Posted on 05/16/2008 2:53:16 AM PDT by Westlander
The controversy is over a T-shirt that read "puschin' it to the limit" and on the back it reads "Class of .08 Seniors."
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Somehow, this shirt is supposed to promote underage drinking. The article doesn’t explain it, nor the weird spelling of “puschin’”. I guess I’m too old to get it.
I think .08 must be the legal limit for blood alcohol in their state...so the shirt refers to being almost at the limit for drunk driving.
Don’t know if “pusch” is a play on “Busch” or if they just thought the spelling was cool, or if there’s some local slang involved there. It could actually be teen slang I’m not aware of...
make them take them off.
“puschin’
Busch beer?
Pshaw...that’s nothing.
We had a Vice Principal back at our high school named Raymond Mohney. He was a toughie whom NO ONE liked. (During the Iraninan Hostage thing back in ‘79-80, we referred to him as ‘Ayatollah Raymohney’...)
Anyway, one of the more artistically-gifted among us seniors (Class of 80) drew up a pattern and put it on a t-shirt, then had several printed. It had a dead-on perfect caricature of a smiling Mr. Mohney, holding one of those fancy old-fashioned cone-shaped beer flutes, with the caption “Brother Ray invites you to the Senior Keg”. On the back were the day, time, and place it was happening.
Anyone wearing the shirt was sent home and told to change. Needless to say, those that left did not return that day.
pusch is little known slang for male genetalia.
another MI ping for ya
You’re in violation of the rule against using “little” and “male genetalia” in the same sentence.
Not very inventive. When I was a Senior....oh so very long ago....we pushed the administration to allow us to sell condoms with our school logo on them.
Lol. That’s funny. Did he have a mullet like Joe Dirt?
Many Mullets in those days. Anoter T-shirt making the rounds said, “You’re Ugly”
Sigh. We sure were ‘to the point’ back then.
These days, they would call the cops, the PC police, call for suspension or expulsion, and 500 hours of "sensitivity training."
Parents of the students should wear the t-shirts to the graduation.
I’ve been threatened with “sensitivity training”. Come to think of it, the person that threatened me with it I told to f*** off. I’m as sensitive as the next guy.
LOL!
That would be my response as well, although I might add, "A$$hole!"
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.08% BAC is prima facie evidence of DUI in most jurisdictions. My guess is that “puschin’” is meant to approximate someone who is drunk and slurring his words.
In many ways, students used to get away with being very open about drug/alcohol use. In my oldest sister’s senior portrait—the one that’s in the yearbook—she’s wearing a coke spoon on her necklace. That was class of ‘82. I was class of ‘87, and nearly everyone I knew had a roach clip attached to their keyring. I don’t know anyone who got busted for it.
The real thing that I see is everyone wears their feelings on their sleeves anymore.
When I was in school, if you got your feelings hurt, that was just tough sh**. Grow some thicker skin then.
Now it’s a freaking lawsuit.
My daughter got into it with a teammate on her gymnastics team the other day. As she headed towards me all teary eyed I told her to get her butt back out there and deal with the problem. The other girl’s dad was next to me and told his girl the same thing. Neither him nor I was going to put up with this ubersensitivity that seems to be the standard of the day.
Ask a cowboy what .08 means.
I did the same thing with my son at our park pool last year, he came running over for some reason or other and I told him to get back there and deal with the problem himself. Problem was my wife was there, we got into it good about when it is right to just let them deal with their problems themselves. I think crap like Oprah and Dr. Phil is to blame for a lot of it too.
My wife and I have gotten into it over this too. Fortunately, she waits till be are alone and she backs me up at the moment.
Class of '82 here, and it was fashionable at our high school to wear a roach clip (complete with feathers attached), too. Even if you never put it to use.
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