These t-shirts are probably fairly obscure references: the AD&D shirts. AD&D, in the gaming world, stands for “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” — the D&D of the 80s and 90s. AD&D in the insurance world, stands for “Accidental Death & Dismemberment” — you probably have this coverage in your own insurance policy, right now.

Old-school AD&D has a reputation, (of arguable accuracy), of being especially deadly & dangerous to the characters in the game. (Not to the players of the game!) So . . . well, I hope the play on words is obvious at this point. (Also, Gary Gygax, the creator of AD&D, once worked for an insurance company, and said that he was amused that the company offered AD&D coverage. But probably only real fanboys know this little piece of trivia.)

The text on the shirts uses the same font and style as the old AD&D game books. The first shirt below is “early” AD&D, and the second shirt is “late” AD&D. My fellow gamer geeks who played AD&D back in the day will surely immediately recognize this. I’m actually pretty proud of these designs even though they’re for a very small demographic.

Accidental Death & Dismemberment

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This t-shirt post is to explain as well as introduce a design. I understand that some of the shirts directed at good ol’ boys and dads might not be appreciated by non-Southerners and non-dads. And of course the gamer geek designs probably don’t mean anything to non-gamer geeks, (especially non-D&D-gamer geeks). But there are several designs I expected to be understood by almost any audience.

For instance, the 26.2 reference:

I was rather surprised when at least a couple of people who’ve seen it, completely didn’t get it. One person just gave it and me a blank stare. Another person asked, “Did you measure it?”

I really didn’t expect the 26.2 reference to be obscure. I mean, I see it pretty much every day, in various styled stickers on the back of cars. 26.2 miles is the distance of a marathon — a bumper sticker is an announcement that the person has run a marathon, (or is at least some level of runner, possibly aspiring to run a marathon).

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When you’re feeling particularly wild and crazy, (and maybe a little buzzed), on the weekend, there’s this announcement t-shirt:

Hey, y’all, watch this!

Yep. It’s a redneck’s last words, “Hey, y’all, watch this!” Something amazing, and fatal, often follows.

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I’ll open the t-shirt side of this site on Monday. I’ve got some last minute clean up to do to make sure all is working properly, and this weekend should be enough time to get it all done. Since it is the weekend, I probably should wear this shirt:

My Weekend Shirt

Many dads have to wear “professional” shirts and ties during the work week. The weekend is really the only time they get to wear something truly comfortable and easy. Why not admit this t-shirt is exactly that: a weekend shirt.

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