Thanks to today's T-shirt donation from Jhon at print service Awesome Merchandise the post I'm writing is peppered with red dotted underlining throughout. This is because the word 'Horsesome' is found to be disagreeable by this software's spellchecker and I plan to be typing it a lot. The underlining of 'Horsesome' illustrates exactly why man will always triumph over machine. Machines will never have the intelligence to comprehend an excellent pun, or even a lame one, as is the case with this T-shirt design. They will also never grasp irony, symbolism, or the concept of abbreviation ("Merch" also keeps getting the red line treatment).
The likelihood of a battle to prevent the rising of the machines culminating in an exchange of prose rather than the exchange of heavy artillery is pretty slim, so it's not the most useful of assets to possess in the grand scheme of things. It's not widely known if anyone has ever talked their way out of trouble with a soliloquy, for example.
Jhon is armed with a particularly rich arsenal of word play as is evident from the post he wrote on the Awesome Merchandise blog last year, which is absolutely loaded with horse-based puns, meaning I won't have the painful task of having to use any myself.
The post explained how users could win a copy of this Kate Prior illustrated T-shirt, created for the brand as an incentive to engage its social networking audiences. It seems that one instance of the boldly-coloured tee never made it out the gate though (sorry, couldn't help myself) and has remained stable (sorry) at the 'Horsesome' Merch offices, unclaimed furlong (sorry again) time. Instead it's now become the subject of Day 368 of my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE T-shirt challenge which is now in Day 3 of 'Extra Time'.
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