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dougo ([personal profile] dougo) wrote2004-09-15 12:53 pm

Geek t-shirt slogans

"What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole." Has anyone made a t-shirt for this yet? Maybe it could go on the back of a new Event Horizon Cafe shirt (which predated the Joy of Tech cartoon by nearly a decade).

Or this one, from a headline about the Beagle 2: "What happens on Mars stays on Mars."

Or, the political version: "What happens in Abu Ghraib stays in Abu Ghraib." (or Camp X-Ray) I missed my chance to put this into the short-lived return of the Sloganator. My other idea was "The greater of two evils."

[identity profile] mshonle.livejournal.com 2004-09-15 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if such t-shirts had been made they'd be a bit dated given Stephen Hawking's reversal on the issue: He now believes information doesn't get lost in black holes after all. Perhaps they will reverse in another decade or so, and the shirts will be back in style.

Your contrarian, Macneil :-)

[identity profile] dougo.livejournal.com 2004-09-15 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
See, that's what makes it ironic.

[identity profile] mshonle.livejournal.com 2004-09-15 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, well played. I have no idea if that's what you meant the whole time or not.

[identity profile] mattsnaps.livejournal.com 2004-09-15 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I wore my EHC shirt the other day, and got two comments:

(1) "Ren and Stimpy, right?"

(2) "I like the food there, but the drive back is such a bitch."