Sep 01 2011
The same guy who made the Teach the Controversy shirts has a new line, Monsters of Grok, in the style of rock band t-shirts…only in this case, they’re shirts for scientists and philosophers. I admit, the Darwin shirt didn’t grab me, but I could see wearing a nice stark jangly ad for David Hume.
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QuestionAuthority
1 September 2011 at 8:21 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
…LOVE…
Ben
1 September 2011 at 8:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Darwin, Sagan, Ben Franklin… I want…
Brian Lynchehaun
1 September 2011 at 8:46 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You’re a Hume fan?
The more I about you, the more awesome you appear to be. :)
JediBear
1 September 2011 at 8:46 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That’s a good start.
Michael Zeora
1 September 2011 at 8:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
So much goodness from Monsters of Grok… Where to start…
Keith
1 September 2011 at 8:56 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I love them, but where’s Neil deGrasse Tyson?
LMR
1 September 2011 at 9:11 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The styling on them all is funny, but the Tesla/Edison one gets my vote for having an added bit of cleverness for tying the personalities (and their famous fued) in with the particular band logo.
SQB
1 September 2011 at 9:24 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Aren’t we gonna do a list, matching them with the original bands, or is it too easy?
Darwin – Misfits
Sagan – Slayer
Isaac Newton – Iron Maiden
du Champ – the Cramps
Van Allen – Van Halen
Ben Franklin – Black Flag
Feynman – ?
Einstein – ?
Pascal – Poison
Hypatia – Hüsker Dü
Tesla/Edison – AC/DC
de Beauvoir – ?
Curie – the Cure
Watt – Riot?
David Hume – Daft Punk
Hawking – Wu Tang Clan
Johannes Kepler – Judas Priest
Machiavelli – Metallica
Niels Bohr – the Doors
Mendelev – Megadeath
Wittgenstein – Rammstein
AJS
1 September 2011 at 9:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“Tesla/Edison” made me LOL — I just wish I hadn’t just taken a mouthful of tea before following that link. Ah well, call it an experiment to determine just how good this supposedly “spillproof” keyboard is.
I’m almost surprised Ballmer never tried killing dogs with Open Source software to prove it’s more dangerous than proprietary software …..
Ulgaa
1 September 2011 at 9:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@SQB The Watt tee design is from the band Ratt.
Ulgaa
1 September 2011 at 10:00 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh and the Einstein one is Boston.
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
1 September 2011 at 10:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@SQB:
de Beauvoir = The Beatles
Dunno the others yet, but I’ll assume they’re close to the names.
Ulgaa
1 September 2011 at 10:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh just discovered that if you click on shirt it tells you what band it’s from. DOH!
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
1 September 2011 at 10:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh. Hah.
If you click on the links you can see the band it’s supposed to be.
Feynman = Foreigner.
Zagloba
1 September 2011 at 10:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
As I said when I posted this to facebook, the Ramm/Wittgenstein is epic win. And one is headed in my direction as we speak.
Loqi
1 September 2011 at 10:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Totally ordering a Tesla/Edison one.
Markita Lynda, healthcare is a damn right.
1 September 2011 at 11:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Wot no Curie?
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
1 September 2011 at 11:22 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@Markita Lynda:
http://monstersofgrok.com/design/curie/
Markita Lynda, healthcare is a damn right.
1 September 2011 at 11:22 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Soo many suggestions: Roentgen, Dalton, Dirac, Farraday…
And the band-name choices rock!
P.S. Saw a T-shirt at the bus station yesterday:
“Rock is dead.
Paper, on the other hand, is fine.”
Markita Lynda, healthcare is a damn right.
1 September 2011 at 11:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Never mind, I see Curie now.
Blind in one eye and can’t see out the other!
Markita Lynda, healthcare is a damn right.
1 September 2011 at 11:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Bleah! Still can’t see my latest comment until someone else posts, not even with Shift-F5.
BTW, do we have to register with our WordPress accounts to post in other Freethought blogs? What if we don’t have one?
Brother Yam
1 September 2011 at 12:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Einstein == Boston
Physicalist
1 September 2011 at 12:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hmmm. Might have to get me a Niels Bohr shirt. Too bad they don’t have extra-tall. Vertically enhanced people face so much discrimination . . .
Duvelthehobbit666
1 September 2011 at 1:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The Sagan one is great. Might get that one.
Ragutis
1 September 2011 at 1:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The
SlayerSagan is just plain awesome. A few others there that I dig, but I’m ordering this one NOW.UpAgainstTheRopes
1 September 2011 at 2:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@ SQB
Darwin = Samhain
Ant Allan
1 September 2011 at 2:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
How about Schrödinger in the style of Dead or Alive (but did they even have a distinctive logo?).
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Ragutis
1 September 2011 at 3:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m envisioning a neat take on Rush and their “man and star” logo for Henry Gray.
PlayMp1
1 September 2011 at 3:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I like that they have plenty of good metal in there. Slayer, Megadeth (note: there is only one “a” in Megadeth… don’t ask why), Judas Priest, Iron Maiden… I’m glad they left out utter crap like Avenged Sevenfold and Slipknot. And obviously, Sagan gets to be Slayer for being the most badass.
Jem
1 September 2011 at 5:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
These are great!
All that’s missing is a PZ one.DuChamp tempts me in particular, I know it’d get a lot of laughs if I wore it to uni.
K E Decilon
1 September 2011 at 8:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I like the Feynman/Foreigner one.
I suspect they will do a booming business today.
On a related note, can anyone tell me the story behind this image?
…and billy lived forever
I have asked young friends, old friends, and crazy friends. None have any idea.
All google seems to know about is a country singer/songwriter named Billy Joe Shaver and a bad cartoon show from the early 2000s.
Derek Ledbetter
2 September 2011 at 2:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
If you want a T-shirt that celebrates Tesla without Edison, you could just get a Tesla band T-shirt.
SQB
2 September 2011 at 2:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
K E Decilon, I think it refers to Ingmar Bergman’s movie, The Seventh Seal, in which a knight plays a game of chess with Death, in an attempt to forestall his own death. This is a modern interpretation of that, using a Gameboy™ instead of chess. Apparently, Billy is very good at it.
ryk
2 September 2011 at 3:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
K E Decilon:
Here’s something in a similar vein:
http://xkcd.com/393/
I’m not sure if it stemmed from The Seventh Seal, or if that was just building on something else, but I’ve some vague impression of challenging Death/ The Devil with games/contests of skill/etc. for, uh… not dying, or being lit on fire forever… or something?
Midnight Rambler
2 September 2011 at 4:46 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It seems like a fairly common theme; like in “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”.
And I just want to say, on topic: HAIL SAGAN!
Scott
2 September 2011 at 7:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
In the parking lots of Phish concerts, people often sell t-shirts featuring Phish song titles incorporated into product logos, e.g., “My Sweet One” in the logo for Sweet & Low. These shirts remind me of those. Brilliant!
Caek Noms
2 September 2011 at 8:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Done. I’ll not have that charleton be seen as some sort of equal to the mighty Tesla.
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
2 September 2011 at 8:58 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@UpAgainstTheRopes:
Darwin = Danzig
SQB
2 September 2011 at 9:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
At least it’s a band with Danzig in it.
OscarWildechild
2 September 2011 at 9:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hypatia as ‘Husker Du’? EFF YES!
Also, Pascal totally deserves to be ‘Poison’ for his half-assed wager. Too bad his name doesn’t sound more like ‘Winger’ or ‘Papa Roach’.
Hephaestion
3 September 2011 at 1:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
With the Controversy shirts you run the risk of course that people take you seriously.
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