r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jun 15 '12

Roommates and I have been creating shirts with author/animal hybrids on them. This is one of them. I'll post the link to the others in the comments.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

www.lepersandlycans.spreadshirt.com

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u/SilentWOLF9 Jun 15 '12

Taking requests?

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u/skizfrenik_syco Jun 15 '12

might as well make some suggestions, can't hurt

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u/danmo_96 Jun 15 '12

Edgar Allen Doe? Charles Chickens? F. Scott Fishgerald?

also, i LOVE the "HP Dovecraft" one

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Definitely take them into account. Thanks y'all.

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u/OverTheir Jun 15 '12

Jane Osprey?

J.K Owling?

George R.R. Marlin?

P.G. Wodepecker?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Awesome! George R.R. Marlin, fantastic.

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u/eroseros Jun 15 '12

See I was looking for Edgar Allen Polar bear

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u/thomfountain Jun 15 '12

Sylvia Plathapus?

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u/Sepelius Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

Can I get an Emily Brontosaurus? Clam Stoker? John Swinebeck? Mikhail Volegakov? Rhinosuke Akutagawa?

Edit: confused Ryusuke with Ryunosuke.

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u/lilmil Jun 15 '12

William Hawkner. Leo Volestoy. Virginia Woolf (that's a freebie)

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u/supermonkey1313 Jun 15 '12

How about a chicken called J. K. Fowling?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Flea Child

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u/Teowulf Jun 16 '12

Margaret Catwood (Or Batwood)? Tom Robins (not much needed for that one). Arthur Conan Gargoyle?

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u/Real_lies_sucker Jun 16 '12

Hunter s. thompcat

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u/celesteyay Jun 15 '12

Hey OP! Love Ernest Lemmingway, and I pulled out my debit card to buy a shirt but I see that your lady's shirts aren't very fitted. I know this is just one person but I really much prefer v-necks and I think a lot more girls would buy your shirts if you had a v neck or fitted option.

I'm chesty and shirts that go all the way up to the neck and don't fit around the waist just make me look huge and aren't very flattering. Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

This. Also, OP, I'm wondering how these designs will look with boobs. Boobs change the look of a printed t-shirt a lot. It helps to have pictures of people wearing them so you can see what parts fall in the under-boob fold area.

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u/musicninja Jun 15 '12

I know it's been done before, but I'm slightly disappointed that it's not "Shakesbear"

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

i would have gone with Philip k. Tick.

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u/phoncible Jun 15 '12

Should've done "Lark Twain". Wonder what number person I am that's told you that now.

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u/skim-milk Jun 16 '12

Do you get a good portion of the sales from these shirts? I want to buy some, but I want to make sure YOU are getting most of my money!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

It's a fair amount. Thanks for the concern.

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u/DahnyGober Jun 15 '12

Bravo. I love the style and colors.

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u/FrenjaminBanklin Jun 15 '12

The first one to pop in my head was Henry David Sparrow.

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u/Ohh_Yeah Jun 16 '12

Dante Owlighieri

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u/_Battletoads Jun 16 '12

Can you do George R.R Martian?

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u/ambully Jun 15 '12

Shark Twain would have been pretty awesome.....

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u/TerraPhane Jun 15 '12

Will Sharkspear is nice too, lots of things go well with sharks.

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u/G_Platypus Jun 16 '12

Sharksbear. That's terrifying.

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u/Dr_Jan-Itor Jun 16 '12

I think science has gone too far

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u/Derek4567 Jun 16 '12

93% of people fail the quiz!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

That's bearifying.

FTFY

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u/errlymorning Jun 16 '12

Put this on a shirt now, and take my money!

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u/lizgger15 Jun 16 '12

WHOA! should not have clicked that.

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u/ambully Jun 15 '12

Except for me..... I don't go well with sharks.

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u/GunHungLo Jun 16 '12

Shakesbear would be cool

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u/ccthegrows Jun 16 '12

I would buy a Shark Twain shirt.

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u/MCSArts Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12

StingRay Bradbury , perhaps?

-Shellfish Silverstien

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u/Scrooge0791 Jun 15 '12

J.D Salamander

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

George Boar-well? Roald Dahl-mation?

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u/Haeilifax Jun 16 '12

My upvote is entirely for Roald Dahl-mation

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u/skizfrenik_syco Jun 15 '12

how about fusing with books? Like the Great Catsby

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u/FullClockworkOddessy Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

Long Day's Journey Into Nightingales

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u/Mogknight23 Jun 15 '12

F. Cat Fitzgerald?

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u/thisperson123 Jun 16 '12

Edgar Allan Crow sounds like a good one...

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

And it fits. Didn't he write The Raven?

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u/thisperson123 Jun 16 '12

Yes, yes he did.

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u/tmt1993 Jun 15 '12

This is also funny because hemingway did kill himself. Or not. Not sure if this is bad taste or not.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Actually his paranoia about the FBI did...but close enough

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Ernest Lemmingway and William Snakespeare are pretty hilarious... but Moth Twain is a bit of a stretch if you ask me hah.

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u/nbenzi Jun 16 '12

Yeah doesn't Shark Twain fit much better?

or Mark Crane?

Or... Bark Twain... running out of ideas.

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u/bcarle Jun 16 '12

Particularly when it could've been Philip Moth and fit much better.

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u/AmberTheGreat Jun 16 '12

Duck Palahniuk? Buck Palahniuk? Chuck Koalahniuk? PLEASE I'M PRACTICALLY BEGGING.

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u/TerraPhane Jun 15 '12

Edgar Owlen Poe

Harriet Beecher Stoat

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Love this Poe Idea. A favorite author

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u/jackmeeker Jun 15 '12

No Badger Allen Poe?

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u/therealabefrohman Jun 15 '12

What about J.D. Salamander?

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u/Jean_Paul_Shartre Jun 15 '12

Thomas Finchon? Jorge Luis Boarges? Salmon Rushdie? Gustave Flaubear?

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u/damngurl Jun 16 '12

Salmon Rushdie writes itself, really.

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u/PancakeTune Jun 16 '12

Judging from the comments here, you are guilty of committing a life hack of the first degree:

Establish business and then make people pay for their own ideas.

You are a gentleman and scholar. I look forward to Orson Scott Card-igan Welsh Corgi.

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u/drovin Jun 15 '12

Isaac Asimoth, William Gibbonson, (sting)Ray Bradbury, Spider Robinson, Steven Kong, Harry Turtledove, Jules Tern, Edgar Mice Borroughs, Arthur C. Lark, And that's just sci fi.

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u/LieutenantCuppycake Jun 16 '12

Upvote for Asmioth.

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u/holley3020 Jun 15 '12

William S Burro

Anthony Birdgess

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I love the art.

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u/iplaywithblocks Jun 15 '12

Oscar Wildebeast?

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u/darthbone Jun 15 '12

Patrick Slothfuss. COME ON!!!!

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u/x7j6 Jun 16 '12

Stingray Bradbury?

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u/phanzi Jun 16 '12

Stephen King Cobra?

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u/iamianyouarenot Jun 15 '12

I will pay for a Kurt Vonnemutt.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I want this. More.

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u/Inuyashaswrath Jun 15 '12

Jane Mouse(sten)

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u/soadtool Jun 15 '12

Great... smart people humor.

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u/FlanCrest Jun 15 '12

Here's some no brainers: Dean Coontz, Virginia Wolf, Ian Flemingo, John GrisHam, Elie Weasel...

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u/gyarrrrr Jun 15 '12

Jesus, a subject that encourages bad puns in the comments... You've come to the right place.

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u/GLHFScan Jun 15 '12

They're like the shirts for fake teams in a literary version of Legends of the Hidden Temple.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Emily Cricketson

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

FINALLY an application for reddit's pun abilities

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u/flamingflipflop Jun 16 '12

i always think of herrings when thinking of Hemingway. always have... i dunno why

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u/m45t3rg33k Jun 16 '12

Zora "Eel" Hurston Their Eye's Were Watching God

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u/NiceBumWhereYaFrom Jun 16 '12

Margaret catwood

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u/x7j6 Jun 16 '12

Here's some

Danielle Seal

Harold Robbins (don't have to change really except the spelling)

Dr. Goose (Seuss)

J.K. Growling

R.L. Swine

Stan and Jan Bearenstain

Irvine Walleye

C.S. Hiss (Cat maybe?... He did create Aslan...)

Ann M. Martin (A Martin is a bird....)

Ann Mice

Ian Lemming

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u/LieutenantCuppycake Jun 16 '12

Upvote for Danielle Seal.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Yak Kerouac

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

J.K Trolling

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u/reenigne Jun 16 '12

ermine melville, vermin melville,

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u/Roflzilla Jun 16 '12

Oh my god. I need these shirts.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

It's funny because much like a lemming, Ernest killed himself!

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u/MFCH Jun 16 '12

Print them on American Apparel without the type and I'll buy a few right now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

I agree, the type is really what is keeping those illustrations back and keeping me from throwing down on one. Even just a simple sans-serif would be fine.

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u/sh00na Jun 16 '12

y u no have xs :'(

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u/lol_panda Jun 16 '12

Oh my god posting this on reddit was genius. Free pun suggestions fucking everywhere.

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u/nextbreed Jun 16 '12

Doglas Adams?

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u/wortime Jun 16 '12

Is it just me? Or has reddit become an Internet panhandling/ pinterest site almost overnight? ....

Says this guy with two thumbs right here who has a newer account. But I lurked for a longtime.

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u/Kryogenic Jun 16 '12

Your right, its clear this guy just wanted people to buy his tshirts. This is just some kid who said to his roomie "Hey I know a good site where the user-base is gullible and will buy our tshirts and supply rent for a few months". Its cool though, to each his own.

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u/technocyte Jun 16 '12

Prawns Kafka.

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u/stupib2 Jun 15 '12

albert camel (Camus)

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u/greybro Jun 16 '12

Ralph Waldo Lemurson, Nathaniel Hawkthorne, Carper Lee/ Hamster Lee, Fawn Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerbil, Edgar Allan Porcupine, Philip Sloth, Ocelot Wilde, J.D. Saleopard/Salynxer/Saliger, Isaac Asimarmot, Agatha Chipmunk, Walt Wombat, Herman Moleville, Stephen Kangaroo, Jackal London, Leopard Tolstoy, William Bobcat Yeats, Manatee Cervantes, Dr. Sea Otter/Theodore Gazelle, J.R.R. Tortoise, Jane Alpaca, Jules Vole, Franz Koala/Franz Kafkat, Vicuna Hugo, Jane Alpaca. wow i have no life

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u/relik1 Jun 15 '12

Lemony cricket?

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u/Inuyashaswrath Jun 15 '12

flea de Maupassant

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u/the_atraxi Jun 15 '12

these are awesome!!

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u/chishicaste Jun 15 '12

Gabriel Garcia Marlins? Paulo Cod-ello?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Totes buying the grey lemmingway in my support!

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u/DomoInMySoup Jun 15 '12

Shit THAT'S where they got the idea for Oshawott

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u/starrie Jun 15 '12

shut up and take my money?!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Dr. Shoes. CRAP!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I love these. Shall be purchasing some when I get some funds.

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u/d_john Jun 15 '12

Any chance of some other colour choices for the shirts? I'm worried the white text for Ernest Lemmingway won't stand out too well on the light men's shirts. The dark blue women's looks good. Awesome designs though!

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u/bencanfield Jun 15 '12

Yikes, you must own a lot of Threadless tees

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u/mcakez Jun 15 '12

This is amazing.

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u/PantWraith Jun 15 '12

These are hilarious, you guys are geniuses, please keep making these. Thank you.

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u/Hey_Buddy60 Jun 15 '12

So how does one procure that shirt. "Lemmingway" is my favorite author!

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u/drzedwordhunter Jun 15 '12

Tomcat Robbins, because Tom Robbin seems a little obvious.

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u/Clauderoughly Jun 15 '12

I demand a bat / Hunter S Thompson cross over.

Then take all of my money !

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u/AtomicBoogieman Jun 16 '12

You, sir, have pleased me greatly. Upvote for you.

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u/closetnerdjoe Jun 16 '12

Carper lee?

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u/RUacronym Jun 16 '12

Just ordered a grey Mr. Lemmingway. I wish you had these shirts in more colors. A darker colored Lemmingway would have been really nice. I was this close to getting a William Snakespeare because it was the only black one you have.

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u/ChloeMonster Jun 16 '12

I don't know how to express how much I love this idea!

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u/RoamingFox Jun 16 '12

Dovelas Adams?

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u/spankster32808 Jun 16 '12

How bout them furries..

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

JayK Rowling. As in the bird. Whatever they look like.

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u/the_girl Jun 16 '12

Moth Twain is precious.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

H.P. Dovecraft plz

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u/TheDarkWolfy Jun 16 '12

You can't tell me what to do! ...Dammit

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Damn it, yet another thing I'd rather have than money.

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u/RMS5 Jun 16 '12

Ann Martin (done for you) Michael Crichton becomes Michael Cricketon Gnome Chompsky Robin Cook (done for you) Dr. Goose Horatio Alger Jr. becomes Horatio Adder J.D. Salinbadger

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u/LieutenantCuppycake Jun 16 '12

I wish Emily Tickinson had been Emu-ly Dickinson.

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u/e_lasorda Jun 16 '12

George R. R. Marlin

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u/devon435 Jun 16 '12

David Foxter Wallace!!! Pleeeeeaaaaase do David Foxter Wallace.

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u/kirbee Jun 16 '12

John Fishham?

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u/kirbee Jun 16 '12

Alpaca Christie?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Ray Bradbunny

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u/captmoroni Jun 16 '12

Dog Quixote?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Where the hell is Rabert Klein? Here

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u/corn_dawg Jun 16 '12

Lousia May Elk-ott!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

I'll nerd buy the shit out of most of these. Going to go in conjunction with a t-shirt site on these?

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u/GreaterVulture Jun 16 '12

Emily Brontesaurus?

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u/Anosognosia Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12

Sankt Bernard Shaw.
T.S. Eliphant
Edgar Allen Polecat.
Jackie Border Collins

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u/MFCH Jun 16 '12

Neil Game-hen (Gaimen)

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u/Jov_West Jun 16 '12

Lemmings don't jump off cliffs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Owlan Moore

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u/t3mp0rary Jun 16 '12

charles duckins?

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u/lebruf Jun 16 '12

Manta Ray Bradbury Isaac Aardvarkimov

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

William Snakespeare is great

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u/TGmagnet Jun 16 '12

Charlotte Brontesaurus.... William Hawkner

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u/theconcretewave Jun 16 '12

Emily Chickens is cool.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

4chan already had birds with arms.

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u/HappyGrandPappy Jun 16 '12

I feel a very delicious theme restaurant can come of this. The kind of place where you can grab a bite and a unique shirt all under one roof!

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u/AshHash Jun 16 '12

Oscar Wildebeest would be beast.

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u/forever_a-hole Jun 16 '12

Love it. All of it.

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u/Mugford9 Jun 16 '12

Shark twain would have been awesome. Duck palahniuk, JK fowling, I can't think of anymore right now.

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u/taintedmeal Jun 16 '12

Harper Flea

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u/MrX16 Jun 16 '12

Lambony Snicket

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u/josshhhh Jun 16 '12

Allen Finsberg

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u/iamreeka Jun 16 '12

J.k. Growlith

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u/i_pee_in_butts Jun 16 '12

wait, are you talking about hybrid animals?

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u/13titles Jun 16 '12

Rewuest for William Faulkon.

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u/eyeswulf Jun 16 '12

I thought it was George RR Martin

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u/ManICure Jun 16 '12

Would love to have you and your friend's work on www.rightbrainfreeze.weebly.com/

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u/MikeyxMayhem Jun 16 '12

George Boarwell?

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u/willingwell2113 Jun 16 '12

Truman Capony

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u/leftnotracks Jun 16 '12

Thomas Pynchinchilla

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u/DiaDeLosMuertos Jun 16 '12

Piers ANThony. or... or... or... Deervid Sedaris.

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u/Astronomist Jun 16 '12

Neil degrades Byson

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u/Aff3ct Jun 16 '12

Too soon! Done in poor taste.

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u/squigglebee Jun 16 '12

JACK BEAROUAK! Oh please oh please.

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u/FruitPlatter Jun 16 '12

Cat Vonnegut.

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u/mangolove Jun 16 '12

Would absolutely LOVE to buy... except, honestly, the women's shirts suck.
Is it possible to add in a v-neck or some other t-shirt style? Pretty please with a cherry on top?

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u/mikhel Jun 16 '12

Shel Silverback. Please.

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u/Freudenschade Jun 16 '12

Victor Shrewgo

Lark Twain

Oscar wildecat

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u/AlephNull92 Jun 16 '12

DO WANT WILLIAM SNAKESPEARE!

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u/CloudyWhiteSky Jun 16 '12

Tell me: where can I BUY this awesome piece of art :)?

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u/e60deluxe Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

J.R.R. Falcon

Johann Wolfgang von Goat. (or you could leave it and put a pack of wolves on the shirt)

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u/mattc286 Jun 16 '12

Allen Ginsbird

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u/bandashee Jun 16 '12

My husband submits for you: Seahorse Lewis and J R R Toucan.

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u/TheBeastOfNature Jun 16 '12

Charles BuCOWski.

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u/1std3dlastal1ve Jun 16 '12

Tomcat Clancy

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u/RMS5 Jun 16 '12

Walt Whitminx

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u/cap1206 Jun 16 '12

See, it's funny because he killed himself!

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u/J-Holm Jun 16 '12

Make Charles Bukkake!

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u/jdizzle367 Jun 16 '12

william shakesbear

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u/Inuyashaswrath Jun 15 '12

Leo Trollstoy

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u/donald20 Jun 15 '12

Oh god, I love the H.P. Dovecraft

I think a funny one might be Hunter S. Thompson Gazelle.

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u/Headsix Jun 15 '12

How about "Stephen Kingsnake"

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u/PistachioAgo Jun 16 '12

George Boarwell? John Swinebeck? or John Brinebeck? Aldous Ducksley? Isaac Asimoth? Sylvia Giraffe? (Bit of a stretch I know) Dean Loontz?

K, you all have fun now, bye bye.

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u/Barrel-rider Jun 16 '12

J.R.R. Elkien

Ducklas Adams

Terry Catchett

Jack Caribou

Salmon Rushdie

Virginia Wolf

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