and now, little green bag

Threadless finally reprinted a shirt I've been waiting a long time to get, and it went on sale today.

When I posted about this a few months ago, we all lamented that they sold out before we could buy them and make them the official T-shirt of our gang, so I'm doing my civic duty and letting everyone know that it's available again.

For you damn kids today, this references a movie we all liked when we were young, called Reservoir Dogs. It was made by the guy who made Kill Bill.

What? You don't know Kill Bill? Christ. Okay, how about Grindhouse?

No, he didn't make the cool movie in Grindhouse. He did the other one, Death Proof.

I know, I know. But Reservoir Dogs is really a great movie, I swear.

Okay, how about Pulp Fiction? You ever hear of Pulp Fiction?

I know it came out when you were in elementary school, but you walk around in 80s clothes like they're cool -- they're not, by the way, and I was there so I know what I'm talking about -- and you weren't even born then.

Look, the point is, when you're as old as we are, you'll want to have semi-obscure cultural references to share with other old folks, so you can spot each other in the line to work in the sugar mines and jointly recall a time when you were cool, and old people just didn't get it.

Now get off my lawn, before I blast you with my laser before our evil alien overlords get back.

Comments

[Jaradel]

Dude, you're making me feel old, which is no mean feat considering I'm four years younger than you. I'm having bad flashbacks of jelly bracelets, IZOD polos, prairie skirts (had to be a Little House fan to get that one), my favorite Swatch Watch - the "Jellyfish" that had no face and no one but me could read it and tell the time...

I have a picture - an honest to God photograph, probably taken with my old Instamatic 110 camera - of me, standing in my grandparents' kitchen, with my jeans pegged. It was December 1990, and I was a freshman in high school. Somewhere in that year I began my transition from 80's jeans-pegging to 90's grunge, when I stole my grandfather's flannels to wear to school over baggy T-shirts, jeans, and ragged Chucks. Ah, those were the days... and my favorite TV show in 1990? TNG. Season 3 is indelibly etched into my high school memories as the Best.Season.Ever in TNG's run.

By the way: pegging your pants is still a useful trick if you happen to ride a bicycle and don't want the cuffs ripped and frayed on the front set of gears.

[rmd]

that's a great shirt.

i actually saw "city on fire" before i'd seen "reservoir dogs". you kids, get off my lawn.

[Sumo]

Reservoir Dogs was not my favorite, but that picture of them modeling the shirt is awesome!

[Steve_Rogers]

http://www.angryalien.com/0406/reservoirbuns.asp
NSFW Language but fun

[geekgrl64]

I was so excited that they finally reprinted this shirt! You turned me onto Threadless and now I am into them for several shirts! Thanks!

[gmknobl]

I've never quite fit in with others of my generation. Did I take longer to mature or was I so ahead of things that THEY never got it? My ego says it's the later but my mind says maybe the former. In any case, you make me feel so, so... OLD!

Here's the deal. Age has never meant much to me. I was born in '63. When I was a child I hung around mostly with adults. So I got to know the things they referenced. When I got into school I had a few close friends but I still hung with the adults and stood apart from most of my class mates. Then at the end of elementary school we moved and it was HARD finding friends again. When I did, a few of us got together for D&D and such or just walking around the countryside, ala Stand By Me but with no dead bodies and leaches. By high school, the D&D thing was in full swing and that's when I started hanging with some younger kids too (only by a few years). It wasn't the age so much as the shared interest - and I feel (arrogantly) - the level of intelligence by coincidence.

So, shift to college. What a shock. Suddenly, I had to actually work to get good grades. But I didn't work lots of the time so my grades suffered and I almost turned into the perpetual student . I started out with one group of people playing D&D and living life and ended up with another, quite younger group, still playing D&D, investigating religion and trying to find my path in life. I never got that computer degree but I did get a degree (History). I gave up grad school after one semester after seeing my debt skyrocket BUT I got a job working on computers and now I'm a sys admin of sorts.

My common experiences run with people older than me all through the undergrad college crowd of '88. It's after that that things start getting WTF with me. My wife is 12 years my junior, which causes some minor communication difficulties at time but we still have a surprising (to some) common ground with which to reference inside humor.

So, it's a bit odd and disturbing to read someone you find commonality with who then goes off on a tangent you almost don't get but just, barely, do. I had to think about it. But then when you go off on your later movie references, well, it just makes me feel OLD!

Why they heck to I bother writing this. No one will read this anyway. Here's an experiment, if someone does read this, email me at gmknobl at vt dot edu. Anyone else out there feel "apart from time" as I do?

[Patty]

Ah, I bought one this morning, as well. And the commie party one rocks. Some of my friends have it, too, so I reckon we should start a communist party here and use it as a uniform. I'm still waiting for a reprint of the Poetic Irony one... :(

[hotmama]

Some of us called it "Tight rollong" our jeans instead of "pegging" them. Anyway, the shirt rocks!! Resovoir Dogs is still the best Tarentino flick ever!

[fairnhite451]

Got mine ... and 3 others besides. Threadless is like chips. "you canna eat just one".

[melissam]

Believe it or not, kids are pegging their jeans again.

Ke-ripes man!

[jazzmodeus]

Holy shit, and they're nine bucks? Sold!

[Mr Frisky]

Would now be a good time to hypnotically suggest you buy a Save Ferris tshirt as well?

[horsenbuggy]

Late to comment, again. We called it "tight rolling" your pants. Here's a how to.