Today my outdoorsy coworker was wearing a shirt with some adventure-whatever emblem on it. Like one of those shirts you earn for joining mountain-climbing competitions or something. So I asked him, "Did you earn your shirt?" And my black coworker Eddie said, "What'd you say?" All offended. And then he said, "Oooooh. I thought you were saying, 'Did you IRON your shirt. But were trying to be black." (iron becoming "earn" like scared becomes "scurred.")