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Memorabilia for events/places not visited

Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
How many of you do this? Buy T-shirts or knick knacks for places you haven't been to? My last few trips across I-90 in SD and MT has shown me how a lot of this happens. They are selling Sturgis 75TH anniversary shirts and knick knacks long before the rally and folks who have no intention or every being there are buying this stuff up!

Me personally I do not buy stuff unless I have been there. All my Kuwaiti, Iraqi, Afghani, and other middle eastern shirts, shot glasses ect ect were all bought while I was there. My Sturgis souvenirs was purchased at the rally, concert shirts bought at the concerts and so on.

I have always been against posing and fibbing and I can prove that I have been where I say I've been. It just bugs me that tourists running across 90 are buying shirts for Sturgis and not even thinking about going to the rally but they will damn sure lie about it!!

Sorry, one of my pet peeves and yes I can be and am an a-hole! [8D][}:)][;)]

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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No I do not but I have stopped there! We got a sneak preview on the topless waitresses last year during the rally [:D][:D]

    Stopped in before the place opened and was watching them setup the stage for the topless dancers when we got asked if we wanted to see the "entertainment". We said SURE!! The girls came walking by saying hello, I felt guilty for looking and left [:I] The two other bikers I was riding with stayed and I rode on the to Buffalo Chip.
  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now I feel guilty for wearing this. I'm sure people believed me. [:(]

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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Big Sky Redneck
    No I do not but I have stopped there! We got a sneak preview on the topless waitresses last year during the rally [:D][:D]

    Stopped in before the place opened and was watching them setup the stage for the topless dancers when we got asked if we wanted to see the "entertainment". We said SURE!! The girls came walking by saying hello, I felt guilty for looking and left [:I] The two other bikers I was riding with stayed and I rode on the to Buffalo Chip.

    Awsome Spot!!
    Was there last year, and going back in October!!
    I have the shirt!
  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like to collect t-shirts from places I have worked at or done business with. or cool places I have been. usually people never heard of it.
  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,366 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would bet the farm Harley would loved to sold a bike for every t-shirt bought by people who have never even owned a bike or a Harley .
    I only have shirts from places or events I have been part of Like the GB t-shirt [:D]
  • milesmiles Member Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Back when I was trucking I was forever and a day sending/bringing "stuff" home to the kids from all over the country, and a few odds and ends from Canada and Mexico. They really looked forward to what I sent home but the biggest hit ever was when I brought home a big-assed intact tumble weed for my kids to see and touch.

    My son just had to take it to school and show the other little kids.[8D]
    Ain't a lot of tumbleweeds in Ga.
  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When my son was younger, I brought him home a T-shirt from every city I flew into or out of. It made a cool little gift that I could grab at the airport for a few bucks.

    Never really considered if it bothered anyone that he wore shirts from cities he had never visited.

    I ration my stomach lining and only get wound up about certain things. Where someone else bought a T-shirt isn't on the list. [8D]
  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by miles

    Back when I was trucking I was forever and a day sending/bringing "stuff" home to the kids from all over the country, and a few odds and ends from Canada and Mexico. They really looked forward to what I sent home but the biggest hit ever was when I brought home a big-assed intact tumble weed for my kids to see and touch.

    My son just had to take it to school and show the other little kids.[8D]
    Ain't a lot of tumbleweeds in Ga.


    yep. I was going to do that with a dead armadillo. except I don't have any kids, and it was going to end up on somebody's lawn up north.
  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    For my fifteenth birthday, my older sister Kathy, bought me a Tee shirt that said,"I choked Linda Lovelace. [;)] I wore it to school on the first day and was sent directly home. My father still laughs about that and says, He is definitely my son.[:D]
  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oakie, I got one in high school that showed a little mouse with a double barreled 'pop-gun' with corks hanging on strings.

    It said: " I am on a Pu$$y Hunt."

    Surprisingly, I was also told it was objectionable.

    Dad read me the riot act, and then walked outside and laughed his @$$ off. His friends told me years later that he went around telling the story for weeks.

    I have my family under threat of slow painful death if they tell my son certain of The Stories of My Youth. [;)][8D]
  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some years ago I was teaching 8th grade English in summer school. Man, you gotta be some kind of boneheaded not to be able to even get a D and get out of having to go to summer school.

    One day this kid shows up in a t-shirt. On the front is Tony Montana with the M16 with the grenade launcher. And in 2 inch high letters, right across his chest, it says ADIOS MOTHERmessERS. Really, only no asterisk. He was actually surprised when I told him that he had to turn it inside out before he came into class.

    Same summer school a 15 year old girl (this was her second, technically third swing at passing 8th grade English) showed in a a full, neck to ankle, see through white body suit. She was a dead-ringer for a young Suzanne Sommers. She had on a bra and thong underneath. She, too, was like "What, you can't wear this to school?"
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I buy tee shirts from Good Will. I've got a ton of them from places all over the world. At a buck fifty each I don't care what anyone thinks about them or me. I refuse to pay ten to twenty dollars for a piece of crap shirt.
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't even by Tees from places I have been.
  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Scottish accent >> YA BUNCH OF POSERS!!!! [:D]
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