Safeguarding the past, present and future of RISC OS for everyone

T-shirts

13 posts, 7 voices

Dec 8, 2020 4:06pm GavinWraith (26) 1563 posts	I used to have a T-shirt with Acorn on the front . Then for many years I used to buy very handsome Lua T-shirts. Thanks to Brexit, the pound is now so low that I can no longer afford those. The last has succumbed to turmeric stains, the downside of my weekly curry-making efforts, as did all its predecessors. If ROOL could market a turmeric-proof RISC OS T-shirt I might be tempted.

Dec 8, 2020 4:52pm Steve Pampling (1551) 8170 posts	If ROOL could market a turmeric-proof RISC OS T-shirt I might be tempted. If anyone can produce a turmeric proof T-shirt or any other item of clothing they are going to go past Bill Gates in the wealthy list really quickly.

Dec 8, 2020 6:22pm Andrew Conroy (370) 740 posts	Maybe turmeric coloured could be a suitable substitute for turmeric proof? At least you wouldn’t see the stains! :D

Dec 8, 2020 6:38pm Andy S (2979) 504 posts	We could design another new RISC OS logo cunningly shaped like splatters of curry and the T-shirt defence mechanism would be complete.

Dec 8, 2020 6:48pm Andreas Skyman (8677) 170 posts	Or decide that any curry stain is the RISC OS logo? Instant mega-marketing! Could make a predesktop procedurally generated icon for Tasks, so you get a unique Stain everytime you boot up.

Dec 8, 2020 6:58pm Andy S (2979) 504 posts	Now that’s innovation! Make sure the icon generator is wrtten in hex, so the code is easily maintainable for someone who prefers hex.

Dec 8, 2020 9:01pm Bryan Hogan (339) 592 posts	You could go for a Cloverleaf T-shirt – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/riscos-cloverleaf/cloverleaf-built-on-the-powerful-open-source-risc-os

Dec 8, 2020 9:24pm GavinWraith (26) 1563 posts	I am tempted to blame that programme on TV about Marcel Duchamp for all these creative suggestions.:)

Dec 9, 2020 9:25am David J. Ruck (33) 1635 posts	Please can anyone still wearing Clan sweatshirts retire them now :)

Dec 9, 2020 1:07pm Andy S (2979) 504 posts	I am tempted to blame that programme on TV about Marcel Duchamp for all these creative suggestions.:) We could call the new software, not ARMada but ARMdada!

Dec 9, 2020 5:16pm Steve Pampling (1551) 8170 posts	Please can anyone still wearing Clan sweatshirts retire them now :) I’d have to find the drawer it’s stashed in first. It may not fit anyway as these sort of things shrink if you leave them for a few years.

Dec 10, 2020 8:46am David J. Ruck (33) 1635 posts	Well either it shrinks, or the wearer… And the ones I saw last were certainly a shade of ‘off-white’.

Dec 10, 2020 7:11pm Steve Pampling (1551) 8170 posts	Well either it shrinks, or the wearer… No, I’m not shrinking, and… A pre-op weigh in back in July showed me to be 2 kg heavier than the weight I regularly noted when working on similar calibrated scales in the late 1980s