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Sunday, 4 December 2005
Funny thing happened to me today...
got hash?

So I was getting lunch at a sub shop, and the girl behind the counter smiled and said slyly, "I like your shirt."

I said "Thanks," and took a quick look to see what I was wearing -- it was my "got hash?" T-shirt. Heh.

"Well, it disgusts me," said the middle-aged woman next to me, waiting for her sandwich. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself."

"What do you mean?" I asked, though I had a pretty good idea.

"I don't approve of drug users," she snapped.

"Neither do I," I said. "This shirt is from Hash, Incorporated, which makes 3D computer animation software. It's named after its founder, Martin Hash."

She turned red. "Well, how was I supposed to know that?" she asked.

"I don't know," I said. "But maybe you shouldn't be automatically assuming the worst of people you don't even know."

She turned away and didn't speak again until she got her sandwich. After she left, the girl behind the counter asked, "Is that true about what your shirt means?"

"Yes," I said.

"Oh," she said, a little disappointed. "Well, it's still a cool shirt."


Posted by godfrey (link)
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One of my sneaky little neuroses is, I won't wear advertising or clever sayings or what-have-you that I don't believe in, or haven't participated in, etc.

I have a shirt from my queer-activist highschool days that says "yes I am"--people inevitably asked me slyly, "You are, what?" so I could tell them "No, it's the title of Melissa Etheridge's very popular 1995 album."
Another favorite T-quote, seen on a libertine friend: "Sex is a private thing... between the 3 people involved"
Posted by Anonymous Coward on 5 Dec 2005 07:21
p.s. That was me, I said that.
Posted by Indywind on 5 Dec 2005 07:22
Neither do I. In this case, I've been a Hash user for years (I got the T-shirt when I visited the Hash headquarters in Vancouver, WA).

They know quite well how people react to their name, and love to play off that -- one of their other T-shirts (or was it a baseball cap?) uses the slogan, "Still smokin' after all these years".

Posted by Godfrey on 5 Dec 2005 11:23
Hey, they didn't give me that T-shirt! Those bums!
Posted by Squelch on 6 Dec 2005 04:49