Al Team

Post by **Diva** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:54 am

algonacchick @ May 12 2007, 01:56 AM wrote: I'd like to add that I was wearing my spatula earrings *which have green and purple beads on them* today, and Derek's bus driver said she really liked them, and thought they were pretty. Thanks, Diva, for giving me those earrings at Dementia 2001. They go perfectly with my Al Team shirt! *I'm sure that's on purpose*

I've treated green and purple as the Al-team colors for a long time. Since green, purple and gold are sort of the official colors of Mardi Gras, they seem fitting.

A bit of Al-team lore: back in 1999 when this all got rolling, Sandy Farley of Phoenix AZ originally handled the Al-team shirt stuff. The shirts are that shade of green because Arnie the t-shirt printer guy [who agreed to print them for the Al-team at cost as a favor to Sandy] had a huge stock of that shade of green t-shirts and that way she could keep the shirt price down to $12.

Cheers, Diva
Al-team #3
griot of Al-team folklore

Post by **algonacchick** » Sat May 12, 2007 1:00 am

Thanks for the history lesson, Diva. Hope you're doing well. I have one of the new Al Team shirts, and I think it's quite spiffy. I may have to add my Al Team number to my sig, as some others have done. I love my spatula earrings, and I hope to show them to Al someday.

Patti

Al Team #325

Post by **childofthespiral** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:31 am

Bit of totally useless -but still quite cool- alteam history. Thanks, Diva!

Post by **JEDM** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:34 am

Thanks for that inlightening history Diva!!

Post by **algonacchick** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:36 am

Yes, it was nice of Nan to enlighten us. She was the very first online friend I met in person.

Post by **JEDM** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:39 am

Once again,

Thank you Patti...

You weren't ever a teacher were you?

Post by **algonacchick** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:47 am

Well, I did tutor Spanish in college. I just like English, but I think OE is even better at spelling than I am.

Sat May 12, 2007 5:14 am

The joys of Firefox and its spell check. Without it, I would have just spelled Firefox wrong.

Ambra · Post by **Ambra** » Sat May 12, 2007 5:22 am

That's ok. I once almost spelled my first name wrong. I told someone my name and they spelled it back A-m-b-e-r, a very common mistake. Without thinking, I said "yes" then quickly corrected myself and gave them the correct spelling.

I love my Al-Team shirt too! It pretty much screams "Hey look at me! I love Al!" The only thing is, as with most shirts with a design on the chest, I'll catch people staring at the front and think, "Hey! Stop staring at my breasts!" before it hits me they're looking at the design.

Post by **NerdyNyara27** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:43 pm

Ambra!

I know what you mean, though. Especially since I started with my penchant for wearing all of these bold, splashy Al-related shirts...

Come to think of it, I still need to order my Al Team shirt...

- Laurel -