Benton

Help us design a t-shirt! SEE CURRENT STATUS at Post #87

We're in the last days of completing the first group of inventory for our new website (p-car clothing/gear/design), and I am soliciting your help with a one-liner or clever sentence about the much-maligned corrosion inhibitor, cosmoline, to put on the back of a t-shirt. I'll be doing the graphics, you write the line. Our first draft was simply "cosmoline sucks," but that wasn't spicy enough.

I now have an idea of the design in my head, so I will post up some drafts on Wednesday. Funny, tongue-in-cheek, bizarre, taboo, etc... it's all open, just keep it relatively clean. "Cosmoline: I never asked for it"

The shirt is part of our "shopwear" line (not yet officially named), which is a durable, inexpensive, dark-colored t-shirt line to help you look the part while out in the shop (blank front so you don't grease up the design). For this design, the shirt color is chocolate brown and the text will be on the back in off-white, all in spirit of the subject matter. The winner will be chosen by us, or by you guys if you would like to vote on the favorites.

Winner will receive (1) Cosmoline "shop shirt," AND (1) StudioTNS t-shirt in style and size of choice (StudioTNS designs will be revealed when the website launches, hopefully within 2 weeks). No hurt feelings allowed if you don't win; it's all in the name of fun!

Thanks!

trophy

Cosmoline
Hard to clean
now removed - car gleams

speedbump2

Traditional 17 syllable Haiku (5-7-5):

Oozing Out Of Holes
Dripping Onto My Driveway
I Hate Cosmoline

--Chuck--

Benton

Good stuff guys, thanks! Multiple submissions are definitely allowed as well.

How about I open it up to not only Haikus and poems, but also one-liners, a-la "cosmoline sucks"?

I'll post up some of my brainstorming that went nowhere here in a bit.

Roche993

ok,

Once thought to protect
We're left with only the mess
Rub out Cosmoline

MDamen

Tenacious brown goo
resistant to chemicals
cosmoline must go

MDamen

Cosmoline
Detailers Nightmare

techman1

Once thought to help
Now the pain is felt
Everytime i clean
Woe is cosmoline

Benton

Edit: Check the first post; the design is becoming clearer to me now, so the contest is now for one clever one-liner or sentence. Sorry for the switcharoo to those that have already posted up.

Benton

Mike, I'm liking your direction. "Cosmoline: Detailer's Nightmare, Since 1942"

The idea for the design is an antiqued stamp-like circular logo, with Cosmoline in the middle, large, with the sentence above and below. So for the above example, the top wrapped text would be "detailer's nightmare" and below would be "since 1942."


Cosmoline:
The protection you never asked for
Protecting your parts from looking clean, since 1942
Making your undercarriage ugly, since 1942
Killing concours aspirations, since 1942
Making you touch your car in all the wrong areas
Hiding oil leaks since 1942
Even the car feels uncomfortable when you touch it there

IXLR8

Cosmoline-Free Zone.

Flying Finn

Cosmoline?
..Not on mine.

And maybe but a silhouette of a 911 or 993 above the Cosmoline text if you want to do the logo as you're describing.

skl2

Cosmoline: Worse than the sticky stain on Lewinsky's dress.

993/907

Don't be seen
with Cosmoline

Arena993

Cosmoline - The homogeneous mixture of oily and waxy long-chain, non-polar hydrocarbons that are not easily removed.