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]