It was all a joke. My husband bought me this shirt for Christmas. I was pregnant at the time. It's a Monty Python joke. You know, Monty Python? Monty Python and the Holy Grail. These scene, to be specific.
It's an old movie, not really appropriate for most children (mine have seen it of course). Most children wouldn't get it.
It's my favorite color. Or colour, as they say in England. I wore the shirt to play practice last night.
14 year old "Frank" comes over and reads my shirt. I tell him what it says because it makes me uncomfortable when people stand around "trying to read" my chest.
"OH! From Monty Python?" he asks.
"Uhh, yes," I say and quickly cover my chest with my script.
"That movie is so funny." Then he starts saying "huge tracts of land" over and over. As well as, "Burn the witch," and "I got better," and "I like to push the pram a lot," and "I fart in your general direction," and singing snippets of "Knights of the Round Table".
"Your mother let you watch that show? It's not appropriate for children."
He shakes his head in the affirmative.
"This shirt was a joke. From my husband." Yeah, now I'm blushing, because I blush.
For the rest of the night, every time "Frank" sees me he says, "Huge tracts of land" and I put my script up in front of myself.
Thanks Greg .... I thought it'd be okay. This cast is a bunch of kids, I didn't think anyone would get it ... now I've drawn attention to my really not very huge at all tracts of land ... icky. It's the candy store at Camp Bradley all over again. (note to candy store girls, you sell out of ice cream sandwiches ... reaching down into the freezer - boys are not so innocent as they seem.)
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I re-watch movies I saw as a kid and then call my parents and say, "I can't BELIEVE you let me watch this!" Their argument is always, "Well, you didn't understand it anyway." Monty Python falls into that category, of course, as does almost every movie made in the 1980s.
He's a 14 year old boy, he would have noticed anyways. He just wouldn't have said anything without the shirt.
Your post reminds me of the T-shirt my sister used to wear that read "The Vagina Monologues" on the chest from the time circa 1999 or 2000 that she helped produce the play for her college's V-day celebration (she was a women's studies double major). My Dad (aged 6o or so at the time) even attended and brought his girlfriend along....whew, THAT made for an interesting evening, especially when he left midway through the play, ostensibly to grab a sandwich because they were, um, embarrassed, I mean hungry. Unfortunately, as I recall, I bought her the T-shirt (the $$ was supposed to help rape victims or something like that!) and I wore it a few times, too, which is really really unfortunate.....I tend to now favor unmarked shirts.
And something else in the same vein of this conversation: I discovered when shopping for Tammy's new baby boy, you can even buy, um, oh-so-tasteful baby clothes for your infants with the words "mother sucker" or "I am boob man" on them! The 'boob man' one even comes in adult sizes for women who want their husbands/boyfriends/babydaddies to walk around advertising that. Here is the website:
http://www.sillysouls.com/I-Am-Boob-Man-baby-bodysuit_p_1734.html
http://www.sillysouls.com/Dad_c_500.html
There are all sorts and all kinds of, um, shall we say, 'interesting' messages your baby's clothes can project to the world. But, IMHO, there is a vast world of difference between an in-joke on Monty Python and a pregnant lady and a baby in, say a shirt proclaiming her to be a 'hot babe.'
Red-facedly,
Catherine
I gotta get me one of those shirts and wear it to ward activities!
I saw that movie starting in Junior High - there's really only 1 part that's not appropriate for (the one with Lancelot in that castle) and my parents just had us fast forward it (on the old school VCR's you know). Everything else is fine actually IMO.
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