Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Three Wolves Shirt


Our friend sent me an email several weeks ago. The email stated, "Kate, I sent Brian a package; do not throw its contents out." We got the package and this beauty of a shirt was inside. Brian has worn it proudly, even to his office Thanksgiving party. The real mystery of the shirt was revealed when I saw some of the reviews on Amazon.com. Here are a couple of the reviews...there are over 4,000.


Dual Function Design, November 10, 2008
This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that's when the magic happened. After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to 'howl at the moon' from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth. I told them no, because they didn't have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn't settle for the first thing that comes to him.

I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted my courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt.

Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the 'guns'), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark.



Great compliment for my skin art, May 19, 2009
By overlook1977 (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews
Unfortunately I already had this exact picture tattooed on my chest, but this shirt is very useful in colder weather.



I think some of the benefits are exagerrated, May 8, 2009
So I got this wolf shirt because of, you know, the sweet wolves on it.

However, having owned this shirt for three weeks now and having tried it out in a variety of situations, both formal and informal, I'm beginning to believe that some of the benefits ---- as described by other reviewers ---- are exaggerated. For example, not ONE supermodel has approached me. Some of you may be used to having supermodels approach you on a regular basis but, believe me, I am not: I would notice one should she appear in my vicinity.

Similarly, I have not been invited to a vision quest, even though I wore my wolf shirt in New Mexico.

There is one thing, though, and that is that whenever I wear the wolf shirt I have a lot less issues with involuntary urination. I have not studied it long enough, however, to establish a cause/effect relationship.

Once, however, while wearing the wolf shirt I was mistaken for Schneider, the building superintendent on "One Day at a Time."

So I guess the jury is still out.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Underwater Pumpkin Carving??!!!

Our friend Julie and Brian entered the underwater pumpkin carving contest. Here are some of the photos...

the pumpkin on the left won 'funniest pumpkin'

this one is Julie's

notice this one has a scuba mask in it

just before the hour long underwater carving session


Habitat for Humanity's Quiz Nite

On Friday night, we did Habitat for Humanity's quiz nite again. Our team got 2nd place in the costume contest, but we didn't do very well on the trivia...

brian was a good sport!

the pacman cast

brian is going for 5000 banana points

Clyde and Pinky

Blinky and Pacman