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Showing posts with label sydney. Show all posts
Monday, May 16, 2011
Vintage Mens T-Shirt: Octopus Attacks Human!
The octopus strikes back! This retro tshirt is inspired by the classic 1980's Game & Watch game - Octopus. Classic stuff.
In an epic battle of man vs beast, it looks like the beast takes the points on this occasion. However, in due time, man shall return and conquer... and what a celebration it will be. Anyone for squid?
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Vintage T-Shirt Fell off the Back of a Truck?
Commentary on an Australian Global Idiom
Common household electrical items are no stranger to unconventional distribution methods. The saying, 'fell off the back of a truck', generally relates to goods that, well... let's say are unlikely to have been obtained in an altruistic fashion. Yet, any individual who uses the rear of a truck as their showroom probably isn't the type to bring home for a hot meal and pleasant chit-chat about current affairs.
The clandestine alleyway trade, and its associated sayings, are by no means unique to Australian soil however. The English have their own adaptation of the 'fell of the back of...' saying, substituting the word truck for 'lorry'. In the U.S., Seinfeld parodied the street trade in an episode involving the the distribution of shower heads. If this was any indication, product variety abounds - the next big thing need not necessarily be a car stereo or home theatre system!
While the prices are likely to be bargain basement, the caveat emptor lies in the inability to return dysfunctional items, not because you weren't issued a receipt, but because the vendors seems to enjoy traveling, and as such are frequently on the move.
Ahh, good times...
Common household electrical items are no stranger to unconventional distribution methods. The saying, 'fell off the back of a truck', generally relates to goods that, well... let's say are unlikely to have been obtained in an altruistic fashion. Yet, any individual who uses the rear of a truck as their showroom probably isn't the type to bring home for a hot meal and pleasant chit-chat about current affairs.
The clandestine alleyway trade, and its associated sayings, are by no means unique to Australian soil however. The English have their own adaptation of the 'fell of the back of...' saying, substituting the word truck for 'lorry'. In the U.S., Seinfeld parodied the street trade in an episode involving the the distribution of shower heads. If this was any indication, product variety abounds - the next big thing need not necessarily be a car stereo or home theatre system!
While the prices are likely to be bargain basement, the caveat emptor lies in the inability to return dysfunctional items, not because you weren't issued a receipt, but because the vendors seems to enjoy traveling, and as such are frequently on the move.
Nowadays, electrical appliances aren't the only objects to fall off the back of trucks. It's become a popular pastime activity for people, as evidenced below.
Ahh, good times...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Howzat Vintage Cricket T-Shirt
By all reports, in the days of W.G. Grace, cricket was as a gentleman's game. They were competitive, but not 'unsporting'. There was likely to be a healthy respect for the opposition, and their talents, which manifested in handshakes at the close of play and comments of 'well done old boy'.
Nowadays, cricket is entertaining on more than one level. Sure there's the conventional sporting contest, but a new game has emerged in recent decades - a game that goes well beyond athletic ability (ahhm, the term 'athletic' used loosely as applied to cricketers - see below).
The new game is the exploitation of an opposition player's mental fragility - otherwise known as 'sledging'!
Warnie possessed an uncanny ability to be a master of both. But even a master gets tested, as Warne was by South African Daryll Cullinan, aka Warne's bunny:
As Cullinan was on his way to the wicket, Warne told him he had been waiting 2 years for another chance to humiliate him. "Looks like you spent it eating ," Cullinan retorted.
In a separate match, Ian Healy continued the food theme when Warne was attempting to get, plump Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga out of his crease for a drive - Healy stated "Warnie, put a Mars Bar on a good length, that should do it."
What is the best sledge you've heard, either in professional sport, or at a local level?
Vintage cricket needs a vintage t-shirt, so... howzat!
Nowadays, cricket is entertaining on more than one level. Sure there's the conventional sporting contest, but a new game has emerged in recent decades - a game that goes well beyond athletic ability (ahhm, the term 'athletic' used loosely as applied to cricketers - see below).
The new game is the exploitation of an opposition player's mental fragility - otherwise known as 'sledging'!
Warnie possessed an uncanny ability to be a master of both. But even a master gets tested, as Warne was by South African Daryll Cullinan, aka Warne's bunny:
As Cullinan was on his way to the wicket, Warne told him he had been waiting 2 years for another chance to humiliate him. "Looks like you spent it eating ," Cullinan retorted.
In a separate match, Ian Healy continued the food theme when Warne was attempting to get, plump Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga out of his crease for a drive - Healy stated "Warnie, put a Mars Bar on a good length, that should do it."
What is the best sledge you've heard, either in professional sport, or at a local level?
Vintage cricket needs a vintage t-shirt, so... howzat!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Vintage T-Shirt: Ax Men Become Conservationists
Has deforestation taken a back seat on the social agenda in recent years, amid the wars, financial crises and anything else the media has a momentary fixation on?
I remember the good old days when it wasn't uncommon to flick on the evening news and see a couple of dishevelled protesters strapped to the base of a 40 ft Pine. I'd watch eagerly, hoping for some confrontation. In the eyes of their supporters, they were martyrs. To their critics, they were ferals.
I suppose the topic is as much at the forefront today as it ever has been, only now it's discussed in the broader context of climate change. Whilst logging per se hasn't been on my radar for a while now, I take comfort in the knowledge that the likes of Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society continue to fight for a tree's rights!
The Reformed Loggers Society is a support group for former ax men. Though they live with the sap on their hands of scores of tree fatalities, there is a hope.
I remember the good old days when it wasn't uncommon to flick on the evening news and see a couple of dishevelled protesters strapped to the base of a 40 ft Pine. I'd watch eagerly, hoping for some confrontation. In the eyes of their supporters, they were martyrs. To their critics, they were ferals.
Wonderpunk Vintage Retro Funny T-Shirts: 'Reformed Loggers Society'
The Reformed Loggers Society is a support group for former ax men. Though they live with the sap on their hands of scores of tree fatalities, there is a hope.
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