by Robin Ragland

Created on: May 31, 2008

The world is full of t-shirts and that means a great opportunity to express just about any thought that crosses your mind. Sometimes the "thought" is a picture. I saw a great T-shirt that was a picture of a heavyset belly hanging out in the front and a very deep plumber's crack in the back. Crack kills you know.

I have an 11 year old son who loves T-shirts with snappy sayings. If it is sarcastic, he'll wear it. He has everything from the usual grade school favorite, "Enough with the homework already" to the shirts that perfectly describe living with A.D.D., "I tried to be good but I got bored" and "Some say I have A.D.D. but they don't under...hey look a squirrel". He has the shirt that proclaims "I'm with handsome" and an arrow pointing upwards and he has a T-shirt that states, "If I got smart with you, how would you know?" This last one caused a friend of his to tell me that "that shirt isn't very nice to stupid people, I didn't know what it meant and he had to explain it". Ahem, okay, point made.

I saw a pregnant woman wearing a shirt that had a picture of fluffy sheep on the front and the slogan, "Ewes not fat, ewes just fluffy". Another expectant Mom had the statement "Future abs of steel" and an arrow pointing to her pregnant belly. Another take on that is the T-shirt that states "these used to be abs of steel" with the downward pointing arrow.

You could always put off expressing your self with either the slogan "I always wanted to be a procrastinator" or "I can't wait to procrastinate". I was thinking about buying one of those shirts. I could go and get one right now but I think I will just do it later.

When in doubt, buy one of these T-shirts; "I may be wrong but I doubt it" or "I have my doubts about disbelief".

Some of the most interesting shirts are the ones with a double meaning like the ones I saw on some guys who were at our hotel for a Beer Pong championship. Beer Pong is a game where you try to get the ping pong balls into cups of beer and then drink the beer. The whole point in wearing them is because they sound dirty but have a "clean" meaning. It enables you to look shocked and question the obviously dirty mind of the person reading the shirt. The first one said "If your balls get wet, you are doing it right" and another pointed out that "Well, it won't suck itself". Now I'm sure they meant sucking down the beer that your ping pong ball fell into but some of you with dirty minds might not have gotten that out of it. Shame on you! Get your mind out of the gutter and "Come to the dark side with uswe have cookies".

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