I once saw a meme image that stated “your shirt says UFC but your body says KFC.” Bahahahaha.
I laughed about it heartily.
There’s a guy at my gym that is an obvious resolutioner, and I’m pretty perceptive and good at recognizing people at places that I go regularly. To this resolutioner’s credit, he has been coming at least once a week for the last three now, but that is still no indication that he might vanish come February, but the thing is, that there are two things that I noticed about this guy:
- 100% of his “working out” is spent in cable crossovers. Whether anything that can be done with cables, he’s doing with cables. Sometimes he’ll jump up and grab the cross beam and try to do some pull ups, but literally 100% of his time in the gym is spent amidst the cables. Naturally, no leg workouts occur here, either.
- He always wears this pair of TAPOUT shorts. Sometimes in conjunction with a TAPOUT shirt.
Recently, I was doing deadlifts, and I was near the cables. While unracking my weights, TAPOUT was naturally on one of his numerous rest periods, where he was naturally on his phone. Seriously, I really need to know what provider everyone else in my gym has, because I sure as shit can’t get any data movement on mine through Sprint while I’m at the gym.
The thing is, TAPOUT is kind of a rotund guy. I mean, good for him for taking up the resolution to get in shape, and I’ll admit that he probably used to be a gym goer in the past, because not everything he does looks like it’s full of shit, but clearly let himself go. Like, he developed too severe of an affinity for takeout food. And then the meme popped into my head.
Your shirt says TAPOUT, but your body says TAKEOUT.
Internally, I laughed about it, because I sometimes think I’m the greatest comedian in the world, and I’ll laugh at my own jokes more than Jimmy Fallon laughs at his. But then I realized that this could not just be a meme, because it was a golden opportunity to do one thing that I love to do: butcher and parody logos.
So when the smoke cleared and the dust settled, and about ten minutes in Illustrator, and what we have is a logo appropriate to accompany my meme that I’ll take credit for, even if others have stated it on the internet before I have.
This is where I’d say that I’d love to slap this bad boy onto a t-shirt and try and make money off the parody, but let’s be real here, I simply don’t have the drive or ambition to do it, and there’s always the possibility that if it gained any steam, the wrong people would see it, and I’d get my ass sued or something. So let’s hope someone with more drive and means to defy copyrights will do it instead, so that I can bitch about having made the logo first somewhere down the line.
