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Some Recent Shenanigans
May 10th
Amongst all of our hard work to make great custom apparel for you, we like to partake in an occasional bit of silliness. For some of us around the office, anything can be made into a competition. For instance, who can extend a tape measure the farthest before it buckles on itself. Here, Tom shows you how it’s done:
Also, we couldn’t forget Cinco de Mayo! We just can’t pass up an opportunity to whack a piñata! In this video, birthday-boy Adam, (reluctantly) beats our piñata into submission:
Play Words With Friends… With Us!
Mar 25th
Several of us here at BlueCotton are big fans of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The wide range of fun and useful apps are often a topic of conversation around the office. One app in particular that has really become a popular source for some friendly competition is Words With Friends.
If you’ve ever played the popular board game, Scrabble™, then you already know how to play Words With Friends! That’s what it essentially is–a mobile, turn-based version of the casual crossword game. One really great thing about WWF is that you can have several games going at one time! I currently have 12 games going simultaneously. So, do you have an iPhone or iPod Touch? If so, play with us! Just download the app to your device, create a new game, and search by any or all of our usernames below!
If you start a game with one of us, let us know that you’re a BlueCotton customer. I must warn you, though. We are pretty competitive. We will not show you mercy!
Everyone’s Irish on March 17th
Mar 5th
Order your custom St. Patrick’s Day shirts now! Make sure you show up to work or school in green to avoid being the designated pinch-ee on St. Patrick’s Day. Are you having a St. Patrick’s Day party or planning to go out with your crew for a pub crawl? Customize your group’s shirts here! You can start by editing one of our templates or start from scratch in our Design Studio. We have tons of great Irish, leprechaun and clover clip art for you to use!
From Wikipedia:
St. Patrick’s Blue, not green, was the color long-associated with St. Patrick. Green, the colour most widely associated with Ireland, with Irish people, and with St. Patrick’s Day in modern times, may have gained its prominence through the phrase “the wearing of the green” meaning to wear a shamrock on one’s clothing. At many times in Irish history, to do so was seen as a sign of Irish nationalism or loyalty to the Roman Catholic faith. St. Patrick used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish. The wearing of and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the saint’s holiday. The change to Ireland’s association with green rather than blue probably began around the 1750s.
Here’s a few of our customer-created St. Patrick’s Day designs:
What’s In Your T-Shirt Drawer?
Feb 24th
A shirt from your high school track team?
One from a sorority event?
Your all-time favorite rock band?
Or from the junior high summer camp where you met your first love?
We recently conducted a nationwide survey and found that roughly 4 out of 5 Americans still hang on to at least one favorite, sentimental old t-shirt – and, more likely, they still have two or three.
Shirts from a vacation led the way by far across all demographic groups. Shirts from a business or employer, from a concert, from a favorite pro or college sports team, and from a charity run/walk also are popular.
So what’s your list? Share it with us on our Facebook page, here. Add a list to the discussion titled My Favorite Shirts, or add a photo to the album with the same name.
We’ll even get it started with a few of our own lists:
Brad:
- Racquet Ball t-shirt – paper thin light blue tee that I bought at a thrift store in Seattle in 2000.
- Dave Letterman shirt (the first time) – bought in 1998 while at the show. This shirt was retired in 2008.
- Hanes Beefy T with navy BlueCotton oval logo. I started wearing this bad boy around 2004. The shirt has probably been washed 300 times and it shows.
- BTSS shirt – my rap group from 4th grade. I still own this shirt although I can’t sport it. It had felt iron on letters that said BTSS. Brad, Ty, Shaun, Steve.
- CABG shirts – who does love a good coronary artery bypass graft shirt?
Angie:
- Gym tee, circa 1988. It is so soft, and still fits. No age jokes from you, Michael.
- Navy long-sleeve BlueCotton tshirt from Christmas 2003. Nothing says the holidays like that shirt.
- Guffy-Kuykendall shirt from Leann’s 2003 WKU Archaeology class. I wasn’t in the class, but the design is choice.
- Get Fresh Crew tshirt, tearing it up at the B+B on Fri nights. You know who you are.
- My Amazing Delores tshirt from 1996. Because she signed it “Amaizing Delores.” Amazing.