If you read this blog on its web page (as opposed to via email, say), you may have noticed a new image in the sidebar, and a new page, linking to the Sentence First shop. It now has a .com address only; I closed the .ie page for simplicity’s sake.
The shop has bags, T-shirts, hoodies and other clothes, badges, mugs, and more. Its general themes are wordplay, language, and bad puns. Omit needles swords, for example, is a spin on Strunk and White’s popular dictum Omit needless words. Less cryptic ones include:
Grammar is glamorous (etymologically speaking)
and
Recursive hipsters were into being into things before they were hip before it was hip
I’ll be adding more from time to time.
If you want some item that isn’t shown, email or tweet me or leave a comment below, and I’ll see what I can do when time allows. Other feedback will be happily received; cries of “capitalist sell-out” are also permitted.
Spreadshirt, the shop’s host, has a special offer from today, Tuesday 10 September, till a week from now – free standard shipping when you buy two or more items. Just use the voucher code FALL2013.
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Hope it does well, Stan, but you have competition: http://www.moretvicar.com/collections/the-daily-mash/products/the-daily-mash-i-am-amazing
Good luck with the new shop, Stan! A fine set of wares. My favourite customer service slogan ever is the one used by Despair, Inc., ‘We’re not satisfied till you’re not satisfied’. So perfectly reasonable upon the first reading.
Barrie: Thanks for the good wishes. I bet that T-shirt will be sported more often than not with a total lack of irony.
Mise: Thank you! I won’t be satisfied till I have a slogan that isn’t less disunsatisfying than that gem.
I fear that may be so, Stan.
good luck with this venture Stan, items are great and reasonably priced!
XO
WWW
Barrie: The ambiguity might even have been deliberate.
WWW: Thanks very much. The original (.ie) shop’s prices compared to the US version’s were another motivation for closing it.
@Stan. First off, congrats on expanding your repertoire into this entrepreneurial direction. Quite the array of charming, and lexicographically pertinent items for sale. at, (as WWW earlier opined), relatively reasonable prices…. even for this expat Canuck w/ thrifty Scottish blood coarsing through his veins.
I particularly like the block-like letter/ slightly-askew-squares approach to your clever OMIT NEEDLES SWORDS motif, which immediately reminded me of Scrabble tiles, but without the number value indication, of course.
And clearly, unlike a set of Scrabble words laid correctly out on the board, these three stacked words here only read horizontally, and not vertically, as well, as is the rule in my favorite wordplay game… other than my regular Sunday crossword puzzle in the “Arts & Books” section of the Sunday edition of The L.A. Times.
I think I’ll be purchasing at least one of your OMIT NEEDLES SWORDS T-shirts, anon.
Best of luck w/ your spin-off enterprise, Stan.
Oops!
Immediate poster’s remorse.
Doh! That should have read “coursing”, and not “coarsing” (no such animal) “… through his veins.” Oh well.
Thank you very much, Alex. Yes, I’m quite taken by the chunky blockletter typeface too, and I think it goes well with the Strunk & White mutation. When I can free up some time, I hope to add a few more items with that text.
“Recursive hipsters were into being into things before they were hip before it was hip”
What a hoot! I need to get that quote on a shirt immediately!
Glad you like it, Sarah! I hope the shop has a T-shirt style that appeals.
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