Wacky World of Wally World

Julie sent me this link to some disgruntled Wal-Mart employee’s blog of frustrations. Funny stuff, but this bit caught my eye:

5-2-04 – I don’t consider myself prejudice or anything, but some stuff is just ridiculous. Some guy came back to electronics and apparently wanted everyone to know that he was gay. Why? I don’t know. This guy was like 6’4, heavyset, and wore a shirt that said “Drama Queen” which looked like the Dairy Queen logo. He also talked like a woman. I found this man to be disturbing, so if that makes me prejudice towards gay people, then so be it. Still I’m not as bad as this guy. There was a guy who saw a black man and thought he should offer him a piece of his gum because it was watermelon flavored. What would have made it great was if he had actually asked the black man, then I could have seen him get his ass kicked, and that’s always a fun time for everyone.

I wonder if this guy bought one of my old CafePress Drama Queen shirts or from somewhere else. (Note: I am no longer selling them!)

Although, I want to answer his question of why many people like to tell everyone they’re gay, or black, or asian, or any other opressed group that often wears some sort of $group pride attire:

[Stage 5]: Identity Pride
Feel arrogance/pride in new identity and deep rage toward majority culture. May adopt/heighten stereotypical behaviors or characteristics (i.e. “I’m different and proud of it!”. May isolate self from mainstream values and activities. (from Stages in Coming Out)

F the Skull of Dairy Queen!

This image is illegalSo today I got this 11 page threatening letter from Dairy Queen. They’re all pissed off because I used a parody of thier logo on a joke “Drama Queen” shirt that I sold on Cafe Press a while back. It struck me as odd because they contacted me 6 months ago about this, and CafePress removed my store from their site.. I thought it was all over with. Now, I’m being told, to paraphrase, that Drama Dairy Queen was damaged in the amount of the profits generated by my unauthorized sale of “these Drama Queen t-shirts“. They will be pursuing payment from me for these damages and suggest that I notify my insurance carrier.

Insurance carrier?

Drama Dairy Queen aparently doesn’t realise that I’m some bored geek behind a computer that thought “Drama Queen” was funny. If it makes them feel all warm and vindicated inside, I’ll send them the $12 dollars I made from the shirts. Geesh.

I’m never eating a Blizzard again.

UPDATE: 12/4/03

(By the way, I get tons of e-mails from people asking about the drama queen t-shirts. I really don’t have any, but this place does. Scroll all the way down past all the druggie shirts.)