Way Too Nerdy Thursday :: Chucknorium

Every Friday is casual Friday, where we get to shed our typical “business casual” duds and put some jeans on.  Typically people will wear the same type of business casual shirt and match it with denim, but some people choose to wear South Park t-shirts, baseball hats, and hawaiian shirts.

A few weeks ago, on a Friday toward the end of the work day when everyone was getting kind of squirrely and in the midst of a break down following the 38 hours of staring at a computer that week, some guys were giggling over something. I sat and listened, thinking that maybe they were having fun talking about gas powered blenders again, but I slowly moved my head to see what they were all looking at when I spotted it…

And I had only one thing to say.

“… Really?”

And this sent them into a fit of giggles.

At first, I thought I had spotted a man wearing the periodic table on his shirt, but I was wrong.  You see, my eyes aren’t that great and I have glasses but don’t typically wear them. So instead, a picture of the shirt was googled and then e-mailed to me.

I smiled, but I didn’t laugh. They were appalled by my lack of amusement. 

And would you believe that the guy wearing the Chucknorium shirt was heralded while I, someone that could appreciate the shirt but didn’t think it was the best thing ever, was heckled?  Something is a little backward here.

They told me that the joke would have to grow on me.  “You know” said the man wearing the shirt, “I guess I didn’t really think it was all that funny the first time I saw it either.  But then, a few days later when I was driving in my car, it hit me.  And it was the awesomest thing ever.  And then I went home and bought this shirt.”

Something tells me that I won’t be purchasing the shirt.