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WCT (Weekly Comic Thread) May 31-June 4, 2010 (1676-1680)
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Prince of Space on 06 Jun 2010, 20:34 ---"Baking is like science for hungry people." is still not funny to me. :( Just don't get it.
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Funny and t-shirt-able are not the same thing. There isn't much room on a shirt so you can't put the whole joke on it and just sticking a punchline there confuses people. The true art of the t-shirt is the pithy one-liner, funny or otherwise.
Most frequently favoured are cultural references (endless variants on "I see <category> people" for instance) and simple truisms. Like this one.
As for why it works in a comic context; it was accompanied by Hanners being adorable. There isn't much that wouldn't work with Hannelore being cute as an accompaniment.
sudamerican:
--- Quote ---Did anyone call a possible Marigold/Dale hookup? (Hey, he's like, one of the first guys she's talked to and hasn't stuttered her face off. Guess her WoW stuff overrides the social-interaction fear?)
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I don't know if someone called it, but it could so definitely happen. I mean come on, it happened in The Guild (they even play the same game. a rose by any other name, and all that), it happened in macross (the blue hair dude and the alien pilot girl), or "i had reach, she had flexibility" if you will.
Prince of Space:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 07 Jun 2010, 05:26 ---
--- Quote from: Prince of Space on 06 Jun 2010, 20:34 ---"Baking is like science for hungry people." is still not funny to me. :( Just don't get it.
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Funny and t-shirt-able are not the same thing. There isn't much room on a shirt so you can't put the whole joke on it and just sticking a punchline there confuses people. The true art of the t-shirt is the pithy one-liner, funny or otherwise.
Most frequently favoured are cultural references (endless variants on "I see <category> people" for instance) and simple truisms. Like this one.
As for why it works in a comic context; it was accompanied by Hanners being adorable. There isn't much that wouldn't work with Hannelore being cute as an accompaniment.
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I disagree. Funny and t-shirt-able can very much be the same thing. Examples: In soviet Russia, Blocks build you! Rock Paper Scissors (of course, I don't expect everyone to think those are funny, but everyone can agree they make *sense*, even in their quirkiness) And here's a 'one liner':
Apathy
I have a figurative hard-on for tee design. There are many ways to master the front of a shirt, and one of them *is* a pithy one-liner. This, however, is neither filled with meaning or particularly funny(without Hanner's context).
And AH! Here's where we arrive at I-shut-my-mouth-and-get-off-my-rickety-soapbox station. Because mostly only comic-readers are going to buy this shirt anyway, which means all of *them* will understand why it's funny. : P
And on topic, I'm hoping for some sparks with Dale, though not before Marigold gains some insight/blossoms a bit.
Kugai:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 06 Jun 2010, 05:11 ---That dude?, come on there's a warrant out for him!
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Oh cummon, you know damned well he was framed because he kept exposing that idiot de Rainault and his even more moronic sidekick Gisburne for the greedy bastards they are!
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