Shirts Off Your Back

landshark · Posted: Aug 31, 5:48 am Post subject: Shirts Off Your Back

Facing the sweaty oversized bodies of hundreds of thousands of Fairgoers, messages conveyed by their adornments and fabrics covers the spectrum of humanity. Whether it is oversized butts jammed into teeny tiny spandex, bellies that overshadow their own time zones bursting through tanktops, waist lines on young ladies hovers just above their pelvic bone, and boobs boobs everywhere there are boobs.

One item of fashionware has stood out for me year after year. It is the T-Shirt. This has become our society’s way of conveying to strangers who we are and what is our attitude … all within a handful of words on a shirt.

Though there are thousands of messages, here are a few that stood out … (Feel free to add yours onto the list).

Worn by an older man with very skinny legs and a world class beer gut …

“I beat Anorexia”

Worn by a 14ish pretty young girl …

“M.I.L.F. in Training”

Worn by a has been skanky toothless old woman …

“All this and brains too”

This list will be grown as interesting messages are noted.
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DisneyKid · Posted: Aug 31, 8:10 am Post subject: I'm a sex bomb

I'm a Sex Bomb, Ignite Me.

Seen twice...once on a skinny girl who was probably in junior high and another time on a 50ish woman who probably weighed at least 350 pounds.

When I was a kid someone gave me a t-shirt for Christmas. My parents were pissed. I think I was about 14 and this t-shirt had a picture of Mr. Rogers on it and the caption below his picture was 'Can you say Fuck it?'. My parents never let me wear it. LOL! Can't way as I blame them! I don't think I ever would have worn it anyway. Not my style now, wasn't then.
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JQP · Posted: Aug 31, 9:49 am Post subject: Shirtz

Hey DK, I had that shirt - and I wore it to a church picnic once. I will just let you imagine the flak I took for that. Twisted Evil

I also was one of the sleazy-looking teens in the late 70's wearing a "Death to Disco" shirt. (I hand-made a "Disco Sucks" one, but it got trashed the first time I wore it.)

At the Fair this Friday, you will know me by my black t-shirt with the simple white (but slightly lame) message:

"Out of my mind. Leave a message."

Rolling Eyes

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Sass · Super Blumworthy Joined: Dec 09, 2004 Posts: 317

I saw a girl... she couldn't have been more than 14 (and with her parents) wearing a shirt that said "save a surfboard, ride a surfer". I wonder if her parents even "got it".

My husband's favorite t-shirt says "Speaker City" You'd have to have seen a certain movie to find the humor in that one.
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DisneyKid · Posted: Aug 31, 4:24 pm Post subject: I wonder

how many people had the Mr. Rogers shirt. I think mine was purchased at the SU bookstore.

I saw someone else who had a shirt that said mustache rides 5 cents. Slimy looking person wearing it.
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Ann · Guest

My son bought one at the Fair.

It has a picture of a woman skin diving and it says....

Sally's Snorkel Shop

"Go down like a pro"

Our prices will blow you away.

crazycatlady · Super Blumworthy Joined: Dec 15, 2004 Posts: 585

guy wearing and I love soccer moms shirt while I was at the fair. The best ever was a big beer belly guy wearing a shirt with the word baby with arrow pointing down.
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landshark · Posted: Sep 3, 11:11 am Post subject:

this one made me roar ...

"I thought about quitting drugs but then decided against it"

this one made me smile ...

"DARE to resist drugs and violence"

now THAT is the perfect statement for what should be DARE's mission.
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newtoCNY · Posted: Sep 3, 12:51 pm Post subject:

I would love to have that one, mark. dare is a joke.

LB · Guest

an interesting thing is, quite a few people don't know what dare stands for.. a bunch of us were sitting around one night, (comPLETEly clean and sober, of course) trying to think of what it stood for... the only acronym we could think of was Drugs Are Really Excellent...

but anyways.. I've owned quite a few interesting shirts over the years..

among them...

30 ways to to say I love you (with people in 30 positions)

the classic 'knock it off asshole, I'm a french fry'

(and another I forget, that I had as a teenager, all of which my father destroyed long ago, commenting 'white trash' and a few other expletives)

Designated smoking area

a smiling cheshire cat, over the chinese symbol for 'Feces'

Procrastinators unite tomorrow!

I'm with stupid (arrow pointing up, although it should point down..)

I speak Hawiian 'Hai Iwannalaya'

Need Head (universal male symbol with head missing)

(universal female, male, male symbol) You, Me, Your Friend...

the favorite I saw at the fair was "heavily medicated for your safety"
(which I pointed out to my wife, she punched me, for reasons you'd know, if you knew her.... lol)

On the short midway, about 3/4 way down, by the high dive, past shamrocks, there is a place that has the best selection of cool shirts I've seen since steve & barry's in fingerlakes mall (and cooler ones than I've seen there, or spencers..)

Almost makes me want to go back into the t-shirt printing business...

LB

landshark · Posted: Sep 5, 10:00 am Post subject:

today ...

Instant Asshole ... Just Add Beer
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newtoCNY · Posted: Sep 5, 10:36 am Post subject:

I saw a guy with a tshirt on that said

IT AIN'T GONNA LICK ITSELF

(he left the bar alone)

FedLovesLL · Super Blumworthy Joined: Feb 10, 2004 Posts: 345

I should have gone and wore one of my favorite shirts...

It's a shirt advertising a band called Emily's Toybox (who are a great bunch of guys by the way). On the front is a picture of a tube of chapstick (Emily's Toybox Lip Balm). On the back, in big block letters is...

MY DICK SMELLS LIKE CHAPSTICK.

It's a line from one of their songs.


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