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Rube Goldberg would be proud. And he'd probably lul, too.

You should see his blueprint for global warming!

Ah, Rube Goldberg machines...the bane of high-school physics students nationwide.

Arrowed! I like the Teen Girl Squad reference.

I'm waiting for PETA to come in, complaining of LOLCAT abuse.

Gotta love Rube Goldberg machines. On a similar note, anyone seen OK Go's video This Too Shall Pass? Epic!

LOL I <3 this shirt!

I was trying to find some funny, physical impossibility, but I can't. This shirt is disappointingly plausible.

loved all the fog candidates this week, never would have imagined this topic to crank out such great shirts. i'm in, and fear that i'm in for tomorrow's too!

Doc Brown fed Einstein the same way.

Have to get one to bad its on blue I like black bit better but get that its a blue print look o well. Sweet shirt.

Now that I was able to prove Al Gore invented the internet, I hope I get a Nobel Peace prize too. I mean, people did stop arguing when the internet was invented, right?

Thanks so much everyone. All 1007 of you that voted, at least.

This reminds me of the old DOS game The Incredible Machine, therefore it is awesome.

funny but too nerdy to wear. I'm really crossing my fingers for the vomiting cloud. Last week the one I wanted came in fourth.

I hope you're happy! Al Gore is probably crying himself to sleep on his eco-friendly biodegradable pillow right now!

colinm09 wrote:Rube Goldberg would be proud. And he'd probably lul, too.

indeed, i think he would

ste7enl wrote:Now that I was able prove Al Gore invented the internet, I hope I get a Nobel Peace prize too. I mean, people did stop arguing when the internet was invented, right?

Thanks so much everyone. All 1007 of you that voted, at least.

You realize that Al Gore never actually claimed he "invented" the internet, right?

He did say something in a political campaign about being an early advocate, pushing for more investment and growth, something the guy who arguably (well, as much as any one person I suppose) DID invent the Internet (Vint Cerf) confirmed. See, e.g., Snopes.com.

It would have been really funny if this shirt got 1337 votes.

catwafer wrote:This reminds me of the old DOS game The Incredible Machine, therefore it is awesome.

That game is awesome!

Had to get one.

ayesquiddy wrote:You realize that Al Gore never actually claimed he "invented" the internet, right?

He did say something in a political campaign about being an early advocate, pushing for more investment and growth, something the guy who arguably (well, as much as any one person I suppose) DID invent the Internet (Vint Cerf) confirmed. See, e.g., Snopes.com.

bah, that doesnt matter...

just edit wikipedia to have his version of the truth. all will be fine

See, the science of explanation + fuzzy ears (all cats have fuzzy ears, even non grammatical falling, LOL ones)...you can have both ; )

ste7enl wrote:Now that I was able prove Al Gore invented the internet, I hope I get a Nobel Peace prize too. I mean, people did stop arguing when the internet was invented, right?

Thanks so much everyone. All 1007 of you that voted, at least.

how ironic would it have been if 1337 had voted? LOL

Crap now I gotta buy this shirt. So much for money.

When I see people wearing it does that mean I should say, "Oh, that's so ten dollars ago?"

Awesomeness! "The Internet (c) A. Gore 1993" alone almost makes this worth buying. In for 2. It should have been 3, but my teenage brother isn't secure enough in his nerdiness yet to wear this.

Clearly these are not the blueprints for teh Internets. The real blueprints depict a series of tubes.

This is far too much for my puny mind to comprehend. That doesn't change the brilliance of this shirt.

PLEASE tell me this shirt was meant to coincide with ROFLCon, which is going on RIGHT now: http://roflcon.org/

So what your saying is they watched a lot of Tom and Jerry cartoons?

What? No tl/dr?

admittedly, while i was racing to pick up last night's shirt, i come in late tonight to keep my wallet in check. this is a good design that won't make it a week in the reckoning. i know now that one of my two hopefuls for this weekend is gone, i can only hope that sunday bring forth a lightweight rainbow or a vampire know-how chart so that I can give Woot more money.

love the 'oh hai' loL!

As much as I like this shirt has anyone at Woot ever thought about having a special Derby shirt for Kentucky Derby Day ????????????

Its been a while since I have purchased a shirt, this one did it for me.


<3 internet

I knew this would be a big success the second I saw it in the derby. The design is so spot on Rube Goldberg would be spinning in his grave (assisted by a series of pulleys and mice).

Flawless victory, ste7enl. ^__^

Bah, I'm tired of grievously misquoted political statements. Gore didn't claim he invented anything, he said he was "instrumental" in the creation of the Internet, which basically means "helpful." Likewise, Sarah Palin didn't claim she could see Russia from her house, she said parts of Russia are visible from parts of Alaska (islands, basically).

This shirt is all right, but it's more interesting as a classic Rube Goldberg machine than as an analogy for the Internet.

arothman wrote:Clearly these are not the blueprints for teh Internets. The real blueprints depict a series of tubes.

Perhaps we could satisfy all camps with a depiction of Al Gore in a hardhat, delivering a series of tubes on a flatbed truck.

Side Note: Super Mario's Mushroom Kingdom is a series of tubes. Does that mean it is part of the Internet?

catwafer wrote:This reminds me of the old DOS game The Incredible Machine, therefore it is awesome.

I loved that game, but I think perhaps i owned a sequel, because it wasn't DOS.

Because everyone cares about what I have to think, because I'm a special and unique rose in bloom:

It's too groan-inducing to ever wear, IMO.


Good work, still, hope everyone who buys it likes it, and hope the artist gets some moolah.

edit: woot should have produced 1337 of these instead of 1500. You know it's true.