Shirt.Woot

Walking through Target in Lynnwood, WA - late Saturday (or sunday - can't remember, it was over the weekend) and spotted Mister Bobo, Masonic Dyna-Monkey. I had on hungry bento but no cries of woot broke out.

aisidoro wrote:i saw a kid in the Providence College cafeteria wearing (W)right Angle. Second woot sighting on campus in 2 years.

YAY! Glad to see the (W)right angle one get sighted.

I finally had my first sighting. It was one of TG's shirts (The one from the citizenship derby with the tree...can't recall the name.) So...finally got to see one 'in the wild'. I was wearing Dsladek's autumn design.

klswoot wrote:YAY! Glad to see the (W)right angle one get sighted.

I finally had my first sighting. It was one of TG's shirts (The one from the citizenship derby with the tree...can't recall the name.) So...finally got to see one 'in the wild'. I was wearing Dsladek's autumn design.

My very first woot sighting doesn't count? Aww..

klswoot wrote:I finally had my first sighting. It was one of TG's shirts (The one from the citizenship derby with the tree...can't recall the name.) So...finally got to see one 'in the wild'.

Watch It Grow. That was one of my first sightings as well.

i saw somebody at a Ratatat Concert last night wearing a woot shirt
it was the If "Only There Was An Obvious Name..." one.
I was wearing a woot shirt at the time too and we noticed!
we high-fived
and i made a new friend!
THANKS WOOT!

I just saw somebody wearing Dusty Keys outside the MP Building on BSU's campus. I yelled out, "Hey that's a woot shirt." To which he replied, "Oh yeah." Sadly, today was one of the few days I wasn't wearing a woot shirt.

Two more sightings....

Soon after the first (W)right Angle sighting, the same guy came to class wearing 92 Protons of Boom (I was wearing Hummingbird from TeeFury).

I was just in the chem study area on UofU campus and saw a guy wearing "Yay My Favorite." I didn't say anything as last time I really felt like a dork. I was wearing Energy Harvester.

Alright had my first woot sighting! (Not really) my friend got his random in a week or so ago and when we were hanging out, he was wearing it! Robot and Yeti, I believe it is called. So its like 50% of a sighting I suppose. This was right here, in NH. ;)

A couple months ago, in an airport, during a layover in St. Louis or Chicago (can't remember which), I saw a guy sitting on the other side of the waiting area (too far away to say anything). He was wearing a shirt I recognized as a woot, but I can't remember the title. It's a green shirt with a stick figure holding a video-game controller plugged into his own head.

alftuba wrote:A couple months ago, in an airport, during a layover in St. Louis or Chicago (can't remember which), I saw a guy sitting on the other side of the waiting area (too far away to say anything). He was wearing a shirt I recognized as a woot, but I can't remember the title. It's a green shirt with a stick figure holding a video-game controller plugged into his own head.

That would be 'Control Yourself':

auggie24 wrote:That would be 'Control Yourself':

That's the one!

Upon a second look at this picture, I think I would love to see it in animation. I can just imagine it... HahaHA!!!!!

my husband just had his first, a girl in his class at work wearing Circuit-latory System. He didn't talk to her, though, cuz he didn't notice until the end of the class. He was very excited.

Wonderbunny wrote:My very first woot sighting doesn't count? Aww..

I didn't see your post until after the other one. So, you get props for the first one!

Ansharp...I thought that was the title of TG's shirt, but I wasn't totally sure. (I though that might have been the name of the logo-like 'grow' shirt.) Just got them confused. So, 'watch it grow' was my first non-family sighting 'in the wild'.

I'm not a big shirt.wooter... saw someone wearing Perched Among Blossoms ... asked him if it was a woot shirt (wasn't too sure but thought I recognized it), turns out, I bought it for someone as a gift who gifted it to the person wearing it.... and here I thought I saw another wooter... oh well.... as the guy I bought it for didn't like it, I think I'll white-elephant him the xxl shirt I got in the boc

Saw a girl wearing Say No to Scurvy on the Georgetown Medical campus yesterday afternoon. She had a jacket on covering most of it, but I would recognize half of that orange anywhere (the vibrant kelly green shirt helped, too).

cjupiter wrote:CES aside... has anyone seen a stranger wearing a Woot shirt, or has someone recognized yours? There have to be enough out there by now for CoWSS (Cult of Woot Shirt Sightings). Share your sightings!

I got a couple comments on Angry Day but it was people asking where I got it. Haven't seen any others yet, but then I live in a rural area where internet access isn't very high on anyone's priority list.

I wear mine all the time (I have 7+ once I get the one I just ordered), but I never get any Woot comments. If someone makes a comment it's usually to say what an unusual shirt it is or to ask where I got it.
I did see a guy wearing the yellow buffalo in the sunset shirt (don't remember the official name) in my graduate statistics class, but other than my bff who Woots too, I haven't seen any others.

ansharp wrote:Saw a girl wearing Say No to Scurvy on the Georgetown Medical campus yesterday afternoon. She had a jacket on covering most of it, but I would recognize half of that orange anywhere (the vibrant kelly green shirt helped, too).

Last time I wore mine, someone asked me who Scurvy was. I thought this particularly funny since I am a Masters in Dietetics and Nutrition student.

rocknsupergurl83 wrote:Last time I wore mine, someone asked me who Scurvy was. I thought this particularly funny since I am a Masters in Dietetics and Nutrition student.

I get so many compliments on my scurvy shirt... most due to it having a cute little pirate on there... i'm always surprised who knows what scurvy actually is nowadays. llo.


my first woot sighting, outside my friends who introduced me to the wondrous woot (consequently i have more woot shirts than them combined. llo. esp if you count the ones i bought as gifts), was an old coworker in philly wearing the cake is a liar. i just about freaked out with excitement.

my first complete stranger woot sighting was while i was stopped at a red light and saw a guy walking on the side of the street in redmond, WA wearing Fire Swallower.

...but i have way too many woot shirts.... but theyre so damned addictive! llo

I saw “Game Time” literally 5 minutes before I ran the Hartford Marathon. I was making my way to the starting line and I passed a gentleman wearing it. I said“woot!!!” He sorta looked at me, and then to make more of an ass of myself I pointed and said “nice woot shirt” he laughed so did the folks he was with. I told him that I was packing “robot city” in the back pack my wife was carrying.

My wife later explained how silly it was for me to point out people in woot shirts…
She said “it’s kinda like going up to someone that is wearing a shirt, say from JC penny and pointing at them and saying JC Penny!!”

I told her she just doesn’t understand the excitement of seeing a woot in the wild!! I know with you, the woot community I am not alone!! You all understand!! The personalities of the woot community are as varied as the shirts woot offers!! Sure even if I don’t buy most I still love the ones I don’t!!!

aisidoro wrote:i saw a kid in the Providence College cafeteria wearing (W)right Angle. Second woot sighting on campus in 2 years.

Crazyness! It seems like college campuses are the place to be. I'm at UIUC and see woot shirts at least 3-4 times a week, albeit usually on the same 3 people, but i'm averaging like 1 new person every two weeks... A guy in one of my classes has (that i've seen) Finding Technicolor, Against the Sky, metamorphosis, The turtle grenade one, and a couple more that i've seen... For a state that isn't incredibly yellow on the wootMap, there are a lots of shirts at UIUC.

First sighting for me today. Saw somebody in my lecture wearing Wormhole Republic

I had my first sighting at the TX ren fest on Saturday. The guy was wearing autumn = embarrassment. I yelled "woot shirt!", but he didn't hear me. Yeah, I just admitted my dorkiness on many levels.
I've been spotted once by my father in law's neighbor... I don't remember what I was wearing.

I was at work here (BJ's in Allentown) and I was driving the scrubber down the aisle and saw someone wearing the Wild Turkey Rules (the one with the wishbone) for my first woot sighting (and of course I stopped and said "so you likens those woot shirts don't ya).
I've got my 1 co-worker and my gf addicted to the site now.
I'm always disappointed when I wear my Woot! shirts to work and no one says anything about them...(cry)

oddlandd wrote:First sighting for me today. Saw somebody in my lecture wearing Wormhole Republic

I was wearing Wormhole Republic today when I had to go to the E.R. for some super scary chest pains. Even though I was a little freaked out by the whole situation, I felt a little bit better when the nurse taking my blood pressure remarked how much she liked my shirt.

So, now I'm wearing Wormhole Republic with seven electrode things attached to my chest, monitoring my heartbeat for the next 24 hours. I guess if I die, at least I will go out wearing a woot shirt.

iris420 wrote:I was wearing Wormhole Republic today when I had to go to the E.R. for some super scary chest pains. Even though I was a little freaked out by the whole situation, I felt a little bit better when the nurse taking my blood pressure remarked how much she liked my shirt.

So, now I'm wearing Wormhole Republic with seven electrode things attached to my chest, monitoring my heartbeat for the next 24 hours. I guess if I die, at least I will go out wearing a woot shirt.

How scary and funny all at the same time! You have the gift of composition. ha!

p.s. I hope everything turns out okay once the electrodes come off.

2thFairy wrote:How scary and funny all at the same time! You have the gift of composition. ha!

p.s. I hope everything turns out okay once the electrodes come off.

Well, as Eric Idle hanging on a cross once said, always look on the bright side of life. Nine more hours of electrodes, then we shall see.....

damnedreality wrote:I was at work here (BJ's in Allentown) and I was driving the scrubber down the aisle and saw someone wearing the Wild Turkey Rules (the one with the wishbone) for my first woot sighting (and of course I stopped and said "so you likens those woot shirts don't ya).
I've got my 1 co-worker and my gf addicted to the site now.
I'm always disappointed when I wear my Woot! shirts to work and no one says anything about them...(cry)

I've gone to BJ's in Allentown a couple times, but I don't live there (my boyfriend's parents do). Next time I'm in town and we need to go, I'll make sure I wear a woot shirt.

ansharp wrote:I've gone to BJ's in Allentown a couple times, but I don't live there (my boyfriend's parents do). Next time I'm in town and we need to go, I'll make sure I wear a woot shirt.

Awesome!

i know someone who has woot shirts, but that doesnt count.

Saw 'Say No To Scurvy' At a Muvico here in Davie Florida, only one so far for me.

Saw F5 Refreshes you in Carrollton, Texas at a sushi place... I didn't say anything.

JustJiggles wrote:Saw F5 Refreshes you in Carrollton, Texas at a sushi place... I didn't say anything.

I'm wearing F5 today. I'm in Canada though, so that wasn't me you saw.

JustJiggles wrote:Saw F5 Refreshes you in Carrollton, Texas at a sushi place... I didn't say anything.

Though I live in Carrollton and have a ton of Woot shirts, that's one I didn't get. By the way, we're having a DFW shirt woot gathering in Addison at the Flying Saucer on Oct. 26th at 3pm. Would love to have you.

Saw "Stop Motion" at IKEA today. Actually, my daughter did, and pointed it out to me, which she immediately regretted as I yelled "Woot Shirt!" at the guy. He seemed happy to have been spotted.

Saw "May Be Subject to Random Searches" on a co-worker earlier last week.

I was wearing Miss Stereo at our local Octoberfest parade. Half way through a girl walked by me and said, "Hey, woot shirt! I got that one for my boyfriend!".

It reaffirmed my faith in humankind.

I saw 3 woot shirts at the TX ren fest this past Saturday.
I saw 2 at last we meet's, but the people were with their families so I didn't bother them.
I saw a kid wearing owl & decided not to accost a 12 year old so I didn't say anything to him either.
My sister's husband was wearing teardrop, but I suppose he doesn't count.

Today's Podcast is about spotting shirts in the wild.

I go to Purdue University, a big engineering school. And its strange, because although we have such a large quantity of nerds, I've only seen one shirt.woot in the last 2 and a half years. It was Arrrgyle, but the kid was too far away and I was far too lazy to make an effort to unite with my woot brother.

I got to Hope College in Michigan and saw a guy wearing Voices In My Head, while I was wearing my Freebird shirt. All I said was "woot shirt!" He looked REALLY confused and then gave me a awkward smile and said "yeah its cool" and kept walking. Needless to say, the sighting TOTALLY made my day!