The info on the item states that the T-shirt is IMPORTED – manufactured outside of the US – where one might anticipate some ignorance of U.S. geography – and no one has told the investor that he’s about to lose his shirt…



I just wonder how many they have actually sold of this particular image.



Leslie Wagner

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omg! At first one chuckles, and then as Howard notes, what a damned shame! The t-shirt company should be shut down over such stupidity...



Paige

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By accident, I came across this Indiana T-shirt for children showing the name with the wrong state outlined in the background. And we wonder why so many American kids are geographically illiterate!



http://www.cafepress.com/mf/66379000/indiana_tshirt?productId=631335804

On a related note, my cousin, a recent M.B.A. from Wharton, had a job interview at Warren Buffett's headquarters in Omaha. He tried to butter up the interviewer by stating how thrilled he was to be in Oklahoma, and hasn't heard back.



Howard Stone

Map Cataloger, Brown University