The Captain's Blog: What do these 3 things have in common?

1) Wiener Dogs
2) Dr. Seuss
3) Food Network Cake Challenge

No, no. This isn't some kind of SAT test. By the way, the Captain didn't study for his and ACED it. And by "aced" he means he stayed awake for a majority of the time. "The Man" isn't going to define the Captain with some arbitrary number. Well, actually "the man" did. He'll let you guess the number.

Once in a while somebody will ask the Captain "how do you come up with your ideas for funny t-shirts?" His response is always, "wow! you think one is funny? which one? which one?" Side note: The Captain doesn't think any of his t-shirts are funny, clever, cute or even marginally amusing. But that's a different story. After he tries to get any kind of self esteem boost he can from said person, he then answers "I don't know" and quickly changes the subject. Why? Because he truly doesn't know. But he does know one thing, we all have tons of useless crap rattling around in our brain cage and sometimes it leaks out our ears... and that brings us back to: Wiener Dogs, Dr. Seuss and Food Network Cake Challenges.... So, try to follow along.

The Captain's wife decorates cakes. She did a Food Network Cake Challenge. The Captain went along. They have a dog. They're crazy about their dog. Her name is Speck. Speck was the name of Pee Wee's Dog in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure." The Captain thinks Pee Wee is a genius. Dr. Seuss is a genius in a different way. His wife calls herself the "Evil Cake Genius." The Captain had some Dr. Seuss books as a kid. He doesn't read books, TV is better. The Evil Cake Genius was gonna be on TV. The theme of the Cake Challenge was Dr. Seuss. His wife did a Green Eggs and Ham cake. The Captain likes cake. He also likes his dog. Dachsunds are a kind of dog. People call them wiener dogs. "Wiener dog" sounds funnier than Dachshund. At the taping of the show he was clockwork oranged on a looped feed of some Dr. Seuss cartoon for 10 hours. 10 hours is a long time. Wiener dogs are long. Wieners are funny. So is Pee Wee. "Big Top Pee Wee" wasn't as funny as "Big Adventure." Mmmmm cake. People are crazy about cake. People are crazy about wiener dogs. People are crazy about Dr. Seuss. Paul Reubens is just plain crazy. People buy shirts for stuff they're crazy about. Can't license Pee Wee.

So the Captain decided to do some t-shirts for cake decorators and some t-shirts for dachshund owners.

So you want to know how you can come up with some t-shirt ideas? Just keep living and once in a while tilt your head to one side....what leaks out of your ear might surprise you.