# How do you feel about message t-shirts? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836 "2005-03-23T03:39:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/1 "2005-03-23T03:39:53Z")
Are t-shirts with writing on them obnoxious? Or are they a vital part of your wardrobe? I enjoy them but find few that I am willing to wear. I picked up two that I liked at Target recently. One is an olive-green shirt with two squirrels on it. One is holding a bikini top. The other holds a mug of beer. Beneath them is the caption “Squirrels Gone Wild.” The other shirt is light blue with dark blue bands on sleeves and collar. It reads, “Your wheel’s spinning but the hamster ain’t moving!” Beneath this is a dizzy-looking hamster lying upside-down on a spinning hamster wheel. I snickered at these shirts and decided they had to come home with me. I wear the hamster one frequently, and someone always comments on it. These particular shirts may not be to your taste. So be it. But are there message t-shirts that you would wear, in that case? ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/2 "2005-03-23T03:41:49Z")
They are ok on occasion. I like to wear em at the gym, or on a bum day at school. I wouldn’t be caught dead with them at places some of my friends wear em. But to them, dressing up is putting on the OCC shirts and some jeans without holes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/3 "2005-03-23T04:10:10Z")
One of my favourites was one that had The Gruesomes on it. My daughter snagged it for herself and is now using it as a night shirt. Another favourite was a simple white t-shirt with tiny news paper sized print on the front. It was so small you’d had to come uncomfortably close to actually read it. It said, “You’re so fucking nosy!” ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/4 "2005-03-23T04:13:01Z")
I own very few shirts that **don’t** have messages on them. Even my [son](http://www.geocities.com/xxslvrfirexx/52DJ3826.JPG) wears message t-shirts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/5 "2005-03-23T04:14:25Z")
“Life. It’s nothing like the brochure.” ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/6 "2005-03-23T04:14:28Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > I own very few shirts that **don’t** have messages on them. > > Even my [son](http://www.geocities.com/xxslvrfirexx/52DJ3826.JPG) wears message t-shirts. 😃 I love that shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/7 "2005-03-23T04:23:30Z")
The only ones I wear are for a purpose-- to advertise something I believe in, or am a part of, like a t-shirt which advertises the museum in which I work. (“Got History?”) I have no problem with them, per se. They’re just not my style. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/8 "2005-03-23T04:32:41Z")
“All the rumors are true” ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/9 "2005-03-23T05:22:07Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > “All the rumors are true” I might, might wear a shirt that said “Oh, no! Aliens, bio-duplication, nude conspiracies… Oh my God! Lyndon LaRouche was right!” though that might be a little long for a t-shirt. Maybe if you can cut it down to the funniest part. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/10 "2005-03-23T05:34:05Z")
For a long time most of my casual clothing consisted of t-shirts with something on them–Oingo Boingo or Tintin or the element Berkelium or something equally geeky. I have fewer now, so that they are a minority of my wardrobe, and they all tend to be literary. I have two Max and Ruby shirts plugging reading, one with Erasmus’ famous line about books and food, one with a shirtless Mark Twain and quotation, and one about why you should worship librarians. That kind of thing. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/11 "2005-03-23T05:39:30Z")
A sampler of message t-shirts: 2QT2BSTR8 Queen of the Fucking Universe You misspelled “Weltanschauung.” BC Fairies – Cruise the Straights Besides those, I tend to save the messages for the buttons that festoon my messenger bag. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/12 "2005-03-23T05:57:00Z")
I’ve got [this shirt](http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/ladies/724f/), which was a gift. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/13 "2005-03-23T06:05:44Z")
I got a lot of double-takes from people who saw me wearing [this](http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=414) shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/14 "2005-03-23T11:24:08Z")
My bowling shirt is **I cut the cheese in Wisconsin**. It’s bright orange. ---
**Author:** ![DrLoveGun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@DrLoveGun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrLoveGun)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/15 "2005-03-23T11:26:07Z")
[![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/inkleberry/Peter/presidentshirt.jpg) ](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/inkleberry/Peter/presidentshirt.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/16 "2005-03-23T11:50:44Z")
I like them but I don’t wear them. There are a few I’d like to get though. Stuff like “You’re jealous because the voices are talking to me”, “Go away” and, if I were Wiccan, “I weigh the same as a duck.” ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/17 "2005-03-23T11:59:44Z")
I’ve made a few “message” tees for myself using those on-line services. Most were for special occasions, like the millennium and elections. A few for business off-site gatherings. They are always worth the effort and get a lot of compliments. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/18 "2005-03-23T12:00:42Z")
It depends on the shirt. I don’t like to advertise for people, and I don’t like being especially vulgar. But I do love my [“Chewie Is My Co-Pilot”](http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/babydoll.shtml#chewie) shirt, because it’s very, very silly. I have more plain t-shirts than message t-shirts but my husband and I are playing around with making our own message t-shirts for this summer, mostly because he wants one that says “Courtlier than thou.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/19 "2005-03-23T12:22:54Z")
There was one I wasn’t able to buy cos I didn’t have the $6 it cost (not on me, not in the bank, it’s called “being in college”). You know those that say “why choose the lesser evil? Chtulhu for president!” Never have seen that particular model again, I’d love to wear it when I go vote. sniff. I like 'em occasionally, but I want to understand what is it they say. I once saw a little teen idiot with a “kiss me, stupid” tee get royally pissed when a guy did - she had no idea what the tee said and blushed coca-cola red when we told her! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836/20 "2005-03-23T12:33:20Z")
> [@DrLoveGun](#): > > [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/inkleberry/Peter/presidentshirt.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/inkleberry/Peter/presidentshirt.jpg) The Satanic eye thing only enhances the effect. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-message-t-shirts/295836.md?page=2)