Comments on: Teachers wear Ask Me shirts

Teachers wear Ask Me shirts

davey_darling — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:10:25 -0800

Thought you might get a kick out of the shirts that all of the staff members at my school had to wear for the first day of class (they were supposed to make us more recognizable/approachable).

Unbeknownst to anyone else I considered mine to be a subtle ask metafilter ad.... (more inside)

By: davey_darling

davey_darling — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:10:47 -0800

By: unknowncommand

unknowncommand — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:16:44 -0800

they changed our signs to "ASK US!" which i keep thinking is some sly reference to the patriot act.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:23:43 -0800

Wowzers.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:26:51 -0800

can you please please please try to get me one of those shirts?

By: InfidelZombie

InfidelZombie — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:30:03 -0800

If it came in green it would be perfect.

By: InfidelZombie

InfidelZombie — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:31:36 -0800

Oh, and you know me and my friends would have hounded you mercilessly that day...

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

By: ericb

ericb — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:46:30 -0800

African or European?

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:59:32 -0800

/total derail/

I once asked Graham Chapman that question and he deadpanned: "I don't remember because I'm no longer king."

/end derail/

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:16:09 -0800

Citizens demand t-shirts!

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:19:36 -0800

Nice.

It reminds me of a friend's story about his first year teaching, on the night of his first parent-teacher meetings. Being nervous, he carefully prepared his thoughts for each student, plus a short bit about "teacher-family-student-patnership", days in advance. Upon showing his notes to one of the older teachers, he was informed that he would be lucky if anyone showed up. (It was basically a school for troubled kids.)

Waiting in his classroom .... first hour .... no one shows. Second hour.... still nobody .... five minutes before the end ... a parent walks in to discuss her son. My friend grabs the kid's file and looks up just as the parent removes her jacket, revealing a tshirt with massive 1980's style text on it, which says....

DONT ASK
ME FOR
SHIT.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:20:29 -0800

I've been thinking of doing nice shirts but I can't think of anything aside from the standard logo. This is good though.

By: mischief

mischief — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:30:21 -0800

KISA (Keep it simple, amigo.)

By: beatrice

beatrice — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:33:59 -0800

Metafilter: Don't Ask Us For Shit.
No, actually, you can. Really. Go on, ask us!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:39:21 -0800

I could also do a gray shirt like this over the stomach area, like a tattoo:

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:57:48 -0800

The dude in the picture is that guy on HBO's Entourage, isn't he?

By: NinjaTadpole

NinjaTadpole — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:57:50 -0800

You could probably retire on the proceeds from that shirt alone.

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:14:01 -0800

You could probably buy the western hemisphere on the proceeds from that shirt alone.

By: konolia

konolia — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:14:10 -0800

Matt, some of us should get a free one of that, right?

By: davey_darling

davey_darling — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:17:06 -0800

mr_crash, that dude in the picture is me (I hadn't realized just how long I'd let my hair get though, wow)

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:26:43 -0800

Hell, you could buy Fark on the proceeds of the shirt alone.

By: jonson

jonson — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:48:59 -0800

waitasecond... davey_darling is Vincent Chase???

By: quin

quin — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:02:04 -0800

Wasn't there an idea kicked around a few years back about getting MeFi Jerseys made with our user number on the back?

Did that ever go anywhere? Because I always wanted one.

As for t-shirt ideas how about

Front
Metafilter:

Back
[insert a couple of hundred of the best MeFi taglines in very small font]

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:06:04 -0800

User names are great for those of you with the foresight to keep them short. I always wanted one of the jerseys but figured my name font would have to be so small there wouldn't be much point.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:19:32 -0800

quin, you can order one of my jerseys (or one of a few other MeFites), but I believe Matt has said he won't be making any other custom shirts available - doing them individually was apparently a pain.

If you do order one of mine, don't worry about being recognized, or even approached. I haven't yet.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:21:56 -0800

I'd go for a Banned For Life shirt. That would be cool.

(I know a guy who works on a tug boat who has a Tug Life tattoo.)

By: chococat

chococat — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:03:52 -0800

waitasecond... davey_darling is Vincent Chase???

I was thinking this.

By: vidarling

vidarling — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:37:47 -0800

This is too funny.

You are the first person I would ask with any question.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:20:20 -0800

You misspelled "4 lyfe", Matt.

By: rob511

rob511 — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:44:45 -0800

dd, what's the small print on the back? I'm guessing its SOME CONDITIONS APPLY.

By: rob511

rob511 — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:45:36 -0800

it's

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:20:14 -0800

I think it says DRYDEN HIGH SCHOOL.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:34:10 -0800

Since this seems to be the street cred thread, I must point to the overalls I wore to the WTO protests in Seattle. 1999, yo.

By: davey_darling

davey_darling — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:10:23 -0800

rob511: bob sarabia has it

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:17:08 -0800

Yes Matt, please do those shirts! You should set up a call for more designs of a similar bent, hopefully ending up with some in blue & green as well.

Set yourself up with a nice place like wigu's topatoco that handles the orders to the screenprinting company and the stuffing and shipping of shirts to customers. Print on nice American Apparel tees, and try to make it so that they cost $20 shipped tops.

Practically a license to print money, inspire happiness, and foster community, all at once!

It would be really nice to resurrect the user number jerseys, except this time with quality, not cafépress shit. You might see if you can set something up with neighborhoodies to do a metafilter user hoodie, that would be terrific!

By: hoborg

hoborg — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:12:00 -0800

/* derail
The day after WTO, I was walking back home from my job at Suzzallo at the UW. I was just near the beginning of the marching route and people kept sneering at me. One guy leaned into me as he walked and practically spat at me: "scum". I got home and was changing my clothes when it dawned on me - I had been wearing a shirt I got years before at the army/navy surplus store that said "Police" on it (instead of ARMY). Guess that was kind of stupid, but I'm just such a big Sting fan, I didn't even think about it.
*/

What does it say after "Ask Me", Jessamyn?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:30:27 -0800

What does it say after "Ask Me", Jessamyn?

nothing, it was just a street reference sort of thing.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:50:00 -0800

Update - thanks to davey_darling, I now have a way cool AskMe shirt. I ♥ davey_darling!