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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Merchandise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
march .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang
merchandise
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Yea … Summit/Steph seriously need to cut them off and be like “hmmm … I think 300 pieces of Twi-merch is enough, move on to the next big thing!”
Twilight Lexicon » More Places to Spend Your Twilight Dollars 2009
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I might not get any cool, sweet Twilight merch from the Lexicon, but maybe I will win the poster.
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Like many people here, I also agree that all this merch is going overboard.
Twilight Lexicon » More Places to Spend Your Twilight Dollars 2009
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Link to images and more info on the sixspace show in LA, and link to more info and merch from the mighty Coop.
Boing Boing: August 15, 2004 - August 21, 2004 Archives 2004
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MarkThePlaces (11: 47: 07 PM): they must've thought hgb was too awesome to ship it, so they opened it, listened to it for months, and then rewrapped it sheburns15 (11: 47: 09 PM): but i had to call the merch place sheburns15 (11: 47: 14 PM): lol sheburns15 (11: 49: 13 PM): well okay then lets plan to disneyland
my life my love my her. k3schmadical 2006
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After hanging out and looking at most of the paintings we did our sound check and I proceeded to explore Meaford with our merch guy, appropriately dubbed merch Mike.
MuchMusic.com | Blog 2010
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We've been selling a lot of merch, which is always a good sign.
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Mostly vintage comic strip "merch" and contemporary, alternative comics-related vinyl figures from Presspop and its ilk.
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I tried to follow but my Western mind got immediately stimulus-bound by the "merch" stand.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Tinariwen Simplicity in the District of Complexity 2010
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Deals are forged for tie-in toys, clothes, bags of prewashed spinach leaves — any kind of "merch" to which a brand can be affixed.
john commented on the word merch
Short for "merchandise." At most rock shows bands set up "merch tables" to sell tshirts, singles, etc.
Pretty soon Wordie merch will be available at the Wordie Cafe Press Store. It's empty so far, but planned items include "crappucino" mugs and "sesquipedalian" onesies. Please nominate other pieces of crap we can sell.
October 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word merch
Oh my gosh! Crappucino mugs?! How awesome! I'll definitely come up with some ideas. *thinks hard*
October 16, 2007
skipvia commented on the word merch
There are some lists around here that would make excellent mugs.
October 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word merch
Yes, and some Conversations of Legend that could work out purty nice. (The short ones.)
October 16, 2007
john commented on the word merch
Does anyone have a Conversations of Legend list? Would love to see that.
Crappuccino mugs now available. Boy is my family going to be confused and disappointed when they all get these for xmas :-)
I'll keep playing with the crap on cafe press. Any design/word/list suggestions?
October 16, 2007
skipvia commented on the word merch
Chained_Bear has an excellent list called Conversations for the Ages.
October 16, 2007
rocksinmypockets commented on the word merch
Oh, no, the crappuccino mugs are just TOO good! I think I actually must buy some.
How cool would it be to put whole lists in cloud form on merch? Oh, dear. I'm in trouble. I can see I'm going to spend money that I oughtn't.
*sigh*
October 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word merch
Crappuccino mugs??? WOW! *runs off to buy a dozen* What a fantastic idea! T-shirts! Calendars! Onesies! Oh, the possibilities! This is bad...this is very, very bad. :-D
Geez, I sleep for a few hours and suddenly Wordie is merchandising! Ah, the glories of the Interwebs.
October 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word merch
Oh, and Jennarenn has a few excellent Conversations of Legend-type lists--in fact, I think she may have launched the whole idea. :-)
October 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word merch
That's teh Interwebs, reesetee. We're on WORDIE, for god's sake.
John, I respectfully defer to jennarenn's suggestions for conversations--her Conversations list is probably more complete than mine, and certainly was listed first.
I'm partial to sausage fest though--partly because it still makes me giggle to see that phrase, and partly because all the comments are short enough that they might actually fit on the back of a shirt. (Do you think we could get permission to use the "hilarious misunderstanding" comic too?)
Actually, hilarious misunderstanding has even shorter comments, and is even more apparently obtuse. Maybe that one's better. Hmm...
October 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word merch
Apologies. teh Interwebs.
You don't know how much it took out of me to type that.
So go for obtusity, you think? Kind of reminds me of Despair Wear, which I absolutely love.
October 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word merch
Ha! Look what I just rediscovered: 18-pounders! Short and weird--everything we need.
Also agree with reesetee. Earworm merch would be cool. "Caution: Emits Earworms," for example.
October 16, 2007
uselessness commented on the word merch
We seriously need the following t-shirts:
epicaricacy: Don't make me laugh.
waxed paper: Shirted nerd.
haversack: For the haver who has everything.
Have a nice firkin day!
hagiothecium: Google got pwned.
madeupical: Trust no one.
Also, if there was a way to generate posters or shirts or something on-the-fly, a "purchase this list for use in meatspace" link would be nice to dynamically do what rocksinmypocket said, and create merch with lists in cloud format.
October 16, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word merch
Hmmm.... could I get a "purchase this list for use in meatspace" shirt or mug?
October 16, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word merch
Or maybe just a "meat" shirt.
October 16, 2007
trivet commented on the word merch
Ferkin awesome shirts, u!
October 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word merch
U, these are classics. Every one of them! *counts money* I especially like hagiothecium and epicaricacy for t-shirt value. I especially like haversack for conversational value. And I just like meatspace, period. What's not to like?
October 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word merch
It would fit in nicely with chained_bear's sausage fest. ;-)
Uselessness, great ideas for t-shirts! I heartily concur--especially on the madeupical once, since...well, you know.
October 16, 2007
uselessness commented on the word merch
As for meat, check out this shirt, inspired by this story, courtesy of Dinosaur Comics.
October 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word merch
Priceless! Thanks, uselessness!
October 16, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word merch
Hey, speaking of that story, I also recommend Terry Bisson's other work. I just read Walking Man a little while ago. Very dreamlike and atmospheric--once you get over the lead girl's always saying "hit" instead of "it," that is.
October 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word merch
To add to the suggestions: I think we need a Professor von Schmartzenpanz and/or a chaordic t-shirt.
October 16, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word merch
Oh yeah, I second that one, rt!
October 16, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word merch
I'm way behind in my reading, so I just read your post John. In fact, I did a rather embarassing little dance. I've been *wanting* a wordie t-shirt. Particularly anything I can wear in front of other people's kids. If we're taking requests, I would be up for a stuffie shirt. :)
In addition to my conversations list, check out chit-chat and idle chatter. Right now they're organized by legnth, but that needs to be redone. I'll turn it in with my TPS report.
October 17, 2007
lampbane commented on the word merch
Penny Arcade (1/5/05):
"If kids buy enough products, the Merch rouses from his coma just long enough to impart some keen insight."
December 3, 2007
asativum commented on the word merch
On my Wordie up! page, I posited a way to bring the wordiemobile to the masses, and reesetee wisely suggested raising it here: The other kind of -mobile, one of those dangly things with lots of words hanging from it, maybe even interchangeable wordies to hang from it...
December 6, 2007
bilby commented on the word merch
How did this not end up on all those 'Wordie conversations' kind of lists?
I have to admit I'm dying to seen jennarenn's rather embarassing little dance *blush*
June 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word merch
Here you go, bilby. Don't know how I missed it. :-)
June 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word merch
Overdue rt but well done nonetheless. Jennarenn, make my day.
June 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word merch
Never mind that I have every other word in the universe on my lists, bilby. ;->
I think c_b has such a list too.
June 19, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word merch
Yah. There's a link to it below, near the bottom of the page, in several comments.
June 19, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word merch
Here you go bilby:
*does the jennarenn dance*
October 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word merch
Love it! Oh yeah!
October 19, 2008