My favorite is my Galaxy magazine T-Shirt. It’s a copy of the cover the the magazine’s revival in the 1990s. My name is on it as one of the authors (not just the shirt – the magazine itself).
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
“I have seen the truth, and it makes no sense”
Jethro Tull “Broadsword and the Beast”
Metallica “Metal up your Ass”
Rush “Counterparts”
“Roll the Bones (Why are we here? Because we’re here!)”
And the plain yellow mock-turtleneck t-shirt that snagged me my SO.
I’m not a fallen angel, I’m a risen demon.
Black, with white lettering:
A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain.
One of my favorites is not mine, but one my dad loved when he was alive. It had a large picture of a clock in the middle. Above and below it said:
Amiables Do It On Time
…But Don’t Push Us
This referred to some kind of business seminar he went to where they classified people by character traits. My dad was, indeed, amiable, but also notoriously impatient, especially with most business-psychology mumbo-jumbo. So the shirt was doubly funny. To us, anyway.
Several years back, I had what I believed to be the coolest T-shirt in existence.
It had a picture of an egg frying with a caption saying “This is your brain on drugs,” and underneath that a picture of the egg on a plate with some bacon and toast, with the caption “This is your brain on drugs with two strips of bacon and a side of toast.”
“The true founder of civil society was the first man who fenced in a piece
of land, thought of saying ‘This is mine,’ and came across people simple
enough to believe him.”
–“Discourse on the Origin of Inequality” Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The best T shirts are the old ones! My favorite is from one of my favorite comic books, Bone. It has the Scrooge McDuck type character Phoney Bone on it, saying “They can’t DO this to me! You can’t do anything to a rich person that he doesn’t want!” One of the few t shirts I have that people comment on.
The t shirt I must own? That ‘7 up yours’ one. I hear that they have those now…
A Metallica ‘Caretaker’ shirt that was signed by James and Jason.
A Star Wars shirt that has the faces of a few characters in a collage on the front. Nien Nunb is one of them!
Plain black tee, with white lettering on the front- VICTIM
The most rewarding part was when I got my money!
-Dr. Nick Riviera
don’t own it, but love the one Woody Harrelson wears in White Men Can’t Jump-
Caution- Explicit Lyrics
almost forgot - the one I saw a girl wearing at the mall -
Objects Under this T Shirt are Larger than they Appear
I’m wearing it right now. It’s a Front Line Assembly T-shirt with the cover art from their album “Hard Wired”. It shows a close up of a guy’s face. He has two screws stuck through his tongue with wires attached to them. It’s all done in these dark blues and reds. I’ve gotten a few double takes because of it, which is pretty much the extent of my criteria for a cool T-shirt.
An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.
i always liked the far side:
“midvale, school for the gifted” one
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I have a genuine communist era Soviet Union Olympic Team tee shirt. (With CCCP and a bunch of Russian stuff on it) You can tell it is genuine, because it is made of really crummy cotton. You can’t wear the thing, it feels horrible.
My very favorite all time was not mine, but was on the wall in a seedy bar, just outside of Langley Virginia. It had an outline of Vietnam (without the dividing line.) and the logo:
** <P ALIGN=“CENTER”> 1953 - 1975
Southeast Asian War Games
Second Place</P> **
<P ALIGN=“CENTER”> Tris </P> <HR>
<FONT FACE=“Webdings” SIZE=5 COLOR="#ff2400"> ** - ** </FONT>
Many of my faves have died from having been a regular part of my wardrobe for far too long, and several more bit the dust following a fire in my apartment building (they weren’t burned, just smoke-and-water damaged to the point that they weren’t worth trying to save). Gone but not forgotten:
[ul][li]Clash, Sandinista! album cover art on front, “Clash on Broadway” and the (intended) dates of the ill-fated shows at Bond’s on the back.[/li][li]Several shirts from my college radio station[/li][li]A shirt from the Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge, MA[/li][li]A shirt featuring the likenesses of Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman, and Yeats, along with a quote from each, from an NEH seminar at Harvard[/ul][/li]
Still alive:
[ul][li]An shirt with a reproduction of the letterhead of the Atlanta Crackers, circa 1939[/li][li]An Asheville Tourists shirt[/li][li]A Seattle Rainiers shirt[/li]An Albany Travelers shirt (this and the previous three all from Ebbets Field Flannels in Seattle)[/ul]
I’m 53 and still wear tee shirts and jeans. Does that make me “not grown up”. Gosh, I sure hope so!
My favorite tee shirt is a black one that says “DARE” in big red letters, then underneath in smaller letters it says “to keep cops off donuts.”
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“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.”~~*G.K.Chesterton 1908 *
I like some of the Hot Topic Ts…
I’m not scratching myself, I’m just adjusting my jewelry.
Got Blood?
Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me… Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me… Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me…
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Clerks - Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they like you.
Out of curiosity, if you’re too old to wear T-shirts age 39+ - what are you SUPPOSED to wear? Please let me know the proper covering for the aging torso on the long downward slide to the grave.
My favorite T-shirt - Bruce Springsteen tour back in the 80’s with a pink Cadillac on the front.
Favorite T-Shirt: my dad has a “Runs with Scissors” t-shirt that he wears to motorcycle rallies. This replaced his “Cops Suck.” T-shirt, which was the former favorite for rallies.
My favorite for me is a Blondie baseball shirt. I just ordered a “Jem and the Holograms” t-shirt from e-bay that I am eagerly awaiting.
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - Wordsworth
One of my favorite t-shirts is actually one I bought for a friend for his birthday. It say’s:
“Your proctologist called; they found your head”.
He’s such a wise-a** that this was the perfect “t” for him.
Two faves:
One belongs to my SO, after the flood I got him one that said “I bagged a dyke in Winnipeg.”
Second I saw in a store with a pic of the Titanic the caption? “It sank, get over it.”