Comedy

The story Jonathan told below led me to the Abercrombie & Fitch “website”:http://www.abercrombie.com/anf/index.html. And I was surprised to find that some, not by a long way all but some, of the ‘humour’ t-shirts were moderately humourous. In New Orleans every other non-bar seemed to be selling t-shirts emblazoned with sex jokes that were old when Elpenor told them. And while Abercrombie & Fitch aren’t entirely immune to this tendency, at least one or two seemed a cut above.

As well as making fun of West Virginia, they seem to do a line in upstate NY bashing. Which being from a place that is worse by every measure than upstate is more or less to be expected. (There’s lots of pictures, so this continues below the fold.)

Despite the obvious hostility towards my home-to-be, I almost liked this t-shirt

!http://a1008.g.akamai.net/7/1008/521/0319/www.abercrombie.com/anf/onlinestore/collection/6749_01_b.jpg!

and I could just about wear this one

!http://a1008.g.akamai.net/7/1008/521/0319/www.abercrombie.com/anf/onlinestore/collection/6750_01_b.jpg!

But I think for my APA talk, I really need to be wearing this

!http://a1008.g.akamai.net/7/1008/521/0319/www.abercrombie.com/anf/onlinestore/collection/6746_01_b.jpg!