Profile for grahamjrees - Please explain

grahamjrees aka Graham is a 42.41 year old boy, has been a member since April 26, 2007, has scored 15 submissions, giving an average score of 3.60.

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Nov 05 '07 by grahamjrees

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about Down With CAPITALISM

I LOVE this shirt :) Very cute proletariat letters with tiny feet (yay, feet!!!). But... I feel sooo stupid... because I can't figure out the significance of the letters, r, l and t, in the protest movement. Am I just thinking too hard, or can someone explain it to me?

Canada is a very nice country, by the way. Also, I'm a fan of e e cummings. So my bases are covered, and I sally forth (How is Sally, anyway?) into this blog fully armoured and careless of barbed misunderstandings!

KBShakedown on Nov 05 '07 at 5:02pm

The letters don't seem to have an significance other than the fact that their case is easily distinguishable.

siegling on Nov 05 '07 at 5:31pm

I thought they might reference ReaLiTy, but not sure.

Fawful667 on Nov 05 '07 at 5:34pm

I didn't discern any particular reason for those letters, either. I don't believe they have any significance.

cheesypotato8 on Nov 05 '07 at 5:35pm

They are lowercase letters against CAPITALISM. As in capital letters. I think... or they're just socialists/communists?

jenna lenenna on Nov 05 '07 at 5:41pm

YAY!!! CAPITALISM! GET IT? THE LETTERS ARE LOWERCASE! this shirt just got ten times cooler.

Captive Sun on Nov 05 '07 at 6:33pm

I thought it might be an acronym for soem government thing but its cool. I thought it'd be cool if theres like a capital letter getting his @$# kicked or something

wish-ga on Nov 05 '07 at 7:08pm

So glad we had this chat. Was also scratching my head about R L T.

bcot on Nov 05 '07 at 7:20pm

the only meaning i could find for rlt was "Regimental Landing Team"
i think ill just go with the lowercase reasoning

funkalittle on Nov 05 '07 at 7:35pm

I was thinking rEVOlUtION but in that case the v would have been there too... But yay thanks for the explanation! I sooo want this t.shirt now! :)

opifan64 on Nov 05 '07 at 7:40pm

reactionary lowercase type?

OldCircleEyes on Nov 05 '07 at 8:27pm

OH! this is great.

Melissiimo on Nov 05 '07 at 8:42pm

I was contemplating the meaning as well, but I think it's just more obvious with those letters. Amazing t-shirt, anyway :D

fogues on Nov 05 '07 at 9:07pm

i like the whole capital-lowercase thing. it's obviously the meaning behind the shirt. i did, however, in trying to figure out the acronym thought maybe they were just standing around out of order and were t-r-l. it fit, in my mind.

Classicrckr09 on Nov 05 '07 at 9:38pm

You are over thinking this. If there was an acronym it would have been something that was obvious, otherwise the author wouldn't have bothered using it. I'm sure "r", "l", and "t" are just random letters in the lowercase form. And, in case you can't figure this one out, they're protesting capitalism in the grammatical sense, not the economic. It's just a joke that "capitalism" has another meaning aside from the case of a letter.
It's a magnificent shirt in, my opinion. Extremely funny.

Meegzter on Nov 05 '07 at 11:06pm

wow

esrever on Nov 06 '07 at 2:26am

an uppercase i is posing as a lowercase l to infiltrate the movement, but r has become suspicious of t instead, since t sold out to capitalism to make the letters on his sign, but t just thinks l helped him out, never realizing he has actually fallen into i's clever trap.

esrever on Nov 06 '07 at 2:29am

maybe the letters o c d would have been more appropriate for those of us who googled rlt.

dieforyoujohncusack on Nov 06 '07 at 3:32am

rit stands for real estate investment trust, but maybe im stretching it here

rjshopping on Nov 06 '07 at 10:00am

i just assumed they were members of the p(r)0(l)e(t)ariat. :)

oscarwilde7 on Nov 06 '07 at 11:25pm

sweet! But i admit..... I didnt get that at first

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orkalia on Nov 20 '07 at 6:25am

hmmm I thought at first it had to do with the formula to calculate interest... but then the letters would be CRT...
oops! crt ^_^

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