In Response to tor (#13203):

your evil cock is thousands of miles from me, so i had to come up with some sort of substitute until i make it to sydney.

one day, however, our evil loin fruit will DESTROY THE PLANET.

In Response to zamphir (#13173):

Zam, what's with this Zamphir/Goats cooking connection?

Or aren't we sposta take the patetic display in recent ATA's literally? ;)

(oh, got my SPEY vicariously, as it arrived at my parent's home. My younger brother is now taking pictures for me and claiming my duplicates as we speak. By all accounts, it rocks.)

In Response to mcgrue (#13250):

Zam, what's with this Zamphir/Goats cooking connection?
Whaddya mean? There's no connection that I know of, other than a coincidental one.

Maybe Tor knows. He's apparently got a few loaves of bread under his belt - or so the rumors go.

Or aren't we sposta take the patetic display in recent ATA's literally? ;)
I'm a firm believer that one of the better ways to be devious is to be honest.

Or maybe it's the other way around? I keep forgetting.

So, just because I might choose at some point to speak the truth and nothing but the truth - that don't mean it's the whole truth.

it arrived at my parent's home.
What's the matter? Too worn out to walk upstairs and get it? ;-)

In Response to zamphir (#13253):

What's the matter? Too worn out to walk upstairs and get it? ;-)

Oh, snap!

...I just have things sent there these days because this appartment is... less than secure.

So, there have been a couple suggestions about trying to de-ink the shirts. (Just washing them, iron-fu...) Has anyone had any success thus far, and if so what worked?

And yes, you can read this to mean that (a) I'm too lazy to have addressed the problem yet, and (b) I'm willing to use the more proactive amongst us as guinea pigs.

Latest news from the other side of the pond : my SPEY package just arrived. Wohoo! My t-shirt is fine - perhaps leaving the shirt and/or certificate to dry a bit longer before packing might help - and all the contents arrived this year. The new packaging definitely worked better.

I'll agree with all the positive comments so far - the pack is really cool, especially the mini-comic. Thanks to Jon & Phillip for putting it all together. And thanks to Alamais [goats.com] for giving me an immediate chance to use my newly granted rights.

Scorn.

Cheers,
Graham

In Response to mea37 (#13305):

This is probably a dangerous offer for me to make, but you guys paid for undamaged shirts, and the ink transfer is completely our fault.

If any of you want to exchange your shirt for a new one, let me or phillip know (via email, not the forums) and we'll figure something out for you.

In Response to mea37 (#13305):

Washing, at least the way my wife did it (however that was), doesn't work.

But mine isn't inked badly enough that it really matters.

And if someone decides to crane in close, to see what that schmutz on my shirt is, well I guess it depends on who does it!

Awesome package. Everything is great. I love the fish print. I was reading the mini-comic in my living room. I had finished it and was watching tv. My father came down and sat on the couch. He picked up the comic and looked at the covers. I thought for a second that he would start reading it. Unfortunatley...he didn't. anyway...thanks for the stuff!

In Response to jon (#13082):

a little goo gone works somewhat well, a little fingernail scratching and i'm set. fyi.

be careful with the goo gone, leave it on too long and you can smear diablo's head.

In Response to zamphir (#13253):

He's apparently got a few loaves of bread under his belt - or so the rumors go.

Man I'm not even sure I want to know what that means...

In answer to what the Goats Cooking connection is, back in the days when Goats-Fan was way more than your RDA of pedantry and newbie flambe there was a habit of people posting recipes.

This in turn may (or may not) link back to a fairly long standing use of the net for exchanging recipes.

As Zamphir wasn't on G:tml (I think?) I assume he has picked up on the whole thing just through immersion in net culture.

In short I think it is kind of like haiku, just something that has become part of the net.

In Response to punkalicia (#13248):

Really, this makes pawpaw sound so tawdry.

Man, still hasn't arrived!
and I desperately wanted to wear a goats tee to the Adelaide Big Day Out on friday.

Oh well. I'll just have to go the usual "bikini and top-hat" route, then.

Oh, and before Zamphir begs for pictures again, I'm not actually going to wear that. I'm really going to go in a Sweetums [muppetcentral.com] costume.

In Response to tynic (#13489):

I can only guess what the sweetums costume looks like, as I have been forbidden from seeing it, but how will you possibly get on someones shoulders and flash your boobies at the bands if you have a full muppet costume on? Isn't that tradition for girls to do this at BDO?
Especially if Dave Grohl is playing?

Speaking of which, what is the lineup this year?

In Response to unFalln (#13495):

No Dave Grohl this year. The touring line-up is:

Metallica, The Strokes, The Flaming Lips, The Mars Volta, The Dandy Warhols, Aphex Twin, Basement Jaxx, Black Eyed Peas, Peaches, Luke Vibert, The Hoodoo Gurus, Something For Kate, Trey, Downsyde, Gerling, Jet, The Butterfly Effect, Magic Dirt, The Datsuns, Muse, Kings Of Leon, The Darkness, Felix Da Housecat, Audio Bullys, David Holmes, Lostprophets, Thursday, Poison The Well, DJ Afrika Bambaataa, Salmonella Dub, Sonicanimation, The Sleepy Jackson, King Kapisi, P-Money and Scribe, Friendly, Skulker, PNAU, 1200 Techniques, Peewee Ferris and Blood Duster.

plus some local DJ's, etc.

In Response to tynic (#13497):

Here's the official picture of Sweetums [muppets.com]. He was always my dad's favorite muppet.

Which of those bands in the tour do you really like? I adore Luke Vibert (i've got just about all of his stuff), and he's more commonly known as "WagonChrist"; he's amazingly slick with his composition and production skills, and he's got a ton of hooks on every album. I'm also a fan of Afrika Bambaataa, Felix Da Housecat, and sometimes the Aphex Twin (a.k.a. Richard James). You're sure to have an enviably good time listening to some of those folks.

Please remind me, what region of Australia are you in? Sounds lovely.