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Category: Weirdness
Posted on: November 22, 2008 12:39 PM, by PZ Myers
You really have to look at this shirt from the right perspective.
On a superficial level, you might think it portrays a pirate octopus battling a team of ninja pandas, but you would be wrong. What looks like chaos is actually coordinated teamwork by both pirates and ninjas together. Fear them.
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Comments
Posted by: Joshua Arnold | November 22, 2008 12:41 PM
Argh! The unclosed italics--it burns!
Posted by: Zeno | November 22, 2008 12:41 PM
Pharyngula has suffered more episodes of galloping italicization lately than usual.
I blame the Bush administration.
Posted by: PZ Myers | November 22, 2008 12:42 PM
I do have to complain about that one panda bozo who got so distracted slurping his noodles that he injured his ally.
Posted by: Amber Culbertson-Faegre | November 22, 2008 12:43 PM
There is also the small incident front and center where the pirate is chocking the ninja panda. Or perhaps that is simply him giving his comrade a hug?
Posted by: PZ Myers | November 22, 2008 12:44 PM
Hey, I fixed it.
The reason is that I'm squeezing in posts in brief minutes between business. I'm sitting in the confusion of the Philly airport right now, waiting for my boarding call.
Posted by: Matt Heath | November 22, 2008 12:52 PM
Ninjas should never work in terms
Posted by: spgreenlaw | November 22, 2008 12:58 PM
You must have an amazing t-shirt collection, PZ. Although how you get your many nefarious tentacles through the two sleeves is beyond me.
Posted by: Capital Dan | November 22, 2008 1:10 PM
It's a hug. The octopus pirate is saying, "Thanks for tossing me your blade. Let's go whoop some ass."
Posted by: blf | November 22, 2008 1:22 PM
The ninja-bear on the left being held by one leg is about to hurtle a throwing star, the one in the middle is being strangled, the one on the right is a cool bear calmly chopping off an arm whilst having a snack, the octopus is blue, (now) has only five-and-a-half arms, this is coordinated teamwork, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Posted by: JJR | November 22, 2008 1:25 PM
Not to mention the panda on the right (stage left) who has managed, oops, to cut off a tentacle single-handed while slurping his noodles. Perhaps he spilled some of the hot soup on his lap and jerked his sword arm as a reflex?
"Sorry about the tentacle, old boy...they grow back, don't they?"
Posted by: Nentuaby | November 22, 2008 2:10 PM
My immediate first thought was that this was the newest cartoon of Mohammed for people to riot over.
Posted by: TheBlackCat | November 22, 2008 2:57 PM
It looks like the panda on the left has already thrown a few throwing stars.
Posted by: Shamar | November 22, 2008 3:24 PM
lol, I love it :-)
Posted by: John Mark | November 22, 2008 4:04 PM
Is it bad that I immediately thought of Dr. Myers when I saw this shirt when it went on sale?
Woot has a LOT of excellent t-shirt designs.
Posted by: Touch of Grey | November 22, 2008 4:29 PM
"Scienceblogs.com has been recruiting star science bloggers: 22 of the top 50 science blogs, including Pharyngula, now live on its site. Scienceblogs pays its bloggers $70 a month for 50,000 to 250,000 page views, and $300 for 250,000 to 1 million, according to Nature"
So, over a million counts for nothing?
That's like $10 a day.
Maybe you can quit your day job :-)
Posted by: MJ | November 22, 2008 5:08 PM
You have to be careful with Pandas, their ninja side will always gets you.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/22/panda.bites.man.china.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Posted by: Katkinkate | November 22, 2008 5:16 PM
If the ninja pandas are allies, I'd say with friends like these, who needs enemies. Talk about friendly fire. The pirate octopus has already lost one tentacle and has been injured by 2 throwing stars. I think his allies need more training.
Posted by: Kevin anthoney | November 22, 2008 6:41 PM
Is that Wilkins who cut your tentacle off?
Posted by: Coturnix | November 22, 2008 7:47 PM
With around a week to go, it is surprising there are still no Pharyngula entries for the third anthology - Open Lab 2008. I know PZ is busy, but perhaps the Pharyngulites can submit some entries - the good sciency stuff. And from other blog as well...
Posted by: Victor Bogado | November 22, 2008 8:08 PM
Those pandas all have thumbs, and the squid has a beard, humm...
Posted by: Dahan | November 22, 2008 8:54 PM
It's hard to tell. Is that crackers in that treasure chest?
Posted by: Diagoras | November 22, 2008 11:22 PM
http://www.torsopants.com/not-funny-shirts/atheist
I'm rather enamored with this shirt.