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What's the problem? He's creating lots of jobs, right. Sure, Mario for president.

zekecatz wrote:What's the problem? He's creating lots of jobs, right. Sure, Mario for president.

I've always thought that. You want to create 2 million jobs? Hire 1 million people to dig holes and 1 million more to fill them in. Two million jobs, just like that.

On the other hand, Mario is a destructive beast. He comes into a realm, destroys anything made of brick, steals all the coins, kills the local fauna and flora, and just to add insult to injury, ends up replacing your flag with his own.

I love how well this design captures a turn-of-the-century feel, in iconography, color, and technique - and the characters are fantastic: even the clouds look surprised by the interloper! Radscoolian did a wonderful job conveying the bricklayer's surprise: the twist in his body and his posture, leaning away from his work, brick and tool flying away from him, emphasize the extent to which the fleeing Mario startled the bricklayer.

Wonderful design, Radscoolian! Congratulations on the print. [Nice choice, ApeLad!]

I think my 8 year old's gonna love this tee.

When one sees this type of rampant destruction on the part of a plumber, you have to ask yourself: Just how much of a threat are those giant turtles and mushrooms are in comparison to him?

neuropsychosocial wrote:I love how well this design captures a turn-of-the-century feel,

both centuries, right?

Those must be some bricks. Never understood how they hovered in mid air. Anti-gravity bricks must be smashed! They are an abomination of nature!

HOLLOW! that explains the shoddy, punchable construction, and how they could be filled with things...

It's ironic that the copy writers make reference to big government replacing the gentlemen farmers that founded our land. They believed in a democratic republic, where votes mattered; Woot is nothing more than a mirror of the big government it mocks. "Guest Editor?" More like Big Brother. Clearly votes don't matter to Woot; otherwise I'd have an awesome Armor Tester shirt on it's way to me in the mail. I now understand the underlying ethos of shirt.woot: all shirts are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Congrats, Radscoolian! Very nice pick, Apelad.

I love how the Mushroom Kingdom gets regular sized guys to build their levels and creepy little weird guys to destroy them.

Also, the blocks are SUPPOSED to be hollow. That's how the stuff fits inside. And how they float. Duh.

Looking forward to wearing this work of art! Congratulations, Radscoolian!

Just in case you guys don't know how hard it is to actually lay bricks, here's a quick video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VGjA66RSm0

Speaking of copy writers, someone needs to give them a vacation. They gave gotten positively dark and bizarre for the last couple of shirts.

roadsidebeetsales wrote:It's ironic that the copy writers make reference to big government replacing the gentlemen farmers that founded our land. They believed in a democratic republic, where votes mattered; Woot is nothing more than a mirror of the big government it mocks. "Guest Editor?" More like Big Brother. Clearly votes don't matter to Woot; otherwise I'd have an awesome Armor Tester shirt on it's way to me in the mail. I now understand the underlying ethos of shirt.woot: all shirts are equal, but some are more equal than others.

jonwhoa wrote:Just in case you guys don't know how hard it is to actually lay bricks, here's a quick video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VGjA66RSm0

Wow! That is amazing! Never thought watching a brick layer could be so mesmerizing - if that video had been an hour long, I think I would have watched it all.

zekecatz wrote:What's the problem? He's creating lots of jobs, right. Sure, Mario for president.

Sounds a bit like the Broken Window Fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

A heartfelt thanks to Apelad and to Woot!
Oh man I appreciate that!

Great pick!

I expect I'll be wearing this when I'm playing New Super Mario Bros. U this Christmas. :p

I'm a little late but that's alright cause i came here to blow your Arrrrrr!ing mind.

First day sales 636

I bought this for my son who is a union bricklayer. He says he's going to wear it to his union meeting.