# Addicted to Geeky T-Shirts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963 "2013-01-31T21:56:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/1 "2013-01-31T21:56:32Z")
It’s a sad truth–here I am, in my mid-thirties, and my drawers are overflowing with geeky t-shirts. Just this week, I had a fit and ordered one to show that I am a member in good standing of the [Moscow Night Watch](http://www.redbubble.com/people/harrycane/works/9741332-night-watch-nochnoi-dozor), two [Dark](http://www.redbubble.com/people/meganlara/works/8113100-come-come-commala) [Tower](http://www.redbubble.com/people/losthero/works/8764451-the-nineteenth-inning)-themed\* ones and one that I got turing my trip to [Dunwall](http://www.redbubble.com/people/adho1982/works/9531762-greetings-from-dunwall). These will join my several [Game](http://www.redbubble.com/people/espressomaker/works/8930393-lannister-p-imp) of [Thrones](http://www.redbubble.com/people/andrescolmenare/works/8918753-game-of-musical-thrones) shirts, my Doctor Who shirt (that I can’t find right now–there’s just too many of them on RedBubble), my [time travel crib sheet](http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-CHEATSHEET&Category_Code=QW) shirt, and my [second coming of Lincoln](http://wondermark.com/abe-lincoln-is-sad/) shirt. I may be forgetting a few here. And then there’s the other category: shirts that aren’t geeky, just [clever](http://beta.threadless.com/product/383/The_Communist_Party) or [whimsical](http://beta.threadless.com/product/853/The_Day_The_Fire_Brigade_Went_On_Strike). Does anyone share this problem? My ex-girlfriend had it–she pointed me at one of the DT shirts. \*The “Gilead Gunslingers” shirt should be fun. I’m a regular at a Boston bar here in the city, not because I’m a Boston fan, but because they show Game of Thrones there. I should wear it w/ my Yankees hat and confuse 'em. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/2 "2013-01-31T22:38:15Z")
Mine tend towards the comics, with most of the requisite super-heroes represented. If they wear it on BBT, then I probably owned it before they did. In fact, I think I only own one plain white t-shirt. All the others are either shilling for some brewery I like or proclaim my readership of Marvel and DC and Dark Horse. ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/3 "2013-01-31T23:07:23Z")
Many of mine are geeky vacation souvenir T-shirts–Polar Caves, NH; Clark’s Trading Post, NH; Monticello. . . and geeky hometown ones–Fort Phoenix, Fairhaven MA; Fairhaven Father’s Day Road Race; etc. ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/4 "2013-01-31T23:55:42Z")
I wear black, geek-themed T-shirts at the gym. Most of them purchased at [thinkgeek.com](http://thinkgeek.com), but some purchased elsewhere. My favorites (and remember, this is for a 65-year-old man at the gym)… “Body By” followed by a picture of a Playstation console “Insufficient Memory”. “Keep out of direct sunlight” (someone once saw this and asked me if I was a dermatologist) ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/5 "2013-02-01T00:19:05Z")
I’m currently wearing my metashirt, a t-shirt that says “Dark-color shirt with humorous non-controversial slogan.” Virtually my entire wardrobe consists of black jeans and black t-shirts with geeky things on them. I have [game](http://sharkrobot.com/t-shirts-c-17/black-the-world-ends-with-you-player-pin-skull-shirt-clear) [shirts](http://sharkrobot.com/t-shirts-c-17/bloody-lies), [anime shirts](http://sharkrobot.com/t-shirts-c-17/equivalent-exchange-glow), [webcomic shirts](http://pegasuspublishing.com/Try-Science-xkcd-Shirt-p-30039.html), and, perhaps inevitably, [zombie shirts](http://pegasuspublishing.com/Zombie-Crossing-T-Shirt-p-28966.html). (That last one is typically reserved for Monday.) I can’t find a link for my Lovecraft shirt, which may be just as well. I do like the time travel crib sheet. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/6 "2013-02-01T01:08:55Z")
Most of my t-shirts are geeky. I have some Doctor Who, Futurama, Star Trek, Star Wars, World of Warcraft and some general ones like a picture of the solar system with a thought bubble over Pluto that says, “Weak”. (Because it got downgraded to dwarf-planet.) Mostly bought at ThinkGeek. My favorite. I love the 8-bit Ghostbusters car, in fourth grade I played the Ghostbusters computer game at a friends house, and the blue ghost looking back and probably thinking, “Oh shit.” [http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/bc59/](http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/bc59/) My other favorite is a Shaun of the Dead reference. So far nobody’s placed it yet. They probably just think it’s for a generic bar. [http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/df13/](http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/df13/) ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/7 "2013-02-01T01:16:31Z")
I don’t know if my shirts are “geeky” so much as they are “lame.” Half of the tee shirts I own are league shirts from the World Dodgeball Society, and I have entirely too many shirts with Sesame Street characters on them. My favorite tee is a Ghostbusters shirt which elicits compliments nearly every time I wear it. I saw a shirt in target once with an original NES controller captioned “Know Your Roots.” I’m not sure why I didn’t buy it. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/8 "2013-02-01T02:49:51Z")
Some folks dig the t-shirts–I’ve gotten comments from strangers on the “Communist Party” and my Pinky and the Brain shirt. Some need a particular audience–I’m looking forward to wearing my Game of Thrones gear to the bar when it stars up again at the end of March. But a lot of my crap is so obscure chances are good no one will ever get it. It’s my own personal in-joke with myself, I guess, or something like that. And hey, never know–if I head out to Brighton Beach, somebody might dig the Night Watch shirt. 🙂 ThinkGeek has good stuff, but RedBubble has some really amazing stuff. All user designed, and probably rather dubious in the intellectual property department. But so awesome. I mean, here’s my [Doctor Who](http://www.redbubble.com/people/trulyepic/works/7805251-timelord-and-proud?utm_campaign=order&utm_medium=email&utm_source=RB) shirt. And there’s the Firefly “[Mudder’s Milk](http://www.redbubble.com/people/meganlara/works/7384235-mudders-milk?utm_campaign=order&utm_medium=email&utm_source=RB),” which I think got a few compliments when I wore it to the season finale of GoT last year. Threadless is good for the odd/clever/whimsical stuff. This sort of extends beyond the geeky shirts–I run with the Hash House Harriers, and I have evolved into a self-described “haberdashery slut.” Haberdashery is Hash gear–shirts, patches, hapi coats, hats, whatever. If our kennel has it, I have to get it. If I visit another kennel, priority number one is getting their gear–though so far, I’ve only managed to get a shirt from Amsterdam. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/9 "2013-02-01T05:58:27Z")
Oh good. I like this thread. I always feel like such a jerk with a peter pan complex for having so many tshirts with fun stuff on them. Like MeanOldLady, I have too many (not enough) muppet shirts. I also don’t have enough comic book shirts. I have plenty of shirts from Threadless, and Woot. I started by getting shirts from Threadless. But, their prices got crazy high, so I stopped. Woot has a lot of awesome shirts. But, they also have this deal once in a while where you can pay 6 bucks for a random shirt. I have done that a bunch of times, and only once got a shirt that I would never wear. Otherwise, I have gotten about a million good ones. (Including this [Cookie Monster](http://shirt.woot.com/offers/the-binge) parody one. I didn’t like it when I first looked at it, since I don’t usually like adult jokes about childhood things. But, I grew to really like it.) I have been keeping an eye on TeeFury, but I still haven’t gotten a shirt there. LawMonkey, that site you linked to sounds interesting, I will have to check it out. Oh that reminds me. I have an awesome shirt from Woot that has a mouse in a Portal type portal. Fun! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/10 "2013-02-01T06:06:18Z")
Ooh, speaking of Threadless, my absolute favorite tee shirt of them all reads “So far, this is the oldest I’ve ever been.” Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/11 "2013-02-01T06:07:57Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I don’t know if my shirts are “geeky” so much as they are “lame.” Half of the tee shirts I own are league shirts from the World Dodgeball Society, and I have entirely too many shirts **with Sesame Street characters** on them. My favorite tee is a Ghostbusters shirt which elicits compliments nearly every time I wear it. I saw a shirt in target once with an original NES controller captioned “Know Your Roots.” I’m not sure why I didn’t buy it. (Bolding mine) I think you might enjoy [this one](http://shirt.woot.com/offers/the-binge), maybe. Anyway, a lot of my shirts are from Woot. I’m really happy they opened up their whole back catalog, so I can waste all my money on apparel, jerks (:p). They also fit me really well, a problem I have with store bought shirts. I’ve been trying to find some jackets and shirts recently and smalls are too short and show my belly when I raise my arms and mediums are too baggy and look like crap, Woot shirts (along with Topatoco) actually fit me well at medium size. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/12 "2013-02-01T06:11:59Z")
Jragon, if you are suggesting that I give my shirt to MeanOldLady, you can both forget it. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/13 "2013-02-01T06:13:09Z")
> [@pricciar](#): > > Jragon, if you are suggesting that I give my shirt to MeanOldLady, you can both forget it. Oh damn, I tried to make sure it hadn’t been posted yet. :smack: Well, yes, you should give it to her. Yeah, that’s right, take it off. Slowly now, slower. No make sure it stays covering your eyes for a good long time while taking it off. _runs away while Pricciar can’t see him_ ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/14 "2013-02-01T06:22:27Z")
So I think I love ShirtWoot. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/15 "2013-02-01T08:21:56Z")
I have several anime T-shirts, two Harry Potter T-shirts (I’m currently wearing my Dumbledore’s Army T-shirt), one MLP shirt with Octavia on it, and a Captain America T I just bought at Target. My brother moved to Boston and left several T-shirts behind, which I plan to appropriate. I’m just now getting into Homestuck, and might buy some of the troll zodiac sign t-shirts from the official websites. My daughter doesn’t like me to wear my anime shirts in public unless we’re attending a gathering or convention, although the HP shirts do pass muster on casual Fridays. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/16 "2013-02-01T08:39:47Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I don’t know if my shirts are “geeky” so much as they are “lame.” Half of the tee shirts I own are league shirts from the World Dodgeball Society, and I have entirely too many shirts with Sesame Street characters on them. My favorite tee is a Ghostbusters shirt which elicits compliments nearly every time I wear it. I saw a shirt in target once with an original NES controller captioned “Know Your Roots.” I’m not sure why I didn’t buy it. I’m tempted to get this one: [http://atrium.threadless.com/sesamestreet/submission/the-count-3/](http://atrium.threadless.com/sesamestreet/submission/the-count-3/) ETA: original: > **[File:Vlad Tepes 002.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vlad_Tepes_002.jpg)** > > Original file (3,033 × 3,673 pixels, file size: 4.5 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) > This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. > This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930. > Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/17 "2013-02-01T08:44:41Z")
There are some great geeky shirts here: > **[Last Exit to Nowhere](https://www.lastexittonowhere.com/)** > > T-shirt designs which are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in 20th century fiction. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/18 "2013-02-01T12:22:36Z")
[This](http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ebf3/?srp=1)is my geeky t-shirt. I was quite surprised that one of the guys at work got it - I used to think he was a bit of a doofus, but he changed my mind. 😃 One of my favorite non-geeky shirts is one I gave a friend: “Of all the things that I have lost, I miss my mind the most.” Before I retired, I often told people I was a freekin’ ray of sunshine - one of my coworkers wrote it on my whiteboard. Alas, I didn’t find out until recently that I could have bought a t-shirt with that on it. I’d have worn it to my retirement party!! Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/19 "2013-02-01T12:42:01Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I don’t know if my shirts are “geeky” so much as they are “lame.” Half of the tee shirts I own are league shirts from the World Dodgeball Society From the movie Dodgeball? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963/20 "2013-02-01T12:42:15Z")
I tend towards the mashup. _Doctor Who_ meets _Calvin and Hobbes_, or _Star Wars_ meets _Winnie the Pooh_, that kind of thing. I don’t have many, though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963.md?page=2)