Most of the shirts in Dale's closet have 1 or more of the following themes.

This is the car Dale bought for himself after returning from Vietnam.

Growing up, Dale did not particularly care for this type of pet.

In order to maintain their anonymity, Dale would often explain his connection to certain friends in this way.

Dale would say you needed to get this if he thought you should toughen up a bit.

If you look inside one of Dale's baseball caps, you'll probably see this.

This is the classic car that our beloved Mom, Debbie, owned when she and Dale were a young couple.

On more than one occasion, Dale got in trouble for eating all of these before Ma Esther could use them for baking.

As a young lad, Matt often accompanied Dale to do this in order to prepare a meeting venue for later that evening.

While riding in the car back from Lansing, and only 10 minutes from his house in St. Johns, Dale would ask his kids to do this when they got home.

Due to his lifelong work as a mechanic, most of Dale's jeans have at least one of these.

Making many o' trips to drive-in movies, Cedar Point, and "up north", the Brown family's classic 1978 Buick Station Wagon was better known as this.

One time when Dale was trying to sneak back into his house through a window in the middle of the night, his father was standing there with this.

This is the month and year that Dale received the gift of sobriety.

Dale would put this on his teeth when imitating Jen as a teenage cheerleader with braces.

After running out of clean underwear, Dale wore this to work at GM one day.

If Dale were to win the lottery, this website would most likely see the greatest increase in activity.

Matt might still be caught doing this fun party trick that Dale and his brothers did for laughs growing up.

This is how many of Dale's family members who are either active in recovery (including Al-Anon), have been at one time, or perhaps should consider it.

Matt was given this very Stephen King-like task after an unfortunate incident, involving Dale backing his car out of the driveway of Keri's childhood friend, Tracy McDonald.

Dale's famous "Cousin Eddie" winter hat was made out of this material.

This vehicle belonged originally to Dale's father-in-law, Cliff Dell, and then to Dale and Debbie, and then to a teenage Matt, and finally saw its demise in a demolition derby.

This was the name of the corner market/grocery store where Dale worked one of his first jobs growing up.

The DJ who spun the records at many o' Alano Club East dances, where all the Brown kids had a blast in a small building, with at least 100 people smoking cigarettes inside.

Due to complications from the 'rhoids (and we don't mean steroids folks), Dale wore these 2 items under his pants around the house for a short time.