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Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: October 27, 2007 07:40AM

True, true

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.129.---)
Date: October 28, 2007 12:54PM

Just as a random aside.
[ten.com.au]

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: October 28, 2007 01:40PM

Hey! That reminds me:
Bernd das Brot.....(english explanation)

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: OC Not (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: October 30, 2007 01:45AM

Yay more links! How much time can one woman waste? Don't answer that...

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.132.---)
Date: November 01, 2007 07:40AM

And is it me? Or is naming a weight-loss support group after food a little self-defeating? [www.toast-uk.org]

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: mr puniverse (---.meb2.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: December 05, 2007 01:54PM

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

A Kit Kat is a Biscuit

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.130.---)
Date: December 07, 2007 03:22AM

WOOHOO!

Next pay I am SOOOOOOO getting t-shirts!

I wonder if I can write them off against tax somehow...

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: December 11, 2007 11:26AM

BK,

Research materials. Essential for modern business to keep abreast of the market trends.

[Have you got the tshirt with the print: 'I got this T shirt for my husband. It was a good swap!']

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.108.---)
Date: December 12, 2007 12:53PM

heehee, no. Sounds like a goodie.

(Sudden attack of the guilts)
Did I ever post that t-shirt? AcK! I'm gonna have to go through the cupboards to check now!

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: mr puniverse (---.meb2.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: December 15, 2007 06:36AM

other great tshirts i have seen

I got a divorce and was left this tshirt (Its ful of holes and burn marks)

Highly medicated for your safety
I do like jassper's tshirts tho. Please have one with NEXT on it or Thursday Next Left

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: OC Not (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: December 18, 2007 08:48AM

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...

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: December 18, 2007 11:32AM

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.

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: December 18, 2007 02:27PM

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.

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: robert (61.88.131.---)
Date: December 18, 2007 11:01PM

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".

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: MuseSusan (149.106.224.---)
Date: December 22, 2007 12:20AM

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!

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.106.---)
Date: December 22, 2007 06:08AM

(Blushes) I actually found it in a box I'd put in a 'safe place' I'll post it after Christmas!

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: December 23, 2007 01:11PM

I have never heard or (knowingly) seen that tradition, Klaus. It appeals.

Re: toast t shirt
Posted by: OC Not (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: December 28, 2007 07:32AM

"Captain Hilts, actually."

Ah, Stevie...

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