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I don't care if we've featured something from Sharp As Toast before. Or that their site still requires a 302 kb flash file to load before you can look at anything. This Taft/Shaft mashup tee is just too good to not run.

For those of you who don't know, William Howard Taft was America's 27th President. He also holds the title of "Fattest President" clocking in at a hefty 350 pounds during while running the country. After his stint as Commander in Chief he served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930 - which makes him the only former President to swear in future Presidents.

John Shaft on the other hand, is a black private dick that's a sex machine with all the chicks. I am also to understand that cat Shaft is one bad mother... Actually, I think I'm just gonna shut my mouth and let you buy the shirt. Can you dig it?

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+ This always ends up happening. We feature a shirt that proves to be so good that it gets picked up on a much larger site. Then, the mail comes.

Manischewitz is a corporate behemoth from Ohio - Streit's is a family-run business from the Lower East Side. Where's the love?

+ If you haven't been paying attention, we had to kill the direct links to the tips mail address. Seems the spammers figured a way around our method of obfuscation, which is disheartening. Anyhow, we have a brand new contact page which is just begging to be used. So, uh, use it.

How many shirts do you own that have football helmet wearing smoking cats on them? I have four.

Not really. I'm pretty sure nobody owns a shirt with a football helmet wearing smoking cat. Well, maybe except for the people who've ordered this tee from S. Britt. And who can blame them? Not me, that's for damn sure...

Big ups to Drew for sending this one in.

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This shirt from Jewcy totally takes me back to my high school prom. One of our friends worked at a market and smuggled out a case of Manischewitz wine for our pre dance festivities. I don't think any of us were Jewish, but we all managed to get pretty kosher in the parking lot. If I recall correctly, the wine didn't taste very good. But I do remember having a good time, and I'm pretty sure that made the hangover worth it.

Of course, Manischewitz makes loads more than wine. In fact, they're the largest manufacturer of kosher foodstuffs in the United States. I'd assume some of their products are at least a smidge better than the bottle of fermented grape juice that I consumed. If they weren't, I'm sure they'd have gone out of business by now.

So if you have fond childhood memories of Manischewitz's matzo - or you just want to fake some of that Hebrew funk - then this tee is definitely a worthy buy. Passover is only a month and a half away you know.

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Were you one of those kids who had an elaborate plan for how they were going to dig to China? Do you look forward to getting brown lung at Burning Man? Were you one of the mud people at Woodstock 1994? Do you just like gardening?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, this tee from SUPERfantastico probably speaks to your inner Pigpen. If you didn't answer yes, you probably know somebody who this t-shirt is perfect for. Since I'm an OCD style neat freak, we'll go ahead and use my friend Queeg as an example. Queeg makes pools and fountains for a living. Because of this, almost everything he owns is covered in a layer of dust and caked on mud. It's actually sort of endearing, in a filthy kind of way. As far as I'm concerned, this shirt was made for him.

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I am not an HTML guru, but I sometimes play one at the office. Take this week for example, I've spent more time playing with HTML for an internal project than sitting in front of an open shell session. That should say something seeing as how my business card reads Junior Admin and not Webmaster.

Still, after all the work I've done, I'm halfway tempted to buy this tee from K10K and expense it. I wonder if our CFO will go for that.

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We often get email from Preshrunk readers who are looking to do their own projects and want a high quality tee. Something nicer than a boxy old Hanes Beefy-T, but still relatively cheap. And while we used to be able to suggest American Apparel with a clear head, we really can't anymore.

Then we stumbled onto American Ringer, who has a really solid collection of vintage iron-on and blank tees. Their standard solid color shirts are the nice fitted variety and are allegedly just as soft as AA's. What's more, they also offer a really nice variety of American made ringers, jerseys and girlie tees at comparable prices. So if you've got a project you want to do - or you just like blank tees - then we wholeheartedly recommend American Ringer. And we'll do so until we find out that they have hideous business practices or their founders eat babies. But we couldn't find anything in the limited Google searching we did, so they're probably clean.

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$32.00 for a shirt with a heart and crossbones?! Tokidoki can't be serious! Were this a month ago, I'd have no problem wholeheartedly endorsing such a headspinning markup for Valentine's day.

To be fair, all of Tokidoki's shirts are $32. And the remainder of their artwork is wonderful for the otaku set - not to mention the white boys with yellow fever. The girlie shirts are pretty cute too. But $32.00 for a heart and crossbones shirt? I'll pass.

On the flip side, you do get free stuff with your order. So it sort of has that going for it.

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While all of ISO50's shirts are lovely and deserve their own post, I've gotta choose one. Luckily, Waterfall is an abolutley stunning tee. It gives off a modern classic feel that's sure to get plenty of comments from your friends and random people on the street.

And if you don't want to talk with random people, just do what I do. Crank your iPod and pretend you're deep in thought. It's the best social avoidance technique ever!

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