Cryptic T-shirt at GenCon - Help, it's slowly driving me insane
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Furn_Darkside
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EricNoah said:
Muppets are almost as bad as mimes..
Wulf Ratbane
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Hmm... A truly nemmerlesque t-shirt.
EOL
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What might help is if we knew the context of the shirt was it being worn by a muscle bound jock, an obvious gen-con attendee, an attractive female?
Did it look professionally produced or was it obviously something someone had made themselves?
For some reason I'm thinking of So I Married an Axe Murderer where The scottish father tries to convince his son that Colonel Saunders is part of the Trilateral Commission. Maybe this guy was saying it was the Colonel, Ernie and the perserved stewed brain of Joseph Stalin. (Okay the last one is a stretch).
Did it look professionally produced or was it obviously something someone had made themselves?
For some reason I'm thinking of So I Married an Axe Murderer where The scottish father tries to convince his son that Colonel Saunders is part of the Trilateral Commission. Maybe this guy was saying it was the Colonel, Ernie and the perserved stewed brain of Joseph Stalin. (Okay the last one is a stretch).
Quickbeam
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I had two, totally separate (and equally foolish) impulse responses to what this particular t-shirt may mean...besides it's likely meaning of nothing patently intelligent or coherent:
1) Instead of Peace, Love and Happiness (i.e. the symbols for those feelings/emotions), it's a shirt representing three other very important concepts -- namely fried chicken, stew and muppets. I'm not sure that Ernie's sexual orientation is a relevant concern in this interpretation...just like I'm not sure it matters that his favorite toy is a rubber ducky.
2) My other knee-jerk connection was a bit more convoluted, if that's possible!! Colonel Sanders is part of the Evil or Unholy Pentaverate referenced in So I Married an Axe Murderer; Andy Warhol painted a series of Campbell's Soup cans and was quite a bizarre and unwholesome fellow; and Ernie...well, what's more terrifying than a muppet with a purported array of sexually deviant tendencies? I think this t-shirt might be intended to depict much of what can be construed as "wrong" with 21st century mainstream society and its pop culture icons.
Or not
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1) Instead of Peace, Love and Happiness (i.e. the symbols for those feelings/emotions), it's a shirt representing three other very important concepts -- namely fried chicken, stew and muppets. I'm not sure that Ernie's sexual orientation is a relevant concern in this interpretation...just like I'm not sure it matters that his favorite toy is a rubber ducky.
2) My other knee-jerk connection was a bit more convoluted, if that's possible!! Colonel Sanders is part of the Evil or Unholy Pentaverate referenced in So I Married an Axe Murderer; Andy Warhol painted a series of Campbell's Soup cans and was quite a bizarre and unwholesome fellow; and Ernie...well, what's more terrifying than a muppet with a purported array of sexually deviant tendencies? I think this t-shirt might be intended to depict much of what can be construed as "wrong" with 21st century mainstream society and its pop culture icons.
Or not
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Chun-tzu
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Each of these images conjures a single word, but unfortunately it doesn't add up to anything.
Colonel
Stew
Ernie
But looking up "Stu Ernie" or "Ernie Stu" or "Stew Ernie" or "Ernie Stew" doesn't find anything meaningful in Google.
The meaning of the second picture is screaming "Stew" or else they wouldn't have written it so prominently.
One interpretation is that the first picture represents "finger lickin" and the second (I think this part is weak) might be "spoon licking". I will stop now, before Eric's grandmother collapses.
Colonel
Stew
Ernie
But looking up "Stu Ernie" or "Ernie Stu" or "Stew Ernie" or "Ernie Stew" doesn't find anything meaningful in Google.
The meaning of the second picture is screaming "Stew" or else they wouldn't have written it so prominently.
One interpretation is that the first picture represents "finger lickin" and the second (I think this part is weak) might be "spoon licking". I will stop now, before Eric's grandmother collapses.
