Shirts that fail to be clean

[azurelunatic]

If you've been around teenagers allowed to buy slightly crass T-shirts, you have probably seen the shirts that have a statement that would be considered crass or borderline "unprintable", with an image that takes it from off-color to the literal meaning of the words. For example, "Hey, nice melons!" illustrated with honeydew and cantaloupe.

I recently saw a shirt that utterly failed at this.

Caption: "Guard the family jewels!" Illustration: a squirrel with a pair of acorns.

It could have been a little cartoon king with a pair of gemstones. Or the caption could have been "Protect your nuts!" But the combination failed at plausible deniability. Back to English class. Don't mix your fucking metaphors.

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[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I saw a girl, roughly 14 or 15, riding a bike wearing a pair of "boy shorts" style shorts with "Nice Crack" written across the ass end.

Who the fuck lets thier kids buy and wear this shit???

[azurelunatic]

After 14 or so, I'd possibly let some of it slide. 14 used to be All Grown Up.