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eco2geek wrote:So why is it that we can't have 4th and 5th place derby winners? No disrespect meant, but the artwork coming from the derbies has been a lot more interesting than the dailies lately.

But I disagree very much with your explanation of your pun, which just defeats the pun and kills the joke, no matter how lousy the pun may be (puns are rarely un-lousy)

Ugh, I hate fanboys.

It's a free laugh on a hot night...authentic looking foam finger green at least.

I can't decide which shirt is worse: yesterday's or today's.

You all know we will be getting this one not to mention yesterdays when woot offers the random shirts again.

Why's the design of the fan from the 1950's? Foam fingers weren't invented yet. Shirts like this help me save money.

MathUhhhSaurus wrote:I don't get the manatee-zeppelin thing?

explanations?

I see what you did there Woot.

Wearing this shirt is pretty cool and refreshing.

And for those who still might not get the reference:

Hindenburg disaster

wavecaster wrote:

gyro8891 wrote:I have a friend who really likes Lady Gaga. I'd get this for him, but I have better things to do with my money than enable bad habits.

If Lady Gaga had become a nun, that's exactly what she'd wear.

I just noticed that the fan is smiling. It makes me hate this shirt even more.

The writeup made me laugh really hard, and that almost makes me want the shirt.




Almost.

Yeah, -great- write up.

I almost really like the shirt but I could do without the face and the color of the foam hand is a little bit jarring for me.

Nice idea!

I don't get it... Why does this fan have only one arm?!

This really needs to be hidden away somewhere.

I think I have a fan-attic specifically for situations like this.

MathUhhhSaurus wrote:I don't get the manatee-zeppelin thing?

explanations?

When that zeppelin burned up over New York in the 1920s, or whenever it was, the guy (or woman) who was filming the landing before it started to burn (and after) uttered the immortal line "oh, the huge manatees"* leading to continued speculation that manatees had in fact produced the explosion, and may well have been the first home-grown terrorists in the US. It spawned six different films, with the latest being the classic Oliver Stone epic "Zeppelin". It also inspired the national chain of fire grilled hamburgers "Hindenburger's" (where they give out free hydrogen filled balloons with their kids' meals).

*or possibly "Oh, the humanity" in which case, never mind.

skatimmy737 wrote:A marvelous use of the Microsoft Word clip art library.

To me, it looks like they just hastily filtered this image and drew in an arm and face...

http://www.retro.net/keywords/Vintage_GE_Fan/Vintage_GE_Fan_1.jpg

Enedlhach wrote:For those of you who don't get it:

Often times when people enjoy or root for a certain team or person, the use the word "fan" to describe them selves. Often times someone who is a quite fanatical fan of something will claim to the be the number 1 fan. This shirt is a simple play on words in which an actual fan, that would be used for blowing air onto you, is masquerading as a live object that is the number one "fan" of something. It's funny because a fan is a fan.

and you actually thought it was neccisary to explain this?

Must belong to Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen. He was #1!

CaptainWes wrote:It would not be a stretch to say this shirt blows.

Nor would it be one to say that this shirt sucks, depending on your perspective.

This shirt blows me away.

Ah fans before people worried about safety... I bet the blades were even razor sharp.

A perfect way to cool down after a hard day walking to school 10 miles / uphill both ways / in a foot of snow / on fire / being chased by dinosaurs... right before your parents put you to work in the coal mine / made you slop the pigs / sliced you in half with a bread knife.

I wonder how many people lost fingers, limbs, and/or vital organs to these beasts before they starting "sissifying" fans.

dahctorworm wrote:To me, it looks like they just hastily filtered this image and drew in an arm and face...

Um...yeah. Wow. How depressing. D:

Josephus wrote:When that zeppelin burned up over New York in the 1920s, or whenever it was, the guy (or woman) who was filming the landing before it started to burn (and after) uttered the immortal line "oh, the huge manatees"* leading to continued speculation that manatees had in fact produced the explosion, and may well have been the first home-grown terrorists in the US. It spawned six different films, with the latest being the classic Oliver Stone epic "Zeppelin". It also inspired the national chain of fire grilled hamburgers "Hindenburger's" (where they give out free hydrogen filled balloons with their kids' meals).

This is how I've understood it, yes. And I'm pretty much an expert on everything. ;)

Boy, that #1 Fan is a real cool breeze.

Draug wrote:

Um...yeah. Wow. How depressing. D:

As a skilled Photoshop image thief, I can tell you that, if the designer did a import that image into PS, then they did a heck of a job making it their own. That's a craptastic low-res image, so again, if they filtered it, then they really cleaned it up. Nice work, says I.

Whatever, I _like_ visual puns. All the haters can . . . suck it? Yeah, I'll go with that one.

reading all your comment, one expression come to my mind...
"The excrement made physical contact with a hydro-electric powered oscillating air current distribution device".

Call me crazy, but I think the world needs more puns.

Thankfully this isn't an animated shirt, otherwise you'd see that with the foam finger covering the plug there is no power to the fan.

So no, this fan does not blow, nor does it suck.

It does nothing. Much like what the shirt does for me.

Enedlhach wrote:For those of you who don't get it:

Often times when people enjoy or root for a certain team or person, the use the word "fan" to describe them selves. Often times someone who is a quite fanatical fan of something will claim to the be the number 1 fan. This shirt is a simple play on words in which an actual fan, that would be used for blowing air onto you, is masquerading as a live object that is the number one "fan" of something. It's funny because a fan is a fan.

If you don't get it most likely you'll end up wearing the shirt backwards or upside down.

MathUhhhSaurus wrote:I don't get the manatee-zeppelin thing?

explanations?

I believe a reporter onsite at the Hindenburg disaster pointed out the huge manatee at the time.

Little known fact: manatees hate hydrogen-powered airships so much they'll swim up to NJ from the everglades to destroy them.

There's gotta be better shirts than this. I mean who buys shirts with bad visual puns? Ram-bo sold 7 shirts? How many will this sell? I'm guessing #1.

"Wear this shirt: With some padding underneath it. Because people are going to want to punch you.

Don’t wear this shirt: Around anyone who looks like they punch hard. Because you’re going to get punched."

Haha awesome. Great write up today.

chrisprender wrote:Call me crazy, but I think the world needs more puns.

Call me crazy, but I think the world needs more metal fans.
\m/
::air-guitar riff::

I wish we could get this as a tech fabric shirt... I'd wear it to every race I run.

Wow, the shirts here have been really disappointing lately. At least it's saving me money.

Fish tanks shaped like military tanks! - I've got that shirt from Threadless.

Peanuts characters recreated using actual peanuts! - I think I've seen that before.

Christopher Walken wearing cowboy boots with a caption saying “These boots are made for Walken!” - I'd buy that.

CaptainWes wrote:It would not be a stretch to say this shirt blows.

Ahh...but if you're BEHIND the guy wearing it...it sucks.