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If there could be only one, which one would I get?

Inside You

or…

Not a Crook

The “inside you” one is funny and colourful and subtle and from Threadless. Meanwhile, “crook” is lacking in design and the image of Nixon waving peace signs is a little over used, but, you have to love the use of an ancillary McDonaldland character.

Speaking of McDonaldland, the evolution of the Hamburglar is kind of interesting:

The Hamburglar character was another thief that dressed in a black-and-white striped shirt and pants, a red cape, and a wide-brimmed hat and whose primary object of theft was McDonalds hamburger from the Hamburger Patch.

The design of the character changed from the 1970s to 1980s from a more sinister to a more cartoonish face. The age of the character has also changed, as originally he was depicted as an older man, but was redrawn as a less sinister young boy.

Originally, his vocabulary consisted of nothing other than “Robble, robble, robble.” His vocabulary has been expanded; he later was shown speaking ordinary English, though he continued to use “robble robble” to occasionally punctuate his speech. Although he was a thief, he was still considered a friend of Ronald McDonald and the rest of the McDonaldland gang, who appeared to tolerate his kleptomania as an eccentricity.

I think I’ll always have a taste for McDonalds… Damn the evil McOpCo geniuses of the 1970s and their advertising ways.