blue shirt memo I'd like to take a moment to expand on a previous post. This is mostly because I've run out of things to say, but also because it happened again: the shirt memo thing.

Here's the scenario: about five of the ten or so guys in my area were wearing blue shirts one day. So of course everyone started making the "Hey, didn't you get the memo?" joke to anyone who wasn't wearing a blue shirt.

Let me fill you in on a little secret: men love blue shirts. I'll bet if you search any man's closet, approximately 79.44% of his shirts will be blue. Count only shirts with buttons and that percentage goes up to 92.37% (note: each of these figures has a +/- 3% margin of error). My point here is that on any given day, almost every guy at work will be wearing a blue shirt.

If I walked into work one day and five out of ten people were wearing orange shirts with purple polka-dots, then I'd start to wonder if there was a memo. But blue, I'm just not convinced. But just to be on the safe side, I double-checked my Outlook mailing lists. I'm subscribed to all of the same lists as everyone else, and there was no memo. Unless I deleted it by accident. Can you forward me a copy of the memo if you have it?  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 2/02/2006