Noah's Ark and the Fall of Man are important, influential works of literature. If you ask me, everyone should be Bible literate.

For one thing (and speaking as a recent college graduate here), try passing a class on Western art history, or a class on Shakespeare without understanding the Bible stories that influenced them. Or try understanding Star Trek II without knowing something about Paradise Lost, Moby D*ck, and the Bible stories they were both based on.

(woot filter changes D*ck to "homeskillet" in case you were wondering)

I agree 100% ... it's a tough read in some spots, but there are some good stories in there

coolestghoul wrote:I agree 100% ... it's a tough read in some spots, but there are some good stories in there

"I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round Perdition's flames before I give him up."

- Khan Noonien Singh, Star Trek II

smcphetrige wrote:Genisis Chapter 3 verse 6 New American Standard Bible

6(E)When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Eve picked the fuit....

Snap.

Eshto wrote:I don't think whether you are a believer or not should have anything to do with appreciating the fact that stories like Noah's Ark and the Fall of Man are important, influential works of literature. If you ask me, everyone should be Bible literate.

I agree they're useful to know. My English teacher at school gave us the exact same advice. No matter what religion you are, (or not, as the case may be), it can be helpful to know the Bible stories. So much of Western culture is based on them.

Experience has shown me she was right. And I think knowing Greek/Roman mythology is equally helpful.

Rob4313 wrote:It is almost great shirt, too bad the artist decided to muddy all those good stories with the fairy tale of the bible as the centerpiece.

Even if it was meant to point out the fiction of that book, having it in the smack dab middle of the shirt would give the thumpers too much satisfaction for me to ever want to wear this.

Am I the only one who thought the Adam and Eve was from Milton's Paradise Lost rather than the bible?

Laura000 wrote:Am I the only one who thought the Adam and Eve was from Milton's Paradise Lost rather than the bible?

Hadn't thought of it, but it makes perfect sense.

Needs more halftones.

;^)

Eshto wrote:Hadn't thought of it, but it makes perfect sense.

I'm a professional (English teacher), don't try this at home.

tjost wrote:Tortoise and the hare, though Woot had a no bunny rule this week and while hares aren't technically bunnies I couldn't put him in it. Franklin would be a little to modern compared to the other figures though so I think it works

I thought it was the mighty Om.

Yellohugz wrote:I really like this design/concept... but are white people the only ones that books are about??? Needs some diversity...

I can say that I ran outta colors, but I used browns so I could have done something like Uncle Toms Cabin but I honestly forgot I was scrambling to come up with a color pallete and stories I thought people would recognize. I didn't sub this until Sunday afternoon so I didn't even think it'd have a chance, I just wanted to get it up because I liked it. There's lots I'd like to change or correct now that I've had time to look at it but alas deadlines can make you miss stuff.

If it makes you feel any better Adam and Eve wouldn't have been white, They'd have darker skin like the middle eastern people who live in the region today. Adam would've had a beard too, (I don't think they'd invented razors yet) but then Eve probably would've had hairy armpits too and no one wanted to have that on their chests (I don't think at least). I'm gonna say I used Michaelangelos reference of Adam for them, sans beard and body hair

ScottL wrote:I thought it was the mighty Om.

Haha I love Disc World

tgentry wrote:Congrats Tjost! Great idea and very wearable.

Thanks Tgentry! Hope your awesome work makes it too I have to admit to the people who mentioned it earlier, but I did use your Unfolding Mystery shirt as kind of a style guide. I loved that shirt but wasn't able to buy it because it had been reckoned already.

Here's hoping that a front-page link to The Binge is enough to finally edge it over Nevermore as the bestselling shirt in the reckoning!

The Tim wrote:Here's hoping that a front-page link to The Binge is enough to finally edge it over Nevermore as the bestselling shirt in the reckoning!

I think it should happen by the next Woot Off, the Binge seems to dominate on those even if not in first on the reckoning

Love it, love it, love it. This is my first shirt.woot! purchase, and I'll wear it proudly. I still plan on adding Nevermore and Villainous Victorian Velociraptor to my closet.

I wonder if it would be inappropriate to wear this to my school's Family Reading Night? I'm a prek teacher, and not sure everyone would be ok with the naked peeps, even if they are from a very popular book. :-)

artjunkie wrote:Love it, love it, love it. This is my first shirt.woot! purchase, and I'll wear it proudly. I still plan on adding Nevermore and Villainous Victorian Velociraptor to my closet.

I wonder if it would be inappropriate to wear this to my school's Family Reading Night? I'm a prek teacher, and not sure everyone would be ok with the naked peeps, even if they are from a very popular book. :-)

They are NOT naked! They are wearing fig leaves.

tjost wrote:If it makes you feel any better Adam and Eve wouldn't have been white, They'd have darker skin like the middle eastern people who live in the region today.

If we're going to try to be historically accurate then we might as well go all the way. All humans are descended from hominids that evolved in Africa about two million years ago. They were furry.