Shirt.Woot

Less white shirts= more shirts bought by me.

This is how I learned to write in cursive in 3rd grade. I have NEVER used it EVER in my life. EVER.

mollymande wrote:Less white shirts= more shirts bought by me.

Yeah, white shirts really turn me away.

polomex wrote:YES!! I remember that gray paper well. And you couldn't apply ANY pressure with your pencil because the paper would rip, and you'd end up putting a pencil mark on the desk.

I concur. I would pick this up in a heartbeat if it were cursive and/or gray.

I remember that gray, wide ruled paper. It really does make you wonder if kids still have to go through these exercises, and if cursive is still taught. Ah, memories.

Handwriting is never that good, no matter how hard you try.

I write my o's clockwise.

lonelypond wrote:some days you want your shirt to say it all...

and cromulent is my new word of the day which is just FINE and also ACCEPTABLE

I remember trying to embiggen my vocabulary by using word-of-the-day's, but in the end, I still use the same couple thousand words.

animuson wrote:1) How do you practice your texting by writing them out? When you're texting, you're pushing keys not writing, no one ever writes 'lol'!

2) Why are all the lines different lengths? What kind of paper is this that the lines don't match up?

3) Why does only 'lol' have the 'how-to-draw' part? Are 'waffles? they're fine' and 'Omelets made great' not good enough for this artist or was the artist just too lazy?

This shirt is just way too boring and pointless for me.

I agree on all points except the 3rd. If you remember those worksheets from childhood, only the 1st line had a tracer, so in that sense its correct. This shirt is disappointing on all accounts though. Not funny or clever.

This shirt will surely embiggen the smallest man.

To all the white shirt haters: I hear ya. I can't keep 'em clean, and I don't much like what they look like on me. But when I see a white woot shirt that I really really dig, I'll buy it in a larger size than I usually buy and wear it to sleep in or lounge around the house. I also like wearing big woot white shirts when I mow my lawn. I hate mowing my lawn, wearing the shirt makes me happy, so it all kinda evens out.

I don't think this is a great shirt, but it does have text on it. and it is printed on white.and it is about spelling. did I miss anything. ohhh let me know when they put up a shirt with prepositional phrases,or conjunctions.





conjunction,conjunction..whats you're function..

ChefRAZ wrote:I conjunction,conjunction..whats you're function..

Schoolhouse Rock! But um, Conjunction Junction, WHAT'S YOUR function.

Either that means that you have to buy this shirt... or that I am a huge grammar nerd.

Gah! Double post!

I also remember that newsprint practice paper, too bad there's no color between white and heather gray.

Should be, "OMGWTFBBQ!"

It's to awesome! congrats space, I'm a big fan!

jeanerz13 wrote:Does anyone else find it ironic that Woot has a shirt for sale in which 2 or the 3 acronyms on it will be filtered in the chat?

I hadn't thought of that. To me, it's more about the very obvious irony of letter formation - which only occurs in WRITING, not texting or typing of any sort - is used on a shirt that's supposed to be about texting/netspeak.

It's sad that because since I now type so much more than I write, my already atrocious handwriting has become even more illegible. More than half the time, I can't read my own handwriting! It probably doesn't help that I got my first computer at age 7.

Although, I find myself saying L-O-L aloud now and again. The others I have never said abbreviated, but 'lowel' - probably a couple times a month. *hides*

I also say 'FAIL' on a near-daily basis. Clearly, I spend far too much time online.

My two year old is gonna love this shirt! I might even come back for the reckoning and get one in a larger size so he can wear it in kindergarten.

animuson wrote:1) How do you practice your texting by writing them out? When you're texting, you're pushing keys not writing, no one ever writes 'lol'!

Perhaps the message is that if people continue to text in this fashion, written language will devolve to match that.

Perhaps it's just a shirt.

animuson wrote:no one ever writes 'lol'!

If only that were true. Try grading some students' papers, even at the college level.

nevetnod wrote:To all the white shirt haters: I hear ya. I can't keep 'em clean, and I don't much like what they look like on me. But when I see a white woot shirt that I really really dig, I'll buy it in a larger size than I usually buy and wear it to sleep in or lounge around the house. I also like wearing big woot white shirts when I mow my lawn. I hate mowing my lawn, wearing the shirt makes me happy, so it all kinda evens out.

That may be the perfect use for this shirt as it would take care of the color problem, since my memory is that it should be dingy gray, and it might add the chunks of wood that I always found floating in the sea of gray.

Noah Webster is rolling in his grave.

I think this shirt is honestly trying to be funny, but it's too scary-true to be funny. Anyone who would lol at this shirt is clearly unaware of the disservice that irresponsible use of text messaging has done for our society... Oh the irony!
And by wearing this shirt you will be making it worse.

like many wallpapers and funny pictures, it looks funny on the screen. Unfortunately, probably not that great spread across your chest.

Anyone else remember thelittle pictures that used go along with each line that showed the "tall" letters, like "l", reaching up into the sky, while the "short" letters, like "o", stayed grounded?

I wish this shirt had those pictures, they were an integral part of my learning-to-write experience.

Next year we'll learn how to text in cursive!

Really would like to have for my 5 year old daughter since she is currently learning to write with this paper.

Not appropriate though due to "waffles? they're fine". I am surprised they printed in the Yough sizes. I don't mind her wearing communist dinosaurs but this is too much for school.

lonelypond wrote:some days you want your shirt to say it all...

and cromulent is my new word of the day which is just FINE and also ACCEPTABLE

Thank you for your perfectly cromulent post. It made my day.

cedricsmods wrote:If only that were true. Try grading some students' papers, even at the college level.

Yes, I see LOL written even in business situations. Ughhh.

animuson wrote:...no one ever writes 'lol'!

LOL, ummmmm.....speak for yourself!! I actually do write out 'lol' on the rare occasion that I am actually writing someone a letter and not texting or emailing!

lovettmann wrote:Where I'm from schools are now using D'Nealian handwriting, sadly enough.

http://abcteach.com/DNealian/dnprintChart.htm

Yeah -- using that here too. My kids are always asking me why I make my lowercase k's the way I do. (Because that's the RIGHT way!!)

polomex wrote:YES!! I remember that gray paper well. And you couldn't apply ANY pressure with your pencil because the paper would rip, and you'd end up putting a pencil mark on the desk.

LOL...and erasing mistakes?? Yeah...there no paper left to write the correction!

jeanerz13 wrote:Does anyone else find it ironic that Woot has a shirt for sale in which 2 or the 3 acronyms on it will be filtered in the chat?

That's why it is a "no buy" for me.

Shame on you, Woot. You should know better than to indirectly-text the lord's name in vain.

Hate this shirt. Hate this shirt. Hate this shirt!

chefbooyadee wrote:On another note, based on the "o", I take it these are instructions for left-handers?

Don't know about all of us, but I definitely write mine clockwise... But why not have them for lefties as well? [inserts rousing speech about the overcoming of trials and tribulations by the left-handed of the species, how many lefties are killed or horrifically maimed by right-handed implements in this "handist" society, and little Billy at your local elementary school who just wants to have a chance to use a pair of safety scissors to cut out a turkey in the shape of his hand without cutting off the thumb ::sniffle::] Remember, only you can help poor little Billy in his quest for equality in elementary school supplies. Won't someone please help him?? ;-)


Anyway...

cedricsmods wrote:If only that were true. Try grading some students' papers, even at the college level.

God, yes... Even in linguistics papers, which surprised me at first. Sadly, before I graduated and left my TA job, I became used to it. (And don't even get me started on Wikipedia as a "scholarly" source ::facepalm:: )

*edit* - okay, I fail at BBCode.

ceejatec wrote:Aw man. Why is this on a white shirt? Do kids today actually get white paper for these exercises?

In my day, after walking to school uphill both ways, we got to practice this stuff on gray paper the consistency of newsprint.

I never wear white shirts, but if this'd been gray, I'd have been sorely tempted...

My paper was beige/yellow.

jeanerz13 wrote:Does anyone else find it ironic that Woot has a shirt for sale in which 2 or the 3 acronyms on it will be filtered in the chat?

"Omelets made great." lol. "waffles? they're fine" is that all about?

KidKobun wrote:I remember that gray, wide ruled paper. It really does make you wonder if kids still have to go through these exercises, and if cursive is still taught. Ah, memories.

i have a friend that doesent know how to read cursive, same age as me(21)

I am too old for this one!

chefbooyadee wrote:On another note, based on the "o", I take it these are instructions for left-handers?

Actually, in teaching my children handwriting, I learned that you should make your "o"'s in a counter-clockwise motion so that you are trained for the backwards loops in cursive writing.