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tomburns aka Tom Burns is a 30.04 year old boy, has been a member since September 1, 2005, has scored 41057 submissions, giving an average score of 1.90.

URL: http://www.everythingburns.com
AIM: spainyardsin

Oct 23 '07 by tomburns

22 Comments

Watch this

The Communist Party

about The Communist Party

This design has become my 'claim to fame' so to speak, for it's insane popularity.
I knew the play on words that is involved and the communist look and colors of the design were funny to me, but i guess the design sort of hit a nerve in alot of ways to alot of different people, maybe because of the famous historical figures as well.
This is definately my most popular design, and it is the one of mine that has been reprinted the most times.
It also has many various internet dopplegangers, including one by yours truly. (made all together original and after the onset of others)

Edword on Oct 23 '07 at 1:42pm

hahaha! nice!

Torakamikaze on Oct 23 '07 at 1:44pm

hahahaha

Monkey III on Oct 23 '07 at 1:44pm

whuahahah
that's awesome Tom
You should give 'm a free shirt just for that!
(you probably did ^^)

courtney pie on Oct 23 '07 at 1:49pm

hahahaha. nice!

12 days later

cloud_is_to_character on Nov 04 '07 at 10:37pm

i've seen this used all over the internet. The animated version's pretty sweet though.

Too bad that can't go on a shirt. :)

juliejeremiah on Nov 04 '07 at 11:10pm

Rabid_Weasle on Nov 04 '07 at 11:14pm

This image was in the Carillon (University of Regina paper) an issue or two ago. It was an article about the communist party in Saskatchewan.

45 days later

peacelovemusic on Dec 20 '07 at 3:06pm

Is this making fun of communists? or is it serious?

25 days later

tomburns on Jan 15 '08 at 9:01am

dead serious. ALWAYS.

6 days later

lostlo on Jan 21 '08 at 5:37pm

Hey Tom, I thought you might like to know that your design has now been to Tiananmen Square (though not oppressed, shot, arrested, or lit on fire - yet).

Pictures over here: http://www.threadless.com/profile/268796/lostlo/blog/301955/Tiananmen_Square_and_no_arrests_yay

lostlo on Jan 21 '08 at 5:37pm

Perhaps I should have used HTML.

link to the blog

7 days later

psyche10am on Jan 29 '08 at 3:12am

Judge if you must, but buying this shirt is probably one of the best things I've ever done.

8 days later

DutchECK on Feb 07 '08 at 2:54am

Amazing shirt. Would have loved to own it, but I don't see myself in a girly tee.

14 days later

ragewu on Feb 21 '08 at 5:07pm

New to threadless, went through all the designs, this is my must have, any more reprints?

Random_HS on Feb 21 '08 at 5:31pm

I am all with ragewu and DutchECK. I think we need som new male reprints of this.

28 days later

rlipsi on Mar 21 '08 at 8:53am

This shirt was for sale all over Bangkok when I was there in November. I was so sad they only had giant men's shirts, because I really liked it. Glad I finally got to buy a little girlie one for me.

peterjanes on Mar 21 '08 at 8:56am

Random is so right we need new mens tees of this.

3 days later

rocketfishh on Mar 24 '08 at 10:07pm

We need more girly smalls. I didn't get to them quick enough.
D:

8 days later

rlipsi on Apr 02 '08 at 4:16pm

I orderd my little girly one in time and then they lost my package. :(

10 days later

weltpolitik on Apr 13 '08 at 10:54am

reprint please!

4 days later

Sushi4ju on Apr 17 '08 at 10:07pm

Please Reprint!!

18 days later

Kumiriko on May 06 '08 at 12:47am

I hope they reprint. was so sad when they were only selling the old stalk on there spring cleaning sale. Been wanting this one for months!

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