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Take a look at Mr. Bacciagalupe's t-shirt.    Now, that's a sharp looking shirt.   I was a kid in the 1950's, and it was common for t-shirts to have horizontal stripes.   After the 1950's, though, God must have decided that t-shirts would not have horizontal stripes anymore. 

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