Shirt.Woot

Great to see this here today. ApeLad knows how to pack a punchline.

:^)

Just for the record, the teachers voice is not just a trombone, but a trombone using a plunger mute: that is a toilet plunger held over the bell, opened closed to create the "Wah" sounds. Preferably a plunger that's never been used in a toilet.

Chuck's looking really good after the diet.

I just bought one shirt for my brother but want to buy another one for me at a different address and it won't let me. It says this account has already bought one....


What am I supposed to do?

bgottheimer wrote:What am I supposed to do?

Limit one order, up to three, on debut day.

So either order it tomorrow at its regular price, or sign up another account with a different email address and payment method.

ApeLad wrote:I had a sellout last week. Not to toot my own trombone or anything. Just sayin'.

Gave Questionable to my chemistry teacher department chair today - she loves it!

SunflowerPrincess wrote:Voted for and bought two of these shirts. My son is in speech therapy, i got one for him. I'm a sick twisted mommy!

You're not sick . . .
I am a speech-language pathologist and I bought one for myself

rlorenz89 wrote:You guys do get that this is supposed to be Charlie Brown's teacher in Peanuts, right? I think only one person even referenced it...

You do realize that all of us talking about trombone plunger mutes, etc., are in on the Peanuts reference... right?

As a trombonist, I could not resist this one. You have no idea how many jokes circle around this in the music programs at colleges and high schools. Great job!

First day of kindergarten, here we come!

grahamcrackercoyote wrote:Gave Questionable to my chemistry teacher department chair today - she loves it!

Thanks! I'm glad. I have yet to receive one angry letter. Maybe once school starts.

In the old days of 3000 prints per run, this would have been a sellout! Congratulations!

joshualder wrote:I've played trombone for 20 years, and the teacher's hands are in an odd position. The bell should be bigger and a bit farther from her head, the slide should be much longer, and the grip seems reversed, though it's tough to tell because of the silhouette (the slide is used with the thumb and middle and index fingers on the slide bar, not the edge of the slide). And the omission of the MUTE is almost too much. Without the mute, you don't get the "womp womp womp" sound, which is the whole point.

It's a cool design and concept... but trombonists will have a hard time not nitpicking it.

I'm a teacher and a former trombonist from my school band days. I love this shirt! It's my first shirt.woot!!

I'm sending my 4.5 year old to preschool in this one. Wah-wah-wah.

ApeLad wrote:Thanks! I'm glad. I have yet to receive one angry letter. ...

That's probably because your gaming controller has rendered the complainy folks unable to write anymore.

Which was probably your plot all along, wasn't it? GAH! Are you trying to take over the world now?!

bcm1 wrote:FWIW, I've been a professional trombonist for almost 20 years, and the lack of a mute and the minor inaccuracies in the drawing of the trombone don't bother me. Besides, the mute used isn't commonly known (as seen by the guesses above), so I can't really fault the artist for omitting it.

I believe the technical term is tromboner.

okaminoshiro wrote:As a trombonist, I could not resist this one. You have no idea how many jokes circle around this in the music programs at colleges and high schools. Great job!

They have music programs in high schools?

I just bought 3 of this shirt, one each for my best friend, my mom, and myself. I can't wait to surprise them with this fun little for-no-reason gift!

jamesbottomtooth wrote:picture is missing the mute piece for that 'wah wah' sound

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TrumpetMutes.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trumpet_WahWahMute.jpg

That's what I thought too. Maybe it would've looked odd/added confusion but that is how the sound would be made. Otherwise,I like the humor.

So I bought two of the Peanuts/trombone T shirts last week. They both came in on Friday, and I wore one of them (a 2XL) for the first time today. As I was wearing it around the house, one of the threads on the sleeve started coming undone, and by the end of the day, without me doing anything with it, it is literally unraveling about halfway up the sleeve. I'm very disappointed, as I am a music teacher, and a trombone player, and this shirt is right up my alley, but now I can't even wear it to school!!!!

I'm very disappointed! What's the policy for defective products?

jmk78160 wrote:... I'm very disappointed! What's the policy for defective products?

Take pics, and email them along with the issue and your order number to service@woot.com

Love this shirt! This is numberxone's significant other ... And I really love that this household is the 1% that got 3 of the shirts! woot! woot!