A catalogue of exactly one joke

Somebody drew a goose behind bars, wrote four words underneath, and the joke went everywhere. Nobody signed it, nobody registered it, and nobody can tell you with a straight face where it started.

That is the interesting part. A joke with no owner has no shop either, so what exists instead is a few hundred product pages from a few hundred printers, none of them next to each other and all of them almost the same.

This catalogue is the almost. It reads every product page, works out what the item actually is, which of the four versions of the drawing it carries, what colour and size it comes in and who published it, and then puts them on one page so the differences are visible.

That is the entire product. There is no warehouse behind this page, nothing here is exclusive, and not one item on the site was printed, packed or posted by us. What we do is the counting.

The version of the joke turned out to be the thing worth building the site around. The jail drawing, the plain pun, the meme lettering and the bare four words read completely differently on a chest, they cost different amounts, and almost nobody labels them. So every card here carries its version and every department can be filtered by it.

The second useful thing is the printer. Across the catalogue there are hundreds of them, and where a product page publishes a name, the card shows it. On a joke that anyone can print, knowing who printed this particular one is most of what distinguishes two identical black t-shirts.

Prices are the third. The same drawing runs from a few dollars on a sticker to thirty on an embroidered cap, and the reasons are the blank, the print method and the print area rather than the artwork. The journal piece on price takes that apart properly.

What we will not do is invent the rest. We do not know who drew the original, we have not worn these shirts, and we cannot tell you whether a given design is licensed. Where a printer publishes nothing, the card says nothing, and that blank is the honest answer rather than a gap somebody forgot to fill.

Payment, delivery and returns happen at checkout with our retail partner rather than with us. If something arrives wrong, their returns process is the fastest route, and you can write to us as well. Somebody here reads it.