WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.
Within weeks of Cheney's angry suggestion to U.S. Senator 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 customised 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 **** 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 --
www.cafepress.com/vpquote -- 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.
It is hardly the only one that refers to Cheney's vulgarity.
Others offer such slogans as "It's long overdue: go f*** yourselves! Bush Cheney '04" and one features a photo of Cheney surrounded by the words "Dick Heads, here for America, every f***ing day."
There are also several "shops" offering straightforward political merchandise supporting Bush and Cheney, who during the 2000 presidential campaign vowed to "restore a tone of civility and decency to the debate in Washington
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