{CLOSED} A Sandwich Won The Derby! T-Shirt GIVEAWAY [Unofficial]
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I can’t believe I won a derby with a sandwich. LOL. Seems as good a time as any to do another t-shirt giveaway!
Rules and or Guidelines:
- Contest will go until Sunday, 5/23 9PM EST. I’ll announce the winners on Monday.
- Post a comment, anything really. I’ll select a couple at random. Replies are great, but I’ll only be counting top-level comments for this.
- It’s always nice if the winners select something from MY CATALOG but it’s not a requirement.
- It’s doubly-nice if you could vote for my current derby designs: here and here.
- Vist the derby even if you don’t vote for my stuff. There’s always cool stuff in there.
- I will direct ship to the winners so if you’re uncomfortable with me having your address, don’t enter. But I promise I won’t drop by too often. Just make sure there’s beer in the fridge.
- Let’s have fun! I’m always super-appreciative of the support I’ve gotten from this community and this is my small way of saying thanks for looking at my silly drawings.
- 38 comments, 115 replies
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Well that is super cool that you won! I’d agree that winning with a sandwich is weird unless there is an underlying joke I missed. You have had some really nice designs that haven’t. Of course winning is winning and so hopefully your sales are high.
/image get rich quick
@Kidsandliz
The theme was literal movie titles. So I made “A Breakfast Club”. I think people appreciated the visual pun, but I don’t expect sales to be that great. As far as the payment – it’s a flat fee when you’re featured. So I’d love to sell a million shirts, but I’m getting the same payout even if I sell three of them.
@ACraigL @Kidsandliz All sold out, bags and everything!
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh Ha! That just happens when the sale ends. They never really sell out of anything anymore. The tee will be back at some point early next week.
@ACraigL @Kidsandliz Oh. Too bad… why don’t they allow people to buy the other things beyond that single day?
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh
Because Woot? I think all the extended sales are created manually so it would be too hard to maintain them in perpetuity for a catalog of over 18000 designs.
I think it’s on their eventual roadmap (including shirt color selection), but I’m not holding my breath.
@ACraigL @Kidsandliz @Kyeh AFAIK, they have a separate production setup for the other products. It’s been on their “wishlist” to allow more products to be ordered on demand; I won’t hold my breath that it’d be anytime in the near term, though.
@ACraigL @Kidsandliz @narfcake
Oh, I see - thanks for explaining. Seems short-sighted of them. Some of us are not that into tee-shirts (although I suppose that’s hard for you to imagine.)
Well, it’s a delicious design! Makes me hungry to look at it.
It’s a fabulous sandwich.
That is a fun one.
I am sad the shirt I recently got (I already forgot your name) after just a few washes the print is so falling off it is now just a home/work shirt. Loved the design.
Hoping mine was just a bad print and not the norm.
@raccoon81 I’ve had that happen before and they replaced it no questions asked. I’m assuming it happens enough that they just know to give free shirts away.
@raccoon81 Definitely contact customer support. They will send a replacement no questions asked.
@ACraigL I’ll give it a try. I had just written off on that shirt. Had it happen with some shirts I got somewhere else before and should have tried the inside out washing like they suggested.
@raccoon81 Mine seem to hold up well, but I line-dry them.
@ACraigL They chose to refund, I am hoping just had bad print that day, ordered the replacement during last woot-off.
The difference is stark!
Taking care with washing at least first couple of times.
@raccoon81 wow, that first one looks VERY worn. They have a bad run from time to time. Hopefully this new one holds up!
@ACraigL @raccoon81
It does kind of exemplify (or amplify?) the message on the shirt though!
@ACraigL @Kyeh haha, had not thought of it that way, guess memory is slipping in ways I didn’t even know.
Love your breakfast club!! The toothpick topper of Judd makes it!!! Well done sir
@tinamarie1974 i know, right? Makes me think my real life re-creation just won’t be right without one!
@ybmuG agree. Maybe someone with a 3d printer can make it for you?!?!?
@tinamarie1974 well, at least it tasted good! (Seriously, leave the lettuce off )
@ybmuG it looked delicious
@tinamarie1974
Or laser-cut one from some ultra-thin plywood?
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG I believe @sillyheathen is skilled in this sort of thing?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG I am indeed. I could knock out some Judd picks tomorrow.
@Kyeh @sillyheathen @ybmuG oohhhh that is exciting!!!
@Kyeh @sillyheathen @tinamarie1974
/giphy baited breath
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG might be able to do it this evening before I go and shut Jezzy down for the night.
@Kyeh @sillyheathen @ybmuG Jezzy?
@Kyeh @sillyheathen @tinamarie1974
Jezebel the laser cutter?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
Don’t you forget about me!
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
She’s my dirty bitch! But yes my laser.
@sillyheathen @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
Have you been nibbling on minnows?
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
@sillyheathen - Those are FANTASTIC!
@Kyeh @sillyheathen @tinamarie1974 oh my gosh those are amazing!
I bet if you made an elephant lamp, it would turn on if you pulled the trunk!
@Kyeh @sillyheathen @tinamarie1974
@sillyheathen @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
Swiping gives me some interesting results too!
@Kyeh @sillyheathen @ybmuG OMG, that is unbelievable!!!
@acraigl, did you see this?!?!
@sillyheathen
I need to figure out how to a few of these! Any chance you can send a couple my way? I’ll pay for postage.
@ACraigL course! Send me your deets and I’ll put them in with the carrier pigeons.
@ACraigL @sillyheathen I’d love one as well, you know, for the re-creation. Maybe by the time it comes, I’ll have found the waffle iron…
@ACraigL @ybmuG I’ll happily send you both some.
@sillyheathen Whispered!
@ACraigL @ybmuG they’re packed up and heading out tomorrow.
@ACraigL @sillyheathen that is so cool of you - thanks!
I totally meant to tell you that I loved that shirt. Both actually, I voted for both of them when I was browsing the derby. I always seem to pick your shirts when voting. You have good taste when designing shirts.
Congratulations! That’s an interesting design that I would not have thought of. But I like it!
Votes deposited. Though I may have canceled them out by voting for a few others as well. LOL good luck
@jaybird All good! Any attention to the derby is a good thing. Thanks!
While I (kinda) have folks’ attention…
How does everyone feel about the show “Parks & Recreation”? It’s the subject of one of my derby entries, but it’s not doing as well as I thought it would. Did I misread it’s popularity? Or maybe it’s just woot voters that don’t dig it?
@ACraigL To me it is a fun show, but not as iconic as others to give nostalgia feel to want to wear something. Feel like too many others wouldn’t get the reference most the time.
Congrats! Great design and I’m looking at it right now to see if I can recreate it for dinner.
Mmmmmmm…waffles…
@ybmuG PIX OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!
@ybmuG It’s not called a dinner club
@lichme you’ve never had breakfast for dinner?
You poor sod…
@lichme @ybmuG ‘Backwards Day’: includes breakfast for dinner
@ACraigL
So I couldn’t find the waffle iron - probably in storage somewhere (whyyyyy!!!) - so I made pancakes instead.
I used the ripest tomatoes I could find and grilled them for a minute to give them a little extra flavor. And I used some habanero jack cheese for an extra kick.
All in all, pretty good, though I’d likely leave the lettuce off next time.
@ybmuG OMFG! That is amazing. You HAVE to post that in the shirt thread on woot. Please!
@ACraigL sure. Didn’t know i could do that.
@ACraigL Done
Seeing your designs always makes me wish I didn’t suck at art. One of my only few entries that did well way back when, was a stick figure that was winning at the time, but got denied due to being “off theme” (it wasn’t). The resub didn’t have time to get the same amount of traction.
@lichme the resub is @wesome!!
@lichme dang - just realized i should have made my handle wesome!
@lichme That was 2 years before I starting shirting!
Congrats on another win!
@Sabre99 Thanks! I was surprised by this one. But I’ve been having a pretty good run this year so far.
Whole family are big fans of your portfolio/catalog. Congrats!
I love to attempt to eat that sandwich IRL, while catching up in the Grotto and meh forums!
Keep up the awesome work!
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
Is it weird that I got the joke, but I’ve never seen the movie?
@blaineg you should make the sandwich and watch the movie.
@blaineg I don’t think so. It’s pretty iconic and has been referenced in other films – Pitch Perfect comes to mind.
@blaineg I got the joke and saw the movie, but:
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a. didn’t think the movie was all that
b. think Molly Ringworm is, in general, overrated
c. but liked the shirt
(all IMO, of course
@blaineg @macromeh
OK, that is pretty funny though.
The current Qbert and ernie would be fantastic for my sister. For covid they got and helped kids build an arcade game that e replicates a few hundred classic games. My sister is proud that nobody can touch her in Qbert and as kids we were Bert and ernie
I’m posting a top level comment in hopes that I’ll get a free shirt.
That being said, your sandwich shirt made me hungry
@MrMikenIkes me too…
Then i ate it
If you ate the shirt, pretty sure you are getting plenty of fiber.
Feel free to drop by if I am picked as a winner. What kind of beer do you prefer? I do like the t-shirt, by the way. Congrats on your win.
@heartny Into the hazy pale ales for the summer, thanks.
Good luck!
Love the Qbert design. I have the Bert and Ernie - Big Bang shirt. I get many looks and comments when I wear it.
I don’t know the reference on the other shirt. I am pop culture challenged though. I don’t watch much tv or see many movies.
@speediedelivery Yeah, so funny. I though Q*bert would be more obscure than the Parks and Recreation reference (the other design) but that’s why I try to do two each derby. You just never know.
Never underestimate the love between a Wooter and a sandwich.
Well done!
It’s been a while since I bought a shirt, well, there was the night shirt I bought in anticipation of the coming summer nights since teeshirts aren’t long enough to cover my ample ass and I don’t want to wear sweatpants when it’s 100°.
But this one is totally awesome! I would be proud to wear that one in public. So cool. Great job and I’m happy you won.
POPSOCKETS! COURT DOCKETS! FOLK ROCK HITS! AWESOME!
@lisaviolet So you are a nightshirt model in addition to all your other talents? Cool!
@compunaut Yeah, right, uh huh…
Funny, I saw the shirt earlier for a second but didn’t have a chance to see who designed it but immediately thought it looked like something you’d do. The pick is absolutely the topping on the club cake. Congrats as always!
I think at least 2 people already got shirts
You guys are amazing!
BUT! Contest is still on! Woo!
Current derby links in case anyone missed them in the first post.
https://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/120713/super-pawnee-world
https://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/120721/qbert-ernie
@ACraigL done and done.
Love the Q*bert one!! That was my mom’s favorite video game. LOVED watching her play on our Atari 5200…oh the good old days
The Breakfast Club shirt is great, especially the toothpick of John Bender. You always do a really good job illustrating the derby theme. I wish I could draw, but I struggle to draw a regular toothpick.
@caramelarrow
You have good designs
Congrats to our winners (and sandwich makers)!
/giphy winners
@ybmuG for the awesome recreation
@sillyheathen for topping it off
And our random winners are:
@lonocat
@raccoon81
Whisper me with the following info to get your shirt:
Congrats! I’ll get those out as soon as I’m contacted.
There’s a few more hours of voting left in the current derby and my Q*bert & Ernie design still has a fighting chance. Hit that up if you haven’t already.
Thanks again for the support and all the great comments. You guys always make this a fun thing to do!
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
@ACraigL yea, I was hoping @sillyheathen and @ybmug would win for their fine art work!!!
/giphy applause
@ACraigL wow, thanks! Now we’ve both won with a sandwich!
I feel like I’ve had my sandwich and eaten it too.
@ACraigL Woohoo!!! Gotta take an even closer look at the massive library! I am honored! I will PM after taking a look.
@sillyheathen Where you at?
@ACraigL sorry. I don’t know how I missed this.
Wow! Thanks,
Now the hard part, picking out a design.
PureEvil is currently my favorite woot shirt, even with the contact cement that I got on it the first time I wore it. I’m leaning toward Rise of the meowchines and inevitably. Will let you know.
Thanks
@lonocat All are excellent catshirt options.
(Shirt of the evening here is Catnap Level Critical.)
@narfcake I had seen that design, however the others fell more in line with my current taste
New derby’s up for those that are interested. Some “meh” crossover here, for sure.
Do Not Pass Go(od)
https://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/120791/do-not-pass-good
@ACraigL I voted, you forgot to mention that they are also having a deal-o-meter for shirts, if they get 2500 votes, shirt prices will be $10
So do the women’s shirts on Woot fit the same way as the ones on Mediocritee? Do they tend to run small?
@Kyeh Women’s sizes run notoriously small at woot. I recommend a size or two up from what you would normally wear. I never got a woman’s size from Mediocritee so I can’t help with that as a reference.
Here’s their sizing chart:
https://shirt.woot.com/sizingchart/Tee
@ACraigL Thank you! The Mediocritee women’s shirts run 2 sizes smaller than normal. I wonder if they’re the same blanks. Actually maybe @jasneko knows? I got two of her shirts from Mediocritee.
@jasneko @Kyeh Yeah, assume the same. I don’t think Medocritee uses Bella Canvas, but the sizing seems pretty similar based on that.
@ACraigL @Kyeh yay thanks for buying them!
Sorry I have totally lost track of current sizing of recent times because for a while it seemed like woot was changing their blanks so often. Just yesterday I noticed 2 woot shirts of the same size that were vastly different in sizing and cut!!
At this point I just err on the size of larger (one or two sizes) because they can always shrink or become pajama shirts.
@ACraigL @jasneko Good point! I went for 2 sizes up and that was perfect, but I’m not going to put them in the dryer. Thanks for the info.
@ACraigL @jasneko @Kyeh
At some point in the past couple years, Woot changed the women’s “fitted” blanks from the Bella Canvas 6004 (slim) to the 6400 (relaxed) so their sizing was more inline with the “standard” Port and Company blanks – which were more inline with the previous Anvil blanks, which were “about two sizes too big” over the original American Apparel blanks.
The Next Level blanks used here and at Mediocritee are sized along the likes of the original American Apparel blanks.
As for shrinkage, there’s not much of that with any of the offerings nowadays, even washed hot and dried high. I was one of the test customers when shirt.woot moved away from Anvil and before that, my (late) doggie had an unexplainable penchant of drooling and slobbering over Ramy shirts, so those were
washedtortured in separate loads. Only the Anvil blanks horribly shrunk.@ACraigL @jasneko @narfcake Thank you!
So I can order my normal size at woot, then?
@Kyeh Possibly? While they’re larger than the women’s blanks used here at meh/mediocritee, you’ll still want to check against the sizing chart as there hasn’t been such a thing as “normal” sizing for decades now.
@narfcake Good point, thanks. I’ll push through my laziness and do some measuring before I order any. It’s great to get advice from a tee-shirt aficionado!
OK, so just to make clear how amazing and downright generous @ACraigL is, I got home after a very long day to find not one, not two, but three t-shirts waiting for me.
Here they are in the order I opened them in:
First, the winning shirt that started it all
The Breakfast Club
Next, the one I asked for which was also a derby winner (no surprise here)
Factions are Hard
And finally, one that I love but never mentioned
Barium
How did you know???
Have you been stalking my brain?
Seriously, thank you tons! I really needed this. Gonna wear one tomorrow, for shure!
@ybmuG aaaawwwww that is awesome! @ACraigL is a good guy
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
@ybmuG Nice!!! Especially the Breakfast Club one - great to see the real thing. Next, a picture of you wearing it and eating the
re-creation with its custom pick?
@Kyeh i was already planning a reprise, with just that scenario! Might be a few days, though.
@ybmuG
I kind of figured you were … sorry to nag!
@ybmuG AMAZEBALLS!!! I’d nominate @ACraigL for goat but he’s already been there and done that so yeah…
So awesome! I love this community to bits!
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
Many thanks to @sillyheathen for the ridiculously cool Breakfast Club toothpicks and bonus refrigerator magnet! These are great. This was really fun! I really appreciate this community.
@ACraigL the one on the right still has masking tape on him. It will come off if you grab it by the husk.
I’m happy you like them and ditto on the community!
Time for your daily affirmation at woot… that’s the theme this week anyway. I’ve got one to share, if you could validate me with a vote that would be very positive.
Get Busy Dying
https://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/120893/get-busy-dying
Argh. Posted this in the wrong thread somehow. Sorry folks!
@ACraigL you can blame that one me. That’s what I’m here for.
Also how’d you do in the last derby?
@sillyheathen I DO blame you, lol.
Not great. Finished outside the top 9. Hoping it lands in the editor’s choice sale on Friday.
@ACraigL bummer. I’ll try harder this time! I really liked that one. I need to pay more attention. I didn’t realize you’d done the silence of the lambs. I was in stitches!
@sillyheathen That one did make a side sale, and is in my catalog. It turned out particularly well IMO.
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/silent-lambs
@ACraigL you’re amazeballs!!! Thank you so much for the shirts! They will both get tons of use.
![meh rage][1]
I love this one and I either voted for it or almost bought it. Thanks a mil!
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@sillyheathen wearing mine right now!
@sillyheathen looks like nobody has done their chores since March 22nd. You should get on that.
@ybmuG
better start cracking my whip!
They got the day off yesterday. It’s their last day of in person school today and it’s going to get up to 97 today so chores will be minimal. Methinks we will be spending most of the day in the pool trying to stay cool. @extramedium and @PHroG get your floaties and come over.
@ExtraMedium @PHRoG @sillyheathen @ybmuG
97?
Wow, Oregon really isn’t living up to its reputation.
@ExtraMedium @Kyeh @PHRoG @ybmuG
We’ll see come mid June. We used to have Junary. We’d have warm weather in May and the Oregonians would get all excited and rejoice and then bam cold and rainy most of June. We had almost none of it last year and currently it’s looking like it’s going to be similar this year. I’m just praying we don’t have wildfires and have to evacuate like last year.
@ExtraMedium @PHRoG @sillyheathen @ybmuG
OHH - did you have to evacuate? How awful. The fires were terrible around here too. Thankfully the main part of town wasn’t in it,
but it was bad in the foothills nearby and the air was all smoky and nasty for several weeks. It made for some dramatic skyscapes; very beautiful until you found out that entire communities were destroyed.
@ExtraMedium @PHRoG @sillyheathen @ybmuG
October 2020.
@ExtraMedium @Kyeh @PHRoG @ybmuG
This was the morning before we left. It was crazy and definitely a little scary. There were two fires less than a mile from our house.
This was right down the road from us.
@sillyheathen Terrifying!!! I trust you didn’t end up with any damage, though? 🥺
@Kyeh we got lucky and locals and firefighters were able to keep it from getting here. It was definitely scary. I just really hope it’s not a new trending weather event.
@sillyheathen ME TOO!!! And California’s been burning every year, and seeing the drought maps on TV, Utah’s also looking scary dry. CO has had a great season of snow and rain so far, but if it gets hot and dry this summer, that will mean there’s just a lot more fuel for the fires.
@Kyeh we’ve had a really dry spring. It’s worrisome. I know it’s glorious now but the late summer is making me nervous. Especially when some of my asshat neighbors are burning on hot dry days. “You know it hasn’t rained in over a week and it’s sunny and 90…I know. I’ll start a giant ass fire!” Fuckery of the
kind!
I don’t use my chainsaw by midday because it’s too bloody hot. I was cutting up some maple rounds to split and had to stop because I was starting to set the moss and lichen on fire. Anyway that’s my rant and my fault ta boot!
@sillyheathen Oh, man - burning by neighbors who presumably had to evacuate last year also???
How can people be so dumb?
Got my shirt(s) over the weekend. Love the dogs! Always an easy sell.
Found an extra as well for those that math real good! Thank you so much.