Front, upper right corner: Half croissant on plate, "halfbakery.com" "Whatever you can think of." (just like the stuff in the upper left of each screen.)
Back: "It's not just a good idea; it's also some bad ones."
Listing of top 100 or so best ideas at production time.
"halfbakery.com"-- centauri, Aug 08 2000 Explanation for Uncle Nutsy's comment http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Fishties(see Jutta's added link for the story) [Uncle Nutsy, Aug 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004] (?) custom socks #1 http://www.sortable.com/custom2.htm [egnor, Aug 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004] (??) custom socks #2 http://www.defeet.com/custom.asp [egnor, Aug 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004] (?) custom socks #3 http://www.teamchee...tom_anklet_more.htm [egnor, Aug 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004] offset-printed t-shirts http://www.panix.com/~jutta/t-shirt [jutta, Oct 04 2004] (?) Cafepress Shop http://www.cafepress.com/degroof_hbSet up by the genius of Steve DeGroof [dbmag9, Sep 17 2005] Interestingly enough, I used to work as an environmental educator, and I had to wear one of three shirts from the Hudson River Parks Conservancy. By the time I left the job, all three of the shirts smelled distinctly lik eel, because that's all anyone caught by fishing in the Hudson, and I would have to unhook the eels and throw them back several times each day. I threw out the shirts long ago, but I will attest to the fact that the smell sticks to shirts forever.-- mcfrank, Aug 08 2000 Everyone does promotional t-shirts. Why can't the HalfBakery have promotional HalfBakery socks? Even HalfBakery underwear would be good.-- hippo, Aug 09 2000 If it's going to smell like something related to the Halfbakery, it would have to be fish. Why, I understand that in Paraguay...-- Uncle Nutsy, Aug 09 2000 Halfbakery Bakery? Promotional baked products? Give them away at rock festivals.-- gilest, Aug 10 2000 Thing: an organized troll campaign- possibly Halfbakery's largest ever- launched the "ties that smell like fish" idea, and all voted for it. (What, you think there are actually 25 people who think fish-scented ties are a good idea?)
Anyway, the way they identified to each other who was in on the joke was to gratuitously insert a reference to a country, hence the "Paraguay" reference.
Jutta caught on to their little scheme, of course.-- Uncle Nutsy, Aug 11 2000 I like the idea of halfbakery socks. I already have plenty of weird T-shirts, but custom socks are weird enough that I might actually get a pair. There seem to be lots of people who will make custom socks (usually for sports teams); I've added links to a few.-- egnor, Aug 15 2000 No one keen on my HalfBakery underwear idea then?-- hippo, Aug 15 2000 I'm off to purchase some halfbakery underwear immeadiately, will Cod liver oil work?-- Scott_D, Aug 15 2000 HalfBakery stick-on tattoo, anyone?-- hippo, Aug 16 2000 I was going to add the idea of a Halfbakery Handshake (after all, the Masons have a secret sign), but I like the shirt idea better, especially if it has your individual halfbakery nom-de-guerre (?) printed just below the croissant. I already have interesting socks, thank you.-- DrBob, Sep 07 2000 Baked. (White; front: croissant, "halfbakery.com", "It's not just a good idea, it's also .. some bad ones."; back: black ink illustrations for the 11 top ideas of October 2000. No, they're not available in eel.)
See the last link for ordering details.-- jutta, Nov 16 2000 Jutta... you rock!
Any chance you could post a photo of the shirt front and back?-- PotatoStew, Nov 17 2000 Is this not the first time that anything physical has come of a Halfbakery suggestion? Should we throw a shower?-- Monkfish, Nov 17 2000 Excellent! - and what is this "mild cartoon nudity" of which you speak?-- hippo, Nov 17 2000 Just look at the logo! There's a croissant there, and it's not wearing ANYTHING! <grin> Not even a cream-cheese ring...-- StarChaser, Nov 18 2000 The merchandise page is now illustrated. Click on any of the thumbnails to get a reasonable-sized version of the artwork.
Thanks for the accolades. Zippyanna, the female T's are about half way between baby doll and regular; you'll probably prefer them to the unisex ones.-- jutta, Nov 21 2000 Yay. [sings over and over] I'm getting an apron.-- thumbwax, Nov 21 2000 sounds good to me. the plate with half a croissant on it w/the lil fifty cent sign. "two crumbs up!" i'd get one.-- dragonette, Mar 03 2001 jutta, any thought of implementing DrBob's suggestion of adding our halfbakery names to the shirts for a nominal fee?-- goober, Jun 09 2003 I'll do it. Send me a shirt, $20, and a permanent marker in the color of your choosing.-- Worldgineer, Jun 09 2003 Ooh! Ooh! That sounds like a great deal!-- goober, Jun 09 2003 you didn't offer the hb handshake? shame on you!-- po, Apr 19 2004 random, halfbakery