When we learned last year that the hot new Japanese baseball export would be an outfielder with the last name Fukudome, I suspect we all had a hearty chuckle for about five minutes, and then went back to surfing for raccoon-bite porn (or whatever it is we do on the interweb). And while, in the back of our heads, we knew that maybe one day this peculiar name-- say, on the back of a jersey or a t-shirt-- had the potential cause a vaguely comical misunderstanding at the office water-cooler, I would like to have thought that any confusion could be quickly undone by explaining that Fukudome is simply an overrated* Japanese ballplayer who plays for the for the Cubs.

Turns out... uh... not so.

On Friday morning Rumors and Rants posted this report about a woman working at Oklahoma State University who was told that her Fukudome t-shirt was not appropriate office attire, even for Casual Fridays. Oh yes, because the upstanding, classy, elite image of Oklahoma State must be protected at all costs! (Hasn't head football coach, Mike Gundy, done enough to set an example?)

I mean, how dare this woman wear this filth in the ivory towers where academes like Garth Brooks, Joey Graham, and Bryant "Big Country" Reeves once walked the hallowed halls!

Ridiculous. It's the man's name, for f- sakes. The administrators at OSU should let this nonsense go and just be thankful that at least nobody there is a fan of Rusty Kuntz.

* Seriously. With stats like these, it's a wonder that JP Ricciardi didn't find a way to sign him-- or that anybody would actually want to wear his jersey in public.