I Seek Wisdom From the Crowd


Several years ago, my friend Whitney and I  laid an interesting wager on a game of darts-- this was very late at night and after many beers-- and the bet was this: the winner could make the loser wear any t-shirt he chose for one day of the OBFT (as long as this t-shirt was not horribly profane, as we spend a long portion of each day at the wrap around bar in a family seafood joint) and I won the game of darts, but I have yet to "collect" on this bet, as I've never determined what t-shirt I want Whitney to wear . . . and I kind of like holding the possibility that I might show up with a ridiculous t-shirt over his head each year, but I feel it's time for Whitney to pay up and so I am going to take a page out of James Surowiecki's book The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Societies, and Nations and see what you have to offer . . . so Internet, I call on your wisdom, give me an idea of how I can humiliate my friend in the form of a t-shirt.
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5 comments:

  1. zmanApril 8, 2012 at 8:13 AM

    You could go with something blatantly humiliating like this:

    http://compare.ebay.com/like/120627146659?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&_lwgsi=y&cbt=y

    Or something that, if you didn't know him, might be serious like this:

    http://dreams2things.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3991

    Or something that will erode his soul every second that he wears it, but to the rest of the world it will appear like a perfectly normal hipsterish tshirt like this:

    http://www.oldskoolhooligans.com/cult-rock-t-shirts/beach-boys-t-shirt-mike-love-not-war.html

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  2. robApril 8, 2012 at 11:43 AM

    kinda like this one:

    http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Apparel/TShirts/My-Little-Pony-Brony-TShirt-138545.jsp

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  3. robApril 8, 2012 at 11:45 AM

    or you could go anywhere with the whack job conservative theme:

    http://www.thoseshirts.com/mis.html

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  4. robApril 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM

    funny 'cause it's accurate:

    http://www.zazzle.com/im_too_sexy_for_my_hair_thats_why_there_tshirt-235069885949180747

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  5. DaveApril 8, 2012 at 12:14 PM

    hmm . . . some good possibilities. now i don't know if i should go for blatantly humiliating or something more subtle-- a shirt that is sort of normal but polemically opposite to igor's beliefs. thanks crowd!

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