T-Shirt Ideas

Looking for Christmas gifts yesterday, I came across a web site I'd seen before: 80'sTees.Com and their bit is that they'll put lines from movies on T-Shirts or things that might make other folks chuckle when they read them. For example, one of the shirts they have for sale simply reads, "Nobody puts baby in a corner." Every good child of the 80's should immediately get that reference. They also have the logo from the Karate Kid's karate tournament (The All-Valley Karate Championships, sponsored by the rival dojo "Cobra Kai") and all sorts of good stuff.

Included are shirts that profess love for Jake Ryan, a table-sized "Major Award" lamp from "A Christmas Story" and pretty much an entire line of Caddyshack products (my favorite is a t-shirt that has a high-powered/scoped rifle silhouette with the words, "licensed to kill gophers...by the government of the United Nations"). This site is one wonderful time-waste.

But, since my taste in movies/television/books is more off the beaten path (the idea of a Top Gun shirt ain't doin' it for me) I decided to open The Diner for all sorts of quotes that, if you saw it on a t-shirt, you'd immediately purchase said shirt for $20 as well as put it in the t-shirt rotation. Those are rules. No exceptions. $20 bucks. Addition to the rotation.

So, my shirts would include:

One with a photo of Francis Schaeffer on it that includes, “Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”

One with Martin Luther on it that says, "Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me."

A quote from Douglas Coupland, “Your fear of change is too clearly visible in your eyes."

A quote from Kurt Vonnegut, "I can have oodles of charm when I want to." I also might want one that reads, "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." but that one's kind of long.

And, from movies:

"Is the fact that I'm tryin' to do it for ya doin' it for ya?" (Bottle Rocket)
"He's out. And you're out, too. And I dont think I'm in, either. No gang!" (Bottle Rocket)
"Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it. " (The Jerk)
"I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is." (Zoolander)
"Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!" (Dumb & Dumber)

And, from television:

"It's very hard for us, it the golden ghetto, to understand that kind of need." (Beverly Hills, 90210, Brenda's English teacher said it!)
"A device is yet to be invented that will measure my indifference to this remark." (Hawkeye Pierce, in M*A*S*H*)
"Ahh. But where did the lighter fluid come from?" (Arrested Development)

And, that's enough from me...stick to the rules, and what would you want on a t-shirt?