Cafepress is like ebay - thousands of different sellers. I wasn't able to find a way to contact the actual seller (GiftMonster) and CafePress wouldn't remove it unless it was offensive. I guess being geographically offensive isn't enough.


If the shirts are selling, there must be something hilarious about them that we just don't understand.


All this talk is sort of making me want to buy one.


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I actually wrote the company. They said they had no control of the images that appear on the T-shirts.





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Has nobody in Indiana complained about this? Is what I want to know.


Ken Grabach

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Miami University Libraries

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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Robert Lopresti <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

This reminds me of one of the few jokes I remember from Laugh-In.



Party-goer: I'm from Iowa.

Englishman: Isn't that funny.  In Britain we pronounce it "Ohio."





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From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Kathy Stroud
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It happens all the time, apparently.



According to WalMart:  "On the map, MA and MD are shaped somewhat similarly..."



http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimore-insider-blog/bal-terps-t-shirt-massachusetts-outline-confuses-public-but-not-walmart-story.html