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It Takes A Mysterious Apostrophe

I asked the wearer of the shirt what the apostrophe signified.  She was as mystified as I was.  I’m not sure I’d wear a shirt I did not understand.

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October 28, 2010, 10:35 am | Tags: | Category: Random Firings | 13 comments

13 comments to It Takes A Mysterious Apostrophe

  • Observer
    October 28, 2010 at 10:42 am

    Exactly my thought when I see people, especially black people, wearing a T-shirt with Che Guevara’s image.

  • NMC
    October 28, 2010 at 10:49 am

    Observer, there is a difference between thinking you understand something when you don’t (the import of your example) and knowing you don’t understand something (the wearer of the “ball’s” t-shirt said that she knew the t-shirt was inexplicable).

    I’m puzzled by your singling out of black wearers of Guevara t-shirts?

  • Chico Harris
    October 28, 2010 at 11:06 am

    “I’m not sure I’d wear a shirt I did not understand.” is exactly what my grandmother used to say to me after asking me about my Sex Pistols t-shirt.

  • Anderson
    October 28, 2010 at 11:43 am

    I am guessing there is a product made by someone named Ball, called a Ball’s something or other.

    Google is not much help; the North Alabama Gay Pride Coalition, which I would have thought could hold its meetings in a minivan without too muc crowding, does have a T-shirt that says “It Takes Balls to Be a Fairy” for sale at CafePress, but obviously not the same.

  • Rebelyell
    October 28, 2010 at 11:46 am

    Perhaps because Guevara had opinions such as these:

    “The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”

    “The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.”

  • East Coast Refugee
    October 28, 2010 at 11:53 am

    Once I was given a company T-shirt that said, paraphrasing: You’re in good hands when your [sic] with us. The same word, the same usage, spelled two different ways, one correct, one incorrect. How silly is that? I refused to wear it except when I hadn’t done laundry and had no other options.

    Also, I was once pulled over in Florida by a police officer of Hispanic origin. Turning to head back to his patrol car, he caught an image on the cover of a book on my passenger seat. He stopped, took another look at it and asked me, “Hey, that’s not a book on Che Guevara, is it?” “No, officer. That’s Robert Plant.” Yeah, I often confuse the two, don’t you?

  • Chilidog
    October 28, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    I don’t know, Che’s version of “Whole Lotta Love” is pretty good, although he bombs on “Black Dog.”

  • Ben
    October 28, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    That’s why I wear only Harley Davidson T-shirts. We got the balls and we don’t need no steenkin apostrophes.

  • BlackBear
    October 28, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    A top 5 burger in Dallas, TX is available at the legendary Ball’s Hamburger Stand.

  • agpilot
    October 28, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    Isn’t she pregnant?

  • jaxrelief
    October 28, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    I purchased this shirt from The Onion a year or two ago. http://preview.tinyurl.com/2dxzu5y

    Amazingly, when I wear it, I inevitably get a few people who come up to me and give me a nodding look of approval or just say, “hell yeah … Che …”

  • pam
    October 29, 2010 at 9:19 am

    eff the boss, I just want one of those cakes, NOW!