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Human "Ingredients-List" shirt

Cory Doctorow at 11:50 am Fri, May 11, 2012

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Qwantz sends us "A shirt (done in consultation with medical professionals) that not only lists your nutritional information (including how many calories and Vitamin C you contain) but also your elemental makeup and all the cool things inside your body (one spooky skeleton, millions of kilometers of DNA, up to 800 cubic cm of warm urine in a convenient fleshy sack). DISCLOSURE: I did make the design, but I also think it's awesome."

I agree.

One Amazing Person Shirt (Thanks, Qwantz!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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  • digi_owl

    Still not enough to bring someone back via alchemy…

  • http://goblinbox.com/ goblinbox

    I LOVE THIS.

  • http://twitter.com/nothingsmonstrd nothingsmonstered

    Active ingredients? Drug interaction warnings? Possible side effects?

    Where, for the love of all that’s holy, are the damn directions?!?

  • http://twitter.com/blindeschildpad Blinde Schildpad

    Say, are we all aware of the fact that this Mr. so-called “Qwantz” is actually Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, which basically makes him cooler than liquid helium? 

    Yes? 

    Allright, then.

  • http://profiles.google.com/stephen.schenck Stephen Schenck

    The literalist in me takes issues with the fact that the “Ingredients by weight” tally-up to 100%, so how can there then be “Also contains”?

    • SamSam

      Overlapping sets.

      This box contains 500 grams of steel, and, hey, it also happens to contain 100 screws which could be really useful to you.

      I’m a male and also am a really cool guy.

      This post contains 248 characters and also contains 43 words.

  • https://me.yahoo.com/callmemisscleo#503b4 misscleocallmenow

    I’d buy this shirt if it said “One Human Being”. So that at a distance, I don’t look like the self-centered jerk I really am.

  • http://mattdm.org/ Matthew Miller

    I would totally buy one that just says “One Person”. Maybe it’s my Mennonite upbringing, but I’d feel kind of like a jerk wearing a shirt overtly claiming my own awesomeness.

  • bluest_one

    Does it mention anywhere that 90% of cells are non-human? Hmmm?

    Didn’t think so!

    This is a fucking disgrace! Goddamned fraudsters peddling their shonky goods! Someone should do something, or something.

    • EggyToast

       Actually it does state that there are more bacteria in the digestive tract than all of the human cells combined. So…

  • Preston Sturges

    There was a Zappa t-shirt that said something like “Warning – This t-shirt contains one person that a truly free society would not be afraid of…”

    http://www.store.livenation.com/Product.aspx?cp=13281_16771_971_4041_9096&pc=ZPCT31&src=BASE1741

  • PNWchemist

    “various chemicals with a street value over 3.50 USD”

  • Preston Sturges

    It needs a biohazard label and maybe disposal instructions.

  • Logolepsy

    “[...] about 39 million sperm cell and/or 500 thousand egg cells [...]”

    Why “and/or”? Could somebody explain this to me? Are hermaphrodites able to produce both kinds of cells?

    Oh, yeah, by the way… Nice t-shirt.

  • picklefactory

    So does it change the 80kg listing depending whether you order S/M/L/XL? :D

  • http://profiles.google.com/marc.k.mielke Marc Mielke

    Serving size 1? I don’t think even the fattest cannibal could eat an entire person in one sitting! Call “Man vs. Food”!

  • 10xor01

    Morbo appreciates your nutritional labels!  Now prepare to be devoured by his mighty jaw pathetic human!

  • Colin Curry

    Sounds tasty. Don’t think I could eat a whole one.

  • Colin Curry

    Sounds tasty. Don’t think I could eat a whole one.

  • disqus_ktvz

    Interesting. I’d like three, but I cannot find where to remove the silkscreen top part of “Contents: One Amazing Person” and to place the Nutritional Facts on the Back!

  • http://twitter.com/ablufia PabloAblufiaBodente

    if we contain 110,000 calories, why are there no fat zombies ?

  • http://twitter.com/malcolmjackson ♡ Malcolm Jackson

    Haha, fabulous! I bought one :)