Funny T-Shirt History

Funny t shirts are not a modern invention as you may 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