And the winner will receive two icy cold cans of coke!
Ah, no, maybe not.
If you didn’t read the previous thread, here’s the deal. I, as the resident frivolous and flippant LP blogger, am hereby declaring the very first LP t-shirt slogan competiton OPEN.
The rules: think of something witty, maybe even hilarious, we can put on a t-shirt. We will open either a Spreadshirt or Cafepress store — I’m still investigating this — and we’ll put the best slogan (and maybe even a cool little arty thing as well) on said t-shirt, AND we’ll give the winner one for free, in a t-shirt design of their choice.
Everyone else will have the opportunity to buy one, because we’re not a bloody charity!
Ahhh, free market neo-liberalism at its best.
The winner will be chosen by a panel of expert judges.* Namely, we, the bloggers of LP. You have until midnight Sunday to submit your slogan. You can either pop it in the comments thread or email me at deborah.kate@gmail.com
So, comrades, slogan away.
*No correspondence will be entered into by the judges. Family and friends of LP bloggers are encouraged to apply.
Update [by MB]: Credit for the first of the series of posts and comments that inspired this idea goes to Jean who’s quite right also to say that her original comment at Mel’s place was about rational debate via t-shirt design rather than stoushing. However, at LP, we believe that stoushing is rational debate (well, kinda, and sometimes… remembering that stoushes are good humoured arguments…).
OK, I’ll kick off with a few:
#1 (IR -themed):
Maintain your wage.
#2 (Security bollocks panic theme):
Say no to Fear.
#3 (just fer a laff)
Fully [sic].
Buddy, can you paradigm?
I’m a philosophy student
Jason, I think that’s:
“Buddy, can you spare a paradigm”
My first submissions:
1. A picture of a cowboy/girl riding a caterpillar. Yeehah.
2. “Is Missy Higgins a lesbian or just a lipsniger? Find out at larvatusprodeo.net”
3. “Larvatus Prodeo: Provoke your mind, scar your eyes”
“Unmissable. Unpronounceable. Larvatus Prodeo”
LE
‘Buddy can you paradigm’ is better because it already sounds like ‘spare a dime’ and implies the philosophy student is poor and probably has lost some teeth in the process.
Your Banischment is wearing this T-shirt
Ahh, right, the comp is specifically about LP?
Mmmkay….. thinking…..
(PS I now get your contraction Jason. D’oh is me)
Lascivious Rodeo [with a slash across it]
Larva Prats [with a slash across it]
Larvatus Prodeo [with a tick next to it]
1. Left behind
(with apologies to Ronnie Barker)
2. After us – the rodeo!
(with apologies to Louis XIV).
re. 1 above:
Corbett: I can’t bear to think of her left behind.
Barker (thoughtfully): Really…?
Of course what I intended was a political statement, lightly leavened with simple smut.
LE, not necessarily. You’ll notice the rules are very vague.
I got Left behind at LP
“Whenever somebody mentions culture I reach for my
revolverLarvatus Prodeo”I drive a larvatus prodeo?
I drink a larvatus prodeo?
What the hell is larvatus prodeo?
Larvatus Prodeo: We consume cake and cofee, We deconstruct and We blog
Larvatus Prodeo, It’s a question of U
Larvatus Prodeo – Where latte lefties stoush
finally an oldie
All your Larvatus Prodeo belong to us
LAVATIS PORD30 L33T STF ROXOR WTF!!! LOL!!!
Credit for the first of the series of posts and comments that inspired this idea goes to Jean who’s quite right also to say that her original comment at Mel’s place was about rational debate via t-shirt design rather than stoushing. However, at LP, we believe that stoushing is rational debate (well, kinda, and sometimes… remembering that stoushes are good humoured arguments…).
read Larvatus Prodeo and get punnished!
Rational debate? Naaah. I prefer snark myself.
Larvatus Prodeo – Cowboys just love volcanoes
Get Foucault
I Blog and I Vote
or
SOD OFF SWAMPY
actually just thought of a better one that can also serve as a promo
Need an education in the Howard years?
Get Foucault
Take a Hayek
Or just read Larvatus Prodeo
Read Larvatus Prodeo.
You only have to popper in
14V47u5 Pr0d30 0wN20R5 U!1!
I stand by my original suggestion:
(front)
Larvatus Prodeo
(back)
… and a PONY!
I think i said t-shirt design *instead* of rational debate – then again, i would be the last person to suggest that western-style verbal stoushing is more rational than a finely manufactured t-shirt with an arresting slogan
(T-shirt front)
Larvatus Prodeo:
“purple prose, pomo posey & pissweak puns.”
or
“Seminal blogging for latte animals.”
or
“Where commenters get loaded faster than the comments.”
or
“I won this T-shirt and all I did was a stupid post at Larvatus Prodeo.”
or
“Live from Brisbane: the Athens of SE Queensland.”
or
“Come for the philosophy, stay for the nude blogging.”
(T-shirt back)
“leave a comment”
or
“your comment is awaiting moderation”
or
“Missing a link?”
Front: Why work when you can blog?
Back: http://larvatusprodeo.net
in purple of course
Can Robert get these threads running horizontally? Then we could have
Larvatus Prodeo
I’m with stupid –>
(not you Mindy, don’t have the time for an opportune moment)
“Larvatus Prodeo: ItÄôs Swedish for Sperm Theft”
Genius, Rob! Genius!
In reply to razor: “I would vote, but I’m too busy blogging.”
Saucy: “LP – more than 12 inches”
Orthogonal: “Blog: It’s log with a B.”
Obscure: the question mark default symbol when you have no gravitar.
Obscure 2: an elbow and then “Do you…?” underneath.
Front: “Are you the hottness?”
Back: “See you online.”
Front: “Back.”
Back: “Front” and then in very small letters underneath “I blame Nabs”
Front: “Blogging – can you _handle_ it?”
Back: “Vote 1: Homer”
Front: In ever decreasing size of font on the lefthand side of the shirt
“Echo
Echo
Echo
etc”
Back: the web-address of LP.
Front: “I would visit Larvatus Prodeo but I don’t like Mark Bahnisch or his politics at all.”
Purple Popper Eater
Because sperm theft is not just for conservatives anymore.
It’s not the prose that’s purple.
Popes welcome.
I beg your pardon; did you want lies with that?
Chose life.
Larvaus Prodeo: fancy a PhD in procrastination?
I think Jason’s ‘Get Foucault’ should win.
Yep, I’m with Rob, it should be ‘Get Foucault’ with Nabakov’s ‘Your Comment Is Awaiting Moderation’ on the back.
Sweet.
Like it, liam, like it a lot!
“Purple popper eater” is the one I’d wished I’d thought of.
It lends itself so well to a killer logo/gravatar.
Love is the Slug.
“Love is the Slug.”
Oh yeah I remember that one. Poxy Muzak wasn’t it?
Larvaus Prodeo but you must have gravatars!
I think we may have to do more than one, but all will be revealed next week.
I must protest Miss Kate.
I must read Mr Fyodor’s contribution.
I am waiting, laughing in anticipation good sir.
No, the competition is still open! Keep ‘em coming.
(And yes, Fyodor, I am also looking forward to your contribution, if you can take the time from sipping champers with supermodels on your yacht or whatever it is you do…)
err, is Fyodor and this baba related?
Spinning Yellowvinyl EP LP Rocks!
My name is Fyodor M. Bazawov.
I don’t own a mansion or a yacht.
Shh, I am hunting wabbids.
…
But seriously, I doubt very much whether I can top any of the previous pearlers. Cue thinking music, maestra.
if you are hunting wabbids you must have a yacht but you are in for a fall!
Rabids, Homerkles, as in aquaphobes.
you didn”t tell me you were aquaphobic!
you should be banned from the blog!
A late entry, based on an obscure Flying Nun Kiwi band:
Go Blog Look Purple
I see your text, and raise you:
that last entry is banned under the it’s too good’ category plus the additional ‘put some work into it’ category.
Henceforth all future entries using such underhanded tactics will also be banned!
Homer, I’m a judge. It’s not an entry.
And it was only a few minutes in photoshop…
people need to be reminded of the quality needed for this competition!!!
Dk.au, that’s good stuff. I don’t think I included a rule about us not going in, did I?
Larvatus Prodeo
The University of the Internet
“The University of the Internet ”
Good one, Hoges, but it needs a bit about “Enroll for your left-wing brainwashing NOW!” added methinks.
OK, some thoughts – in a rather cromulent list, no less:
1) Nothing beats Nabsy’s “Your comment is awaiting moderation” for the back of the “t”. That MUST go on the back.
2) I cannot believe Lefty Effetist didn’t use his classic line, “Bite my latte”, which is a personal fave, and works well thusly: “Larvatus Prodeo: bite my latte”. On a wet t-shirt it might be particularly saucy…
3) Robert’s “Larvatus Prodeo: it’s Swedish for sperm theft” is a very strong contender.
4) I like Jase’s lines, but I’d mix them up: “Larvatus Prodeo: get Foucault or take a Hayek”.
5) Kinda surprised Homerkles didn’t come up with this one: “Lesbian lipsnigers say Yes! to Homersexual marriage”. Or, perhaps: “Larvatus Prodeo: Crutch of the Latte Gay Saints”.
6) Haiku Hoges deserves a good pinch and punch for “Larvatus Prodeo: The University of the Internet”. Perhaps with a B.A. (Stoush). Might be funnier if it was “teh Internets”, but.
7) DKÄôs graphic is a winner. Goes very well with the lesbian/lipsniging vibe. That girl needs a latte, however. And maybe a berray and red-framed spectacles.
Some other suggestions:
“Purple: itÄôs the new blog”
“Larvatus Prodeo: sorry about Stalin; I promise not to do it again”
“Larvatus Prodeo: intelligent design, or survival of the elitist?”
Fyodor, a variation on your last.
Larvatus Prodeo:
Was it designed, or did it evolve?
Either way, it’s intelligent.
Right?
I luv Fy’s penultimate.
Mine – “It’s latin for “purple”". Or “Dead Language, live blogging”, “Stoush – it’s the new black”
And I’m also with him on Nab’s “back of shirt” – nothing even close.
Fyodor, your suggestions are great. I concur with (1).
Other captions:
Larvatus Prodeo:
“Sneak one in with lunch” (a nod to our legion of readers who only check in between 12 and 2, right?)
“University teh Internets” (possibly followed by ‘hic’)
“Voted #1 Bar in Ozplogistan”
“It’s German for Stoush”
front:
back:
The baddest blog of all: The Purple Gang.
Das Stimmt Fydrich, ye olde Lefty E bitemylatte.org.au homepage.
How could I forget? Gott in Himmel.
Anyhoo, I also support ‘Purple: Its the new blog.’
and ‘its Latin for Stoush.’
I want to work Prong in somehow, but Im off my game.
some others:
LP
Uno Blogo
LP
elbows/talking
LP
quality blox
on the back of course, what Nabs said.
Is it a Wet T Shirt Competition?
would that mean the t-shirt is DEEP Purple.
Wear it and become a child in time!!
I’ll be back soon with winner/s and details…
Spontaneous demonstrations of gratitude and joy are expected….
May a thousand shades of purple contend, may a thousand lipsnigerisms bloom!
what a startling Korea move!
Brilliant! I love the picture! Enjoining cake to the graphic could be the only possible improvement, and this would only improve it by 0.01%
love it
When can we buy the T-shirt?