Your dog, your toddler, your car and your computer can now sport the same pungent phrase -- suggesting an anatomically unlikely sex act -- uttered in a moment of pique by Vice President Dick Cheney.
Within weeks of Cheney’s angry suggestion to Sen. Patrick Leahy to “go f… yourself” on June 22, an online cottage industry quoting the vice president has sprung up at Cafepress.com, a Web site offering customized merchandise.
“I thought it was funny,” said Sean Bonner, a Los Angeles art gallery owner who designed a range of products with the legend, “’Go f… yourself’ - Vice President, Dick Cheney.”
“I kind of wanted a shirt like that and the best way to do it would be to make it myself,” Bonner said by telephone.
Bonner’s section of the Cafepress site offers regular T-shirts, thongs, creeper outfits for toddlers and infants, dog T-shirts, computer mouse pads, car stickers and trucker hats.
After a mention in The Washington Post on Friday, this collection went from getting few hits to being one of the top four “shops” on the site, a spokesman for Cafepress said.
