Posts Tagged ‘Daily Submission’

Anatomy of making a funny t-shirt

Monday, November 16th, 2009

When we’re coming up with funny t-shirts, sometimes we think of a graphic and need the right text to accompany it, or sometimes we produce the text, but need to figure out the appropriate graphic. And sometimes, we get touched by the hand of god and produce both simultaneously.

Here a t-shirt slogan we’ve just revisited that we’ve been wanting to do for a while:
“Silent but deadly.” We could go with the tried and true graphic of a kung fu master. After all, if Beverly Hills Ninja taught us anything, its that ninja’s are silent but deadly.

But we came to thinking. What else is Silent yet deadly? Oh I know. Swine Flu.

And what epidemic is lacking in funny t-shirts? You guessed it. Swine Flu.

So How do we feel about that t-shirt? Graphic: Swine Flu. Text: Silent But Deadly.

Global Warming T-shirt Submission

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008


Jen F. from
Schenectady, New York, chimed in with a great concept but we need help with the words.

Originally she wanted it to say: “Global warming is just God hugging the Earth Closer” with the attached picture.

But we’re looking to tweak it a bit. Perhaps,
“At least the sun loves us.”
Or something about the sun trying to reach out and rebuild our relationship.

Let us know if you have a way to put this t-shirt together. We’re close!

New Funny T-shirt submission

Thursday, October 30th, 2008


Hello funny t-shirt world. Here’s a new shirt that might be good for our wholesale customers and our online customers.

Daniel G., who helps us out at Bentley University just came up with this t-shirt. Here’s the concept;

The Graphic: A guy running a marathon who’s out of breath.

Text: I hope they cure cancer,

Cause I’m tired of running 5k

Joe the Plumber funny t-shirt

Monday, October 20th, 2008


We received a great idea for a t-shirt the other day, so I wanted to post it on our blog today. It’s a little too late in the political season for us to produce it, but I still wanted to give it a shout out on the blog.

Funny t-shirt text: “Joe the plumber can’t touch these pipes.”

Thanks Daniela.

New Funny t-shirt submission

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Hello hello.

It’s been a while since we reported on funny t-shirt submissions but we got a good one today. Let us know what you think.

Kristi from North Carolina wants the following old school vintage funny t-shirt:
“Cause I’m keepin it reel”

With the following graphic.
We like the idea a lot, but let us know your thoughts about this idea and other Funny t-shirts by Crooked Monkey. Feel free to check out our edgy Guys t-shirts or cute girls t-shirts

Funny t-shirt submission of the week

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


This one comes from Matt L. We really like this one, but it might be a little too soon:

Graphic: Dinosaurs
Text: We will always remember

Don’t forget to email us any ideas you have!

Funny t-shirt of the week submission

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

This was submitted by: Barb B.

Text: Twister: Old School Foreplay

Image: picture of a classic twister board colored circles
Possible colors: white shirt with classic twister colored circles

Let us know what you think!

FYI–This picture has nothing to do with the submission, but we like to have pictures on our blog and this is from a recent trunk show!

T-shirt slogan submitted to Crooked Monkey

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

We’re starting a new campaign. When someone emails us an idea, we’ll post it here for everyone to see and let us know what they think. Here’s todays daily submission. Email us or let us know what you think.

“Here’s an idea for a t-shirt if you are interested. Picture of grouchy, or snappy smurf looking pissed off (preferably looking down). Have it say “blue balls” (possible “blue balls suck”) underneath him then him saying/thinking “smurfette!!” (possibly just “skank”, “eeerrr!!” or another expression of disappointment)”

Submitted by John.