New T-Shirt---help me with the phrasing?

[Kid Cossack]

Gents, ladies, rogues, rapscallions, the rabble in general:

I want to have a t-shirt made up, but I'm having trouble nailing down the wording. I think I've made progress, but I'm not sure if I've finished it off.

I was thinking of a black t-shirt, with white lettering, in a Times New Roman font, lower case.

"Everybody puts their pants on one leg at a time

Everybody but me."

Would "everyone" work better in place of "everybody"?

Variants? Improvements? Egg nog recipes?

[thescot]

Well, there is that grammar thing, you know, matching the pronoun to its antecedent.

Everyone and everybody is singular, but their is plural. MOst people don't care, but some do. (Like English teachers.)

But as matter of fact, on a tee-shirt, I'd go with everybody. Just sounds friendly.

[Warlock]

How about:

"Everybody puts their pants on one leg at a time...

Except me."
Then: "PROUDLY KILTED!"

[Kid Cossack]

Ordinarily, I fear that I do tend to be something of a grammar enforcer----but I was going for a more informal feel. And since I'm pretty much kilted 24/7, I (personally) don't think I'd add the "Proudly Kilted" but that's just me. Thanks for the input, guys!

[porrick]

Well, there is that grammar thing, you know, matching the pronoun to its antecedent.

Everyone and everybody is singular, but their is plural. MOst people don't care, but some do. (Like English teachers.)

But as matter of fact, on a tee-shirt, I'd go with everybody. Just sounds friendly.

As another English teacher, I'll have to agree with thescot: concord is essential.

As well as being friendlier with everybody, I think "body" works well as a physical description linked to what is beneath the t-shirt.

Speaking of.... what did the German police officer say to his chest?

You are unter avest!

[Tattoo Bradley]

Speaking of.... what did the German police officer say to his chest?

You are unter avest!

HAHA!

Rimshot...

[McMurdo]

Everybody sounds good to me.

[kilted_brewer]

First, I'd have to say that incorrect grammar on t-shirts (and other informal stuff) drives me nuts (read Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss to get an idea of what I mean). Really. But I think there's a solution to avoid the use of "their" instead of a singular gendered pronoun that could be incorrect if the person reading it is of the other sex (languages have gender, people have sex ).

How about: "Everybody puts on pants one leg at a time...
Except me."

[Bil]

I say go with your original idea... then tell me where I can buy one.

[KiltedKnight]

Not to hi-jack your thread but my tee shirt reads;

"My wife wears the pants in our family...but I take them off!"

Chris.