Assoc.

Associates First Capital Corporation ⇒ (“The Associates”) was acquired by Citi Group ⇒ in 2000 after an 82 year long run as its own financial services company. Considering how many companies are named as Associates, I want to point out that, under the 1960 heading of Citi’s history of The Associates ⇒, a “Triangle A” shape is described which can also be seen on the front of this shirt.

Meat Turned To Spam

The domain name printed on the front of this shirt now points to some random spam site that provides a healthy dose of keyword stuffing. I do not want to grant that site any traffic. Therefore, I will not directly link there.

Citi had maintained an advertisement page for their own financial services at the URL For a number of years after the Associates acquisition. I used to link to that page for the sake of completeness. Link rot happens. When I find out about it, I take action.

Vultures

Credit card companies used to send representatives to college campuses and events throughout America Previous to the passage of the Credit CARD Act of 2009 ⇒. These days, the companies can not give gifts in exchange for applications and the booths have be 1000 feet/305 meters off of campus. Back then, however, the representatives were downright obnoxious about calling attention to their trinkets and collecting applications.

Lazy & Dumb

None, however, quite annoy me like this particular shirt does. What offends me most about this shirt is the laziness of the content and design. I get the strong feeling that the design was made to please an older boss rather than address the potential costumer between the condescending view college life and the grungy font selection that is closer to what a baby boomer would think had appeal to a young person than what actually did even in the early 2000s. Most of the attempts at humor about this shirt refers to acts that anecdotal college students are supposed to perform due to a supposed lack of funds whilst living within a frat house.

The format of “You might be _ if _” jokes that is utilized on the back of this shirt is so dumb. If that formula had any novelty, Jeff Foxworthy’s southern comedy ran the formula into the ground years ago. Nonetheless, this is what the writer decided would work best, and which some manager green-lighted.

Considering that half of the conditionals for being a college student are about food, the likelihood that this project reached the writer and designer before lunch break is quite high. Using coupons for ramen noodles, which normally cost between a dime or a quarter per pillow including broth, is likely not a realistic possibility. Anyone that is foolish enough to misinterpret mac and cheese as a balanced meal would not have been able to do well on either the ACT or the SAT. Finally, the shirt is not clear on how this 4 days a week pizza habit occurs. The delivery of multiple hot pizzas is an entirely different scenario than stretching out leftovers.

The most confusing bucket list item that a college student must do is to write a check for 65 cents. One need not be ashamed to buy pop from a vending machine or a board game from a thrift shop. The results of writing that check go from innocuous to costly. Provided that the person or company to whom the check is being written to accepts checks, there is nothing that special about paying for a low-priced good or service from an an active checking account. Not having 65 cents in a checking account and then writing a check is truly senseless because that check will bounce and the overdraft charge will be something like 20 dollars.