T-shirt #249 - Michigan Women's UltimateThis is one of my favorite Ultimate t-shirts. I have always been a strong supporter of women in sports and in Ultimate in particular. I bought two shirts of this print run, one with and one without the phrase on the back. I have worn this shirt many times both while playing Ultimate and not to show my support for women in the sport.
The phrase on the back comes from the male idiom: "teabagging." When a male player "tea bags," he jumps up over another player for whom the jumping player's testicles will dangle in the victimized player's face like tea bags. Well, as the women of the University of Michigan Ultimate team reasoned, women do not tea bag. So what's the equivalent? Hence: "wanna see me pop tart?" I think you can suss it out.
Below, you can see a picture of me wearing the shirt during a day of playing Ultimate. Our 2002 Masters team Grey Area at either Centrals in May or Sectionals in September. I am not sure which.
This morning I had a discussion with Ivan over the meaning of the word "bollocks," which we agreed is a great and all purpose word. I did not realize exactly how all purpose, and so I present some of its purposes here.
1. Bollocks
A highly flexible term commonly used by the English.
1. something rubbish
2. a falsehood or series of lies
3. something great
4. the best possible
5. testicles
6. exclamation on making a error.
1. something rubbish
2. a falsehood or series of lies
3. something great
4. the best possible
5. testicles
6. exclamation on making a error.
1. That Mel Gibson movie was a load of bollocks.
2. That Tony Blair is talking bollocks.
3. That curry was the bollocks!
4. That your wife is the dog's bollocks when it comes to cooking!
5. Then she kicked him in the bollocks.
6. Bollocks!
2. That Tony Blair is talking bollocks.
3. That curry was the bollocks!
4. That your wife is the dog's bollocks when it comes to cooking!
5. Then she kicked him in the bollocks.
6. Bollocks!
BLOG RECAP
Just a few quick notes on what is happening with the blog. According to my stats overview, my blog scored an all time in page views for Saturday November 23rd at 443 views. I find this to be extraordinary. The Wonder Woman post immediately started to score many views. But the "Advice from a Volcano" post (T-shirt #241) continues to score an incredible number of views with 110 alone on Saturday. I don't understand it, but I am happy about it.
Off to work.
COUNTDOWN TO THE END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 116 shirts remaining
- chris tower - 1311.25 - 9:07
