Can I pose a request for a new SDMB T-Shirt - with a twist of course.

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Aside from making one myself I’d like to devise a way to wear a T-Shirt that says I ama a member of the Straight Dope Message Board without saying I am a member of thr SDMB…

Perhaps a shirt with a phrase everyone on the SDMB would understand:

Black or SDMB-Blue Lettering stating:

**Hi Opal. **

And that’s it.

I went to Burning Man several years back when Zenster was a member and I wore a shirt with Hi Opal written on the front. I put it on there with a Sharpie. I knew he was going to be there but when I got to the playa I couldn’t find him so I figured I advertise.*

It would be cool if we had a shirt similar to this to wear about. People who asked what it means would obviously not be members and others who asked what your username was are clearly members…

May be fun. Just wondering.

*Never did track him down but I did stumble upon a woman painted in opalesque colors and she said hello when I walked by her… :slight_smile:

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Sounds fun. Do we get a secret decoder ring too?

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We’re still waiting to hear from our new media overlords. We’ll see what they think about shirts.

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OIC. thanks Ms.Diva :slight_smile:

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You can always Cafe Press it without sanction (Hi Opal isn’t protected by any type of copyright).

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Actually, the T-shirt I would design would be a “list”:

  1. When come back, bring pie
  2. I burning your dog
  3. Hi, Opal!

But that’s just me. :wink:

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Opal actually sells one of those. I asked and she designed it for me. It was available on her Cafe Press site.

She’s a sweetheart.

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I’ve gone to a couple of fests in restaurants, and I took care to get there early and put a copy of a Straight Dope book on the table. I got signatures from just about everyone, too.

I think that if our new overloads are OK with it, that buttons/pinbacks would be a great way for us to recognize each other. Assuming, of course, that we WANT to be recognized.

This post is written completely from a member’s viewpoint, not from a staff position, and I haven’t even mentioned buttons/pinbacks to Creative Loafing. However, I do urge everyone to BUY THE STRAIGHT DOPE BOOKS! They make wonderful gifts, if you already own one of each.

Lynn

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Just so we’re clear here, despite the thread title asking for a *new * SDMB shirt, there isn’t an *old * SDMB t-shirt that I’m unaware of right?

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What? Nothing about 1920’s Death Rays in the Marinanas Trench for twenty minutes?

Or was it thirty?

What would the doper version of “I blanked blank and all I got was this lously T-shirt”?

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Spoiler for vulgarity.

I masturbated like a motherfucker and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

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I would think that the T-shirt on the main straight dope page (click on Straight Dope Store) would qualify as the “old” shirt. Or are you discounting this because it’s a generic straight dope T-shirt and not a SDMB specific shirt?

I’ve got a couple of those T-shirts (see, I support you, Cecil!). I get strange looks from my co-workers when I wear one to work.

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I think the most appropriate T-shirt would be one that said:

Cite?

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Here’s a link to Opalcat’s T-shirt desigs on Cafepress. All her shirts can be ordered.

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I don’t know about discounting, but I was making sure I wasn’t missing something else. I’ve always thought that a nice navy shirt with gold letters that simply stated SDMB would be appropriate.

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'Cept I went through all of them and don’t see the one discussed in this thread. Some fun stuff, though!

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I’d like one that says, “Ask me to show you where my Uncle Cecil touched me.”

No, perv. The head.

This head! [points to cranium]

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I had it set to “hidden”. I unchecked that option–it’s in the “assorted weird crap” category.

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I fought ignorance and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

I survived the Pit and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

I won in Great Debates and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

I gave a cite in General Questions and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.