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New York t-shirt designer Bill Kingston hits on two winning images:
Kingston said he wanted to a good design to go with the statement: “Global warming is not cool.” The designer made a print of a penguin floating under a hot sun and the Statue of Liberty drowning in the background.
He said that has been one of the most popular T-shirts, as well as anything with Chuck Norris on it.
Addendum to #1, above:
Forgot to give credit to where I found the info:
Disarmed in the War of Ideas at Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group.How about a t-shirt with Chuck Norris barbecuing a penguin?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 01 13 at 01:21 PM • permalinkDid anybody ever stop to think that maybe some penguins prefer warm weather? I believe I saw a scientific documentary on the subject one time (added bonus: about 5 minutes into the film, Pablo the Penguin sails by Viña del Mar in Chile, and there’s a cartoon image of the castle that once belonged to Mrs. Paco’s family; I think it still does, technically, but my understanding is that it’s now under a 99-year lease to the Caribineros - the National Police - for use as an officers’ club).
The globe isn’t warming; Chuck Norris just got a bit cold one day, so he turned up the sun’s thermostat.
What scientists don’t realize is that the only reason the earth rotates around the sun is the torque created by Chuck Norris’ roundhouse kicks. if he ever stopped kicking, we’d stop, but luckily he can’t ever die. The grim reaper is too scared to come for him.
Chuck needed an ice cube for his iced tea.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2008 01 13 at 02:08 PM • permalink#2 ash, the kick would surely break the penguin’s neck condemning the penguin to a death by drowning
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2008 01 13 at 02:11 PM • permalinkMaggie’s Farm has some good quotes and links on the primary threat to liberty.
Walker, Texas Rower, a revamped show for a warmer age.
T-Shirt/Still Shot: Chuck Norris(tm) paddles his row boat madly, chasing a band of illegal penguin poachers in the new wild, wild, wet west.
Selling Points: Martial arts scenes take on a new, Jackie Chan-esque flavor as most of the fighting occurs on row boats and sundry flotsam from the pre-deluvian Texas.
New villains are found in all manner of “warmers”, including his new nemesis, “The Carbon Gang”.
Walker redefines the art of “tracking”: he locates said villains by their carbon “footprints”.
New allies include “Governor Huckleberry” and “Senator Cain”, misunderstood and out-numbered eco-martyrs of the new Washington corporate establishment.
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2008 01 13 at 03:18 PM • permalink#14, I vote for pirates, Grimmy.
A t-shirt featuring Chuck Norris barbecuing pengiuns while karate-kicking polar bears and holding Lady Liberty’s head up out of the water would cover all the bases. I’m sure it would be a snap for him.
(Jack Bauer, OTOH, would just scream, “TALK!” and then shoot everybody, Lady Liberty included.
“... Chuck Norris just got a bit cold one day ...”
Nicholas, Chuck Norris doesn’t get cold. He thought everybody else looked a bit cold, so he made the sun crank up the tempature a few degrees.
Posted by David Crawford on 2008 01 13 at 03:40 PM • permalinkWe all suspected this, but it’s good to see the evidence.
I hope Kingston knows his idea has been put to better effect.
Posted by Quentin George on 2008 01 13 at 03:57 PM • permalinkThe designer made a print of a penguin floating under a hot sun and the Statue of Liberty drowning in the background.
When exactly did a fucked-up Statue of Liberty become the universal sign of apocalypse?
OK, I know when - when Chuck Heston damned us maniacs to Hell. But it was like thirty years later that a fucked-up Statue of Liberty was everywhere. How about a fucked-up Big Ben, or a fucked-up Sydney Opera House? Lay off the poor lady.
btw, either the t-shirt designer or the reporter need a refresher on what a penguin looks like
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2008 01 13 at 04:33 PM • permalinka penguin floating under a hot sun and the Statue of Liberty drowning in the background
That’s the T-shirt you get when adults steal ideas from seven year olds.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 13 at 05:02 PM • permalink#11: Excellent, colonel!
BTW, this is probably something familiar to you Ozzies, but I was not previously aware of these Australianisms.
O/T
As yet unnamed baby girl born Sat evening. Mother and baby doing well. In a break with convention and tradition, baby born in a hospital.Those who have not had the pleasure of choosing names for girl children would be unaware of the inherrent difficulty of choosing a name for a daughter that:
a) Is not the same as any girl you once shagged;
b) Does not feature in a lewd rugger ditty;
c) Does not rhyme with any names featured in a lewd rugger ditty;
c) Is not the same as a raving lunatic (eg: Germaine or Miranda)
d) Cannot be twisted somehow to evoke any of the above.I am running with Margaret Thatcher Pickles, but She Who Must Be Obeyed, AKA the Minister for Finance, Entertainment and War is yet to be convinced.
woohoo congrats pickles!!
is this your first?
We have the same problem, only amplified as my wife is a school teacher, so any kid she disliked also gets added to the don’t use this name pile.
re t-shirts - I’d like one with a hummer driving over the Earth, with a message - You save it, I’ll spend it.
;)
Luckily, I’ve got a whole pile of books I haven’t read yet.
I have a few, and some magazines, but I also have a large stack of bargain DVDs from Wal-Mart (you know, the older films they can’t unload at “top dollar”....for them). This includes a number of John Wayne flicks, and later movies, made before Hollywood turned into a collection of narcissistic, self-centered, preening, in-bred hacks.
So, please, actors, STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE!!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 01 13 at 08:29 PM • permalink#44: “Of the Light”. I don’t know if the name is connected to a particular apparition of the Virgin Mary or not, but I have seen the moniker from time to time, and it has always struck me as pretty and elegant. You may also be interested to know that the Spanish for giving birth is “dar la luz” - to give light.
#32 - Sweet work, you fertile bastard! Bloody good timing for the baby bonus - a new plasma screen in time for the Perth Test.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 01 13 at 09:31 PM • permalink#47 Paco,
thank you very much.
It sounds beautiful.
I’ve always loved the way Luna sounds also. I know it means moon. It’s also said that way in my parents language, so I’ve grown up saying Luna.
La Luna rolls off the tongue beautifully.
Luna - moon
Luz - lightdar a Luz - to give light. Fabulous.
Babies certainly do that. I wish the new born baby fragrance could be bottled. That scent that is peculiar only to newborns and babes up to about four or five months of age. We had visitors over New Years that brought a four month old with them. He still had that glorious smell about him. You just have to hold them and breathe deeply.
Heaven.
Congratulations Pickles, and all the best to Mrs P and Baby P.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 01 13 at 10:08 PM • permalinkPickles - And now for the “Wetting of the baby’s head”. WIth a bit of luck you should be home for her 1st birthday.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 01 13 at 10:12 PM • permalinkCongrats to the Pickleses, Mr. and Mrs.!
Wronwright,
Is your nom de plume “Richard English” by any chance?
;^)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 01 14 at 12:44 AM • permalink(Belated) Congratulations to the Pickles family. Girls names are a hard one. One of my cousins, surname Pitt, just had a little girl. She has a very nice name with no foreseeable teasing potential, but we called the baby bump “Olive” for so long that I’m afraid when I finally meet her in person I’ll slip up and call her that…
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 14 at 03:36 AM • permalink35 Pogria
Born in a hospital!! Jeebus Pickles, If you’d let her be born in the pub, you could’ve called her Brekky Creek!
First and middle names that no one is likely to ever have used.
Maybe you could use them anyway? ;)
Were you born a bitch, or has life turned you to one? Cause for damn sure, you are!!
Late to the party here, Pickles, but many happy congrats to you and especially Mrs. Pickles.
Good luck on naming your girl. I made up my girl’s name (and I don’t mean Magilla - that’s her nom-de-blog, although she was so hairy when she was born I did call her that for a while.)
Good call on recycling clothes, too.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 01 14 at 06:02 AM • permalink#63 Spiny Norman - Wronwright, is your nom de plume “Richard English” by any chance?
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyye. No, but I’m going to find out who is.
paco! Michael Lonie! Which one of you published our photo log from our mission to track Stoop Davy Dave and to bring him back?
(wronwright folds arms and taps toe)
Posted by wronwright on 2008 01 14 at 07:08 AM • permalinkCongrats Pickles! And Mrs Pickles of course who did all the hard stuff
Please avoid Britney, Tylah, Jorja, Kimmielynn, Krystle, etc
One name I’m rather partial too is Faith - it’s nice
And yes I’m an RN in a nappy valley suburb GP surgery so I get to vaccinate all these little ones - and believe me the little ones will one day have to change their names if they want to work at Mac Bank or elsewhere other than Maccas
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2008 01 14 at 10:48 AM • permalinkCongratulations, Pickle!
And as for names, I’m rather fond of Elizabeth. Too long to be a stripper’s name, reeks of historical influence, and has lots of nicknames.
Elizabeth
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