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Quran or Bhagavad Gita!

On it!

What if it's a literary classic that is not necessarily a book itself but ispart of one and falls under Nursery Rhyme, fairytale or a particular story in a collection book. Humpty Dumpty for example or the 3 little pigs or something classic like that.

Let's see if I can list some themes we will likely see....
Cthulhu...
yep, that should cover it.

I appreciate the fact that Cthulhu is too new, but no Hemingway makes me sad.

j5 wrote:Let's see if I can list some themes we will likely see....
Cthulhu...
yep, that should cover it.

Dang, is it that old?

cdrewlow wrote:I appreciate the fact that Cthulhu is too new...

Fine...Dagon then.

cdrewlow wrote:Dang, is it that old?

Call of Cthulhu was written in 1926, published in 1928.

cdrewlow wrote:Dang, is it that old?

1928. Methinks the year 1920 was purposely chosen by the editors...

tjschaeffer wrote:1928. Methinks the year 1920 was purposely chosen by the editors...

Yeah, Most of HPL's works hit in 1920 and after. So I'm taking it that it's exclusive of 1920, leaving only the following HPL works published:
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Sep 1917
Beyond the Wall of Sleep Oct 1919
Dagon Nov 1919
The White Ship Nov 1919

Is Edgar Rice Burroughs too pulpy to be considered "classic literature"?

So this is kinda similar to #142: Classic Literature Mashup - minus the mandatory mashup

I know a book a lot of people will do... and I'm going to be one of them of course! Just can't resist.

C'mon, guys. There's so many things you can do with this other than nursery rhymes:

Treasure Island
Moby Cranky Doodle Donkey
Frankenstein
Dracula
Grimm's Fairy Tales (much different than the severely-altered versions we know today)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (would LOVE to see a Jabberwocky-themed shirt)
Dr.Jekkyl/Mr. Hyde
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
War of the Worlds
Canterbury Tales. . .

SO much to work with here. Haven't fairy tales/nursery rhymes been done to death here?

But keep in mind, if you try to use that book about a certain whale, Woot will change the title to "Moby Cranky Doodle Donkey."

curli76 wrote:C'mon, guys. There's so many things you can do with this other than nursery rhymes:

Treasure Island
Moby Cranky Doodle Donkey
Frankenstein
Dracula
Grimm's Fairy Tales (much different than the severely-altered versions we know today)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (would LOVE to see a Jabberwocky-themed shirt)
Dr.Jekkyl/Mr. Hyde
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
War of the Worlds
Canterbury Tales. . .

SO much to work with here. Haven't fairy tales/nursery rhymes been done to death here?

tgentry wrote:Bwhahahahaha!

As far as fairy tales, we're basically looking for old school literature, which I think tales like those from Hans Christian Andersen and Brothers Grimm would fall under. But no Bible, Quran, etc... we'll save that derby for when we want to get ourselves fired.

Also be aware: normal copyright rules still apply. If we think it will get us in trouble, we may have to reject it.

Copyright shouldn't be much of an issue, Travis, since for Western literature, copyright ends 70 years after the author's death...
See Wikipedia

The Jungle Book

Dante's Inferno

Candide

Most everything by Kafka

lyonscc wrote:Copyright shouldn't be much of an issue, Travis, since for Western literature, copyright ends 70 years after the author's death...
See Wikipedia

Unless your Little Mermaid looks like a specific Disney character.

I'd already been working on an entry, based on "Invictus", from William Ernest Henley's Book of Verses.

kevlar51 wrote:Unless your Little Mermaid looks like a specific Disney character.

Ahhhhhh! Excellent point.

Mavyn wrote:The Jungle Book

Dante's Inferno

Candide

Most everything by Kafka

Mmmm, Kafka. I thought about The Metamorphosis, but decided a giant bug shirt may not be the way to go...

No shirt color restrictions... does that mean RBBG is over now? Or do we accept that the temporary substitute will continue?

cdrewlow wrote:Mmmm, Kafka. I thought about The Metamorphosis, but decided a giant bug shirt may not be the way to go...

Well...It think it depends on the bug. Well done, it could be creepy and amazing.

I'm just hoping we don't get a slew of Alice in Wonderland (and I adore the story, really).

Could do Jane Austen...Miss Haversham lurking, perhaps?

ETA: Beowulf. Roland.

Whatever happened to the "Random rule set by this Woot! staffer just because" rules? This Wooter misses them.

tgentry wrote:But no Bible, Quran, etc... we'll save that derby for when we want to get ourselves fired.

Could someone capitalize "Bible" in the initial post listing the Derby rules? Or maybe change it to "No religious texts" since you mentioned no Bible, no Quran? Don't forget, the Book of Mormon was published in 1830!

Also, I totally laughed at "we'll save that derby for when we want to get ourselves fired." Ha!

As far as fairy tales, we're basically looking for old school literature, which I think tales like those from Hans Christian Andersen and Brothers Grimm would fall under.

Random thoughts: the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid (an opera singer with a speech bubble containing a stick figure and a bow and arrow?), Beowolf (let's not?), Jonathan Swift, Jane Austin, Mark Twain, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne (would anyone want to wear a scarlet letter?), all the Brontës, most of Kafka...

Do collections of poetry count? Emily Cranky Doodle Donkeyinson, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost's first three collections...

I would love to see someone attempt the wealth of nations.

lyonscc wrote:Copyright shouldn't be much of an issue, Travis, since for Western literature, copyright ends 70 years after the author's death...
See Wikipedia

In addition to Kevlar's accurate and vivid example, translations are eligible for copyright protection that begins with the publication of the translation. Some works originally published before 1920 may have English translations that are still under copyright protection. That probably wouldn't be much of an issue unless a prominent movie based on the translation had recently been made and a shirt could be seen as using the movie's characters, but I don't follow movies so I have no idea if anything would fit into that category!

Woot's concerns about copyright seem to include "We don't have time to deal with a C&D letter even if we're in the right; also, the legal team's hourly wages are higher than the Rejectionator's, so better safe than at a deposition for which we'd have to wear a suit instead of a woot shirt."

neuropsychosocial wrote:Do collections of poetry count? Emily Cranky Doodle Donkeyinson, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost's first three collections...

Or plays? Do Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov count?

So is a Flatland reference too esoteric, or is it sufficiently nerdy to be understood by the woot audience?

tgentry wrote:Bwhahahahaha!

As far as fairy tales, we're basically looking for old school literature, which I think tales like those from Hans Christian Andersen and Brothers Grimm would fall under. ....

Have you guys read the original Little Mermaid? There is a lot of blood in it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid

neuropsychosocial wrote:Hawthorne (would anyone want to wear a scarlet letter?)

Depends on how the letter was drawn, but I've often thought about making/wearing a shirt with a beautifully embellished letter A on it... I'm thinking like the old illuminated texts with scrolls, calligraphy, etc filling the middle. Probably some sort of calligraphy-shaped A (not Times, Arial, and heaven forbid not comic sans)

does the title of the shirt have to be the name of the book, or can it be something like "welcome to the jungle - the jungle book" ?

Here's my design for Jack London's, Call of the wild. Lemme know what you think.

How about the Marquis de Sade? rofl

brockart wrote:Here's my design for Jack London's, Call of the wild. Lemme know what you think.

do corded handsets even exist any more?

no1 wrote:do corded handsets even exist any more?

I think they are used for ironic purposes only...

Is Lucky Cat considered "modern pop culture"?

Also I'm kinda new so is glow ink an option?

beware1984 wrote:Is Lucky Cat considered "modern pop culture"?

Also I'm kinda new so is glow ink an option?

Specialty inks are only for dailies. You should be fine with a Lucky Cat.