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chemistry: Don’t lick the spoon” and “The
gene pool needs chlorine” soon emerged,
but Bean and his business partners, Dr. Tina
Bacon and Ron DeFrece, found that silk-
screeners were unwilling to work with them
unless they could purchase a minimum of
150 units per design.
“We had 100 designs we wanted to do,
and that would have been more than 15,000
shirts,” Bean says. “It was impossible for us to
