Soul Searching

If you’d like this on a t-shirt you can get black or white t-shirts in a variety of styles. You can even get one for your dog – that would be kind of ironic! Quality shirts, American prices (cheaper than Lowes) and approaching dollar parity. See what you think.
UPDATE – THIS JUST IN: Sir Roger Migently has been correctly accused by commenters on another website of using other people’s ideas to create the cartoon above, which the commenters compared unfavourably, in art and wit, with a previous cartoon in the New Yorker that everyone appears to have seen. Some commenters stopped courageoulsy short of accusing him of outright copyright infringement and plagiarism. Sir Roger notes that anyone who displayed the New Yorker cartoon on their site (or in their email) without first obtaining permission and paying the approximately US$250 royalty fee could be guilty of actual copyright infringement. Later, he released the following statement:
Infamous art thief and notorious plagiarist, “Sir Rogerâ€, suddenly swept into the gallery, his dark cloak flying, unbuttoned his smoking jacket, firmly stamped his patent leather pumps squarely and apart, took a long suck on his Meerschaum pipe and stroked his evil, handlebar moustache. His black eyes stared low and darkly from beneath his bushy eyebrows at the throng of critics arrayed against him.‘Tis but a pitcher,†he intoned. “It is what it is, no more. Of course it is derivative. We made no other claim. We are not in a competition for originality – this is not merely the internet. This is blogging. We meant it as a joke – and an offensive one at that – against our self (and any number of trolls), nothing more. Yes, we thought it was amusing, and the picture colourful. We included no requirement that the visitor buy the t-shirt should their eyes, whether accidentally, fall upon the image. But we did think that the more courageously risqué might wish to wear the t-shirt in the privacy of their own home or shopping centre and so we felt duty-bound to make it possible.
And with a grandiose sweep of his cape and a spring in his heel he was gone out the window, out of date, out of favour and out of ideas.
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Posted: March 8th, 2008 under Australian Values, Computing, Culture, Internet, comedy/humour.
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