# The Coolest T-Shirt You Own **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685 "2004-04-01T06:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/21 "2004-04-01T15:11:03Z")
I have more T-shirts than I care to admit, and most of them are generally too obscure to rate much comment from passers-by. My absolute favorite, and therefore the most cool to me personally, is a black T-shirt that says simply “BOLSHEVIK” in red letters. I yam what I yam. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/22 "2004-04-01T15:15:04Z")
“Out of Body. Back in 20 minutes.” ---
**Author:** ![Low\_Key\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@Low\_Key\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Low_Key_1)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/23 "2004-04-01T15:16:42Z")
My “Fuck School” t-shirt from [unamerican.com](http://unamerican.com) or my Godspeed You Black Emperor one with ‘chaos’ written in Hebrew on it (the front cover to one of their albums). Though, mostly I just wear plain one color t-shirts if I decide to wear a t-shirt for the day… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/24 "2004-04-01T15:22:09Z")
A shirt from a company that makes server-rack ready pcs that, when you buy in bulk, offer cheap and powerful computing power. The slogan on the front: “Nice Rack.” ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/25 "2004-04-01T15:30:41Z")
I bought this shirt 4 months before [She](http://www.madonnatribe.com/tribenews/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2010) did. If you know me, you can imagine how thrilled I was. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/26 "2004-04-01T15:40:25Z")
Two of the funniest shirts I saw belong to a good friend of mine: Shirt 1 says, “WWJD… for a Klondike bar” Shirt 2 has a picture of Cthulhu on it with the caption, “WWCD” My coolest T-shirt is a custom made one showing the late great Duke Stern performing a zombie illusion with a racoon in place of a sliver ball. ---
**Author:** ![ReverseCowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@ReverseCowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReverseCowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/27 "2004-04-01T15:52:06Z")
It says, “Ask me about my very large and attractive Penis.” ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/28 "2004-04-01T15:55:05Z")
My coolest t-shirt has a copy of Albrecht Dürer’s _The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse_ on the front, and the text of Rev 6:5-6 below. On the back, in big black letters, it says “FAMINE”. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/29 "2004-04-01T16:00:20Z")
Several. St. Louis Browns “Property of Alcatraz Prison Swim Team” Munch’s “The Scream” on a shirt. Marvin the Martian The cover of Galaxy SF Magazine #1 from the 90s. Has my name among the authors. People ask me were I had it custom made, and I tell them it was an actual cover. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/30 "2004-04-01T16:07:09Z")
I feel like I can trump all of those. I’ve got a T-Shirt that says ‘3. Hi Opal!’. Honorable mention: 1. My kid sister got me a shirt recently that’s black and has huge capital letters on it that say ‘QUIT WORK MAKE MUSIC’. This never fails to get musicians to come up to me to talk shop. 2. An old, super-comfortable shirt from ‘Stancil’s Guitar Studio of Kensington’. Scott was my guitar teacher and the shirt is just brilliant. 3. Somewhere I still have an old shirt I bought in the early 80s that’s a really nice sort of gingham pattern with a note pad on it that says ‘Auntie Em- Hate you. Hate Kansas. Taking the dog. Dorothy.’. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/31 "2004-04-01T16:11:27Z")
obey… Obey… OBEY THE CRAB! ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/32 "2004-04-01T16:17:23Z")
I have a tie. 1a is a white T with a flourescent green late 1970’s Pontiac Firebird on it. 1b is a red T with a faded cartoon of an old man driving a dump truck which reads “Old Truckers Never Die… They Just Keep On a-Rollin’” These are my bar shirts, with the “I got crabs at Herb’s” shirt alternating in. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/33 "2004-04-01T16:23:09Z")
I have a couple of shirts I did myself with vintage iron-ons. One’s a huge Good Housekeeping seal, the other is Bela Lugosi as Dracula. ---
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/34 "2004-04-01T16:23:40Z")
My current coolest t-shirt is bright pink and has a big Felix the Cat face on the front. We all know Felix r0cks! A friend of mine has several \really\ funny t-shirts, one of which reads on the front: “There are two people screwing on the back of my t-shirt!” On the back, it says: “Just kidding! Believe in Jesus!” and shows Jesus grinning from ear-to-ear and giving the thumbs-up sign. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/35 "2004-04-01T16:36:51Z")
I have one that says “cats suck” The picture on the back is a dog getting head from a cat. I have another that says “Who needs U?” It lists all the Q w/o U words from the scrabble dictionary. I get a lot of comments about that one from confused people. I had someone tell me they did not know there were _any_ words that had q but no u! I also had a “don’t know - don’t care” shirt that my friend made me. It had little stick people making the ‘don’t know’ and ‘don’t care’ gestures. I wish I still had it but I wore it so often it disintegrated! Oh and lastly is my tequila worm shirt. Big worm in a sombrero. I’ll have to dig it up because the prasing on it ran out of my brain when I went to type it! _grrr_ ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/36 "2004-04-01T16:36:58Z")
I am posting here again because I am a t-shirt JUNKIE! I’ve made a few myself. On the front of one, it says “Nerd Squad”, and on the back, “Captain”. My friend [Olivier Tridon](http://greetz.com/Xtreme/Celebrities/Madonna/Tridon/) does lovely drawings of Madonna, and I put a few on t-shirts. God bless iron-ons! But my favourite home-made tee is the one with those fuzzy melt-on letters that says; “Five by five”. Hee! ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/37 "2004-04-01T16:46:07Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “Property of Alcatraz Prison Swim Team” I’ve seen that one! Very cool! My coolest one has picture of Lenin’s toppled over statue and reads, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/38 "2004-04-01T17:00:43Z")
I have a shirt with a big head (caricature-like) of Rod Serling. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/39 "2004-04-01T17:10:02Z")
On the front, a picture of Frank Burns, from M_A_S\*H. On the back, “Frank Burns Eats Worms” ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685/40 "2004-04-01T17:16:15Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > Somewhere I still have an old shirt I bought in the early 80s that’s a really nice sort of gingham pattern with a note pad on it that says ‘Auntie Em- Hate you. Hate Kansas. Taking the dog. Dorothy.’. I used to have that one! Along with one that was a pad of Bates Motel stationery with a note that said “Norman, Knock twice, in the shower. M.” My current favorite are my “Titanic Swim Team 1912”, and my 8-Bit Theater tee that has Black Mage and Fighter and the exchange of “Two fisted monkey style?” “Yyyyyyyup.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-t-shirt-you-own/237685.md?page=3)