# SDMB T-Shirt Exchange **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506 "2005-04-09T01:13:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![electrozion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@electrozion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/electrozion)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/301 "2005-05-26T11:36:34Z")
> [@VenusProbe](#): > > I hope it’s warm enough there to wear it when it arrives. Hopefully it will still be warm here when it arrives - it’s downright hot right now and that doesn’t tend to last long. But there will be summer eventually - even in northern Germany 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/302 "2005-05-26T15:51:12Z")
> [@Kkrose](#): > > I re-sent my T-shirt off to MissTake/LilMiss a few days ago. I am a little worried because I messed up the address the first time. I apologize for it taking me a bit to get the shirt back out. The end of semester leaves me with so little time, and head for that matter, that the shirt was sitting on the front seat of my car ready to go for about a week before I actually got around to re-sending it. I hope LilMiss gets it soon! It’s been received and the kid won’t take the darned thing off for me to wash it!! And dear, patient, wonderful **AwSnappity** , yours are going in the mail today. I’ve had them for a bit now, but couldn’t get to the post office. LilMiss picked them out - hope you like them! ---
**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:** [May 27, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/303 "2005-05-27T17:05:23Z")
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! My package from the handsome **Owlstretchingtime** came in today! I received a wonderful folk-rock concert going t-shirt circa 1998 and a brand new t-shirt from the Detroit Lions equivalent of sucking **Tottenham Spurs**. Also, not to be outdone, I got one of those cool floatie pen thiniges ( the kind where a picture floats inside a watery thingie.) My daughter tried to instantly claim it as hers. Not a chance. It goes in my very scarce floaty pen collection. ( I have two,…now three!) A Union Jack pencil, a post card, a bobby’s whistle (which my daughter is enjoying it whole heartedly right now before I reclaim it and add it to my key chain) and…I am excited (and filled with trepidation) to try the jar of **Marmite** WoooT! Thank you **Owlie** I’ll send you an email… Thanks Twickster! Thanks Grandpa and Johboy! ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/304 "2005-05-27T22:05:08Z")
**Susie Derkins** , there was a surprise from you today! I’ve never been to New Jersey, but now I can lie and say that I have 😃 Also, in a crazy twist of fate, I got my picked mango today too, and the return address on that was the same as the company who makes that candy you sent me. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/305 "2005-05-28T00:00:07Z")
Status as of today: _Ace309 AkWally1 Alan\_Smithee AwSnappity_ Booker57 electrozion\* Portia (x2) US\*/intl.\* Tanookie VunderBob\*\*\* - senders says has been sent So it looks like we have three orphans – excluding **Chaotic Donkey** , who has already been adopted by **Susie Derkins** , his recipient, but including **Alan\_Smithee** , who got a hand-delivered twicks special. Ahem! **Ace309, AkWally,** and **booker** are all deadbeats, so are reaping what they have sowed – so it looks like **Alan\_Smithee** and **Tanookie** are the main orphans, if we’re going to believe all “the T is in the mail” claims that have been made. Updates and corrections appreciated. So – I need two people to adopt people who need XL T-shirts – email me and I’ll send you names and addresses. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/306 "2005-05-28T00:07:42Z")
Okay, that was quick – **Alan\_Smithee** says he’s good, and **Silenus** just adopted **Tanookie** – so I think everyone is covered. Speak now or forever hold your peace! ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/307 "2005-05-28T00:11:53Z")
**Twickster** , both my people have posted that they’ve rec’d their t-shirts. I’m the orphan! Though **Altiod** has assured me she’ll mail mine out soon from Thailand. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/308 "2005-05-28T00:17:54Z")
Yeah, that’s why you’re on the list with two asterisks. Sorry, the small print on my plan was a little murky. At this point, we’re still believing the people who claim to have mailed, so we’re leaving their recipients in limbo just a little longer. If you – or anyone else – is still T-shirtless in another week or so, we’ll put up cute pix of you guys as well. “Adopt this puppy-eyed Doper, please!” ---
**Author:** ![akwally1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akwally1/32/3220_2.png) [@akwally1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akwally1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/309 "2005-05-28T02:34:00Z")
Deadbeat here, I’m sorry I haven’t sent mine out yet, but we’ve been in the process of buying a new house and the financing got all screwed up (Wells Fargo can lick an unclean part of me), the in-laws are in the process of getting a divorce, my brother-in-law who just got out of Marine boot camp ended up going to Iraq instead of Cuba and I could list another few items it those don’t elicite sympathy. I do indeed plan on sending out a shirt either next week or the week after that. I’m waiting for the moving dust to settle. (We move tomorrow). Sorry for not paying enough attention to this thread and updating, but I’ve had a lot of shit happening all at once. Wally p.s. - My wife just found out she’s going to have move from teaching 2nd grade to 3rd and she has to take masters courses this summer also. Praying for lightning to strike me. (after I send the shirt out) ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/310 "2005-05-28T02:44:26Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > **Susie Derkins** , there was a surprise from you today! I’ve never been to New Jersey, but now I can lie and say that I have 😃 I’m glad that you got it OK! 🙂 I wore that shirt to Disney World back in February, and people from New Jersey kept coming up to me, asking me what city I was from. They all seemed surprised when I answered “Tallahassee”. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/311 "2005-05-28T04:32:50Z")
> [@Susie Derkins](#): > > I’m glad that you got it OK! 🙂 I wore that shirt to Disney World back in February, and people from New Jersey kept coming up to me, asking me what city I was from. They all seemed surprised when I answered “Tallahassee”. I’ve taken issue with only one thing. The tag on it bothers me more than any other shirt ever. It’s gettin’ cut out. Tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/312 "2005-05-28T12:11:47Z")
Tangentially, I have to say the tag info printed on the inside of the shirt was the best thing to happen to T’s in a long time. And thankfully, that same brand does the same thing w/ their line of (women’s at least) underpants. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/313 "2005-05-30T15:14:41Z")
I just wandered in here looking for some air conditioned comfort from the heat. I have a couple of very excellent quality XXL T-shirts that I’ve never worn. Both were gifts from my sister, and both have the Confederate flag (or rather what most people down here seem to think was the Confederate flag) and I won’t wear them for several reasons, among them: 1- I don’t think blacks who are offended by that image are “just being sensitive” 2- The articles about that flag in the news (usually as an opening act to an evolution or 10 Commandments story) are one of the most negative stains on the modern south 3- The same idiots who seem to think “my great great grandaddy died for that flag” means something\* are the same ones who don’t know that [this](http://www.nationalguild.com/ZIGGYSTOBACCO.COM/images/rebel.jpg) isn’t the Confederate flag, [this is](http://www.mlc.lib.ms.us/trivia/flags/stars_bars.gif) But, as I said, the shirts are great quality and they don’t say anything at all racist. I’d love to send them to a non-Southern (preferably non-USA) Doper who can wear them without making a statement. Just let me know. I also have a very _faded_ XL T-shirt that has the double-headed eagle crest of Nicholas & Alexandra if anybody would like it. (I got it at an exhibit in Mobile which is advertised in small letters on the shirt.) Lest anybody of southern ancestry flame me, my ancestors fought for the south too. My namesake died from a Yankee mortar shell at Vicksburg no less- I have other ancestors who rode with Johnston, charged up Big Round Top at Gettysburg, defended Atlanta, etc… While I don’t think it means they were bad people, it sure as hell doesn’t mean their cause was right. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/314 "2005-05-30T16:23:30Z")
**Tanookie** ’s package hits the mails tomorrow. Ought to be there by week’s end. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/315 "2005-05-30T16:25:32Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **Tanookie** ’s package hits the mails tomorrow. Ought to be there by week’s end. 😃 Yay!!! I love mail 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/316 "2005-05-31T16:06:12Z")
**ButtonJockey308** , I got my package over the weekend. My late Dad, who was both a cop and a volunteer fireman/EMT, would have gotten a kick out of me wearing the GFD shirt in his presence. Both shirts are cool, and I will wear them proudly. ---
**Author:** ![electrozion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@electrozion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/electrozion)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/317 "2005-05-31T18:45:15Z")
**VenusProbe** I got your shirt today. Fits like a glove (well, not that tight but just how i like it) and I love the logo. I just remembered the song “Wir sind hier nicht in Seattle, Dirk” (“We’re not in Seattle, Dirk”) by the band on your shirt - so you got a washington reference there. **Twickster** Thank you for the great idea of having this t-shirt swap fest. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/318 "2005-06-02T23:23:50Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > **ButtonJockey308** , I got my package over the weekend. > > My late Dad, who was both a cop and a volunteer fireman/EMT, would have gotten a kick out of me wearing the GFD shirt in his presence. Both shirts are cool, and I will wear them proudly. Glad you like 'em **Vunderbob** I felt so guilty about the delay, I threw in the second one. SWAG from a pair of $600 chairs I bought. Glad you dig 'em. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/319 "2005-06-10T15:54:58Z")
Anybody still T-shirtless? We can have another adoption campaign. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506/320 "2005-06-10T17:41:26Z")
My Tshirts arrived a couple of days ago! They came accompanied by goodies! I’ve already had to defend my shirts from thieves. I’m not sure which one has garnered the most envy from my friends - the Clan of the Cave Beer one or the Spam Carving one. Thank you very much! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-t-shirt-exchange/298506.md?page=17)