iron-on technology meets the wireless age

On her last birthday, Megan received what looked like a plastic-wrapped t-shirt that said "I (heart) carbs" and then had a picture of a penguin, of roughly the same size as the heart, so as to give the impression of "I heart carbs penguin."

It turned out that the item was not a t-shirt, but a t-shirt iron-on kit, containing enough letters and characters to make shirts emblazoned with, say, a "your mom" and a bald eagle, or an "I loathe teddy bears."

I am currently proctoring an LSAT (in a room air-conditioned to about 50 degrees, in an apparent bid to make law school more attractive to Inuits), and there is a woman who apparently took the suggestion of the iron-on kit's manufacturers -- she is wearing a shirt that says "I (heart) carbs" and has silhouettes of, I believe, a teddy bear and a spaceman.

I have been sending Megan text messages for months that say things like "I (heart) U.S.A. jetrocket penguin!"