Yes, we will.

The Whiggy Tease focus groups went very well. Response to the opening of the Whiggy Tease store has been overwhelmingly positive, and we’re selling merchandise not only to friends but to total strangers across America and in Europe.

Please note that we said “overwhelmingly positive,” and not “completely positive.”

“The site’s a little red, and I’m blue,” said a member of Whiggy Tease Nation. “I’m very blue.”

To be clear, Whiggy Tease is going to pander, er, sell to folks of all political persuasion. It’s true that right now that there is more pro-Republican stuff on the site right now than there is Democratic stuff. Why?

Well, Republicans tend to have more money and their credit cards are less likely to be rejected, so we try to sell to them first. Also, it’s funnier making Republican stuff. You should see the Nixon items that we have in development. Nixon is comedic gold.

But here’s the main reason – we don’t have The Obama Font yet.



We have lots of pro-Obama items floating around in our brains. Some anti-stuff too for you haters. But it doesn’t look right without the Obama font. It’s called “gotham,” and we don’t have it yet. We’re hoping to buy, borrow or steal it soon, and when we do, we’ll start selling Obama stuff.

It’s also come to our attention that there is an Obama handwriting font.

We’re working on that too.

So keep buying the Nixon stuff for now, we’ll get around to Obama swag in a few weeks.

Our favorite.

If you have more than one kid, you know the answer when you are asked which one is your favorite. “You’re all my favorite,” you say without hesitation.

That’s probably the truth. Maybe it’s a lie, but you say it regardless. Or, if you’re really sneaky, you tell your daughter that she is your favorite, and then you leave the room and tell your son that he’s your favorite.

But when it comes to items in the Whiggy Tease line, which is our favorite? “All of the items are our favorite.”

That’s a load of BS. Our favorite item, as of right now, is the following.



What if Moveon.org or other 529’s existed back in the day? We’d imagine they’d put out products like this. This is the sort of thing we think about a lot at Whiggy Tease. You can look forward to many, many, many more items like this in the future.

What else do we like about this product?

Well, allow us to pat ourselves on the back. We like the use of the word “treacherous.” We’re proud the shirt doesn’t urge you to “contact” or “write” your Senator, it insists that you telegraph him.

Oh, and this tested extremely well in the focus groups.

Shirts are available now in the store, and we’ll get around to bumper stickers when we get around to bumper stickers.

With a little help from our friends.

Almost by definition, folks who are friends of Whiggy Tease are creative and clever. So, when they have an idea for a product, we’ll create it and sell it and keep all the money for ourselves.

With that, we’d like to share two Whiggy Tease items based on ideas of our friends.

The first is from Eric in Toledo. Our original Abraham Lincoln line didn’t test well in the focus groups. Because it was lame. Then, Eric suggested we focus not on Lincoln’s time as President, but his time in Illinois as a lawyer. Eric wrote the following and we turned it into a somewhat authentic looking product.

This is the framed tile. But in the Whiggy Tease Lincoln store, you can get shirts, tote bags, mouse pads, tank tops, clothes for kids and even a keepsake box.

It’s authentic looking stuff, down to the retro spelling of the word “counsellors.”

Next up is Amanda from Minnesota. We haven’t seen Amanda in 15 years, but she contributed a faboo idea for an item for your exiled Republican friends.

Amanda reports that the first ever Republican Party meeting was held in a little white school house in a place called Ripon, Wisconsin. Sure, you’ll find people in Iowa and other places who dispute this, but we believe Amanda.

The Old School Republican line is for sale in Aisle One. You can get shirts, mouse pads and tote bags. Aisle One is also where we keep our Henry Clay, Herbert Hoover and Civil War items.

Whiggy Tease 24/7/365

If you don’t own a Christmas tie, you probably know someone who does.

In the Whiggy Tease family, that “someone” is Mike’s dad. He started off with a Christmas tie. Then, multiple Christmas ties. It just kept snowballing from there. We’ll see his Independence Day tie in a few days. There’s a President’s Day tie, a tie for a birth of a baby, and there probably isn’t a day on the calendar or an important (or even semi-important) event he doesn’t have a tie for.

Which got us thinking.

We’ve discussed the importance of 7/6. Now, let’s discuss the importance of 7/11. Actually, we’ll let some clever kids from the YouTube do it for us.

With that, Whiggy Tease is proud to announce it has a shirt for 7/11…

It’s our long term goal to have a shirt for every single day of the year. This may take us several years, but we have the time and the patience.

As for this particular shirt, we were going for the “What if Don King promoted this duel” type of thing. It’s also authentic, as the guns pictured are the type of guns Hamilton and Burr used. We hope you like it, but more importantly, we hope you buy it.

Whiggy Tease can win you friends, find you a lover or get you punched in the face.

So imagine you walk into a bar wearing the t-shirt pictured below.

Odds are, you’ll get some looks. Nobody is going to comprehend what you’re wearing. Someone’s going to ask you what your shirt – your Whiggy Tease shirt – is all about.

And you can tell them what it is about.

So maybe they’ll laugh. They’ll think the shirt is clever, and you’re clever for buying it, and maybe they’ll want to buy it and a lifelong friendship will begin.

Maybe you’ll become lovers.

Or, of course, the person might disagree with your view and punch you in the face.

Perhaps you like the point of view that this line of Whiggy Tease products is promoting, but perhaps you want something that is a bit lighter hearted. We can do that. How about this product?

Or, maybe you’re just pissed off, and you don’t care who knows it. You don’t care about being clever our light hearted or subtle. Whiggy Tease can take care of your needs with this product.

The Whiggy Tease difference is in the detail.

Yeah, you can buy all sorts of Sarah Palin crap on-line, at Café Press and other sites. Know what the difference is here at Whiggy Tease? It’s the detail that goes into the craftsmanship.

You can buy plenty of shirts for Sarah Palin featuring one of her sexy high heel shoes. But where can you buy a Palin product featuring a high heel shoe…

… with a skull and cross bone?

Nowhere. But at Whiggy Tease, in the Sarah Palin 2012 store. That’s why we’re better.

From now on, it's THE Bowling Green State University

The “THE” makes us kind of hysterical.

A few years back, a big university in the middle of Ohio redesigned their logo and informed the world that they would now like to be called The Ohio State University, thank you very much. Being “Ohio State University” wasn’t good enough anymore.

Not sure why. OSU was a lovely enough school without the “THE.” Not as lovely as the school the Whiggy Tease creators went to, but more on that later. There certainly wasn’t any need for “THE.” Adding the “THE” was a solution for which there was no problem.

Having said that, we want our school to add one.

Jim and Mike are proud graduates of Bowling Green State University. Like Ohio State, it’s in Ohio. But it’s better. The students are smarter, the girls are prettier and the main street outside of campus is not covered in a thin layer Taco Bell wrappers, like a park is covered with newly fallen leaves every October, like, say, Ohio State.

Now, Ohio State is a fine place to visit and we have friends and relatives who went there, we certainly don’t have a problem with the place. Seriously, okay? Now get your credit cards out and buy some some of our James Polk t-shirts, okay.

Getting back on track... Ohio State has a “THE,” and we think our school should have one. Why not? It’d be fun, and it would make our Ohio State friends insane.

So, from now on, it’s THE Bowling Green State University.

But some of you already know that. In fact, some of you may have already joined the Facebook group by the same name.

But here’s what you didn’t know… until right now. Whiggy Tease has come up with a line of “THE” items for the future The Bowling Green State University.

There are t-shirts, of course.

There’s clothes for kids, there’s clothes for babies. There’s also a bib.

We’ve also taken the time to come up with buttons and stickers. There's a mousepad, there's a clock, and frankly, we come up with a lot of this stuff in the middle of the night, so there might be swag we don't even know about. Oh, there are also undergarments, for reasons that make no sense to anyone.

The swag will certainly start a conversation. The look is simple, it’s clean. And it’s vague enough not to violate any copyright laws, at least that’s what our lawyers tell us.

So, buy away. Shop until you drop, and have your friends do the same. Try to avoid the temptation to buy THE stickers and plaster them above the words “Bowling Green State University” on campus. Seriously, don’t do that.

But please, buy the stuff and wear it constantly. We’ll be looking for you on campus this football season, and of course, during hockey season.

The Bowling Green State University won the NCAA hockey championship in 1984. The Ohio State University, in contrast, has never done such a thing.

Whiggy Tease is now open for business!

Welcome! Come on in. No need to rush. Please, no pushing. We're open 24 hours a day, and we have plenty of inventory.

What is Whiggy Tease?

Whiggy Tease is an outlet for Jim and Mike to burn off much of their creative energy. While doing that, they hope to become millionaires many times over, or at least continue to manage to feed their respective children.

Whiggy Tease is your on-line shopping destination for Historical Stuff, Modern Politics, and Miscellaneous Nonsense. We have shirts, stickers, hoodies, clothes for kids, buttons, clocks, coffee mugs, and in rare instances, underwear.

Whiggy Tease is for history fans, Democrats, Republicans, Whigs, the satisfied and the disgruntled. You probably fit in that group, or you know somebody who does.

So, shop away. Tell everyone you know. Bookmark this site, as it will be your home for the latest Whiggy Tease News, including discussions of our products, information on special promotions, and if you all are so moved, customers modeling our stuff.

Buy something today. We'd like to be filthy rich Sooner, rather than Later.