Spider-infested Threadless tee

On Threadless, up for vote: MaxiGlob's "Dr Jones Phobia" spider-infested tee design, inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark.

dr Jones phobia by maxiglob (via Super Punch)

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It would really bother me if someone wore this shirt in my presence.
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Your Honor, I had no choice but to beat him to a bloody pulp. He was covered in spiders.
- Felton / Moderator
  
  Better covered in tarantulas than covered in bees.
  - Lobster
    
    How about tarantulas that are covered in bees?
    
    I’d like the shirt better if the spiders were smaller. More realistic that way.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      How about tarantulas that are covered in bees?
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk
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        Mother Nature can be one scary bitch!
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        Tarantula hawks are actually pretty harmless and quite beautiful. They’re curious and will follow you around, but they’re not normally aggressive. If you do manage to get yourself stung, they have the most painful sting of anything in the Western hemisphere, and apparently you’ll writhe around on the ground shrieking for ten minutes.
        
        And…their size is based on the size of the tarantula that incubated them.
      - Lobster
        
        Tell a tarantula they’re pretty harmless. Just tell them quickly, before that wasp goes all ALIEN on them.
      - Mister44
        
        Beautiful? You’re one of those dirty arthropod lovers!
- bobtato
  
  The spider panic defence?
http://www.facebook.com/graham.g.martin Graham Martin

Maybe I am forgetting something, but isn’t Dr. Jones’ Phobia focused on snakes? “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?”
- mat catastrophe
  
  And for Professor Jones, Senior it was rats. So I don’t know what they accidentally the whole 40 cakes.
- rrh
  
  Ask Alfred Molina.
- Felton / Moderator
  
  “Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.”
Daneel

Delbert McClintock, infestation management. Always nice to meet a colleague.
Guest

More like a DT-shirt
Wordguy

Satipo didn’t like spiders. Dr Jones doesn’t like snakes.
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Snig

They should make it with an especially itchy label, for full effect.
- Guest
  
  and in weird locations, not just the collar. I likey.
El Stinko

I did a Halloween costume a couple years ago where I stuck about 20 black plastic spiders to my torso and head. It took me about 30 minutes to put together. I was completely freaking people out. Some people couldn’t even talk to me. Eventually I took the spiders off my head just so I could join the party without people freaking out.

Why not post a picture? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1114555/4067136594_8fa7993253_b.jpg
jinkeys26

oooh perfect passive-agressive christmas gift!
planettom

It should be Doctor Octopus’s phobia.

Did you see what I did there?
jeligula

Indiana Jones was not afraid of spiders. It was snakes, from back when he was very young and hustling away from bad guys on a moving circus train and broke through the ceiling of the snake car. Having said that, I love spiders and would have a nice Mexican red knee already, but I cannot control the temperature and humidity in my house worth a damn. I am going to buy this shirt, you bet.

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Erin

no no no no no… just NO. I would probably hit someone for wearing that. It wouldn’t be on purpose - just reflex. I once climbed my roommate’s boyfriend when i saw a Huntsman while living in Australia. Just no. EEEEEEKKKKKKK.