Personalized Sharpies

November 26, 2007 8:57 PM

Sharpie comes out with markers with your own message. Cuz Sharpie markers are fun!

Sharpies have a lot of fans, including me, as I just bought a bunch as X-mas gifts.

What can't you put on a personalized Sharpie (Remember what happened with Nike ID?):

* Please do not use any obscenities or offensive phrases. Be bold, but don't offend!
* No celebrity names, please! Unless of course it's YOUR name!
* No professional sports team names - we know you love them, but we want to respect their trademarks too!
* No names of major events or landmarks.
* No product names, trademarked names, copyrighted names or business names!
* No school/college/university names! Use your imagination to find other ways to show your school spirit!
If you have a question about what you can or cannot print, please contact us at 1-800-323-0749.

Now that would be a fun customer service number to call!

posted by k8t (43 comments total)

SHOULD NOT WANT
posted by loquacious at 9:05 PM on November 26, 2007 [2 favorites]

Sign my chest!
posted by Tube at 9:06 PM on November 26, 2007

Metafilter
you are so snuggly
posted by dhammond at 9:08 PM on November 26, 2007

Hmpf. Too little too late! If only they would have had this service when I used sharpies every day...
posted by gemmy at 9:10 PM on November 26, 2007

Mine would say "For the sucker who gets drunk and passes out on my sofa."
posted by SassHat at 9:10 PM on November 26, 2007

WTF? An ad for Sharpie? Are you drunk?
posted by MegoSteve at 9:10 PM on November 26, 2007

WTF? An ad for Sharpie? Are you drunk?

Everything on the internet everywhere is an advertisement of one sort of another. Get over it.
posted by dhammond at 9:12 PM on November 26, 2007

I am addicted to Sharpies, even more so since I started homeschooling my son and I can use a different color for grading each subject. I must restrain myself from buying customized ones, though... But the site is soooo tempting... Arrrrrgh!
posted by amyms at 9:13 PM on November 26, 2007

Sharpieblue? Seriously WTF?
posted by The Bellman at 9:16 PM on November 26, 2007

super personalized version: buy two sharpies, write your own messages in your own handwriting!
posted by cubby at 9:16 PM on November 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

Why do I care? I'm not nine.

And why won't adblock remove this post!??
posted by mattoxic at 9:17 PM on November 26, 2007

I put semi-public inside jokes on the ones for my friends. Ex. 'you probably found me under the couch' or 'ask me about the cyclone' (a dance a pal made up).
posted by k8t at 9:17 PM on November 26, 2007

Do the double tip Sharpies cost more, k8t?
posted by dhammond at 9:20 PM on November 26, 2007

I'm ordering a gross with the text "Sharpie Permanent Marker" on them, then suing the shit out of them when I find a similar batch down at Staples.
posted by Keith Talent at 9:20 PM on November 26, 2007

Everything on the internet everywhere is an advertisement of one sort of another. Get over it.

No. Metafilter's not the rest of the internet, so I expect a higher standard than MAKE UR P3NIZ BIGGER or "Ooh, Sharpies are wonderful and now you can buy them personalized! I'm buying them as Christmas presents for everyone I know..."
posted by MegoSteve at 9:22 PM on November 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

Clearly, the revolution will not be written in permanent marker.
posted by phaedon at 9:29 PM on November 26, 2007 [3 favorites]

I'm all Sharpies, all of the time now.

I love the thin ones for making notes and the big fat ones for EVERY FUCKING THING ELSE.
posted by unSane at 9:32 PM on November 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

I like Sharpies.

And lazaruslong sings a great soundtrack for posts like this.
posted by mediareport at 9:35 PM on November 26, 2007

MetaFilter: MAKE UR P3NIZ BIGGER
posted by secret about box at 9:51 PM on November 26, 2007 [2 favorites]

There is only one thing that should be written on them:

ERASABLE WHITEBOARD PEN

and then they should be scattered around the office.
posted by blue_beetle at 10:01 PM on November 26, 2007 [16 favorites]

I suspect this post is not as permanent as the markers it advertises.
posted by Reggie Digest at 10:08 PM on November 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

Also: It's odd that you can't write anything you want on the Sharpie. 'Cause, like, you can still write anything you want with the Sharpie, right?
posted by Reggie Digest at 10:10 PM on November 26, 2007

I contend that since I can create amusing pens that crack me up at the Sharpie website and then screenshot them and email them to people without giving Sharpie a dime, this post gets a Sharpieblue hall pass.
posted by DarlingBri at 10:19 PM on November 26, 2007

Its strange, really. Here, we have a poster with a decent FPP history, nothing too outrageous or obvious shilling -- yet now she makes an FPP encouraging us all to buy Sharpie permanent markers for Christmas.

I honestly don't know what to make of this. If it was posted by somebody named "John Smith" who joined six hours ago, there would be no question about the aims of the post. Is Sharpie Corp offering people cash for temporary control over their blogging accounts?

I'm vexed.
posted by Avenger at 10:27 PM on November 26, 2007

Collect the whole set.
posted by donovan at 10:38 PM on November 26, 2007

Sharpie's logo: perfect hand-lettered script.
Your message: Desyrel. Ouch.

I like Desyrel just fine, but the comparison doesn't do it any favors.
posted by booksandlibretti at 10:49 PM on November 26, 2007

blue_beetle, the only thing that would top your plan would be to have a bunch made that say, "WASHABLE--NON-TOXIC," and then donate them to preschools throughout the area.
posted by not that girl at 10:53 PM on November 26, 2007

"Will you marry me?"

A custom sharpie pen says I love you, and want to spend the rest of my life with you.
posted by jxn at 11:07 PM on November 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

Jerry Tha Sharpie Head is gonna love this! It's just the thing he needs right now, too; he's been down in a funk ever since Brutha Kornfeld passed.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 11:10 PM on November 26, 2007

Proposal Sharpies?

Well, I guess it's better than spamming her friends and family.
posted by katillathehun at 11:27 PM on November 26, 2007

But how do custom sharpies help me save money on orange juice?
posted by agentofselection at 11:28 PM on November 26, 2007 [3 favorites]

Proposal Sharpies? Well, I guess it's better than spamming her friends and family.

Yeah but then she drops the pen, and her uncle picks it up, and her aunt loans it to the checkout clerk she's been flirting with at WaWa - and then the family mail really starts flying...
posted by DarlingBri at 11:43 PM on November 26, 2007

Am I the only person who thought of the movie Secretary when I saw that? ...
posted by Phire at 12:03 AM on November 27, 2007

Wait, Brutha Kornfeld is gone?

[pours out a bottle of correction fluid on the curb]
posted by oats at 12:06 AM on November 27, 2007

There is only one thing that should be written on them:

ERASABLE WHITEBOARD PEN

and then they should be scattered around the office.
posted by blue_beetle at 10:01 PM on November 26

This happened to me, but I swear it was a permanent marker that looked EXACTLY LIKE the whiteboard markers...


Sharpie+louche mustachio+booze=BEST PARTY EVER.

On various occasions, everyone has ended up with hand puppets, knuckle tats, and mustaches. One unfortunate individual had daisies drawn all over his face.

If someone proposed to me via Sharpie, I might just marry the Sharpie.
posted by louche mustachio at 12:25 AM on November 27, 2007 [1 favorite]

i just want to get "CHING CHONG WING WONG" in the "karate" font
posted by maus at 12:35 AM on November 27, 2007

Pens with personalized messages have been around for, well, as long as pens... you can buy them by the dozens, hundreds, thousands...

Why is this here???

oh, wait, it's christmas time here in consumer land... we must advertise...
posted by HuronBob at 4:13 AM on November 27, 2007

I AM THE GREATEST ARTIST
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:01 AM on November 27, 2007

I like Sharpies, but I also like Pigma Microns. Always have them rolling around my desk and in my pockets...
posted by seanmpuckett at 5:18 AM on November 27, 2007

I still have a few dozen sharpies left over from my days at the grocery store (we had to write code on the backstock), so I want to say this might have been fun back then, but the primary reason we used sharpies is because we stole them from the school supplies section.

The limitations seem pretty stiff; Could I put my website on them, or would that count as a copyright?
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 5:26 AM on November 27, 2007

I want "Pepsi Blue" on mine....
posted by brettski at 6:05 AM on November 27, 2007

Say what you will, Sharpie has pretty good customer service. In March of '06 I wrote them this crazy rant about how the end cap didn't stay on the end of their markers.

Was this an intentional "feature", so that I'll be more likely to not leave the cap on the end of the marker, thus drying it out?

Was this unintentional, in which case legions of users are going to misplace the cap?

I got back the standard "Thanks for your inquiry, we're happy to blah blah blah blah" auto reply. I replied to that, ranting again about how it's a shame that Sharpie can't read their dam e-mails.

Later that week I got not one, but three double-tipped markers in the mail. Fuck yeah, Sharpie! That's what I'm talking about!

I still can't believe this thread is still here, but whatever.
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 6:15 AM on November 27, 2007

Wow -- personalized markers. How incredibly unexciting.
posted by aclevername at 6:20 AM on November 27, 2007