Total Thong Awareness

February 11, 2003 6:47 AM

You love it. Big fan of DARPA's Initiative on Countering Terrorism? Pick up a Total Information Awareness thong or lunchbox - but, you already knew that.
posted by The Jesse Helms (10 comments total)

[this is cool]
bought me a t-shirt. i'm looking hard at those greeting cards.
posted by quonsar at 7:12 AM on February 11, 2003

What, no Valentine's Day cards?

"You love me. I know you do."
posted by SPrintF at 7:20 AM on February 11, 2003

[this is cool]
bought me a t-shirt. i'm looking hard at those greeting cards.

Bah, t-shirt, shmee-shirt, there are too many lousy t-shirts with pithy remarks on them.

On the otherhand, thinking of my wife in one of those thongs is certainly making me all hot and bothered...
posted by Plunge at 8:48 AM on February 11, 2003

Me too plunge!!!

oh wait...i wasn't supposed to mention that....
posted by das_2099 at 9:01 AM on February 11, 2003

I just bought the Total Information Awareness snuggle bear for my sweetie.

But what the hell? The order system said I couldn't use an apostrophe in my gift card message? So CafePress doesn't have a programmer smart enough to escape apostrophes out before database inserts? I know most people don't care, but that is just about the most blatant admission of dumbness I've seen lately. "Hmmm..... Contractions keep breaking my SQL inserts. I'll just strip those out. Apostrophes are unnecessary. Good. Fixed."
posted by y6y6y6 at 9:09 AM on February 11, 2003

Did you know your username is German for "Die Jesse Helms!!!"? That's offensive.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 9:39 AM on February 11, 2003

y6y6y6: my NAME has an apostrophe in it. and two capital letters. i was as surprised as you were. back in the dawn of my surfing era (say, 1995) i was accustomed to having to mangle my name in web forms. i haven't seen anything like that in years now. interestingly enough, they give the typical warning that the billing info must match the credit card info or the transaction will fail. my credit card has my correct name, apostrophe and all, and yet my transaction did not fail.
posted by quonsar at 10:23 AM on February 11, 2003

Be a good American

Don't ask questions?

Now I'm skeered!
posted by LouReedsSon at 10:50 AM on February 11, 2003

Man, I so have to have one of those coffee mugs...talk about something waking you up in the morning.... ;)
posted by dejah420 at 2:12 PM on February 11, 2003

Yowza, store seems to have been disappeared.
posted by CunningLinguist at 8:37 AM on February 19, 2003