The Queen as the Joker
A t-shirt featuring this awesome artwork can be had for a mere $20 over at Threadless. Some might say $20 bucks is kind of pricey for a t-shirt, but you can’t buy stuff like this at Target or Wal-Mart.
I have to think this t-shirt image is something Johnny Rotten would approve of.
I’m a a sharp-eyed blogger!
At least that is what Sara Dickerman over at Slate says:
The skull can serve as a piratelike threat, but historically it has also symbolized bravado in the face of death—a dual meaning that has made it popular among fighting units around the world. In the United States, special operations units have gravitated toward skull imagery in their insignia. During World War II, the death’s head, or totenkopf, was a hallmark of a number of Nazi SS uniforms—something that Wal-Mart unhappily discovered three years ago when a sharp-eyed blogger noticed that some of the retailer’s trendy skull shirts featured the distinctive grimace of the SS death’s head. Wal-Mart pulled the shirts and apologized, but it shows you that you have to be choosy about your skulls.
Of course Wal-Mart never really pulled the shirts unless that means that they simply continued selling the shirts till they were all gone. That’s what they did. The important thing is that they said they pulled the shirts from the shelves. To most people, that was enough. It didn’t matter that people were still finding the t-shirts on Wal-Mart shelves even 62 weeks after they said the shirts were removed.
The important thing is that I have been identified as a sharp-eyed blogger. Maybe I should add that to me resume.
Orioles Hebrew t-shirt: where do I get one?
During tonight’s Rays-Orioles game, MASN is showing commercials featuring real-life Oriole fans talking about great moments in recent Orioles history. When I say “recent”, I of course mean that none of the moments involve Cal Ripken Jr.
One of these fans is a young woman wearing an Orioles t-shirt that appears to be in Hebrew. Or Klingon. I often times get the two languages mixed up, but then again, who doesn’t?
The only thing I’m sure of is that I want one. I did a search on the World Wide Internet Web, but I couldn’t find any. I found a Hebrew Orioles hats, but no t-shirts. I have enough hats. I want a Orioles t-shirt in Hebrew.
The woman’s t-shirt in the commercial says “Let’s Go Orioles” on the back in English. I’d like to get one that says “Derek Jeter Sucks” and preferably, in Aramaic. That’s the language Jesus spoke.
(Image: The Wayward Oriole)
Wal-Mart is selling Nazi SS skull t-shirts
I stopped in at Wal-Mart today after I got off work. I had to pick up a few things. As I was walking past the men’s clothing area, something caught my eye. I noticed something weird over at a wall of t-shirts. One of the t-shirts had a design on it that looked remarkably like something related to Nazis. Specifically, the Totenkopf or “Death’s Head”.
I took a picture of it with my camera phone.
The Death’s Head symbol was worn by the members of the German Nazi SS. The Totenkopf on the Wal-Mart t-shirt looks very similar to the divisional insignia of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf. As you can see, It’s almost an exact copy.
Neo-Nazi’s sometimes use the Totenkopf image because it is not as easily identifiable as other Nazi symbols such as the swastika. You might see one of these tattooed on someone’s arm while standing in line at Burger King and think it’s just an poorly done pirate skull. It’s not.
Is Wal-Mart purposely trying to sell clothing with Nazi symbols on it? I doubt it. They wont even sell CD’s with bad words on them. I doubt someone at Wal-Mart corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas decided to sell clothing with Nazi symbols on it.
Whoever designed this shirt had to know where the skull image came from. I have no idea what the date 1978 refers to.
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