 Funny
t shirts are not a modern invention as you think they
are…
Back in the day before my time, funny T shirts
were first used by African cave dwellers around 600BC.
Not having spoken word in any discernable form, they
had to resort to wearing the flesh of slain animals
with lettering and diagrams drawn on to them in the
blood of the now extinct ‘Inkalope’
At first these garments were ignored and not copied
as much as the inventor ‘GroooGa’ would
have liked. But after his design Smily came out they
soon grew in popularity.
 The funny t-shirt took many other forms and famously
the first generation of ‘SLOGAN’ funny t-shirt
first made its break on to the scene in 44BC with Julius
Caesar.
Despite his many accomplishments and general popularity,
there remained a group of disaffected citizens. Most
were former Antony supporters who had been pardoned
and given positions of responsibility by Caesar.
But
this didn’t sit too well with them so they conspired
to do him in… Caesar and brilliant tactician heard
on the grapevine that he should not attempt to go to
the senate meeting regarding the Parthian War but decided
that no man will stop him fulfilling his civic duties
and therefore went.
Hiding under his robe he wore a funny t-shirt with
the slogan, ‘I stopped the Roman Civil War, and
all I got was knifed in the back by my senate committee’
after his death his t-shirt was displayed in the ‘Hard
Rock café’ in downtown Pompey until it
was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79.
Over the years the funny t-shirt has grown in popularity,
used to get a response or even warn people of the wearers
pending metal breakdown.
 The
most famous use of the funny t-shirt was in the Second
World War during the d-day invasion. John Millerchip
had been working on a funny t-shirt with a slogan so
funny it could actually kill people within reading distance
of the wearer. The original work done by Millerchip
had given rise to several stays in the hospital when
Millerchip happened to see two of the words of the slogan
resulting in several near death instances via throwing
up his own intestines during a severe bout of laughter.
The t-shirts slogan had to be broken down into several
letters and then translated into German, this was done
Bletchley Park and there was only 1-recorded fatality.
This happened while the translation process was underway,
Ivan Durst and German born code breaker put together
several letters and produced a 3 of the words used in
the slogan. He died instantly…
Only a handful of the t-shirts survived, as after the
surrender of the German army in 1945 they were to be
shipped to the American army to be used against the
Japanese fleet, they were used to adorn the sides of
many of the U.S battleships. Only the Japanese generals
could read the German slogan, and again died instantly
leaving the US fleet to simply sink most of the Japanese
fleet…
Since then these funny t-shirts have been stored in
a hangar in Area 51, where the slogan itself is being
converted into binary so it can be broadcast around
the solar system in the event of an alien invasion.
The history of the funny t-shirt has been one of triumph
over adversity, many times has the humble t-shirt been
imitated and many times shell suit manufacturers have
tried in vein to replace the phenomena with crap pink
and silver body wear. More and more research into the
t-shirt phenomena is dug up all the time, and as we
are privy to this information we will ensure that we
update the site with stories and more history of the
funny t-shirt…
John Doe
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