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Old 05-13-2013, 04:43 AM
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Well, I didn't see it worn, but I actually did see this shirt that Walmart got in trouble for selling, awhile back.

Apparently, as the story came out, the guy doing graphic design at their T-shirt company had just browsed a bunch of stock art, found a graphic he didn't recognize, put it on a shirt design, and no one caught it until it was already on the shelves. It seems the Walmart people haven't been watching the History Channel enough to recognize the big ol' Totenkopf...
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Old 05-13-2013, 05:54 AM
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THIS probably doesn't seem offensive, except the woman who was wearing it was about 85 years old!
PK, I'm sure you don't find sexual relations among old people offensive. I think you meant to type "This probably doesn't seem very interesting, but what made it outstanding was that the woman . . . ."
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Old 05-13-2013, 06:49 AM
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Three that I can recall:

I had a t-shirt with a picture of a chubby man pulling the band of his shorts out and looking down at his crotch. The caption on the shirt said "Polish Peeping Tom."

Got a shirt in Maui from some bar that said "Liquor up front - Poker in the rear."

In my National Lampoon days I got a shirt had a couple of innocuous phases on it. When you pulled up the bottom line to partially cover the top line - like the old back page of a Mad magazine - it said "Fuck Off."
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Old 05-13-2013, 06:52 AM
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In my National Lampoon days I got a shirt had a couple of innocuous phases on it. When you pulled up the bottom line to partially cover the top line - like the old back page of a Mad magazine - it said "Fuck Off."
Again back in university in Texas, I knew a girl who had one of those.
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Old 05-13-2013, 11:59 AM
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Maybe he meant "Old enough to get bread"? It's an old joke I remember from Texas: "If she's old enough to go to the store, she's old enough to get bread (bred)."
No. The old saying was "old enough to buy bread, old enough to give head". Which is why a young girl wearing it is offensive.


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PK, I'm sure you don't find sexual relations among old people offensive.
The old bag looked like the Crypt Keeper. The thought of her having sex IS offensive.
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Old 05-13-2013, 12:17 PM
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Again back in university in Texas, I knew a girl who had one of those.
Willie Nelson wore one in Songwriter.
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Old 05-13-2013, 12:32 PM
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Was this in Texas? Seriously, I had one of those in university.




Not to mention there was at least one major thread about it on the Board.
Yes, it was in Texas. I am certain you weren't the individual in question. Unpleasant things happened to him that night.
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Old 05-13-2013, 09:23 PM
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No. The old saying was "old enough to buy bread, old enough to give head". Which is why a young girl wearing it is offensive.
Never heard that version before.


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Yes, it was in Texas. I am certain you weren't the individual in question. Unpleasant things happened to him that night.
What, because of the shirt? Odd. They all laughed when I wore it. I believe it even had the dates for England and Russia struck through with "Canceled" next to them.

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Old 05-13-2013, 10:20 PM
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Rick, I think you'll enjoy this story about my Cousin Joy also....


Back in 2008, she and her husband were shopping for a new Lexus SUV. Her husband is a nice guy, but he's also 12 years older than her (she was 49 at the time) and doesn't have quite the devilish sense of humor that she and I share.

She was trying to decide between the mid-size (GX470) and full-size (LX570) models and asked the salesman how much bigger the LX570 was. He said "about 10 inches". Then she asked how much more expensive it was, and he said, "about $10,000".

She looked the salesman straight in the face and said, "Well I never thought I'd turn down 10 inches, but I'm not gonna pay $10,000 for it!"

Her husband walked away, red-faced back to their car and they ended up going to another Lexus dealer to get her GX470...or "Stubby" as she has nicknamed it!
ROTFL!
That does it. I'm in love. ;-)
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Old 05-13-2013, 11:25 PM
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No. The old saying was "old enough to buy bread, old enough to give head". Which is why a young girl wearing it is offensive.




The old bag looked like the Crypt Keeper. The thought of her having sex IS offensive.
Well, since I do too, I don't need to ask, "Why don't you just suck my dick, then?" do I?
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Old 05-14-2013, 12:46 AM
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I own this Goodyear Pimps (band) t-shirt. I only wear it to bars and concerts.
http ://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/kjbrasda/DSCF7123_zps33172205.jpg

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Old 05-14-2013, 12:49 AM
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"Why don't you just suck my dick, then?"
Hence your user name?

I'll pass, handsome.

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Old 05-14-2013, 03:26 AM
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Smart men get less hair.
But they get more head.
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Old 05-14-2013, 12:02 PM
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1) A caterpillar trying to hump a crinkle-cut french fry. The FF is saying, "Knock it off, asshole. I'm a french fry."

2) A picture of a bloody hammer with the caption "She was asking for it."
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Old 05-14-2013, 12:51 PM
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1) A caterpillar trying to hump a crinkle-cut french fry. The FF is saying, "Knock it off, asshole. I'm a french fry."
I remember that cartoon from the National Lampoon.

If they ever perfect home t-shirt making technology, some method that will allow you to print directly on the cloth with dyes that will last as long as a silk-screened t-shirt, there are a few hundred NatLamp cartoons I want to have on my chest.
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Old 05-14-2013, 12:53 PM
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The old bag looked like the Crypt Keeper. The thought of her having sex IS offensive.
Hey, do not knock the value of more than sixty years of practice.

Not to mention the advantage of removable teeth.
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Old 05-14-2013, 01:34 PM
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I remember that cartoon from the National Lampoon.

If they ever perfect home t-shirt making technology, some method that will allow you to print directly on the cloth with dyes that will last as long as a silk-screened t-shirt, there are a few hundred NatLamp cartoons I want to have on my chest.
I got the shirt in Wildwood, NJ, back in the mid-late 1980s. I suspect it's still available.
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Old 05-14-2013, 05:43 PM
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Not to mention the advantage of removable teeth.
All teeth are removable.

If you don't believe me just smart-off the wrong guy at your local dive bar.
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Old 05-14-2013, 05:51 PM
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9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape
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Old 05-14-2013, 09:06 PM
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And then there's the Lee Harvey Oswald Band tee.

Of course, given the passage of 50 years of time, most of the people who would have been offended by it have passed on.
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Old 05-14-2013, 09:19 PM
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I didn't like either Bush president, but I still found a "Buck Fush" shirt offensive.
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Old 05-14-2013, 09:20 PM
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And then there's the Lee Harvey Oswald Band tee.

Of course, given the passage of 50 years of time, most of the people who would have been offended by it have passed on.
Unless you were in third grade, and watched your teacher cry at the news. There's a lot of us former kids still around.
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Old 05-14-2013, 09:20 PM
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And then there's the Lee Harvey Oswald Band tee.
I actually own that one.


None of my students get it.
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Old 05-14-2013, 10:04 PM
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after an evening of heavy drinking south of the border I bought a shirt that said

my dick wants to buy you a drink

never had the balls to wear it though
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Old 05-14-2013, 11:18 PM
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And then there's the Lee Harvey Oswald Band tee.

Of course, given the passage of 50 years of time, most of the people who would have been offended by it have passed on.
You have to give points for effort, this is gold compared to the braindead "I RAPE ON THE FIRST DATE" shit that finds its way onto most edgy t-shirts.

Politically themed, I was really proud of a shirt I had that said "Meet the Fuckers" with pictures of GW Bush and Dick Cheney. I still have it, but it's more embarassing now, not because of the sentiment, but because I was dumb enough to blow $15 on a screen printed t-shirt that I can wear next to nowhere.

Now it's 2013, people have completely forgotten Meet the Fockers, and almost forgotten Dick Cheney (!), and even those who get it will mostly just question why the hell I'm wearing a shirt a minimum 4.33 years obsolete.

I'll have to hold onto it until the mid-2020s when aughts-retro is in style.
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Old 05-15-2013, 12:15 AM
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You have to give points for effort, this is gold compared to the braindead "I RAPE ON THE FIRST DATE" shit that finds its way onto most edgy t-shirts.

Politically themed, I was really proud of a shirt I had that said "Meet the Fuckers" with pictures of GW Bush and Dick Cheney. I still have it, but it's more embarassing now, not because of the sentiment, but because I was dumb enough to blow $15 on a screen printed t-shirt that I can wear next to nowhere.

Now it's 2013, people have completely forgotten Meet the Fockers, and almost forgotten Dick Cheney (!), and even those who get it will mostly just question why the hell I'm wearing a shirt a minimum 4.33 years obsolete.

I'll have to hold onto it until the mid-2020s when aughts-retro is in style.
That reminds me of this story from 2005.
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/10/05...nti-bush-shirt
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Old 05-15-2013, 06:00 AM
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Unless you were in third grade, and watched your teacher cry at the news. There's a lot of us former kids still around.
Hey, I'm one of you. I was in fifth grade.

But I think that most of the people who would be offended by that shirt would have been a bit older than we are.
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Old 05-15-2013, 09:33 AM
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"We Like Raping" below a picture of some dudes rapping on a microphone. So very offensive.
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Old 05-15-2013, 10:44 AM
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And not half as bad as some of the others seen here, but back when I was in college I had a DVD of Chuck Palahniuk speaking at a college. He was talking about fashion and why people get all excited over ridiculous things like beaver skin hats. He said people love fashion "because you can't just wear a shirt that says, 'I am so rich. My dick is so big.'" My brother and I turned to each other, wide-eyed and smiling. The next day we bought plain white t-shirts and make-your-own-design iron-ons. We did kind of cheat, though...we wrote it in Fight Club font so it was very difficult to read.
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Old 05-15-2013, 11:31 AM
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Remember the t-shirts popular in the 70s that had a finger pointing to one side and the words "I'm with stupid"? I saw one recently that said "He likes it up the ass".
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Old 05-17-2013, 08:53 AM
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I have quite a few t-shirt hell shirts and other offensive t-shirts. Some of the more memorable experiences:

1) I had a Charles Manson for President shirt that I wore to my very first jury duty summons. The judge actually seemed to be amused by it, but some of the other jurors were none too pleased with me.

2) The week after the columbine massacre happened, my friend and I started making and selling "Columbine High School Gun Club" t-shirts from those crappy iron on transfers. We ended up selling about 20 of them to our fellow students.

3) I got a stern talking to for my "My grandpa has a magic lap" and my "Jesus hates you" shirts, both outside of the same Target.

4) I wore a t-shirt for the band Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles. The back said "Its not rape, its surprise sex" to a concert a couple of years ago. Throughout the day I was stopped at least 20 times asking to get a picture with the shirt. One woman was very persistent in trying to get me to give her the shirt. Then one woman came over to me and just said "I was raped when I was younger and your shirt really hurt me". Kinda killed the fun, so I bought another shirt to wear the rest of the day.
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Old 05-17-2013, 10:29 AM
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A friend of mine had a t-shirt that said, "I bowled a 300 with my ben-wa balls." Some people found it offensive. I found it hysterical!
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Old 05-17-2013, 12:19 PM
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Heading south from Minnesota on Sturgis weekend, I saw a lot of shirts with this on the back:

If you can read this, the bitch fell off
I have a job shirt from a powerhouse I worked on a few years ago. Front of the shirt had a pocket with Duck Creek Power House and the back was artwork and in big letters,
If you can read this, my FOREMAN fell off!
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Old 05-17-2013, 02:30 PM
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I hsve one that mimics the "I Heart NY" campaign:

F<3
C K
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Old 05-17-2013, 09:05 PM
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A decade or so back, there were these T-shirts that said "Property of N' Sync".

(For anything that had better things going on in their life since then, N' Sync was the boy band Justin Timberlake was in. Saved you a Google.)
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Old 05-19-2013, 02:58 AM
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I saw a woman with a shirt that read: "I have the pussy therefore I'm in charge."

Saw another one that had a 10 year old kid holding a banana with the caption "I like bananas, but they don't spurt like Dad's."

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Old 05-19-2013, 12:39 PM
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Rick, I think you'll enjoy this story about my Cousin Joy also....


Back in 2008, she and her husband were shopping for a new Lexus SUV. Her husband is a nice guy, but he's also 12 years older than her (she was 49 at the time) and doesn't have quite the devilish sense of humor that she and I share.

She was trying to decide between the mid-size (GX470) and full-size (LX570) models and asked the salesman how much bigger the LX570 was. He said "about 10 inches". Then she asked how much more expensive it was, and he said, "about $10,000".

She looked the salesman straight in the face and said, "Well I never thought I'd turn down 10 inches, but I'm not gonna pay $10,000 for it!"

Her husband walked away, red-faced back to their car and they ended up going to another Lexus dealer to get her GX470...or "Stubby" as she has nicknamed it!
Please tell your cousin Joy that she is fuckin' awesome!
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Old 05-19-2013, 02:40 PM
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You know the classic "I [heart] NY" design? There's a T-shirt out there where the heart has been replaced by an airplane.

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Old 05-19-2013, 08:20 PM
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I guess this is not really all that offensive. Not even to the wearer really.

on the front: You are What You Eat

on the back: Cunt

I kind of expected that but it was still startlingly funny to see a guy walking around with a T-shirt that says "Cunt" on the back!

He didn't look like he'd be too worried if anybody took issue with it.
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