Not missed connections. Missed references.

You: a graphic tee shirt advertising “El Guapo’s Piñata Emporium.” Your self-consciously cute and cartoonish design paired with the use of the word “plethora” indicated that you were not actually from a real piñata store. But then where were you from?

Me: a 6 feet tall twenty something with mussed hair, wearing glasses, looking at you, deeply confused. Not an avid re-watcher of 80s comedy films and by no means a fan of Martin Short.

I’d like to get together sometime, maybe have coffee, and talk about stuff like our tastes in music or our political views or WHAT THE HECK YOU ARE ABOUT!

Wear this shirt: if you’re dead, because it’s not plaid, and dead men don’t wear plaid. (Was that the reference?)

Don’t wear this shirt: to a wedding where you are the father of the bride. (No, that was it, right?)

This shirt tells the world: “If you get this reference, well then, you can have all of me.” (This has to be it!)

We call this color: brown. You know, like the color of the horses in ¡Three Amigos! Wait a minute…

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