All About Andy - tagged with funny http://andrewbowness.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron info@hideyourarms.com Buy this before George Lucas goes C&D on his ass http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1767 I really hope that the Star Wars people let this one slide, but just in case it might be a good idea to buy it fairly soon. Also, I guess you’d want to buy it fairly soon, because a Christmas themed Star Wars t-shirt will probably look a bit silly in January. Costiness=$16.66 Buy ‘Merry Hothmas’ by Aegis at MySoti

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Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1767
Chinese is not my native language from TopatoCo http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1757 I know that this tee was featured in my “10 Great Tees from 10 Great Webcomics” post, but that was written well over a year ago, and HYA has more than double the amount of readers since then, so hopefully this tee will be fresh to a lot of you. In case you hadn’t worked it out, the text on the tee says “Chinese is not my native language”… in Chinese, presumably. Or perhaps they’re throwing us the old switcheroo, and we think it’s funny because of the tee riffing on designers using Chinese and Japanese symbols because they look cool rather than being necessary, and the tee actually says something like ‘ham sandwich,’ which would actually be kinda funny too. The tee is designed by Dorothy Gambrell, the lady behind the riotously funny webcomic, Cat and Girl. Costiness=$19 Buy the tee at TopatoCo

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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1757
Gotham’s Youth by Glennz http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1744 New Zealand’s finest funny tee designer (if you think I’m wrong, prove it), Glenn Jones, is at it again with this fun design based upon the bat signal. Unless I’ve forgotten something, the Dark Knight was my favourite movie of the year (yes, even beating Wall-E), and I’ve told my family that if I don’t find the Blu-Ray under the Christmas tree that I’m definitely going to have a childish tantrum, so if there’s no posts in the New Year it’s probably because I’m still sulking… or possibly just really hungover. Costiness=$19.95 Buy Gotham’s Youth at Glennz

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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1744
6 New Tees at No Star Clothing http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1735 No Star dropped six new tees at the weekend, and I didn’t think they looked at good when I just looked at the thumbnails on their website (which is what you can see at the top), but then I took a look at the actual tees, and they actually look really cool, and for some reason, seem funnier. Also, use the coupon code BIGUPS to get 40% off when you spend $100 or more, and the coupon code MEDUPS will get you 30% off orders of $40 or more. I’m not sure how long those coupons will work, but I’d be pretty surprised if they still worked after the holidays.

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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1735
Hill Valley Hoverboard Champion by I’m A Hot Tee http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1714 In the same way that I liked Found Item Clothing for making tees that went a level beyond “here’s the logo from a movie I like” to producing tees that ‘get’ the kind of people that like those movies, I like new tee upstart I’m A Hot Tee for making this tee for exactly the same reasons. The graphic and text doesn’t give too much away, I know that Back to the Future and the hoverboard are incredibly famous, but I’ve still got to give them props for not taking the easy way out. Costiness=$16.75 Buy the shirt at I’m A Hot Tee

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Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1714
Go Ape Are Walken On Sunshine http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1637 I would have thought that “Walken in a Winter Wonderland” would have been a bit more seasonal, but I guess that with a pun this good it doesn’t really matter whether it’s sunshine, snow, or even broken glass, it’s still going to be funny. Costiness=$18 Buy it at Go Ape Shirts

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Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1637
I actually quite like Microsoft Softwear http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1630 Yeah, that’s right, I said it, for once I’ve taken off my cynical hat and decided that instead of lambasting Microsoft for their surprising/bizarre move into the world of Softwear like most people have, I’m just going to accept that I think the designs actually look pretty cool. Then again, I quite liked the Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ads, so what the hell do I know?

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Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1630
The IT Crowd S3E3 T-shirt Roundup: Damn these electric sex pants! http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1612 From watching the show, I had presumed that this weeks tee scavenger hunt for The IT Crowd was going to be a tough one, but in reality I managed to hunt down both of the t-shirts Roy wore in the episode. If you haven’t seen the show, you’re probably wondering why there is a topless man at the top of this post. Well, I don’t want to give away the plot, but Roy ends up shirtless for quite lot of the show, which is probably great for those of you that are into not-particularly-toned Irishmen (not that I’m anything to write home about!).

The first tee Roy wore in the episode was this white shirt with a number of small hand drawn graphics on it and the text “a series of tubes” written underneath. Any geek worth their salt, knows what that’s a reference to, and for those of you that don’t, it’s a quote from corrupt former-Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, who was explaining net neutrality to the Senate. The tee is by Think Geek, costs $9.99 (though as it is on its ‘last chance’, it probably won’t be reprinted, so be quick) and can be bought here.

Roy then went off being all topless and stuff and we didn’t see him wearing another tee until the closing credits in which he was struggling to wrestle his jacket off an elderly woman. The was a quick shot in which I got a good look at the tee, which had the words Ludovico Technique written on it. The Ludovico Technique is of course the “fictitious drug-assisted aversion therapy from the novel and film A Clockwork Orange.” A quick google told me that the tee came from British label Last Exit To Nowhere, costs £17.50 and can be purchased here.

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Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1612
23 Celebrities wearing a variety of t-shirts! http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1534 I was just emptying out all the tee pics from my HYA folder (there was more than a thousand, and I only emptied it a month or two ago!), when I noticed that I’d got a load of celebrity pics on there again. Rather than Give them all individual posts, I thought I’d just do a big megapost, since you were probably feeling a bit clean after those last two charity posts anyway. I’m not even going to attempt to find out where you can buy these tees. You know why? Because it is Friday, and I’ve owned one of these super-fast luge/snow sleds for four years and I think I might actually get to play on it for the first time. Of course, if you want to enlighten us all in the comments about a buying location then you are very welcome.

I get the feeling I might have posted this picture of Zac Efron in my last celebrity extravaganza, but its a pretty cool tee so let’s just pretend that’s why I’m reposting it. I’m pretty sure it’s made by Nike.

I have no clue who Kendra Wilkinson is, but I found this shot on a celeb blog, so she must be famous! The tee is by Orisis.

I guess I probably should have put this shot of Vanessa Hudgens straight after the one of Zac Efron (see, I know pop culture!). I actually remembered seeing this tee on the Urban Outfitters site, but I’m afraid it has sold out, who knows, it might come back in stock.

What kind of a celebrity megapost would this be if I didn’t post a picture of Britney Spears wearing a hoodie (that’s probably made by Primp)?

Here’s a photo of Paris Hilton wearing a sweater with some candy on it, which according to the photo’s alt title makes it Christmassy, so, y’know, hurrah Christmas!

Ahh, Miley Cyrus, I’m afraid of writing anything about her in case it turns into a scandal…

Is it just me, or is Kelly Clarkson one of those people that you just can’t hate, but at the same time, can’t really love either? Still, I’d imagine she’ll go up in a few people’s estimations for wearing a Janis Joplin tee.

Josh Hartnet, now there’s a guy that I’ve thought was cool ever since I watched The Faculty, but I’m afraid he’s just dropped a rung on my ‘ladder of respect’ by wearing a tee that has a business on it that isn’t a real business, stop with your lies Hartnett!

Ahh, Jodie Marsh, proof, if it was ever needed, that we Brits truly are the classiest nation on Earth. To Americans that don’t know who Jodie Marsh is, don’t Google her name at work, you’ll probably get fired, and you’ll probably feel a bit ashamed of yourself.

Pete Wentz, there’s a guy that has done pretty well for himself. Despite being a bassist he’s managed to be the most famous member of Fall Out Boy, got married to a Simpson, runs his own clothing line (Clandestine Industries, who presumably make the hoodie he’s wearing) and has just given his new baby the ri-goddam-diculous name of Bronx Mowgli.

I love the way that Kim Kardashian knows that as soon as she leaves the house the paps are going to be following her, so she might as well use it as a promo opportunity. She, and the rest of the Kardashian family wore ‘vote Kim’ tees when she was in Dancing with the Stars. From what I remember she went out pretty early, so I guess the tactic didn’t work out so great.

Here is Pete Wentz again, this time sporting a mid-90s style tee with a cartoony-looking print of the Chicage Bulls on it.

Ashley Tisdale looks fairly pissed off at the paparazzi for taking this picture, but do you what I’m pissed off about Ashley? People who obscure the bejeweled slogan of their hoodie with their over-pampered pooch, dogs have legs for a reason their don’t need to be carried around in a bag!

Here’s another celeb that most Americans won’t recognise, it’s British glamour model/frequent reality show contest Danielle Lloyd, wearing a tee that I do believe was in support of an entry to the Eurovision song contest… even though she wasn’t entering.

We’ve already had Britney in a hoodie in this post, so here she is in a vest with what appears to be a woman holding a pistol on it with the words ‘no pushover’ written above it. Britney was never one for subtlety was she? Also, apparently not a fan of bras.

Another vest photo? Straight after the Britney one? It’s almost like I plan this stuff! Gemma Atkinson is another person that I doubt American readers will recognise, but she is a former Hollyoaks actress and now a model. Interesting fact: I almost ran her over in my car as she and her former cast mates were drunkenly crossing a road after they went to a nightclub in my area.

In this photo we can see the usually camera-shy Pamela Anderson and her near comedically large breasts once again showing that she is a staunch supporter of the PeTA organisation.

Okay, this is the last Britney shot, and I’m amazed that this is the only one which shows her addiction to Starbucks. The tee is quite cool too, though celebs should always be careful when wearing burnout tees, you never know what the flash bulb might illuminate.

I think someone needs to tell Jennifer Love Hewitt that she could do with buying a size down. See media, this is what you get when you call someone fat!

There’s something not right about this tee… it’s not that Lindsay Lohan is wearing a tee with a band on it that she probably isn’t a fan of (though that definitely “ain’t right”)… it’s something far more unusual. Aha! It’s that Lindsay Lohan is actually working on a set!

Ahh, thanks to people like mega-cute Mila Kunis America now has a President the world respects, rather than one that put air-quotes around womens “health”.

Again, I have no idea who Aubrey O’Day is, but she was on a celeb blog wearing this oversized t-shirt /dress, and I just felt compelled to save it in case she actually became famous at some point in the future.

You can probably tell that this isn’t the newest photo of Christina Aguilera on account of her still having a small person growing inside her, still, its unusual to see a woman wearing maternity clothes that you wish were available for non-pregnant people.

Yes, I know, Lindsay Lohan, again, and she’s working, again, what on Earth is going on with this girl? Where’s the train wreck? This time around she’s wearing a tee that celebrates her love of Boston… the band, not the city.

Here’s Avril Lavigne almost managing to smile whilst wearing a hoodie that looks like pretty much everything else she wears, but I still like.

Sophie Monk is another of those people that I know if famous, but I don’t realy know why, I keep being told she’s an actress, but if that’s the case, why do I never see her on TV or in movies?

Would I be right in thinking that Pink was initially called Pink when she burst onto the music scene, and if that’s the case, what should she be called now? Great tee though, I really like it. Okay, that’s all I’ve got. Celeb blogging is hard guys, I don’t know if I’d be able to keep up this level of being a bitch if I were to do this more often. I’ve put all these photos (and a few more) into a gallery if you want to see them larger.

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Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1534
‘Support your local butcher’ by Crispin Finn http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1527 What I like so much about this tee is that it reminded me that its pretty rare to ever see a butchers that has brached out beyond the white/red/blue colour palette, at least that’s the case around where I live. Now that I think about it, I think they all use the same fonts as well! Perhaps all butchers in rural Britain are actually just one big chain and they’ve managed to keep it a well hidden secret. Costiness=£10 Buy it at Crispin’s site

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1527
A couple of new tees at Found Item Clothing http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1512 I’m pretty annoyed at myself that this is going to be the first post about Found Item Clothing on HYA. I’ve been a big admirer of their for years, yet inexplicably never wrote about them, they’re one of my ‘rainy day’ brands, if I cleared out my inbox I was going to write about them. They’ve been a ‘rainy day’ brand for more than two years now! For those of you that are unaware, Found Item Clothing faithfuly recreate t-shirts that are worn by people in movies, usually totally awesome movies from the 80s and early 90s like Tron, Revenge of the Nerds, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (though impressively they managed to keep themselves away from the ‘Save Ferris’ design). I really like that concept because it takes liking a film to a whole new level, if someone sees you wearing a tee with the A-Team logo on it, you know they like the A-Team, but if you see someone wearing a tee with ‘Napoleon‘ written on it, you know they like the A-Team. They’ve dropped a couple of new tees, the one pictured above was worn by Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, and also has a back-print that you can see in the gallery. The second tee, also in the gallery, has ‘Life Sucks and then you die’ written on it, and was featured in Teen Wolf. Y’know, actually, this post may well have done FIC justice, let’s hope it starts raining again soon. Found Item Clothing

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1512
Robin Hoody by Olly Moss http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1494 Sorry guys, this illustration isn’t available to buy printed on an item of clothing yet, or printed on anything for that matter, but I spotted it on Olly Moss’ Flickr Photostream and decided that it was an opportunity to post something vaguely seasonal and HYA appropriate, huzzah!

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1494
“Fucking Hipsters” & “Never Trust A Hippie” at Vig Tees http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1493 Goddamn hipsters, I bet that loads of them like “wear” this tee “ironically.” Do any old school HYA people remember when I used to go on about how much I hated hippies, and then I stopped when I realised that quite a lot of people didn’t realise that it was a joke? Yeah, that was weird. Vig Tees

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1493
MarkerTees - Warning: never get drunk wearing this http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1487 The first thing that I thought when I saw this range of tees with a re-writable chest-panel was that if I were to wear this, had a few beers, vodkas, ciders, and some wine (it was a big weekend), I would almost certainly end up with my friends declaring my love for Ricky Martin through the medium of the t-shirt. Dammit I need to get new friends. Seriously though, it’s a fairly clever idea, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen something similar before, despite their claims of originality, but I quite like it. I do wonder how somethning like this stands up to the washing cycle though. Markertees

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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1487
Take a picture by Andrew Gregory for Loiter Ink http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1480 Funny, funny stuff. Well drawn too. Costiness=$17 Buy it at Loiter Ink

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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1480
Teach the Controversy continue their reality-based agenda… and have a sale! http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1430 Teach the Controversy have got a few new tees up in their store that continue to point out how stupid a lot of things are, such as the earth being 6000 years old… which it isn’t. They’re also running a ‘Buy More Save More’ sale/coupon code, in which if you buy two tees, you can get 20% off using the coupon code BUYMORE6, but if you buy three or more items you can get 25% off with the coupon code BUYMORE7. That offer runs until Sunday, and is also available on Amorphia Apparel, and Wear Science!, I’m not sure if you can order a tee from each site and combine them to use the coupon though.

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Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:30:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1430
7 new tees from Mini Cassette http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1413 As well as seven new tees (peep the rest in the gallery), Mini Cassette have also put a lot of their older designs on sale. I wish I had more time to write about these tees, because they’re pretty cool, but after a long day of mixing concrete it’s pretty hard to do anything but phone it in! Mini Cassette

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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1413
New tees at No Star Clothing (and a coupon code) http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1409 As well as the tees above, if you spend $24 or more at No Star Clothing before the end of the month you can knock 35% off your order by using the coupon code TURKEY. No Star Clothing

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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1409
A unicorn! http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1364 The tee isn’t exactly my kind of thing, but I thought that the promo photo was so awesome that I just had to post this, I don’t get nearly enough opportunities to put unicorns on HYA, so I need to grasp at them when I get the chance. Yokoso Shoppeng Center (and no, that’s not a typo)

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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:00:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1364
The IT Crowd is back, and Roy still loves geeky tees! http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1356 Friday night saw the return of Graham Lineham’s excellent ‘The IT Crowd‘ for it’s third season. Over the past few seasons I think I may well have enjoyed all the geeky in-jokes, references and props more than the storylines and acting (though I still enjoy that too), and it seems that this year is no exception as the IT department has had a makeover that seems to involve even more stickers than the back of my laptop.

Following on with a grand tradition, I Sky+’d the episode (though forgot to record the HD version) so that I could go back and chronicle the tees Roy wore in S3E1. The first one was really easy, I’d actually already spotted it in the advert. It’s a bit of a classic in the indie tee world, “Musical Elitism Venn Diagram Shirt (Music I Used to Like)” by Diesel Sweeties, who I noticed also have an ‘I [screw] robots’ sticker lurking in the background too.

The second was a bit harder, a black and orange tee where you never really got a decent look at the design. I was about you give up hope when I noticed that there was a shot taken from behind Roy’s head that revealed a J!NX logo on the neck of the tee, which actually made it very easy to find the tee. It’s called “The Cake is a Lie,” which is a statement that left me slightly perplexed, so I Googled it as they suggested, and now I get it. What? You thought I was going to explain it to you? So, not exactly a huge amount of tee-sleuthing to be done this week, a nice gentle starter I guess, let’s see what comes up next week in episode 2. There’s not too much else in the gallery, just a few shots from different angles, but I figure that since I’ve taken the pictures I might as well upload them.

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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:59:00 -0800 http://andrewbowness.com/items/view/1356