I Cain’t ‘Old ‘Er Much Longer Cap’n!
When I see this sort of t-shirt I sometimes wonder if there isn’t a native English-speaking silkscreener having a laugh at these poor souls’ expense.
You know, really, I think it would have been a better idea to print this message on the front of the shirt. It may be too late for the innocent passerby by the time he/she sees it on the back.
Thanks to a reader for mailing this photo.
June 4th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
A few years back I saw a kid, no more than 8 years old, wearing a jacket with some fascinating Engrish on the back:
“My castrate are causal
line the 2 and Word.”
No idea what it means, but it stuck with me.
Kevin
June 4th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Very simple one to solve Kevin.
“My
castratecastrationarewascausalcasual…line the 2 (up) andWordWHOA!!June 5th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
The foreign shirt designer is a theory I have held for about 12 years… ever since I saw a little 13 or 14 year old girl wearing a brown shirt with yellow hand prints on the chest (think “body glove” t-shirts of the late ’80s) with a caption in yellow letters saying, “Warm Brown Titties”.
June 6th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
i have a feeling that someone randomly lifted some lyrics from the liner notes of a rap cd and printed them on the back of a shirt.
all things being equal, these sorts of shirts are funny, but nothing beats dumb white people getting Chinese character tattoos. sure the guy at the store tells them the character means warrior, but really it means dumb ass.
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June 6th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
We get it in China, too.
One girl at a university I teach at used to wear a shirt that said “Eat my skin.” Another one, who was actually a student of mine, had a shirt that said “Gimmie head ’til I’m dead.”
June 7th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Jeff: What else could it be?
Jonathan: Are those your t-shirts? Pretty cool.
Matthew: That “eat my skin” t-shirt is nothing. Here in Korea they’ve turned it into a franchise
June 8th, 2006 at 3:40 am
yes, they are.
i was thinking of running off a batch and trying to sell them here directly, but have yet to get it all together.
i came home just now and found my wife in the bedroom with the door closed and a big fan running. would a korean husband see this as a cry for attention?
June 8th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
Nah. Just living life on the edge.