Force 18’s Funny T-shirt Blog

Almost everyone in the UK has probably seen some form of Keep Calm and Carry On media in recent years.  The media has reported on it widely and many outlets produce posters, fridge magnets and many other products bearing the slogan.  Being well over 50 years old, the design is widely believed to be free of copyright.

Or so we thought…

One day last week, we were lazing around at the Force 18 offices when we were hit with a letter from Her Majesty’s Government, pointing out that the crown design on all Keep Calm and Carry On products, in fact remains the copyright of the Crown and reproduction of the crown design could result in a holiday, at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, at the Tower.

Being rather attached to our heads, and not wanting to lose them any time soon, we have redesigned the Crown on all of our Keep Calm and Carry On T-shirt designs, including Get Drunk and Fall Over and the STFU variant, to include a new crown, entirely designed by Force 18.  We like it and we’re sure you will too! 

As the new design has been officially approved by a Government office as not infringing on Crown copyright, we can now officially sell Keep Calm and Carry On products again!

A few days ago we had a very special visitor in the Force 18 offices.  Chico (of X-factor fame) came here in person to pick up some specially commissioned T-shirts for his “It’s England Time” campaign for his World Cup 2010 song.  He is overjoyed at the growing support for his single, which is raising money for the Rainbow Child Foundation.

Chico has kindly allowed us to put the T-shirt up for sale on our site and we are donating the profits from the sale of these shirts to the Rainbow Child Foundation, which is raising money to help underprivileged children all over the world.

 Click here to see the It’s England Time t-shirt.

We’re very proud to have one of our T-shirts featured on the cover of this month’s Sky Movies Magazine.  To promote Sky Movies premiere of Ghost Town, Ricky Gervais is pictured on the cover wearing one of our Skeleton Chest T-shirts.  And very nice he looks in it too.

Ricky Gervais in a Skeleton Chest T-shirt on Sky Movies Magazine

The summer holidays are over, and the evenings are starting to draw in.  Meanwhile, at Force 18, we have a new special offer across our whole range of funny (and rude, retro, geeky, etc.) T-shirts.

If you buy any 3 T-shirts, you’ll get a 4th one, of your choosing, absolutely free.  This offer won’t be available forever, so jump whilst you have the chance.  If you can’t find 4 T-shirts that you want for yourself (and with over 500 designs, we’d be surprised if you couldn’t find 4 you want), why not club together with your mates and share the cost?  Perhaps we should submit that to Viz as a top tip?

As with all these offers, terms and conditions apply – you can see the details over on our special offer page.

Slightly lost amongst the media frenzy surrounding the death of Michael Jackson last week, was the news that Mollie Sugden has died.

In honour of her passing, we have produced a funny T-shirt dedicated to the Queen of the Pussy joke.  The slogan reads “You never forget your first pussy”.

Nearly everyone has to deal with passwords on a daily basis, so why it is so difficult for so many people to remember them?

Our new funny T-shirt gives a dictionary-style definition of Password but adds a little more to it – “usually forgotten between Friday afternoon and Monday morning”.  Stupid users… 

Click through to see our new funny Password t-shirt.

Passwords - are they really so difficult to remember?

Boy were we surprised to see David Tennant as Doctor Who wearing something looking very similar to our funny looking Spacehopper T-shirt on Tonight’s the Night last Saturday evening.

Here are some screencaps…

And here is our Spacehopper T-shirt in question…

Presenting one of our newest T-shirt designs.  International Hide & Seek Champion features a picture of Osama Bin Laden.  Is it funny?  We like to think so.  Is it in bad taste?  Possibly, but we’ll let you make your own mind up.  You have to admit though, the man is either very good at hiding, or very very dead.  We like the latter option better…  Anyway, here it is in all it’s glory.

Osama Bin Laden - Hide and Seek Champion T-shirt

Welcome to the new Force 18 blog.  We will updating frequently, posting new T-shirt designs and occasional special offers here.