Greets, business:
 
Yep, it's that time again: finals week.  I have an Am Hist exam in a few
hours, but am I studying?  Oh no.  I've been horsing around with Murphy
and contemplating the origins of a favorite t-shirt of mine.
 
I came across this t-shirt right around the time I took home my third
fuzzbean, Fudge, which would make the year 1992.  I was poking around
a pet store in a mall with my parents when I noticed a rack of
ferret-related t-shirts and suckered the folks into buying a couple for
me.  One, grey in color, had a simple black and white ink sketch of a
sable with "I [heart] FERRETS" in block letters beneath, the words in
black and the heart in red.  The other was a vibrant magenta with, again,
a black ferret sketch on the front; this one had the word "Ferrets" above
and "Original Party Animals" below in a particularly horrid shade of
orange that looked more or less awful against the magenta -- but no
matter.  The sketch itself showcased five hyper fuzzbutts bouncing on a
comatose eighties icon: Budweiser's Spuds Mackenzie, that black and white
spokespup with the Hawaiian-print shirts.  It's a darling tee, really
great style, and I was curious as to whether anyone else on the list has
seen a shirt like it (or even owns one).  The only identifying marks are
the signature ("Rebble"?) and the year (1988, it looks like); the shirt
itself is generic, the type used for cheap screenings.
 
Although they turned out pretty poorly, I took a couple of photos to
share:
 
   http://members.limitless.org/~taan/pics/shirt1.jpg
shows the majority of the shirt design (cropping off only some of
"Original Party Animals" along the bottom), while
   http://members.limitless.org/~taan/pics/shirt2.jpg
is a close-up of the ferrets themselves.  Now you tell me that that
drawing isn't an accurate representation of manic ferret glee.  =)
 
Jog any memories, ferret folk?
 
--Jess & Murf
[Posted in FML issue 3623]