Thursday, August 28, 2008

Nerdy T-Shirts

In my formative years, 6th grade, I think, I purchased a shirt, one of the nerdiest I have ever owned. It's black with the periodic table of elements emblazoned on it in proud neon colors. When I bought it I did so with wisdom beyond my years, realizing this shirt would not be cool to wear until much later in life, and I basically wore the thing three times until college where now it serves as my laundry shirt. Like the strip of red tape at the end of a roll of receipt paper that lets you know when it's about to run out, the shirt means that all of my other shirts are dirty. Usually when people call me on the nerdiness of my shirt I try to pass it off as an obscure indy rock band. "What, you don't like the Elements? You should hear their new album, Combustion!" Lately, however, I've been getting so many comments on the awesomeness I know it to posses, that I've decided to put the shirt into regular circulation. Atomic weight of argon? I can tell you that.