Florida is pretty phallic.

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If you put some mickey mouse ears on Orlando you might get some balls...

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Mustard yellow seems vaguely appropriate for Florida.

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I don't understand how anyone could think the first design is funnier than the second. I mean, really?

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Something about brevity being the soul of wit, I'd imagine.

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I think the second makes a different a funnier joke.

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No, see, I quoted Shakespeare, which makes me automatically right.

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Haha. I suppose you're right.

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I think the juxtaposition somehow works better than either on its own, but I wouldn't wear it anyways so my opinion can be disregarded.

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Honestly, I think these shirts are way out of style. Sorry, man.

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I agree but I also need to buy a bicycle.

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I think having the "if you sort of..." text in a smaller parenthetical would work best.

The chance of people turning their heads as they look at the shirt is hard to pass up.

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I fail to see the humor. Or why anyone would ask for this in the first place.

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I get the joke, I just don't think it's funny. I was just trying to give my feedback on whether or not I thought this would work as a shirt.

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I appreciate the feedback, I just thought read it as another "please explain this to me" post. LOL languages

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I fail to think of a single occasion in the history of language where a joke was made funny by someone explaining it.

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Now *there's* a t-shirt! Put a joke on it, plus several rounds of explanation!

As for this one, how about a variant of the second:

Florida

Vaguely Phallic
[smaller]If you sort of turn it on its side
[even smaller]and squint your eyes

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yes, this.

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Hmm... the wording would look better with the smaller text if it was re-arranged a little:

Florida

Vaguely Phallic
[smaller]if you turn it on its side
[even smaller]and sort of squint your eyes a bit

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I've just been looking at a map of the US (I'm a Brit, I'm not exactly familiar with it, OK?) to see what else looks like anything. And there's really not much. Massachusetts looks kind of like the face-on-a-water-column from Abyss.

http://county-map.digital-topo-maps.com/united-states-map.gif

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Michigan looks like a hand, or rather a mitten. At least, that's what people from Michigan think... we are fond of pointing out our hometowns on the back of our left hands. (I grew up just under the pinky knuckle.) There is also a region called "the thumb."

This shirt/post is actually very funny to me, because there was once a comic in my college newspaper that featured two guys at a party. Guy A asked Guy B "Where are you from?" and Guy B said "A small town in Michigan" and pointed at the back of his hand. Then Guy B asked Guy A "What about you?" and Guy A said "A town in Florida" and unzipped his pants. (There was a "zzzzzzip" sound bubble and a censor bar.) Ok, so it's not that funny if you can't see it, but it amused me...

Louisiana vaguely resembles a cowboy boot. And I knew a guy from West Virginia who pointed out his hometown on his hand-- by sticking out his thumb and middle finger. I would never have imagined West Virginia to look like a hand giving the finger, but apparently West Virginians think so.

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People from Texas do the hand thing too...with the index and middle fingers up, the ring and pinkie fingers half up and the thumb splayed sorta out to the side.

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Since I'm the person from Texas to whom you are referring, I should point out that I only started to do that *after* I met people from Michigan who did the same thing.

It was cool, so I made myself a hand map too.

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(a mitten with a rabbit jumping over it)

:D

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And I always thought Texas looked kind of like a boot... the bottom border, at least. Stomping on Mexico.

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hah! I'm from WV too, and I do it with thumb-plus-index-finger. Thumb-plus-middle-finger looks a little more accurate, but also more easily misinterpreted :)

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Kentucky looks like a piece of fried chicken.

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I'm also a Brit.

Therefore I'm obviously looking at it wrong when I'm seeing Florida looking vaguely gun (pistol) shaped, rather than phallic. With any phallicness merely indicidental phallicity due to the due to inherent semiotic phallicism of firearms.

I mean, to me, phallic symbolism isn't merely a matter 'reminds one of the male sexual organ', instead phallic symbolism surely requires that the object 'reminds one of the *erect* male sexual organ'. And in that important respect it seems to me Florida is no more qualifies than the infamously flacid Mull of Kintrye".

Clearly I'm not squinting hard enough.

obAnswerTheQuestionDamnit: The short one is funnier.

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agreed. That would be better

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"Now that the store is doing okay finally I can confidently put out basically every stupid idea"


I'll buy the vaguely phallic shirt if you do a reprint of the pot shirt. I need it for when I leave the country.

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I'll see what I can do.

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vaguely amusing, but anyone who'd buy this would be kinda a douche

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To be fair, Florada was the douche first.

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Speaking as a proud Floridian: Dude, what's this "if you turn and squint" BS? Looks like a cock.

If you wanna be a little more obscene, you can add the Keys, which make it look like Florida's in the middle of a money shot.

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What I want to know is, who stole Florida's balls?

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first lame joke that came to mind: blah blah hanging chad ba-dum-ching

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i actually like this shirt more than alot of the others. i may buy this. please just put up all the different kinds of shirts you can. i WOULD love that. the more options, the more im likely to laugh at one and buy it.

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me like less readin
readins for nerds!

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I say lots of words, verbosity is the new black

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I think post-irony is more annoying than plain ol' irony.

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What do you mean there isn't anything ironic going on here.

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What did I tell you about asking LiveJournal's opinion? It always makes you furious.

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I'd like to wear it but only on my college campus. My parents my kill me haha.

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I'm actually with the "nevermind this is stupid" opinion. Not to say a little stupid can't be fun sometimes, especially when it's all... floridacious.

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And I was just about to vote for "FLORIDA: I am so over penis jokes"

:(

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Another Floridian saying: yes, we live on america's wang, no "sort of" about it. Sure, it may be flaccid with no balls to speak of, but why do you think everyone drives huge SUVs and monster trucks?

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If you're going to do the Florida/Penis shirt you gotta go with the first one, man. The more words there are in a joke, the weaker the joke. Honestly, people.

And I think the colors are just fine.

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i would definitely definitely buy the first one. and i agree, add the keys.

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simpsons did it.

"florida? that's america's wang!"

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