Passed a very tall Asian lady with the following text on her bright-yellow shirt:
“Hola! Teach me to roll my Rs.”
Now, I’m used to weirdness on t-shirts owned by folks who walk the streets of Vancouver’s West End, but this? I don’t even… there’s… it’s like… huh?
And this, from someone who’s received a “What is up, my negro?” t-shirt from his mulatto friend, and who’s mulatto friend is now sporting a t-shirt that says “Pregnant is the new black,” so you’d think I wouldn’t be fazed by t-shirts any more.
One of these days, I’ll write a REAL post again.
Posted on August 17th 2006 in General
August 19th, 2006 at 12:29 am
I wish you’d been there to see the early-20s-none-too-bright-quasi-punk white boy waitering in IHOP ask our mulatto friend what her “Pregnant Is The New Black” shirt really meant.
He really didn’t get it, even after she’d explained.
Perhaps t-shirt slogans are becoming too specialized for the whole spectrum of the public to figure out? (Although in the IHOP punk white boy’s case, I think he was simply deeply stupid. That happens sometimes.)
August 19th, 2006 at 6:59 am
I think I’m going to buy a shirt from t-shirthell.com (I wouldn’t suggest going there if you’re at work), because it’s the first shirt they make that I actually think is funny (not just shocking).
It says, “This Shirt Doesn’t Make Any Sense, and Neither Does This Apple” with a cartoon fire hydrant on it.
*I* think that’s funny, but I also own a “Your Retarded” shirt, which I only wear when at home, ’cause (much like the “What Is Up My Negro?” shirt) I think I’ll get my clock cleaned one day while wearing it.
And MonkeyPants, I happen to have photographic evidence that you have a shirt with two unicorns… doin’ stuff, so I think we’re in a niche of some sort.
August 20th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
I like the “doesn’t make any sense’ Tshirt.
I’m having the same appropriateness dilemma with the unicorn shirt. Can’t wear it to work, for sure.