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R I P I AM CARLES

It was the bro-est of times, it was the brorst of times.

Good nite, world.
-carles

You were a good meme. You did ur best.

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  1. Posted October 27, 2009 at 10:34 am | Permalink

    http://img.skitch.com/20091027-1c2bc3qt4×4q3h4n8bjan24bqm.png

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    //////////Reply by alex
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    @kyleNUDES,

    carl, thanks for reading the comments

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  2. aw, fukk
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 10:56 am | Permalink

    O sweet! I ‘finally made it’.

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    //////////Reply by skybeard
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    @aw, fukk,

    who r u

    ‘wanna see ur face!’ – kkk rally via ironic Chappelle’s Show sketch

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    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @skybeard,

    last one, bro (under bebe)

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    //////////Reply by skybeard
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    @aw, fukk,

    you seem chill

    do u live in brklyn?

    going to any shows soon?

    see you around!

    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @skybeard,

    thx, u seem pretty chill 2.

    dont live in brklyn tho. :-(

    might visit sometime, hear its a cultural epicenter

    //////////Reply by lolz
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    @skybeard, he’s gonna come visit me! ‘pen pal pride’

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    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @lolz, ;-)

  3. doororps
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 11:01 am | Permalink

    i would be “fucking embarrassed” to wear one of these in public.

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    //////////Reply by wisp
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    @doororps, agreed sir.

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @doororps, it confuses white ppl and makes blk ppl ‘boisterous’.

    ‘what is care-less?’ – a white ppl

    ‘ok, carles’ – a blk ppl

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    //////////Reply by GLDFSH
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    @doororps,
    it’s up there with a tool band t-shirt as a t-shirt that would make you look like a ‘fucking moron’ in the eyes of those who aren’t ‘in the know’

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  4. cory kennedy
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 11:16 am | Permalink

    fouuurth bittches

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  5. Posted October 27, 2009 at 11:18 am | Permalink

    ‘I’m not there.’ -The Bob Dylans

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @Perpetual Teen, ‘i’m not here’ – the thom yorkes

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    //////////Reply by hey anony anony
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    @flowers4alger-anon, ‘ur everywhere 2 me’
    –michelle branch

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    //////////Reply by Baby Hercules
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    @hey anony anony,
    lawlz

  6. Maxwell
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 11:21 am | Permalink

    Seems like only a one or two of those bro’s/altgrls depicted really should be advertised with tht shirt on, guess sale is almost over so you can fnnly run ‘wild’ with it tho and change your demographic from alt 2 mnstrm

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    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @Maxwell,

    bro, i had on super-alt pants, okay

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @aw, fukk, via alt apparel

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    //////////Reply by Baby Hercules
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    @flowers4alger-anon,

    it’s funny that there actually is such a thing as “alternative apparel”. it’s a real live fucking clothing brand that just wants to ’suck the dick’ of am appy. the coffee shop i go to sells their logo printed on alternative apparel shirts, and i’m like ‘yaller ghey’. fck yall.

    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @Baby Hercules, feel like my grizzle bearz shirt is ‘printed on alternative apparel’

  7. Posted October 27, 2009 at 11:33 am | Permalink

    SAD….

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  8. super pyramids
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 11:38 am | Permalink

    why buy into this ‘corporate fucking bullshit’?

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @super pyramids, five finger discount yall!!!!

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  9. brobro
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 11:42 am | Permalink

    What is ‘death’?
    What is ‘life’?
    What is ‘Carles’?

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  10. chong
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 12:20 pm | Permalink

    pretty sure the post is still here.. guess crles isnt using ‘eastern standard time”?

    maybe hes the mexi from texi afterall

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    //////////Reply by skybeard
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    @chong,

    still not gone. maybe it’s going to be noon pst to give Cali bros a chance to ‘wake and bake’ and decide to buy an extra large shirt to make into a case for a futon pillow

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @skybeard, lolzzz

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  11. Posted October 27, 2009 at 12:28 pm | Permalink

    oh please. good job carles, hope u made a good profit. all y’all socialists can suck it. art is capitalism you dick bags. it’s not about who buys your product. its about your product getting bought. duh.

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    //////////Reply by Faisal
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    @lolz, no true artist does art for profit. Just enough to live if not any.

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    //////////Reply by skybeard
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    @Faisal,

    nice ‘idealistic view of the world’ [via college sophomore]

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    //////////Reply by Faisal
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    @skybeard, lol spot on, but i dont think this “idealistic view” is going to change for me. It’s instilled from me in an early age. Both my parents are artists, not as professions but in their nature of being. It’s something you can’t escape and you don’t have to make money off of it.

    //////////Reply by skybeard
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    @faisal,

    sometimes I think we’re all ‘artists’ inside since the nature of humanity is to ‘create, create, create’!

    //////////Reply by lolz
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    @Faisal, LOLZ!!! come to new york city.

    ‘you think its tough now come to williamsburg, you think its tough now come to williamsburg’ [via MIA/nytimes]

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    //////////Reply by ol strato
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    @Faisal, soooo shallow…

    what has true art got to do with profit? or the lack of? nothing… it doesn’t matter either way.

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    //////////Reply by lolz
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    @ol strato, approved

    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @ol strato, feel like they r ‘2 separate entities’ whose ‘paths sometimes cross’.

    //////////Reply by Faisal
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    @ol strato, sell your soul.

    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @faisal, remember, carles has a wife/husband/8 kids 2 support. just wants 2 take care of his family. just wants 2 arm holes and tshirt sales profits 4 hiz girls.

    //////////Reply by Blackface Killah
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    @Faisal, “[for me] once money changes hands for art, it becomes a fraudulent activity.”–Revs (graffiti bro who is probly mad poor)

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    //////////Reply by Faisal
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    @Blackface Killah, boing!

  12. skybeard
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

    think it’s ‘bullshit’ that I am only enough to ‘defend my country’ but can’t have a ‘fucking beer’ if I want

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    //////////Reply by lolz
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    @skybeard, get a fake ID, duh bro

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    //////////Reply by ol strato
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    @lolz, word… well hows that defending going?

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    //////////Reply by lolz
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    @ol strato, going well. i like you, you’re funny. let’s be friends.

    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @skybeard, will buy u beer. txt me when u get out of class 2 day.

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    //////////Reply by lolz
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    @flowers4alger-anon, fukk the beer, who wants some Seagram’s?

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @lolz, plz tell me u mean vo <3!!!!!

    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @lolz,

    didnt see your name at first, got rly excited like “who is this amazing human being”, felt even better after realizing who u r.

    lets go listen to snoop dogg and get fucked up

    //////////Reply by egg
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    @skybeard, so stoked how everyone here is like best budz with each other cant wait to get more into this whole friends scene gonna move to seattle or chicago stuck on a small island in the south of the world can i stay at your guys’ places when i get to the cultural epicentre mean thanks thatd be the greatest ever

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    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @egg,

    seems sweet bro, lets chill

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    //////////Reply by hmm,
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    @egg, small island in the south of the world=tierra del fuego/antarctica?

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    //////////Reply by egg
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    @hmm,, naw its this great littl spot called New Zealand, heaps of great stuff here but not really especially compared with seattle, i hav to buy all my Am-Appy from the net so sometimz i get stuff that doesn’t fit me that great, slim slacks sz 32 – too big.

  13. Posted October 27, 2009 at 12:37 pm | Permalink

    that last picture is carles himself, finally!

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    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @cobones,

    sorry bro, im not carles :-/

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  14. Hobbs
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 12:38 pm | Permalink

    the last picture is not ‘carles himself’.
    i’m friends with that person on facebook.

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    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @Hobbs,

    bro, 4reals? who r u??? give me some sign that lets me know, discretely…

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    //////////Reply by Hobbs
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    @aw, fukk,

    you were obsessed with me ‘in 9th grade’

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    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @Hobbs,

    i dont remember 9th grade

    is there a more recent meme that would let me kno who u r?

    //////////Reply by Hobbs
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    @Hobbs, Whoever commented ‘October 27th, 2009 at 12:53 pm’ was not really me. Someone must be trying to ’steal my identity’. I feel ‘threatened’.

    //////////Reply by Hobbs
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    @aw, fukk,
    you sent me a message like a week ago saying how ’stoked’ you were for almost losing your virginity.

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    //////////Reply by anonymous
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    @Hobbs, lol

    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @Hobbs,

    bro, you could still be like 5 ppl, more specific plz

  15. cyber_bully
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 12:38 pm | Permalink

    wtf is wrong with the mouth of the Carles who is ‘hoisted’ on that bro’s shoulders?

    looks like the mouth was superimposed from another source

    looks like a fggt

    I’m insecure about myself

    you should be 2

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  16. Posted October 27, 2009 at 12:40 pm | Permalink

    Are those what “authentic alts” look like? Carles you have too many ads on this blog, it’s disgusting. I’m sure hornitos is a very good tequila to get “fucked up” on. And the gentlemen broncos is going to be a “zany” movie for people who like “zany” things.

    Stop trying to sell us shit and just write.

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    //////////Reply by lolz
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    @Faisal, stop h8ing & get out of Indiana

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    //////////Reply by ol strato
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    @Faisal, faisal i dont know about you

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    //////////Reply by Faisal
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    @ol strato, thanks :]

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @Faisal, like being ’sold shit’ bro. gives me a place to ’spend my money on things other than boring shit like clothes/food for my son’.

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    //////////Reply by Faisal
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    @flowers4alger-anon, lmfao

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  17. Posted October 27, 2009 at 12:55 pm | Permalink

    feel like an appropriate costume would be 2 of my friends and i to dress up like a bunch of AA ‘hoes’ and then have someone in a bandit mask/abu gharib head covering and the ‘i am carles’ shirt. we could be “Carles’ Angels”.

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    //////////Reply by aw, fukk
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    @lolz, jesus thats gold

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  18. kbiz
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:22 pm | Permalink

    lotta comments so far, but no flowers4alger-anon. feelin pretty sad, like I smoked all this weed for nothing

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @kbiz, sorry, out of weed myself. can’t ‘think of n e thing 2 type’ :(

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  19. god
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    chavs = ruined burberry
    juggalos = ruined faygo
    ppl who bought a ‘i am carles’ shirt = ruined carles

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @god, feel like faygo equally ruined juggalos [via diabetes + 'sugar induced paunch']

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    //////////Reply by god
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    @flowers4alger-anon,

    where did all the pics go? now ppl will think that i am bitter. carles, 4 ur next meme, make sure only non-fggts buy/wear ur shirt. read no logo, pretty sweet guide 2 branding

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @god, carles only read books by richard dawkins + michael parenti

    //////////Reply by god
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    @god,

    r u running the carles book club? when r u going 2 add sum ginsberg?

  20. Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:36 pm | Permalink

    ‘damn’. goodnight carles is burning meme.

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  21. Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

    feel like carles prolly had 2 ‘take off work’ 2 day so that he could mail all these shirts out. hope u still have sick time left, carles. i kno i’m always out of vacation time at this time of year. would h8 it if u had 2 take off w/o pay. <3 u. want the best 4 u.

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    //////////Reply by kbiz
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    @flowers4alger-anon, I used my last vacation days this week. Pretty nice break before the winter comes.

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @kbiz, def used my last vacation day in august. funnie how i only ever ‘get sick’ between september and december…wish we got a month’s vacay like we’re told they have in ‘eurtopea’. just want paid leave 2 have my babies yall!

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  22. Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:40 pm | Permalink

    http://tinypic.com/r/2qnp2tt/4

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @jenessa, can i take u out 4 vegan tacos some time plz?

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @jenessa, just bought a new skate deck with ur picture on it. ‘fckng sweet’.

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    //////////Reply by anon
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    clrs you sly dog.

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  23. Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:46 pm | Permalink

    MAn i just got my I Am Carles shirt. SHits dope im gon rock it tonight to DJ at this ill house party in the ATL! I’m inspired by your posts man us bloggers have to stay relavent you know. I think im gonna wear the Carls shirt with some Levi shrink to fits my bbc cardigan unbuttoned an Undftd fitted and the day of the dead dunks yeah that’ll pop

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    //////////Reply by Sal
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    @taxmaster, ROFL^^^^ you a hypebeast!!!!! and you a clown LMAO!!! stay off hro and stay on kyane’s blog

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    //////////Reply by chong
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    @taxmaster, u r a funni man

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  24. GAMMAZORD
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:55 pm | Permalink

    i dont understand this post

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  25. Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:57 pm | Permalink

    is that ken marino in the first pic? didn’t kno he was an hro fan. didn’t kno he was carles…

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  26. jimmm
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

    RIP I am Carles. I love blue shirts.

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  27. Posted October 27, 2009 at 2:03 pm | Permalink

    i think he is sold out. i think he has sold out. i think we have bought in. [via slc punk]

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @Anna, ‘it’s the great salt lake. it’s got salt in it, it makes things buoyant.’

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  28. GAMMAZORD
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 2:07 pm | Permalink

    he didn’t sell out, he sold a limited number of t shirts

    its not like ive seen tweens wearing them at the mall or anything

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  29. Bipster
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

    I am going to ‘recycle this meme’; gonna make it ‘ironic’.

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  30. flck
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 2:47 pm | Permalink

    CANT WAIT 4 THE NEW MEME!!!!!!!

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  31. via nineteen eighty8
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 2:50 pm | Permalink

    carles chillin with angelbros in blog heaven.

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  32. Posted October 27, 2009 at 3:02 pm | Permalink

    feel like i’m ‘never going to get’ my washed out ‘purple haze’ vinyl 12″. ‘damn’. feel like i need ‘jesus christ.’ vinyl asap.

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  33. fuck
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 3:16 pm | Permalink

    best post yet. cmon carles you knew bros and nerds would buy into it

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  34. no fish today
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 3:25 pm | Permalink

    bebe zeda needs a face fucking

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  35. the3rdrvltn
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 3:30 pm | Permalink

    what the heck is carles’ real name, yall?

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    //////////Reply by HJ
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    @the3rdrvltn, Keyser Söze

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  36. Posted October 27, 2009 at 3:40 pm | Permalink

    can I get a wut wut

    please raise ur ______ if you’re confused.

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    //////////Reply by Myth
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    @Bebe, wut wut

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  37. sarah
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 5:27 pm | Permalink

    goodnight carlesmoon /// will wear my shirt in ‘elite ltd. edition pride’ now

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  38. fawk pDx
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

    “If yall listen to Jesus Christ [the indie band] 33 consecutive times while wearing an ‘I am carles’ tee Bebe will appear in front of you and give you the sweetest, meanest, nastiest tug EVAH!!!”

    -tru story brahs

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    //////////Reply by HammerHeadSharks!
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    @fawk pDx,
    http://www.myspace.com/lalalovebebe

    Bro. Girl is 16.

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  39. chilledoutbro
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

    the last bro is wil wheaton, not carles.

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  40. willyall
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 10:05 pm | Permalink

    how are shirts being shipped?
    the UPS?
    ben gibbard’s postal services?
    fedxing?
    also how long are they taking to get to the destination?

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  41. Posted October 27, 2009 at 10:10 pm | Permalink

    just read all these comments.
    now i’m going to chop off my limbs and have someone squeeze me in a microwave.

    you all do ‘this thing’ too much. its a wonderful emphasising tool, however you look like a tool for using it. let crls do his thing. find your own.

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    //////////Reply by lookatmeme
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    @not creative., fucking love you

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    //////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
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    @not creative., ur right

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    //////////Reply by chong
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    @not creative., good ‘fucking’ job

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  42. flowers4alger-anon
    Posted October 29, 2009 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

    ill ‘kill yer whole family’

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  43. j
    Posted October 29, 2009 at 1:48 pm | Permalink

    thank god this shit is over. soooo stupid

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