1st place in Derby #504: Pop Culture Mashups with 175 votes

They say the first art was a cave painting. They say the first medium was burnt stick on stone. They say that everything we've ever done as human beings - the Mona Lisa, Grave Of The Fireflies, Under The Red Hood, Nude Descending A Staircase, that video game where the 7UP Spot helped you play Othello, they all start with a primitive human puzzling out that a line on the wall could represent a memory in their head of a thing that they dreamed that they saw.

Imagine a world where that primitive human just turned and walked away. What would have become of us? Would we have become a species of storytellers, possessing fantastic memories? Would our t-shirts be blank colors, no drawings or words, just patchworks that reminded us of "the purple-green story" or the "golden grey story" or "the story that is only white"?

If you've ever made a reference to an animated movie in one of your t-shirts, you owe that primitive human a debt. Think about that as you buy this shirt. Think about that.

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