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Dumbest Way to Make Money – Ever

by Michael D.|  June 14, 200812:45 pm| 18 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

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I don’t quite get what CNN is up to. Occasionally, next to the headlines in the right column at CNN.com, you’ll see a tiny t-shirt icon. You can now buy t-shirts with CNN headlines on them. $15 a pop. But they’re just plain old headlines:

Straight Talk Express Stalls After Query
Secretive swingers club irks neighbors
These 5 Homes Top $100 Million

Now, if that last one said “These 5 Homos Top 100 Million” it might be worth a shirt.

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  1. 1.

    Karmakin

    June 14, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    What the….

    Who could have thought of that? I mean really.

  2. 2.

    plus C

    June 14, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    Maybe it’s a sequel to that trend in the 90’s when everyone was wearing Mr. Bubble and Circle K shirts.

  3. 3.

    Jon H

    June 14, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    This can only turn out badly, like when they used to run things like: Infant cooked in microwave | Watch Now!

  4. 4.

    Keith

    June 14, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    I’d pay for a “Secret Swingers Club Fucks Neighbors” shirt, though

  5. 5.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    June 14, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    I hope this service is still up and running when the headline is “Obama wins presidency in landslide”.

  6. 6.

    b-psycho

    June 14, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    If it were The Onion doing this it’d make sense.

  7. 7.

    calipygian

    June 14, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    Or the New York Post. Who wouldn’t want a “Headless Body Found in Topless Bar” t-shirt?

  8. 8.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    June 14, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    If it were The Onion doing this it’d make sense.

    http://store.theonion.com/area-man-p-174.html

    heheh

    Speaking of The Onion,
    This is for you, John

  9. 9.

    b-psycho

    June 14, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    P.A.T.: LOL @ the shirt of Che wearing a Che shirt…

  10. 10.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    June 14, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    This is for you, John

    “Game Characters Can Be Directed To Drink Soda, Eat Hot Pockets”

    LMFAO

  11. 11.

    DFD

    June 14, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    McCain Train Derailed By Straight Talk

  12. 12.

    jag

    June 14, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    When they first launched this thing, the URL could be easily modified to create your own headlines (so you can have a T-shirt saying “Buttsecks? I saw it on CNN, August 6, 2005”), but looks like they’ve added some hashes to prevent that from happening. Fun-killers.

  13. 13.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    June 14, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    Secretive swingers club irks neighbors

    I’d be irked too! How dare they keep their swingers club a secret!

  14. 14.

    Desert Rat

    June 14, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    Then again, how secretive can it be if it’s own freaking CNN?

  15. 15.

    Desert Rat

    June 14, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    er, on freaking CNN.

  16. 16.

    passerby

    June 15, 2008 at 2:12 am

    You can now buy t-shirts with CNN headlines on them. $15 a pop.

    At $15 a pop? A shirt with some inane headline, and of course “CNN” (in red)…Are they wanting people pay $15 to be walking billboards?

    It’s not a clever way to make money mostly because I can’t imagine who would pony up the $$.

    It’s not like CNN is some hip, edgy medium…

    Maybe it’s some stagehand’s kid’s Junior Achievement project.

    This is so hare-brained I don’t know what to make of it even as I type this at 3 a.m. EDT. (and +0)

    I would rather have a Mr. Bubble, Wonder Bread, or Twinkie shirt, at least they are commercially iconic and decidedly American.

    T

  17. 17.

    jake

    June 15, 2008 at 6:01 am

    Heeey, where’s “Workers rescue pelican from tree with crane”?

  18. 18.

    SamFromUtah

    June 15, 2008 at 11:05 am

    It won’t be dumb if it works – I’m guessing it won’t, but who knows.

    This scheme would be really stupid if T-shirts were pre-printed with the headlines and they had a warehouse full of a million XXL “Canada stalls in trade pact” variants, and that approach wouldn’t be too up-to-the-minute, anyway. They must be using some CafePress sort of thing where no shirts actually exist until they’re ordered, so their cost is very small or nothing to offer the shirts, and maybe some big headline like “MUP landslide yay!” will sell a bunch.

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