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you can set up a Paypal account with a visa debit card i bought the tshirt with an anz debit card . dollar value at the time was about 27 aus bucks at the time which was quite reasonable i never have more than 100 on my debit card so u should be fine to get . worth it indeed
This is a totally disgusting mom thing, but I have many of my son's t-shirts saved up in The-Closet-Of-Saved-Things. You get a lot of Official T-Shirts round here. Once I thought I'd make a quilt out of them. And give it to him.
Gawd, can you imagine how embarrassing?!? I can't decide now if we should burn them, or save them for his possible offspring. Dilutes the effect, if it comes from grandma...but that means I've got to trek them around with me for the next 10-15 years...
Make the quilt. Top surface of t-shirts, padding of all the other soft things left behind or otherwise accumulated.
Then hope that the Smithsonian or someone buys it as a signifier of the early 21st century.
Offspring then know that at some later date some forensic quilt repairer will come across all these potentially embarrassing things and they will be revealed to the world. The source will obviously be known.
The other option is to make a quilt and give it as a wedding present or for birth of first grandchild.
You, of course, will no longer care about the possible ramifications of such actions. It is every parent's duty to be a potential source of embarrassment to their children and grandchildren.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/18/2007 11:36AM by bunyip.
I don't know if you also have some custom like that, but one of the things done for Polterabend (eve of the wedding) celebrations is to string up a clothesline across the street in front of the house (bride and groom party together, so no ambiguity where) and decorate it with baby clothes. I'd say, t-shirts commemorating children's achievements can serve the same purpose. Embarrassing the couple is definitely wanted.
Another quaint European custom - stringing clotheslines tautly across streets.
How high Prinz? Say, about neck high when sitting on a motor bike? That would be a jolly-well embarrassing wheeze!
As a matter of fact, I've seen it - Steve McQueen did it in "The Great Escape".
Kitten-- re. the tshirt --
I'm not sure if you were going to send it to me first, or pass it around down under, but I definitely haven't received it yet! Offer's still open to send it to me, though!