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T-shirt Time Again

I've decided that T-shirts come in 4 categories here.  
1) They make perfect sense. 
2) The English is correct, but the message is puzzling, or hilarious.
3) The English is correct enough that you can discern a message, but the spacing and spelling are off, sometimes these make sense, sometimes not. 
4) They have random letters of the alphabet and don't make any sense.  
You could also make some sub categories that include copyright infringements or where a stolen message has been altered by spacing or spelling.  Or ones where some words are discernible with other non-words.  But I'll stick with the 4 basic categories.  
My favorite ones by far are category #2.  Enjoy!
This one is a bit hard to read:  "it's time for a love revolurion"
This is one of my favorites.  New York Giants are so big here.  Clear trademark infringements.
Disney is also a big stolen market.
These kinds make me laugh and make me feel like I just don't understand English very well.  It says:  
Hidden Diet Plan
Calories 3600
 Lose weight / Plan
 If broccoli had a face I would punch it
 Carrots, red beans, corn, chicken
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, same as Tuesday
 On-demand work outs
 Custom videos delivered to your inbox
I've seen this one in 3 different stores.  
The Rainy Season--The Line---Rainbear and Dalmiction
Enthusiasm--The Key To Finding Haprines--Find Our Hanes Someher Else Within--Result Expince
You haven't alreadl--Now is the time to embrace spring's--groundbreaking florals---and me
Dertio--You can'  t have a better---Success is the ability to go from one failture
Grow corn, what is popcor, The sunshine is perfect
Always Strings Bear
One night we were walking along a river and some young girls were singing "Row row ow your boat..." Unlike this t-shirt, they had their words right.
Lick money
Human made--Gears for futuristic teenagers
I should have bought this shirt; I quite liked it.  The bottom says "People who struggle together."  I've always wondered what repast meant.  Now I know! (The image is more correct than the description.) 
Unfluid means not readily converted into cash.  So this t-shirt is fitting for us since we still have yet to see a pay check.....  I should have bought it, I guess!
Reminiscent of quarantining....
Friendship:  Everyone avoid large gatheringsto preven the spread of coronavirus 
Some others we've seen "Daisies of the world unite." "Leisure and Scriptures"  "Playboy" worn by a 50+ woman.  "Beer pear" worn by a child.  Most of the time, I read a classic t-shirt vowing to remember it long enough to write it down and then I forget because there is another one or something else interesting comes up....  Oh well, there will be another one again!  Often the most classic shirts we see on people and not in stores, but I rarely have been brave enough to take pictures of those. Either way, we are constantly entertained.

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