My friend George and I have been actively involved in Men's Choir here at the college for a number of years. Last year, as we were discussing the fate of the choir due to declining membership numbers, we joked that we should hang posters based on a few good WWI and WWII military recruitment posters. One weekend when I was bored and expirimenting with my photo editing program, I did a little editing and came up with some funny posters. (Maybe I'll post a few of them later.) I never imagined that we would actually post them, but at the relentless encouragement of my roommate and a few friends, that's exactly what we did. It became a campus-wide joke, and I think it may have played a small part in keeping the choir around.
I like to be low-key. (Except for on my blog.) I never came out and told anyone, without being asked, that I had made the posters or put them up. But George admitted to helping - and he loved that people loved it. Since then, he has been a fearless leader of Men's Choir, constantly encouraging people to join and coming up with new ideas. (He is now our president.) He wrote a letter, promoting the choir and asked that it be included in recruitment materials. He resurrected the old posters this year and made some new ones, too. He encouraged the pastor of two local congregations to invite Men's Choir to edify their worship. His latest project has been choir T-shirts. I was involved in conceiving the design of the shirts and providing a translation, but George executed the design, ordered them and is overseeing distribution. He even ordered extras which have been available to the campus as a whole. (Part of his ongoing recruitment effort.)
Spoof T-shirts are nothing new on the MLC campus. The Senior SPaM track party-throwing organization, COS, of which I am a consientious objector, has been doing them for years. And they are always well-recieved. The formula is typical of SPaM track humor here at MLC: Take a professor that you respect immensely and portray them in a situation that is completely foreign to their personality. Examples include certain members of the SPaM faculty as the Little Rascals, Tranformers, etc.
Here is our take on Prof. Wagner, director of our Men's Choir, as Che Guevara:
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Hooray! Another country heard from, as they say! Ack, you're too young to know that saying....
But you didn't translate for us mere mortals! Still funny, just the same.