[QUOTE=Mavyn, post:17, topic:377990]
The Jungle Book
Dante’s Inferno
Candide
Most everything by Kafka
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Mmmm, Kafka. I thought about The Metamorphosis, but decided a giant bug shirt may not be the way to go…
No shirt color restrictions… does that mean RBBG is over now? Or do we accept that the temporary substitute will continue?
[QUOTE=cdrewlow, post:21, topic:377990]
Mmmm, Kafka. I thought about The Metamorphosis, but decided a giant bug shirt may not be the way to go…
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Well…It think it depends on the bug. Well done, it could be creepy and amazing.
I’m just hoping we don’t get a slew of Alice in Wonderland (and I adore the story, really).
Could do Jane Austen…Miss Haversham lurking, perhaps?
ETA: Beowulf. Roland.
Whatever happened to the “Random rule set by this Woot! staffer just because” rules? This Wooter misses them.
Could someone capitalize “Bible” in the initial post listing the Derby rules? Or maybe change it to “No religious texts” since you mentioned no Bible, no Quran? Don’t forget, the Book of Mormon was published in 1830!
Also, I totally laughed at “we’ll save that derby for when we want to get ourselves fired.” Ha!
Random thoughts: the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid (an opera singer with a speech bubble containing a stick figure and a bow and arrow?), Beowolf (let’s not?), Jonathan Swift, Jane Austin, Mark Twain, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne (would anyone want to wear a scarlet letter?), all the Brontës, most of Kafka…
Do collections of poetry count? Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost’s first three collections…
Good call… no Royal and no cranberry. The embargo continues. I’ll see about getting it added to the rules.
I would love to see someone attempt the wealth of nations.
[QUOTE=lyonscc, post:16, topic:377990]
Copyright shouldn’t be much of an issue, Travis, since for Western literature, copyright ends 70 years after the author’s death…
See Wikipedia
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In addition to Kevlar’s accurate and vivid example, translations are eligible for copyright protection that begins with the publication of the translation. Some works originally published before 1920 may have English translations that are still under copyright protection. That probably wouldn’t be much of an issue unless a prominent movie based on the translation had recently been made and a shirt could be seen as using the movie’s characters, but I don’t follow movies so I have no idea if anything would fit into that category!
Woot’s concerns about copyright seem to include “We don’t have time to deal with a C&D letter even if we’re in the right; also, the legal team’s hourly wages are higher than the Rejectionator’s, so better safe than at a deposition for which we’d have to wear a suit instead of a woot shirt.”
Or plays? Do Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov count?
So is a Flatland reference too esoteric, or is it sufficiently nerdy to be understood by the woot audience?
[QUOTE=tgentry, post:11, topic:377990]
Bwhahahahaha!
As far as fairy tales, we’re basically looking for old school literature, which I think tales like those from Hans Christian Andersen and Brothers Grimm would fall under. …
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Have you guys read the original Little Mermaid? There is a lot of blood in it!
[QUOTE=neuropsychosocial, post:25, topic:377990]
Hawthorne (would anyone want to wear a scarlet letter?)
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Depends on how the letter was drawn, but I’ve often thought about making/wearing a shirt with a beautifully embellished letter A on it… I’m thinking like the old illuminated texts with scrolls, calligraphy, etc filling the middle. Probably some sort of calligraphy-shaped A (not Times, Arial, and heaven forbid not comic sans)
does the title of the shirt have to be the name of the book, or can it be something like “welcome to the jungle - the jungle book” ?
You can name it whatever you like, but as usual it’s a good idea when referencing something that you include a mention of it in your title, the detail image, or in your comments so we know what we’re looking at (unless it’s a painfully obvious reference that is.)
How about the Marquis de Sade? rofl
[QUOTE=brockart, post:34, topic:377990]
Here’s my design for Jack London’s, Call of the wild. Lemme know what you think.
200x200
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do corded handsets even exist any more?
I think they are used for ironic purposes only…
Is Lucky Cat considered “modern pop culture”?
Also I’m kinda new so is glow ink an option?
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Is Lucky Cat considered “modern pop culture”?
Also I’m kinda new so is glow ink an option?
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Specialty inks are only for dailies. You should be fine with a Lucky Cat.