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Hey, I didn't say that I didn't think they were awesome. I would probably buy one with that sad ass picture from the first Monster Manual on it.

But hot girls in fast cars don't tend to think so.

I dunno, man, this is Austin. I bet the next thing you see D&D shirts replacing the neon Tylers Sports shirts that all the sorority girls wear with their Nike tempo running shorts and side pony tails.

Jeff White wrote: The biggest factor in this decisions is my kids. I'm pretty aware of how I act as a father, and I'm not sure they need to now see their dad as:

a) a gamer
b) with toys
c) wearing nerd shirts

That combo is too much for me.

Maybe I'll just go for the shirt and wear it to occasional game nights...

(this woulda been so much easier if it was hookers and blow)

It's better that your kids look to you as

a) fun
b) approachable
c) "normal" tastes in clothes

than some stuffed shirt with no sense of fun or adventure. Me, I have a Green Lantern shirt, a Star Wars shirt, an Evil Dead shirt...at the end of the day, a print T shirt is just some art on a piece of cloth.

Go for it. Your kids would rather you wear "cool" shirts than "boring" shirts any day of the week. Plus, your kids know who you are, and wearing a shirt isn't going to change that.

Coincidentally, I'm wearing a brown T that says "Hooligan" on it.


It's a common "Kohl's Clearance" shirt. I'd rather my kids see people wearing a shirt with a dragon and warrior on it than a shirt noting 'hooligan', I reckon...

The D&D shirt got me thinking (about viewing this dork tendency in all of us as more of a 'loud and proud' type of Jodie Foster thing).

What about a shirt like the one Pete is showing above but no shamrock and instead of Hooligan, it just read MATH

I dunno, I think that would be kind of cool (not for kids but for guys our age). it's like we're making a statement.

Random person: WTF? Math? For real? What's that supposed to mean?
me: I dunno, I just like math. More than, say, Abercrombie & Fitch. Math has been good to me, that's all.

*punch*punch*punch*

It doesn't have anything to do with being uptight or a some stuffed shirt, but modeling balance. It's the same reason I don't have a Dynamo jersey, Dynamo car plates, Dynamo flag out front, and Dynamo bed sheets. IMHO, it's too much of any one thing.

We want to model a balance lifestyle. If I adorn myself and the house in gamer/nerd culture (really almost the same), I dunno, just not a place I've ever been nor want to go.

Games are games. I don't know if I need Game: The Shirt.

Those shirts are kinda cool though...

Black Barney wrote: The D&D shirt got me thinking (about viewing this dork tendency in all of us as more of a 'loud and proud' type of Jodie Foster thing).

What about a shirt like the one Pete is showing above but no shamrock and instead of Hooligan, it just read MATH

I dunno, I think that would be kind of cool (not for kids but for guys our age). it's like we're making a statement.

Random person: WTF? Math? For real? What's that supposed to mean?
me: I dunno, I just like math. More than, say, Abercrombie & Fitch. Math has been good to me, that's all.

*punch*punch*punch*

I have a shirt that says "Don't Drink and Derive" that I usually wear on the first day of graduate statistics

See, that's something I wouldn't like. It's cute and stuff but it's trying to be subversive and is more of a nudgenudgewinkwink to other people who did well in Calculus.

Whereas think of what a statement a black t-shirt with bold white print on it, 'MATH' would say. I love this idea. I hope someone steals it. I'll buy that shirt. It would be a neat idea against this stupid wave of anti-intellectualism going around. If you tried any of this stuff with Science, I think some people would think you were being anti-religion and that's not the message you're making at all.

I still like the T shirt saying "Stand back, I'm about to do Science!"

I once wore a Bauhaus shirt to a robot tournament. I was responsible for the hardware, so it did kind of fit.

Black Barney wrote: See, that's something I wouldn't like. It's cute and stuff but it's trying to be subversive and is more of a nudgenudgewinkwink to other people who did well in Calculus.

Well, it is a graduate statistics class -- it isn't like I wear it around the general populace like some kind of jackass.

Whereas think of what a statement a black t-shirt with bold white print on it, 'MATH' would say. I love this idea. I hope someone steals it.

I'll steal it -- my wife usually makes me a shirt or two a year when I teach grad level courses. Last year, it was just a shirt that said "Who's ready to work?"

I bought a "4 out of 3 people have problems with math" and "Fuck Math. Let it solve it's own problems" shirt for my physicist cousin...but I'm not too much on print T's except around the house (where I spend all the time now). I prefer long sleeve shirts to hide the hideously deformed tat on my right forearm. I've got to get it touched up....

I recently came home to a parcel from my 11 year old nephew in Edmonton.

I opened it and nearly cried. It was a Star Wars t-shirt with Darth Vader in a telephone booth and some Stormtroopers queuing up outside waiting (for him or the phone, I don't know).

This isn't my kind of humour but the fact that he went to his first Comic Book convention, thought of his geeky Uncle, who he sees every couple of years, and bought this shirt for me trumps ANYTHING.

I'm 43 and I wear that mofo every week with pride (I actually have it on right now).

The only nerd shirts I have are the F:AT one (which I quite like) and one that has a picture of an undead Jesus with a crown of thorns and the words 'Zombie Christ. Eat of my flesh'.

Mabuse, post a pic! That sounds awesome


oh and lol @ 'Who's ready to work?!' in a grad class. I love it