Various people have commented on the t-shirts worn by the principal characters. They're not always visible in the strips, though, so herewith a gallery page.
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"If you're really a goth, where were you when we sacked Rome?" Available as a t-shirt from Printfection.
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From the deceased webcomic Queen of Wands. Warehouse 23 still has some related material, but this particular shirt is no longer available.
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Goth Local 571 - Individuality Through Conformity. Available from Glarkware.
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A strange version of the pentacle. Well, all right, it's not really a pentacle at all, but the author of this site thinks that it is.
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A logo from Meadowlark Audio, whose site has since gone dark.
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Bell has a lot of shirts that were free gifts from breweries and distillers. This one is from the Meantime Brewery in Greenwich.
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Another brewery shirt, this one from the Abbaye Notre Dame de Saint-Remy near Rochefort in Belgium. They make truly superlative beer. If you find some of the Rochefort 6, keep a bottle aside to donate to the cartoonist for having told you how wonderful it was.
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And another. This one's from the Milton Brewery in Cambridge.
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From the Scotch Blog. Not to be mistaken for any other, more recognisable, logo.
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From the Bentley Snow Crystal Collection. I'm not joking.
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A pretty version of Gothic Subculture. Which some would say defeats the point.
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Stolichnaya! The glory of the workers! The despair of their doctors!
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Bell loves irony. No, really. Another from Glarkware.
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Okocim have been bought by Carlsberg now, but they used to make really good beer.
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Ganser Koelsch is an obscure German beer. More information here.
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Bride of the Monster, a classic? film from 1955.
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A handy guide to the most important bits of Belgium, at least from a beer point of view. Somewhat modified from the map found at http://www.smg-authie.co.uk/beer/maps/maptrappist.htm.
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The 2006 Hallowe'en promotional t-shirt from the Wychwood Brewery. Available, though probably not for long, from here.
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Bell is quite prepared to be a vegetarian, in the right context. Diesel Sweeties explained it, though not why (pigs are vegetables that grow in orchards, under apple trees).
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The Cross and Seal of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon. Why is Bell wearing it? You probably shouldn't ask. Available from Sighco.
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When the squid attack, will you be ready? Bell will.
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Bell feels that it's only fair to express her mood in a way that other people can appreciate quickly.
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The breakthrough album for Evanescence. Bell has been known to listen to it on repeat for hours at a time, until everyone else tells her to stop it and get some sleep...
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When you have a difficult decision to make, just ask yourself: What Would Parker do? (The answer is probably "jump off the roof on a static line" or "stab somebody with a fork".)
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In spite of her gothic tendencies, Bell is not a fan of the "vampires are people too" ethos. As far as she is concerned, vampires are people who kill other people. So she has little patience with certain recent popular-cultural excursions into vampirism.
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Bell does not play football, but if she did... via Real Gothic FC.
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LL YR VWLS R BLNG T S. Available from the Nielsen Hayden Cafepress store.
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Tangible Artifacts and Reified Sentiments. Another Nielsen Hayden, though I don't think they actually sell this one.
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The first page of Beowulf (specifically from Cotton Vitellius A.xv). This particular copy comes from Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, USA.
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Will Build Thermonuclear Devices for Food (in Russian). The first shirt I saw from Instant Attitudes.
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A capital from an illuminated manuscript. Sorry, I now have no idea where I found this one. It's pretty though.
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Keisuke Kishi's "Insect of Dice".
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Pandimensional Bookwyrm Association. Another from Instant Attitudes.
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Elizabeth has nothing to do with the Bavarian Illuminati or any other ancient conspiracy. Really. Printfection now has (a variant of) this as a poster.
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One of Elizabeth's astronomical t-shirts. This is Messier 74, photographed by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph.
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Another astronomical shirt, London as viewed from the International Space Station.
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A composite image of the Sun in extreme ultra-violet false colour.
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The Rosetta Stone. Available from The British Museum, of course. (I still think they should sell a full-size replica as a coffee-table.)
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Necromancy: not just a good idea but environmentally friendly! Artwork by Aaron Williams (writer and artist of Nodwick and Full Frontal Nerdity); available on a t-shirt from Warehouse 23.
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Imperial French Coffee (supplied as a blend of coffee and chicory). Elizabeth has no time for hot beverages of a non-tea nature and wears this image from 1898 to show her contempt.
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Pirate or ninja? True enlightenment can only be found in balance. Artwork by Aaron Williams (writer and artist of Nodwick and Full Frontal Nerdity); available on a t-shirt from Warehouse 23.
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Life lessons can be taken from anywhere. So can after-life lessons. Artwork by Aaron Williams (writer and artist of Nodwick and Full Frontal Nerdity); no longer available on a t-shirt.
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There are only nine ingredients to murder... and in case you forget, here's a handy reminder. Available as shirts, bags, and soon as stick-on labels, from Fo'Paws Productions.
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Hwaet! More of Beowulf. This one is available from Sighco.
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The Tarantula Nebula.
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David Friedman of Ironic Sans came up with this word to describe one of the things that happen when people don't know how to use their technology. Available fromCafe Press.
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Plato and Donnelly had the right of it! Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Where did the dinosaur bones really come from? Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Just a forked stick away... Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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He is out there. He will return. Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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If you try hard enough... Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Obviously the sun moves. You can see it in the sky. Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Why should people only live on the outside of a planet? Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Just balance them. Everything else is conspiracy. Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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A hundred and six? A hundred and seven? They can't even make up their minds! Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Coming over here, taking our jobs and our women... Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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I don't want to show up on search results for D*vid Ick*. Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Organic birth is just a theory! Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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No giant scarab? But then how would the sun move? Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Prove it isn't there! I dare you! Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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But what sex is the turtle? Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Their invisibility just proves that they're magic. Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Millions of years? Pah. Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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Just because Mainstream Science won't admit they exist... Available from Jeremy Kalgreen.
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In case your local evangelist is not sufficiently incensed already... Available from CafePress.
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She's been a sweet old lady since 1940. She must have something going for her. Available from CafePress.
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Funny how many people think this means "I will do it". Inspired by the works of Diana Wynne Jones.
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When you only have one thing to say, say it clearly. By Matthew Belinkie; possibly available from Zazzle.
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Elizabeth listens to A Podcast to the Curious, dedicated to the weird fiction of M. R. James. Shirt from their Cafepress store.
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Elizabeth may or may not have been involved in protests against the 2012 London Olympics. She would certainly not have participated in any trademark violations. Original here, not commercially available.
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If you're going to know something before anyone else did, why mess about with half-measures? T-shirt from SMBC. available.
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The System Administrator. Taken from the Silicon Valley Tarot; as far as I know this isn't available as a t-shirt, though Warehouse 23 will sell you a deck of cards.
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The logo for the Parisian bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. I don't suppose they're selling t-shirts any more.
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I Want Gnu. Image by Raul Silva, I believe.
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Sometimes Nils wants to express his mood. You can find out more about the M18A1 antipersonnel "claymore" mine at globalsecurity.org.
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Remember Y2K? Some of us were at work that night. This was the souvenir shirt.
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Total Information Awareness. Oddly enough the US Government thought this wasn't entirely consumer-friendly, and changed the name.
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In 2004, SCO got cracked. Many people felt they deserved it. This was the logo that was put up on their site.
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Blue Harvest was the deliberately-fake working title for Revenge of the Jedi (before it got renamed to Return of the Jedi). Wikipedia has more information.
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Even Nils sometimes wears promotional tie-in shirts. Not that he has an Xbox, nor would he be likely to play Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII on it if he had it.
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The hit of the 2006 Eastercon. Available as shirts, bags, and soon as stick-on labels, from Fo'Paws Productions.
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Nils may be considered to have some unconventional - or perhaps these days we should say conventional? - views on intellectual property. Available from Peer 99.
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For when you care enough to send the very heaviest - the Orbital Anvil Delivery System. Primary design by John Hardin; available on a mug but not yet on a t-shirt.
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Asteroid-eating lobsters? Why not? This will probably make more sense if you've read Charlie Stross' Accelerando. The artwork is by Feorag NicBhride.
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Extreme sports just not cutting it any more? Try fire diving.
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The emblem of the Neu Swabian League, from the Ground Zero Games universe. This and others are available on shirts via PrintFection.
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Cryptography comes in many forms. The rebus is just one of the most trivial. Of course, it wouldn't be a stylised heart...
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When you're coding the mean streets, you need someone you can trust at your back. Someone like Donald Knuth.
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Nils likes large random numbers.
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Nils is a practical sort of chap, and doesn't mind who knows it.
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Nils is generally un-fond of governments, even other people's.
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The fine manual should be read. It doesn't entirely matter which manual. (Was available from La Fraise but they only produce in limited runs.)
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Josh Lesnick, author and artist of the comic Girly, came up with this shirt to indicate that the wearer is a Truly Manly Man. Available from Guapa Design.
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A tribute to an artist who has brought that certain je ne sais quoi to every role he has played.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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An essential tool in the BOFH armoury. Available from Ben.
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Want your toast holy? You need the Holy Toaster.
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Nils enjoyed Defying Gravity even if nobody else did. "Fun" does not always have to be "good".
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Nils certainly was not involved in protests against the 2012 London Olympics. Original here, not commercially available.
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Been there, patched the bug. Available from Teespring.
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What is the point of a telephone that can only run vi, after all? Not commercially available.
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