It’s not safe to have all these signs on the same door…
Posted June 21st, 2008 by Howard Tayler
… but you’re going to put them all on the same door anyway, and there’s nothing we can do to stop you.
We finally got things straightened out with the manufacturer. You can order the Schlock Mercenary Warning Signs now. They come in sets of eight for $20.00 +s&h, and you can get them as magnets or with sticky-tape. You can also order them a la carte for $3.00 + s&h.
This is a pre-order. We expect to be shipping these out within three weeks. I also plan to have some of these at InConJunction in two weeks, and at Comic-Con in late July. Oh, and at WorldCon in Denver this August.
Note also that the pictures in the store are from the beta run, and there are some irregularities. The finished product does not have a black border. Also, I haven’t color-corrected the photos in the store yet — I assure you, the magnets will be a handsome, sunny, “danger, danger, danger” yellow rather than an eye-bleeding lime.
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June 21st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
…and Ordered!
at last people will be able to judge my unassuming black filing cabinet by its cover..
June 21st, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I’m gonna be the coolest kid at my dorm!
*orders sticker + magnet sets*
June 21st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
… July 1st (and an influx of spendable dollars) cannot arrive soon enough.
And Howard? On the name of today’s post, “It’s not safe to have all these signs on the same door…” … well, maybe you should have made a ninth sign, warning people of the presence of excessive warning-signage? ^_^ (Y’know, it’s never too late to make one!!)
June 21st, 2008 at 10:35 pm
*glee!* Order placed, I can’t wait to put the biohazard one up on the ‘frige at the ambulance station!
June 21st, 2008 at 10:36 pm
At work, we have all six of the lower ones in use. I’ve seen them all on one building. I cross the street when I have to go past that building.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
*WOOT*
Finally!
Thanks!
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:23 am
YES!!! Sticky back :-) your tha’ man!!
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:59 am
Now if only I hadn’t got impatient! Ah well, two orders in one day can’t be bad.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:34 am
SQUEEEEEEEEEE!
Danget! Must wait for payday before ordering.
I can hardly wait!
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
I’m going to call these my tax return magnets. Can’t wait.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 am
Disclaimer – I’ll order them anyway because they’re cool and I want to support the strip, but I do hope the magnets are reasonably powerful. For better or worse, places that I place amusing magnetic signs are also places I want to put pieces of paper that my easily-distracted mind would otherwise forget about. Conveniently enough, some of these magnets perform the double-duty of looking spiffy *and* holding said papers. Unfortunately, however, many magnets are barely capable of holding themsleves up, and anything larger or thicker than half a sheet of cheap toilet tissue will turn them into a gravatic demonstration.
I’m not saying that these magnets should be of the rare-earth variety that can only be dislodged via, for example, the forces shown on the front (not that I would mind), but it would be nice if they’re of the reasonably beefy variety.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Actually, now that I mention it, I got so annoyed with one of the aforementioned “wimpy” magnets the other night that I actually fed it to my shredder – it went through without complaint. “Beefy” is good.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
They’re reasonably beefy, but they’re not uber-magnets. This is magnetic strip, not rare-earth, and there’s a limit to how strong it can be.
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Very exciting. Alas, I might have to wait it out until The Teraport Wars comes out to get them together, because I don’t think my credit card will be happy with two lots of international shipping.
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Probably the wrong place to mention this, but schlock must have eatten his twitter device about 2 weeks ago.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I’ll mention it here, because it’s more likely to be read quickly:
Sandra’s name is misspelled in the plug for her book on the new Writing Excuses podcast.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 am
Hmm … Do I buy now and have wonderful magnety goodness now or do I wait till Howard’s in town in August and buy them then along with a book or two…?
Aagh! Decisions!
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Order placed (complete with Logo Pin, T-Shirt and Poster… can`t wait for it to arrive…).
I second Pax idea about a ninth sign – would be too cool!
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
@Linxan: Perhaps you should buy now before Howard wakes up tomorrow and finds that pre-orders have spoken for the entire supply? (Nah, couldn’t happen….)
My own decision was made easier by the fact that Howard isn’t coming to town anytime soon.
June 24th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Hmmm, I think I’m going to wait until the new book is on pre-order. Maybe that will save some on the S&H.
June 26th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
DO NOT LOOK INTO MASER WITH REMAINING EYE!
This warning needs to be inscribed into ALL weapons grade masers.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Hey Howard, what’s the status on these?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
They have ARRIVED!!!!!
Mega thanks to Sandra and Howard for the beautiful product.
Okay, the magnets are a bit on the wimpy side but that’s more than offset by the killer appearance of the product. I’ll just be sure to use them for decoration instead of paperclips.
Thanks for another wonderful Schlock toy.
D.