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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickbeam" data-source="post: 305503" data-attributes="member: 635">I had two, totally separate (and equally foolish) impulse responses to what this particular t-shirt may mean...besides it's likely meaning of nothing patently intelligent or coherent:1) Instead of Peace, Love and Happiness (i.e. the symbols for those feelings/emotions), it's a shirt representing three other very important concepts -- namely fried chicken, stew and muppets.  I'm not sure that Ernie's sexual orientation is a relevant concern in this interpretation...just like I'm not sure it matters that his favorite toy is a rubber ducky.2) My other knee-jerk connection was a bit more convoluted, if that's possible!!  Colonel Sanders is part of the Evil or Unholy Pentaverate referenced in So I Married an Axe Murderer; Andy Warhol painted a series of Campbell's Soup cans and was quite a bizarre and unwholesome fellow; and Ernie...well, what's more terrifying than a muppet with a purported array of sexually deviant tendencies?  I think this t-shirt might be intended to depict much of what can be construed as "wrong" with 21st century mainstream society and its pop culture icons.Or not <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>