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Holographic eyes with friggin' laser beams.

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Chris Maunder

Awesome news. Smile | :)

I started to order one, but shipping costs to U.S. for the cheapest method were almost as much as the shirt, and all other methods were more than the cost of the shirt.

Shipping to the US is a little more expensive than CafePress, but the total cost is way, way less. We're hoping to get shipping costs (and T-shirt costs) down, but for now we're happy to simply have a far better quality product at a far cheaper price overall.

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Chris Maunder

The expression is "cutting the muster" or "passing the muster" and not "cutting the mustard."

Possibly. Possibly not[^].

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Another supposed explanation is that the phrase is simply a mistaken version of the military expression 'cut the muster'. This appears believable at first sight. A little research shows it not to be so. Muster is the calling together of soldiers, sailors, prisoners, to parade for inspection or exercise. To cut muster would be a breach of discipline; hardly a phrase that would have been adopted with the meaning of success or excellence. This line of thought appears to have been influenced by confusion with the term 'pass muster', which would have the correct meaning, but which could hardly be argued to be the origin of 'cut the mustard'. The OED, which is the most complete record of the English language, along with all of the other reference works I've checked, don't record 'cut the muster' at all. The fact that documented examples of 'cut the mustard' are known from many years before any for 'cut the muster' would appear to rule out the latter as the origin

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Chris Maunder

I'm in.