[color=#000000:post_uid0]This quesiton is mainly for [b:post_uid0]Zeke,[/b:post_uid0] but I guess that
everyone else can contribute some ideas about it
too.
:D
I just wanna know, are there ever going to be any
types of [b:post_uid0]5MV T-shirts[/b:post_uid0] made available to all us
ravenous fans out here roaming around the world?
:p
I'd like to see the big red word [b:post_uid0]"FIVER"[/b:post_uid0] written
across the chest and the website on the back.
Maybe just take a pic of the home page and then
print that out, or write the phrase "Life is short,
so should comedy be."
:dead:
Ok, never mind that last part about the phrase...
but what about making some apparel for us to
wear, eh?[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:D Â I [b:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]love[/i:post_uid0][/b:post_uid0] that idea, FatMat, but I doubt it'll happen. For one thing, this is a not-for-money-period site, and Paramount would come down on Zeke if he tried to sell anything related to the site. Doesn't mean we can't wish though. ;)

When I saw the title of this thread, what popped into my mind was a picture of someone wearing a black T-shirt with the basic white-wedge-in-a-red-circle logo on the chest. I suppose the textual logo would then be on the back, about where a baseball player would have his name.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What's to stop you from buying some of that printer-transfer stuff and printing off the logo (or whatever you wanted)? As far as I know it's really not that expensive, though I'm not sure if the transfers survive that well over a long persiod of time.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"]What's to stop you from buying some of that printer-transfer stuff and printing off the logo (or whatever you wanted)?[/quote:post_uid0]
My giant hoard of lawyers. ;)

(Incidentally, there *have* been plans to get some 5MV merchandise out there. Â Think four-letter words beginning with "s" and ending with "oon".)[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Think four-letter words beginning with "s" and ending with "oon".[/quote:post_uid0]

Spoon?

(2+2=5)[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="Kira"][color=#000000:post_uid0](Incidentally, there *have* been plans to get some 5MV merchandise out there. Â Think four-letter words beginning with "s" and ending with "oon".)[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]some how i knew that would be the answer ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Spoon?[/quote:post_uid0]
[i:post_uid0]There is no p[/i:post_uid0] :p[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ :lol: Good one, catalina!


[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"]What's to stop you from buying some of that printer-transfer stuff and printing off the logo (or whatever you wanted)?[/quote:post_uid0]

My inherent laziness and ineptness in all things ironing. ;)


I'm envisioning a series of T-shirts not unlike that for [i:post_uid0]The Far Side[/i:post_uid0], with an amusing combination of a word bubble containing a classic line or two from a fiver, and a screen capture featuring the speaker(s). I'm simultaneously proving yet again that I am easily amused. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]There is no p[/i:post_uid0] :p[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Maybe that could be printed on the back of the shirt.
:D :p[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well whenever how "soon" is, it could say, "Trek is long, 5MV is short", or "Life is short, Trek is long: Got 5MV?"[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"Just Five It" would be a good one, but you'd probably end up getting your ass sued off by Nike.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That'd take a lot of suing. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Actually, not only have 5MV shirts been planned, but the "store" is already online. Â However, the site I'm with -- CafePress -- is in the middle of making some controversial policy changes that may ultimately force me to find another site, so I haven't made the link available yet. Â I'll keep you posted.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][b:post_uid0]*shivers uncontrollably in anticipation*[/b:post_uid0]
:smile: :dead:
(Which is kinda hard to do considering that I'm living
in Florida and it's 99 degrees down here every day.)[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]99 degrees....?

I'll overlook the fact that that's in Fahrenheit, and just be insanely jealous instead.[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I'll overlook the fact that that's in Fahrenheit[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Generous of you, O Almighty Duke of What Units of Measurement People Are Allowed to Use.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]He's just jealous because Fahrenheit is actually more precise, per digit, than Celsius. :p   ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="FatMat426"][color=#000000:post_uid0](Which is kinda hard to do considering that I'm living
in Florida and it's 99 degrees down here every day.)[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Florida? :S Wha'ppen?[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I'll overlook the fact that that's in Fahrenheit, and just be insanely jealous instead.[/quote:post_uid0]
You can be jealous about 99 degrees, if it were really 99 degrees, you wouldn't [i:post_uid0]be[/i:post_uid0].

[quote:post_uid0]He's just jealous because Fahrenheit is actually more precise, per digit, than Celsius.[/quote:post_uid0]
But it's easier to convert Celsius to Kelvin than it is to convert Fahrenheit to Kelvin, so we win. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Generous of you, O Almighty Duke of What Units of Measurement People Are Allowed to Use.[/quote:post_uid0]

Glad to see I'm getting some recognition at last.

[quote:post_uid0]But it's easier to convert Celsius to Kelvin than it is to convert Fahrenheit to Kelvin, so we win.[/quote:post_uid0]

Kelvin was a very cool bloke indeed.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][quote:post_uid0]I'll overlook the fact that that's in Fahrenheit, and just be insanely jealous instead.[/quote:post_uid0]
You can be jealous about 99 degrees, if it were really 99 degrees, you wouldn't [i:post_uid0]be[/i:post_uid0].

[quote:post_uid0]He's just jealous because Fahrenheit is actually more precise, per digit, than Celsius.[/quote:post_uid0]
But it's easier to convert Celsius to Kelvin than it is to convert Fahrenheit to Kelvin, so we win. :D[/quote:post_uid0]
:lol:

I could make up a pair of temperature scales based on Fahrenheit that merely involved setting a different zero, and then Fahrenheit would be better on that score. :smile: Let's see, there can be the [b:post_uid0]Marina[/b:post_uid0], with its zero at the freezing point (putting 180 at the boiling point and making it blindingly obvious that Fahrenheit [i:post_uid0]is[/i:post_uid0] more precise than Celsius, plus the conversion to Celsius and back is easier), and the [b:post_uid0]Saxamaphone[/b:post_uid0], in which zero is set at "absolute zero" (simplifying the conversion to Kelvin and back).[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You know, I think they might just catch on.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]He's just jealous because Fahrenheit is actually more precise, per digit, than Celsius.[/quote:post_uid0]

But Celcius is based on something that can be easily checked, rather than the body temperature of a guy who's been dead for over a century or weather conditions that no longer exist thanks to global warming (or possibly just a natural change in climate patterns).

Silly Foreignheat.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][quote:post_uid0]He's just jealous because Fahrenheit is actually more precise, per digit, than Celsius.[/quote:post_uid0]

But Celcius is based on something that can be easily checked, rather than the body temperature of a guy who's been dead for over a century or weather conditions that no longer exist thanks to global warming (or possibly just a natural change in climate patterns).[/quote:post_uid0]
There's a one-to-one function that accurately relates temperature in F to temperature in C, so one temperature scale is just as stable (or unstable) as the other. ;)



Back to the original topic: I would pay good money (assuming I had money) to see this scene from "The Trouble With Tribbles" portrayed well on a T-shirt (not because it's so hilarious, but because I think it would translate well to a picture):
[quote:post_uid0]Kirk: You must've gotten a bootleg script with some tentative title! Ha! That's how you saw this episode so early....
Spock: Not so...now if you need me, I'll be in my quarters deleting the evidence from my hard drive.[/quote:post_uid0]

With Spock in the process of getting up from his seat, and Kirk in the background grinning fit to burst. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]There's a one-to-one function that accurately relates temperature in F to temperature in C, so one temperature scale is just as stable (or unstable) as the other.[/quote:post_uid0]

But those Foreignheat values can't be independently verified. Celcius can. You can take a pan of distilled water down to sea level, boil and freeze it (possibly in the reverse order) and calibrate a thermometer. You can't do that in F (the jokes wears thin after a while, and it's too long to type the proper way) because Dr F's body temperature is currently the same temperature as his coffin, and an average winter's day in Vienna is not the same now as it was in 18-whatever.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"]Back to the original topic: [/quote:post_uid0]
Is that allowed?[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Think four-letter words beginning with "s" and ending with "oon".[/quote:post_uid0]

Spoon?

(2+2=5)[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]"There is no spoon, it is you who bends."



And you can argue about Celsius and Farenheit all you want, I'm sticking with Kelvin :P :heheh:[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="MmeBlueberry"][quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"]Back to the original topic: [/quote:post_uid0]
Is that allowed?[/quote:post_uid0]
come to think of it its not. Arrest that man!



Edit to remove extra explanation points.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yes he's broken the 47th Commandment! "Thou shalt not bring forum topics back on track."


He Must Pay![/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Therefor:
[quote:post_uid0]And you can argue about Celsius and Farenheit all you want, I'm sticking with Kelvin :P :heheh:[/quote:post_uid0]
Kelvin is the only one where point zero actually makes sense. Of course, the scale doesn't, but who cares? And I think Kelvin is international.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]But those Foreignheat values can't be independently verified. Â Celcius can. Â You can take a pan of distilled water down to sea level, boil and freeze it (possibly in the reverse order) and calibrate a thermometer. Â You can't do that in F (the jokes wears thin after a while, and it's too long to type the proper way) because Dr F's body temperature is currently the same temperature as his coffin, and an average winter's day in Vienna is not the same now as it was in 18-whatever.[/quote:post_uid0]
All I can say is that it seems to me that you place great faith in the thermometer's ability to tell a 0 from a 32. :smile: Â ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Kelvin is the only one where point zero actually makes sense. Of course, the scale doesn't, but who cares? And I think Kelvin is international.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Try "universal". It's an empirical scale so it should apply anywhere in the universe.....[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]They all apply anywhere in the universe, but everyone knows Kelvin. I for one have no idea how Fahrenheit works, and I know there are a lot of people out there who think the same of Celsius.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]They all apply anywhere in the universe, but everyone knows Kelvin. I for one have no idea how Fahrenheit works, and I know there are a lot of people out there who think the same of Celsius.[/quote:post_uid0]

So there are Dutch weather forecasts that go "Tomorrow will be a balmy 298 degrees..."? Â (spoken in Dutch, obviously)[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:O

Er, no, they always go in Celsius. And they say it is, like 25 degrees Celsius.
And if someone talks about Kelvin, they probably tell you that too. Like, we have this wonderful book of tables called [i:post_uid0]Binas[/i:post_uid0] (basically used for chemistry). Every temperature there is in Kelvin, obviously, but at every table concerning temperatures, it says at the top it's in Kelvin.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hmm... Am I the only one who still measures temperatures as either 'Hot', 'Warm' or 'Cold'? Any other temperature is then measured relatively as either 'warmer' or 'colder'. These piffling primitive ideas of mine. Â :D

[quote:post_uid0]I'd like to see the big red word "FIVER" written
across the chest and the website on the back.[/quote:post_uid0]

I already have a shirt with 'Fiver' on the front, but that's a different story. Â ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I like singing random songs inside my head throughout
the day when I'm at work. It helps to keep me sane.
:D
Speaking of sane, I like the fact that [b:post_uid0]entei[/b:post_uid0] actually
managed to get the thread back on topic. Let's see
how long it lasts.

[b:post_uid0]*looks at digital watch & begins counting the seconds*[/b:post_uid0][/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I like the fact that entei actually
managed to get the thread back on topic.[/quote:post_uid0]
That's incredible! How did you do it entei? :D

Allright, stupid question. But it's still amazing.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"]Kelvin is the only one where point zero actually makes sense.[/quote:post_uid0]
Um... how does making zero the freezing point of water (and 100 the boiling point of water) not make sense? Â If it's below zero, you get snow... above zero, you get rain.

However, the United States should be proud to join the likes of Liberia and Myanmar in not adopting the metric system like the rest of the planet. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="FatMat426"]Speaking of sane, I like the fact that [b:post_uid0]entei[/b:post_uid0] actually
managed to get the thread back on topic.[/quote:post_uid0]
Aww... did you have to say that Fatmat? I was quite attached to this neck. Â ;)[/color:post_uid0]