Amusing incident(s) involving a new Che T-shirt

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

okay, I got a new Che Guevara T-shirt on ebay and wore it to dinner last night.

First comment... from an elderly gent in the parking lot... "you know, boy, that guy is a commie!" to which I responded... "No, he's dead"

Second comment.... from a very cute cashier "wow, I like that shirt"

Third comment ..... from a middle-aged apparently spanish gent with tears in his eyes... he was great, and so are you for carrying on his work.


Now, I am not used to this kind of shit... I am a pretty anonymoyus looking guy who just exists.'Too weird.l

anyone else have similar things happen?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. I wear mine all the time.

I geat only two responses. Latin heritage people, even the young ones (I'm 55 so young is 20's to me) Give me thumbs up, "great shirt" type reactions or I get clueless white guys who think it's !
1. Jimmie Hendrix, 2-Bob Marley, or 3-Jim Morrison.

Have yet to encounter a "commie" reaction. Great response though, I'll keep it on hand.

[lenidog]

6. It makes me feel bad

I used to have one and it died and the last time I saw a cool one was down at some store at the beach. It a was a button down and down sorta Hawaiian shirt style with Che on it but they wanted 60 bucks for it. That was way too much.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. Kind of funny to ask that much for

a t-shirt with a revolutionary on it, huh?

[lenidog]

14. It is rather ironic

But damn it was a cool looking shirt.

[nguoihue]

15. Che T shirts very popular here

... large city in SE Asia.

Saw another interesting one recently. On the front of the shirt was a picture of Bush. Below that in large cap letters the word "THINK"
Just below that was an AK-47. Shirt was worn by a Westerner.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. "No, he is dead"

Haha, nice response. I don't have any shirts that would really make people react in any sort of way (except maybe the guy getting stabbed through the foot on my Mars Volta t-shirt).

[HEyHEY]

3. My Mussolini T-shirt always gets lots of reaction

[lenidog]

5. Are you shitting me?

DO you actually have a Mussolini t-shirt. Somehow in my sick sense of humor if you had one that would be very cool.

[HEyHEY]

7. No, that'd be terrible

[lenidog]

8. Actually I thought you had one of the shirts from after the 2000 election

that had Mussolini on the front and Bush on the back with the line "The only difference between Bush and Mussolini was that Mussolini was elected."

[JVS]

16. Go for the gusto and get a Hitler shirt

;-)

[Zuni]

17. so does my Leonid Brezhnev tank top

:eyes:

[JVS]

19. Chicks dig my "5 year plan in 4!" shirt, with pic of smiling Stalin

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

22. would that be a T-34 or a T-47?

tank top.

get it?

[manic expression]

25. hehe.....I get it

pretty clever.

Do you get any Chinese protestors standing in front of your TANK top?.....umm.....(crickets)........ok I wasn't serious.

[Zuni]

27. no, it is a T-72

it was the baddest ass tank top on the block until the M-1 Abrams tank top came around

[lenidog]

4. I have had stuff like that happen over the years with different types

of clothing items and my glasses are a big hit too. Don't let it bother you. I guess my most hilarious even like that was a "Blues Brothers" t-shirt I used ot have on the front it had Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues dancing and on the back it had "We are on a mission from God." While sitting in the mall one time an old lady who ran the candy kiosk walked up to me and told me that she really liked what my shirt said and she thought it was so great that a young man would wear such a shirt. I just smiled and thanked her because I new she never saw the front of the shirt and I knew exactly was she was responding too.

[Taverner]

9. I had an interesting reaction from a Cuban American

"You know he was betrayed and killed by Castro..."

We had a friendly discussion about the Cuban revolution...the guy knew his shit.

The jury is still out on whether Castro witheld support for Che in Bolivia because of a personal vendetta as this guy thought.

But it was interesting - the guy was one of the few Cuban Dems I've met.

[sasquatch]

21. I think Castro wanted a "Joan of Arc"

IMHO

[Kellanved]

10. Perfectly normal attire

:shrug:



And it's the semi-official symbol for being a fan of the soccer-club Eintracht Frankfurt.

[Zuni]

18. I heard that you can get

real good deals on Enver Hoxha T-shirts in Europe. Is this true? :o

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

24. Yes, but the shirt self-destructs whenever you

have a thought that is outside the paradigm, comrade.

[bikebloke]

11. I've had one that says, "Sure, I'm a Marxist"

There's a group portrait of three Marx Brothers and Karl. I've had people come up and say they remember seeing three of them on teevee, but not the fourth (Karl).

[Reverend_Smitty]

13. LAMO!!!

It just cracks me up how much people don't know history at all!

[name not needed]

28. One of my friends, who happens to be a complete right wing nutjob,

thought it was Johnny Depp.

[Orsino]

29. Firesign Theatre...

...album cover:

[sasquatch]

20. Don't wear that t-shirt in South Florida

[Atlas Mugged]

23. I have one, too

The most bizarre comment was from a middle aged woman who shrieked, "I love Jim Morrison!!!!"

[Zomby Woof]

26. HAHAHA!

:D