1st place in Derby #206: Role Reversal, with 1082 votes!

From time immemorial, the order had been set in stone. And paper, and scissors. The heavy shall smash the sharp. The sharp shall cut the thin. The thin shall cover the heavy. Generation upon generation passed, the order ever unchanging.

Then a spark of knowledge set the ancient law to smolder. No man alive can say what first dawned: was it the rock’s flamethrower? The scissors’ jackhammer? The paper’s file? Or, in one blinding moment of simultaneous Promethean inspiration, all three at once?

No matter. The order had been upset. Anarchy was loosed upon the hands of the world. Spocks, lizards, everything was permitted, nothing was forbidden. The certainties of the ages crumbled into confusion. The sun set on the age of rock, paper, and scissors.

That’s when we all got really into tic-tac-toe.

Wear this shirt: to the World RPS Championships and blow their freakin’ minds.

Don’t wear this shirt: when you’re teaching a little kid how to play the game. To break the rules, one must intimately know the rules. Like Picasso or Lou Reed.

This shirt tells the world: “I won’t play by your rules.”

We call this color: Rochambasphalt.

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