What is Your Nerdiest Shirt? (patches to all that post pictures!)

We've donned our nerdshirts, now where are yours?

What got its start as free vendor t-shirts from tech companies has now evolved into a full blown geek-fest of one-upsmanship and subtle winks to those in-the-know.

How many days has Matt walked into work with a shirt I had to patiently wait all day for someone else to question? All of them.

Now Gizmodo asks "What is Your Nerdiest Shirt?"

Be it gaming, coding, comics or YouTube, there's a shirt to express every one of our inner (or not so inner) geekeries.

What are your faves? Let's see 'em!

Feeling left out? (I am!)
Scope the goods at xkcd and Penny Arcade for some clever ways to join the flashmob.

I totally need that poster with the map of the internet. I keep getting lost. . .

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May 22, 2010. 9:53 AMarv_christos says:
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May 12, 2010. 1:55 PMJJAJoshua says:
 Munchman's shirt is awesome!!! I want that one. I have a T-shirt from Google a couple of years ago that they were giving out at trade shows. It's in binary across the front and says GOOGLEKO - which is actually a blooper. It's supposed to say Google IO, so I told them about it, and the next year, they had a Lego shirt with a guy holding a glow-in-the-dark spray can; on the back in glow-in-the-dark is written "KO"
:) I'll try to get a pic of my shirt posted ASAP
Apr 24, 2010. 7:52 PMThe Ideanator says:
 
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Mar 23, 2010. 9:51 AMghouck says:
You all have way cooler shirts than mine.
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Mar 17, 2010. 9:13 PMpetrox5 says:
 Aunt Mabel's Marvelous Pickled Beets.  Available on www.armofthespiral.com
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Aug 28, 2009. 11:51 AMgoeon says:
i invade Newyork :D
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Feb 27, 2010. 2:25 PMtechman9 says:
 lol,  that looks photoshoped/GIMPed
Feb 27, 2010. 4:30 PMgoeon says:
 its from the internet
Feb 28, 2010. 12:09 PMtechman9 says:
 oh, cool
Aug 21, 2009. 12:06 AMmunchman says:
Apart from my instructables shirt (anyone else get annoyed when someone says "It's a robot") my nerdiest (and favourite) is the following
(sorry for the bad image quality, camera ran out of batteries, had to use phone)
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Feb 27, 2010. 2:26 PMtechman9 says:
 Amen to that
Aug 26, 2009. 10:49 AMtazdev says:
LOL I have the same shirt. I saw it on Thinkgeek but locally there is an embroidery shop and they made it for about the same price but not inked, sewn. :)
Aug 26, 2009. 4:21 PMmunchman says:
Cool... I saw it on thinkgeek too, but bought it off ebay... thinkgeek is too expensive to ship to Australia.
Aug 21, 2009. 6:15 PMRock Soldier says:
I don't get it...
Aug 21, 2009. 7:48 PMk_man93 says:
its an IP address... not enough digits in it though, or at least not from my experience
Feb 27, 2010. 2:27 PMtechman9 says:
 That is the I.P.  FOR LOCALHOST, OTHERWISE know as your home network
Aug 21, 2009. 7:51 PMRock Soldier says:
Oh. Thanks.
Aug 21, 2009. 8:20 PMmunchman says:
127.0.0.1 is an IPv4 loopback IP address for localhost. It's pretty much just an IP address for the local computer.
Oct 28, 2009. 1:16 PMn00b001 says:
The conected router is 192.168.0.1, the conected devices after that is 192.168.0.* (* being 2, 3, 4 and so on..). So - please tell me, how we get from 192 to 127?

=D
Nov 2, 2009. 6:53 AMflemron says:
Its a loopback address if you ping 127.0.0.1 your pinging yourself. aka home
Aug 23, 2009. 11:56 AMDerin says:
AKA home.
Aug 24, 2009. 12:45 AMmunchman says:
That's the implied reference. :)
Aug 24, 2009. 8:29 AMPunkguyta says:
I got it the first time I read it.
Aug 24, 2009. 2:19 AMDerin says:
He he he he
Aug 21, 2009. 8:25 PMRock Soldier says:
Okay, thanks for the info.
Aug 31, 2009. 12:17 PMOneDarkEnigma says:
So, I herd u leik COD4 :P, Gotta admit it guys, but this T-Shirt has crowned every other in here as yet Mahahahaha :D
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Feb 27, 2010. 2:18 PMtechman9 says:
 lol! where did you get that
Feb 5, 2010. 12:38 PMpiddle01 says:
Very true.
Aug 22, 2009. 12:46 PMcomadorepet says:
very few pepole get this
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Feb 5, 2010. 12:35 PMpiddle01 says:
Hahaha pretty good. I've always wondered how shadows are dark, but they don't attract energy via waves. Anybody know? I know dark colors attract more heat but why?
Dec 14, 2009. 10:33 AMJodex says:
Nice! Hopefully got it ; D
Nov 27, 2009. 12:48 AMdla888 says:
I proved that the speed of dark=the speed of light, in adv geometry. I lost the paper. :(
Nov 2, 2009. 2:38 PMmunchman says:
 I want one...
Oct 9, 2009. 6:50 AMpurcussionist says:
i get it lol.  lmao
Sep 2, 2009. 9:36 AMLithium Rain says:
Hahahahaha!
Aug 31, 2009. 2:34 AMDriX says:
Haha, pretty good, I want one. Maybe in the back it could say "And what about shadows?" lol.
Jan 25, 2010. 2:24 AMgluefish says:
 1) Nike "2004 Olympics" t-shirt.  From doing test automation at Nike Global Dev't Team.
2) AMD.  Think I got this at the 1998 Comdex.
3) 1 of 3 Symantec t-shirts I have.
4) 1 of 3 Unicru/Kronos t-shirts.  Likely you've worked at a place that you had to fill out a Unicru on-line application form.
5) Segue SILK t-shirt.  Test automation software, used at Unicru/Kronos.
6) Viasoft.  They made Y2K test software.
(Bonus) Borland dBase 5 Dev Team (1994) jacket.
Not shown: Yellow Apple 2 tshirt.  Wore it out and threw it away.


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Jan 22, 2010. 11:21 AMnfk11 says:
a shirt that wont want to see.too nerdy.
Jan 22, 2010. 10:59 AMfridgehead says:
I cut this one with a plotter yesterday, good responses too :D
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Dec 29, 2009. 4:17 PMdarkclaw42 says:
 I have one like this somewhere.. Its hidden deep in my closet.. somewhere. Wish I could find it, have a friend that would kill for it xD

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Nov 26, 2009. 1:40 AMVspec says:
Marvel at my retro awesomeness.
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Nov 26, 2009. 1:41 AMVspec says:
lol I didn't realize I was necro posting, My bad.
Oct 31, 2009. 4:52 AMLowney says:
 Would you be annoyed if I said this?
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Aug 22, 2009. 10:05 AMDELETED_DELETED_HIVLTGE1 says:
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Oct 4, 2009. 8:41 AMits a lion says:
Splitreason has a Rickroll shirt:
http://splitreason.com/product/817

I just realized how late I am on this, but I'll post it anyways.
Sep 2, 2009. 9:25 AMjessyratfink says:
Best idea ever, I need to embroider Rick Astley's face on a tshirt.
Sep 2, 2009. 9:36 AMLithium Rain says:
OH! Yeah!
Aug 28, 2009. 2:29 PMporcupinemamma says:
I rly lk th prl 1 ;0) Where could I buy one?
Aug 28, 2009. 5:01 PMDELETED_DELETED_HIVLTGE1 says:
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Aug 28, 2009. 10:56 PMShadowfury says:
The ORLY? shirt is from Know Your Meme.
Not sure about the other one.
Oct 4, 2009. 7:26 AMV-Man737 says:
Finally! Sorry it's late. My mom made this for me using her awesome T-shirt transfer kit.
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Sep 12, 2009. 6:07 AMTom Buckey says:
these are mine :P i wear them loads P.s do i get three patches for three pics?
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Sep 13, 2009. 6:28 AMLowney says:
FOOL! Now your orangeboard won't work
Sep 13, 2009. 7:28 AMTom Buckey says:
why not?
Sep 13, 2009. 8:07 AMLowney says:
Orangeboards break if you have a patch. Excluding achievement patches though, but only admins can give those out (I HAVE ONE!). Try commenting on your own board, you'll FAIL
Sep 13, 2009. 8:18 AMTom Buckey says:
yeah i tryed to comment on those comments you made on my orange board but failed
Sep 13, 2009. 8:33 AMLowney says:
FOOL!
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Sep 13, 2009. 8:34 AMLowney says:
BTW you should set up a forum topic to replace your broken board. That's what most people do.
Sep 8, 2009. 6:38 PMCarStalkerZ says:
my shirt is cool
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Sep 6, 2009. 4:07 PMLithium Rain says:
Helllllllllllo? Where's my patch? :D
Sep 8, 2009. 6:26 PMLithium Rain says:
Yes! Thank you very much! ( I totally understand. :) )
Sep 2, 2009. 5:28 AMTom Buckey says:
i dont have this one but i eant to get it :P
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Sep 6, 2009. 12:55 PMTom Buckey says:
it says segway beta
Sep 2, 2009. 9:40 AMLithium Rain says:
DIY shirt FTW Hard to see, but I crossed out Microsoft and sharpied-in Canonical. (On the back the plan is to cross out the microsoft CAL license and replace with GNU...and cross out microsoft server software and replace with apache. :D
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Aug 31, 2009. 6:32 AMalbylovesscience says:
will add pic later
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Aug 31, 2009. 2:54 AMDriX says:
I have these: When I saw the "Pi" one i just felt inlove and bought one. I don't have a pic with the "Pi" shirt on, but I can upload one later :P
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Aug 29, 2009. 1:29 PMGoodhart says:
I have one somewhere (if the wife didn't toss it) that has two square pies on it and says: 2 pie are squared.
Aug 24, 2009. 9:17 PMGrathio says:
I figure this one is the geekiest because only three people have figured out who's on it. (Or at least told me so.) And one of them was Russian who got it straight from the portrait and not the supporting evidence.
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Aug 27, 2009. 12:15 PMZ1ggy says:
isnt this pavlov?
Aug 28, 2009. 2:40 PMGrathio says:
*Ding* Yup, Pavlov it is!

I've had guesses everywhere from Freud to Alexander Graham Bell to "omfg that's so random!"
Aug 29, 2009. 6:26 AMZ1ggy says:
thank you for the patch.
Aug 27, 2009. 1:06 PMzieak says:
That's my initial thought too.
Aug 21, 2009. 6:51 AMGoodhart says:
Mine's not so nerdy, but it is my favorite GEEK shirt :-) Although it LOOKS like just a normal everyday Instructables shirt, on the back is a smattering of the signatures of those wishing me well as I recovered from surgery (and yes, I acknowledge that quite a few did not get to sign it that wanted to). It is my must precious piece of clothing.
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Aug 28, 2009. 2:33 PMporcupinemamma says:
Handsome Devil!!
Aug 28, 2009. 2:46 PMGoodhart says:
LOL Thanks
Aug 21, 2009. 8:44 AMThe Jamalam says:
What were you having surgery on?!
Aug 21, 2009. 12:08 PMGoodhart says:
My heart. I had a Double bypass done and was out of commission for about 3-4 months or so.
Aug 20, 2009. 9:52 PMyokozuna says:
I'm not sure if being 5 years old makes it "better" or "worse" to display geekdom, but alas I shall share this with the class:
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Aug 28, 2009. 12:45 PMnatethegreat88 says:
Dude where did you get that?
Aug 22, 2009. 11:17 PMsuper moderator says:
Hilarious but correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it "Bowstaff Skills" not "Bow Hunting Skills"? just curious...
Aug 23, 2009. 2:45 PMyokozuna says:
He does mention a gang tried to recruit him because of bo-staff skills, but I'm pretty certain during that part he says bow-hunting skills.
Aug 21, 2009. 6:15 PMRock Soldier says:
lol. I actually get that one. (Where it's from)
Aug 20, 2009. 9:56 PMSunbanks says:
:D It's still awesome
Aug 22, 2009. 12:56 PMshesparticular says:
I guess these make me kind of an word-nerd.
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Aug 28, 2009. 11:55 AMporcupinemamma says:
Love it . eet eez marvlos
Aug 24, 2009. 8:28 AMPunkguyta says:
The Thesaurus one is particularly entertaining to my ocular input.
Aug 24, 2009. 6:14 AMaliasjanedoe says:
OMG, I so need the bad grammar one! Where can I buy that?
Aug 24, 2009. 6:28 AMshesparticular says:
This one is another favorite of mine.
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Aug 24, 2009. 6:20 AMshesparticular says:
I actually had it made at a store here, so I'm not sure. There are a lot of places online to get shirts printed though.
Aug 23, 2009. 1:59 PMmerijnvw says:
I have this shirt:
Aug 28, 2009. 11:54 AMporcupinemamma says:
I want this shirt ;0)
Aug 23, 2009. 2:01 PMmerijnvw says:
sorry, forgot the picture:
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Aug 24, 2009. 1:24 PMmerijnvw says:
Thanks and thanks for the patch!
Aug 27, 2009. 1:05 PMzieak says:
This is my bike/star wars nerd shirt...
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Aug 27, 2009. 11:32 AMChromatica says:
Bionics is my nerdiest
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Aug 25, 2009. 9:58 PMfire-is-fun says:
another good place to get shirts is noisebot.com
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