...stumbled across this web site wherein they basically created a whole product line based on the image of the Sacred religious revered Gods of Hawaii. (ki'i akua pictures taken at Pu'uhonua o Honaunau, the God images at the one of Hawaii's reverential sites.)
http://www.offduty-nolimits.com/catalog.php?cat=tshirts
and emailed them, this:
You are using sacred Hawaiian Gods for commercial purposes. This trivialization of revered religious icons of a Polynesian culture, one that, by the hands of foreigners, has suffered too much disrespect and cultural intellectual property rights appropriation for too long. This is never justified. You are continuing this pernicious trend and it is reprehensible.
What if... you had this instead, on your
"about us" :
http://www.offduty-nolimits.com/aboutus.php
page, the following?
The Golf Godz began as a resort lifestyle t-shirt company. We sell to stores from Tortola to the Vatican to Salt lake City Utah, (the tabernacle).
One afternoon during an Off*Duty board meeting at the beach while killing black cats, we discussed the idea of jesus and pope-heads on shirts. Saint-heads we think are hip and have the ability to portray a definite ATTITUDE! Originally we thought that we would concentrate on our pious bible belt markets for this concept. Jim, our artist, came up with some great drawings and as soon as I saw the religious figures (the jesus holding a golf bag, the virgin mary whackin an angel with a golf club, jesus crucified on a flagstick...) I said, "Stick a tee in his ear and 2 golf balls in that guy's pockets!" From there a line of 11 christian religious guys was developed to playfully "roast in hell" ourselves as golfers.
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I hope that you find these "one liners" sacriligeously, disrespectfully humorous and can relate to the "Attitude of The Golf Godz". (If so, I pity you. But send us money anyway. If yer dimwitted enough to exhibit such thoughtlessness toward a culture other than your own, you should be parted from your money.)
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Thank you for taking time to view our website. Come join us at the beach when you feel ethnocentric—but for now let us send you, or perhaps more importantly your Sandbagger friends or even still, enemies, a shirt, cap, nun's habit or towel. It may just become a favorite!
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Tee it Up, genuflect and keep it in the short grass and the long pews!
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Moony Jones
TGIF
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anyone who feels this, to any degree, is not pono, email them and tellem;
no shame, no shame!
http://www.offduty-nolimits.com/catalog.php?cat=tshirts
and emailed them, this:
You are using sacred Hawaiian Gods for commercial purposes. This trivialization of revered religious icons of a Polynesian culture, one that, by the hands of foreigners, has suffered too much disrespect and cultural intellectual property rights appropriation for too long. This is never justified. You are continuing this pernicious trend and it is reprehensible.
What if... you had this instead, on your
"about us" :
http://www.offduty-nolimits.com/aboutus.php
page, the following?
The Golf Godz began as a resort lifestyle t-shirt company. We sell to stores from Tortola to the Vatican to Salt lake City Utah, (the tabernacle).
One afternoon during an Off*Duty board meeting at the beach while killing black cats, we discussed the idea of jesus and pope-heads on shirts. Saint-heads we think are hip and have the ability to portray a definite ATTITUDE! Originally we thought that we would concentrate on our pious bible belt markets for this concept. Jim, our artist, came up with some great drawings and as soon as I saw the religious figures (the jesus holding a golf bag, the virgin mary whackin an angel with a golf club, jesus crucified on a flagstick...) I said, "Stick a tee in his ear and 2 golf balls in that guy's pockets!" From there a line of 11 christian religious guys was developed to playfully "roast in hell" ourselves as golfers.
*
I hope that you find these "one liners" sacriligeously, disrespectfully humorous and can relate to the "Attitude of The Golf Godz". (If so, I pity you. But send us money anyway. If yer dimwitted enough to exhibit such thoughtlessness toward a culture other than your own, you should be parted from your money.)
*
Thank you for taking time to view our website. Come join us at the beach when you feel ethnocentric—but for now let us send you, or perhaps more importantly your Sandbagger friends or even still, enemies, a shirt, cap, nun's habit or towel. It may just become a favorite!
*
Tee it Up, genuflect and keep it in the short grass and the long pews!
*
Moony Jones
TGIF
**************
anyone who feels this, to any degree, is not pono, email them and tellem;
no shame, no shame!
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