Maybe it's time to set up a counter-revolutionary t-shirt site - Vive le Resistance!

nice Brooke, thanks!

I dunno...I'd like to think that maybe free speech is more effective when it's nice speech. There are times to be rude & crude, but in today's white trash world, crude & rude lose their power when they're used constantly.

Maybe restraint & moderation are making a comeback... wow - what a novel use of freedom.

From now on everyone, only say nice things to Vern.

i, too, wondered about this somewhat sudden anouncement.
(I have yet to buy one of their excellent shirts, as i'm too much of a wuss to wear most of them, but am still subscribed to their updates e-mail)
But there could be a simpler, less sinister "other" reason. Quite simply, business. If they didn't sell enough of those *extra* offensive shirts, then maybe they decided it wasn't worth keeping them in the shop. After all, there's little point in having designs available that no-one's prepared to buy...

Business concerns? Likely correct.

Hooray for the almighty dollar - the great arbitrer of taste, morals & quality.

"today's white trash world, crude & rude lose their power when they're used constantly."

Well put, Vern.

bah!

i'm form the Lenny Bruce/George Carlin school

free speech is free speech..

fuck if it's "nice"

sometimes, some folks SHOULD be "offended"

take complete Responsibility for what you say or write...and write or say what you WANT to

anything less is a cop out and/or censorship, and i have only one thing to say there..

fuck censorship in the ass with a red hot poker, then toss it feet first into the wood chipper

Excelsior!

It's not a question of being "nice", or even censorship, it's about being witty, IMO. Carlin, Bruce, Pryor among otheres were all talented without the swearing, and shocking for saying things that were never said on stage before. Fast-forward 35 years or so and the words are so common that they rarely shock, but worse, their use rarely makes me laugh.

A guy choosing not to sell T-shirts does not mean no one else will, you could also make your own. As someone noted above, if there is money in it, someone will do it soon enough.

the point in a nutshell, Ski..

it's not about Words themselves..it's how you use them

i could care less about any kind of "shock" value, not my thing..but one should not hesitate to use the words that fit

now, i'm not advocating going around to kindergarden classes and spewing out obscenities...

but that is a boundary marked by Taste and Class as well as a certain amount of Respect towards kiddies

outside of that and rare other circumstances that fall under similar categories...i still say

well..you know what i say..

heh

Excelsior!

Well I thought the "Everytime I masturbate, God kills the Pope" was funny. Actually what's really funny is I absentmindedly started that phrase, "Everytime God masturbates..." Ooops! That's it, everytime God masturbates he kills one of us.

Is Vern a Jew hater?

Brooke, what has Vern posted that would lead you to ask that question?

I read this line in a book called- Madras on Rainy Days. It had me in splits- 'the throne of Allah rocks when one man mounts another'.

Guess God's on a perpectual rollercoaster ride. Wouldn't mind seeing that line on a T-shirt.

No, I just don't usually find t-shirts with slogans attractive or funny, an opinion which is not based on religion of any sort.

I'm not sure what t-shirts have to do with religion, unless you're trying to equate freedom of religion with freedom of expression. On the other hand, maybe if church leaders wore t-shirts that said, "THE BIG GUY IS WATCHING YOU" while thay gave their sermons, maybe people would listen more attentively.

Perhaps you've hit onto something after all, BL.

Who's BL?

Am I BL?

Vern are you on such a time constraint that ya can't even bother spelling out my name?

And SS, I said that just so someone like yourself would run over to specifically ask me what could possibly provoke such a question.

Great, you are prescient, make any money on the bet?

Sorry.....didn't think we were on a first name basis yet.

I'm a firm believer in free speech, but there is still the "fighting words" doctrine. Words with the sole intent to incite can be limited. Does that mean that tshirthell shouldn't be allowed to sell offensive shirts? No way, but some of those shirts went past commentary into shocking for mere profit. Not a very noble use of free speech - in my opinion. Personally, I prefer the shirts at t-shirthumor.com. More political, less hateful.

They're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

Ha! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!

Well at least I knew someone got to him, I just never considered they tried to kill him. Geez.

Or, possibly, that he would invent a story about a murder attempt and a big drama in order to promote the site. :-)

hahahaha! Noooo, then I woulda been a drama queen for nuttin.

Actually I believe his story, first of all because he doesn't need the publicity -- everybody (or nearly everybody) hates him. And the funny thing about folks who hate you? They keep coming back for more and bringing their friends.

Take Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh and that O'Reilly guy. I hate those guys too, but I never listen to 'em; however their fan base and popularity is due to the fact that so many people hate them, and yet they keep listening to let them know how much they hate them.

In the end: I'd... I'd... *sniff* take a bullet for the T-Shirt Hell guy.

I share the pain of all of oyu in the fact that tshirthell is not as great as it once was, and is somewhat sensored now, but a new and upcomming site that is jsut as funny, and entertaining is www.tshirtcrib.com with t-shirts such as

"By reading this you consent to oral sex"
"Voted most flexible by your boyfriend"
"Michael Jackson is my priest"
"Slept my way to the top"
and many others it looks like it will be force to be rekoned with and is quite funny.

tshirtcrib

Actually, I think he came back out with the "worse than hell shirts"

Could just be the market is shrinking for such slogans.