TWG T-Shirts

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yes, i think they need to be out of context funny too.

multiple colors. I'll have to see what colors we come up with for icons/characters

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

So will this be a Cafe Press kind of thing?

[Mistress of Darkness]

It's too bad we can't put a picture of "Hello Cthulu" on the t-shirt.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

thinking cafe press, not sure
I'm definitely not going to use ALL these quotes. Maybe have a private survey where they all get rated 1 to 10 and then take the highest scoring ones

[Spriggan]

That's what I was assumeing you were going to do, the poll that is.

Caffepress is covienient in trems of you don't have to place any order beforehand, but besides that they're not that good of a deal.  I'm sure SE will look into several companies before he chooses.  Remember, we still have several months till the Con.

However, it is tempting to have an audio CD of us reading forum posts.  I tell ya, it could be the next big thing.

[Spriggan]

oh ya, I should add, with Caffepress unless you use they're pay service you can only have one design per item.  So if we went that way we could have one quote for each shirt type.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

right. See, i'm lazy. I've already done much more work on this today than I planned on doing this WEEK. I'm gonna call some local companies. Talk to some web cartoonists and see how they've done, etc. See if I can find a good deal.

The problem is, without using something like cafepress, somone has to front cash, that means getting orders first. Since we have a small crowd here, we're looking at selling at cons or something, which means we'd have to have REALLY cool stuff. Which is why this will all be narrowed down before the final 5 or so designs are chosen

[Spriggan]

I'm just wondering how much the premium cafe-press membership is, the site says starting at $4.99.  I don't want to regester just to find out.  If we could get all the designs we wanted for that price I don't mind ponying up $15-20 dollers to start it up for a few months, provided that I get the cash back once things start selling.  We get about 500-600 hits a day, and even at the most liberal math more then half are non-forum visits.  So we probaly could sell stuff through the site easly enough.

[Mistress of Darkness]

"You've been kneading your ideas? How do you do that? Massage your head?" -- stacer

"Don't hate me because I can't resist correcting spelling errors." -- stacer

"Or maybe you'll decide you just need less sleep." -- stacer (I think this should be the TWG motto.)

[Spriggan]

Since there haven't been many from EUOL, here are some:

All I can say is that you're obviously in the right place.  I bow before your l33t time-wasting skillz.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves for wasteing good potentially wasted time.

He who punches me will find himself polymophed into one of my undead minions!

can you imagine me playing DDR?  Boy, that's a laughable image.

Nah, the true root of all evil is Marilyn Manson playing a video game about the Bible.

I've been out of the loop so long, I didn't get yelled at like everyone else.

I feel so hated.  Makes me all tingly inside.

I believe there's an old saying that warns against two miltary ideas:

First, never get involved in a land war in Asia.  Second, never get in an argument with Mustard about World War II.

I'm Brandon Sanderson--author, philanthropist, Evil Overlord.

Ooo.  Evil Master Plan?  Does it, like mine, involve chickens?  Undead Chickens of Doom!

[JP Dogberry]

T-shirts are a cool idea. I'd need to second the idea about Entropy's caps lock quote.  Also, why has no-one suggested "OF DOOM!!!" yet?

[EUOL]

I think someone did, JP.  It's just part of a larger quote.

I would like to note that nobody's got my two favorite EUOL quotes yet.  However, I'm not going to bring them up, since I'm planning on working at least one into a book.  

Also, I would like to point out that I'm a bit uncertain about this entire thing.  I'm not certain that we'll end up selling any shirts, but as long as they don't cost us anything to set up, I guess there's no harm in giving it a try....

I would also like to note that Fell is probably one of the most quotable people on the site--except, all of his amusing goodness generally goes into editorials and polls.  I think a few of his polls alone would make great T-shirt text.

[Spriggan]

eh, you know, even if the shirt thing never comes into furition we'll still have a cool list of fun quotes.  However, as I told you today, you realy should have a brandonsanderson.com shirt for people to wear.

[EUOL]

We'll see what kind of art I get for the book and the site first.  (And see if I can use it or not.)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

"Bow before my l33t time wasting skillz!" would be a good T-shirt slogan, even though it is not a direct quote.

Maybe if we set them up in a few weeks, we can see if they move on the site at all.