So I salute everyone who responded on the 7th! woo

PS: I vaguely recall cutting a “Bubble Gum and Braces” 45 from the back of a box of cereal. It actually played on my stereo turntable!

http://www.rustyzipper.com/shop.cfm/rz/type~Iron-Ons%20-%20Motorcycle%20Themes/motorcycle.cfm

Speaking of glasses t-shirts, I highly recommend Kate Beaton’s “Glasses make you sexy.” http://tinyurl.com/dmnrbp

- Main Tank Minion

I remember really really wanting a “No Fear” shirt and I actually still have my rather threadbare “Co-ed Naked Martial Arts” shirt (‘Get your kicks below the belt!’) that I got in my early teens.

If we’re going to talk about the 70′s-era fuzzy letter mall t-shirt kiosk, I feel the need to point out it’s 80′s-era cousin: The airbrushed boardwalk t-shirt: Sporting bad script fonts, neon colors, sunsets or the Italian flag (occasionally all 4 elements) wearing one at the Jersey Shore pretty much immediately identified you as a benny (tourist) and were found at every other souvenir shop along the boardwalks next to the hermit crabs for sale.

I wore it on Valentines Day.

AFAIK, there is no such brand of tequila.

magic Brickamagig – it’s the new ‘widget’

In high school, one of my favorites was a parody of the Twister(TM) spinner with “Twisted” as the logo and the four quadrants labeled “left brain”, “right brain”, “right mind”, and “wrong mind”. It doesn’t fit anymore, but it’s still in the back of my closet waiting to become part of a nostalgic quilt I’ve been planning.

My magic brickamajig is of the Creative Zen variety, but I tend to listen to podcasts on my computer at work as a distraction from repetitive data entry. (That’s not the whole of my job, by the way, just the one I need the least concentration for.)

My first slogan T-shirt(s): My mom came home one day with T-shirts for my brother and me. One was “It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature.” The other was “The Devil Made Me Do It.” That was pretty funny stuff for the early 70s. (If you don’t get the references, check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qAkEA-H_zE and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8.)

I MUST HAVE A SHIRT LIKE THIS. If you can find it online anywhere, please post it here. Please. Really. Want.

As for my memorable T-shirts: My parents took me somewhere in Florida or maybe it was Gulf Shores, Alabama for a vacation, and I got a pale yellow t-shirt air-brushed with some silly beach scene.

I wore that shirt until it was threadbare and the design was almost worn off. My mother threw it out one day while I was at school, but luckily I happened to see it in the garbage and rescued it. I still had it until a few years ago. I’m not sure where it is, now.

Then, years later, EPCOT center opened. We weren’t there for the grand opening, but we went as soon after that as we could. And I got me an EPCOT shirt with the big geodesic dome and EPCOT written on it. THAT one I still have. It’s in my closet in a position of honor. I can no longer wear it, but I have faith that one day I will wake up several inches shorter and about 100 pounds lighter and voila! it’ll fit me again.

As for the shirt I wanted as a kid, I’d have to say “Darth Vader Lives!” My mom wouldn’t let me have it because it was “Satanic”, as was every other fun thing at the time.

Frankly, I buy more tshirts now; mostly from ThinkGeek, Paizo & y’all. Currently wearing the capsaicin molecule one….wore the Dept. of Geek Affairs yesterday.

My current favorite shirts are one I got from the Smithsonian with an Uncle Sam-like finger bursting out through red and white stripes with the caption, “Are you doing all you can?”; one that says, “Make the dumb man go away: Vote;” an “Advanced Dungeons & Hamsters” t-shirt from Goats, with a panel from the comic on the back; and the one I wear to the first rehearsal of each sememster, “I can’t … I have rehearsal,” which is not so much funny as a statement of fact.

In case you haven’t noticed, I love t-shirts.

Somwhere in there, though, I got a shirt that I still treasure: it is a pie chart labelled “The Battle”. 50% of it is “Knowing”, and the rest is divided between “Running”, “Stabbing”, “Gouging”, “Weasels”, and “Tactics”.

Also, re: Your reaction to the “reach around” comment… Hahaha! I <3 it.

American Tunic? So like is this D&D: America edition?

A long long time ago I used to watch professional wrestling with some sense of regularity. There was, at the time, a group of wrestlers, I guess, calling themselves the “New World Order” who sort of split off into another “New World Order” group. It’s hard to explain in context, so check the Wikipedia article. Anyway, the shirt I wanted was the shirt from this splinter group. They were the “good guys” that you cheered for, while the original group was the bad guys you hated. I ended up seeing the shirt for sale at a carnival/home days type of event, and yes, I got it. And I wore it for years, too. Eventually it became an under shirt, and now… I have no idea where it is.

“Let me reach around here… so I don’t have to be straining…” ~Paul. XD

Wow you’re already planned out through May? Another Coultonic Convergence, I hope?

OK, I’m a bad geek.

I used to make t-shirts for my junior high school friends that said “I smoke Spam, do you?” They were fairly popular, but it was 1978 at the time.

For my tenth birthday, I think, my then-best friend gave me a shirt with Beast (from X-Men) on it. It was an awesome shirt, and I think I still have it in my closet, despite that it hasn’t fit me in years. (Conversely, I am currently wearing a shirt that I bought at a comic convention four years later, which still fits me perfectly. It has Ash on it. Not Evil Dead/Bruce Campbell Ash, but the now-obscure character created by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe “I Fucked Up Spider-Man” Quesada.)