American Traveler International Apology Shirt (FRreepertunity/Barf Alert / Blood Boiling Alert)

American Apology Shirt ^ | 7/4/03 | http://americanapologyshirt.com/

[IncPen]

Front: American Traveler International Apology Shirt. Back: "I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him." In the six official UN languages.

[ridensm]

. "President's" is a contraction of "president" and "is,"

You can't make a contraction like that. You might as well say something's instead of something is. And when you are quoting someone the period does come after the end quote...I think.

[weegee]

This shirt would say much of what he does with his "translated" shirt:

[KC_Conspirator]

This joker is nothing but a hate America leftist. The liberals have literally become unhinged as they race out to protest around the countyr. We have a couple of nutbars here in KC too and I take pride in confronting them.

[Fawnn]

This probably isn't the forum for this, but re:

You can't make a contraction like that.

According to the Chicago Manual of Style (6.31) I can. Do you have a source you'd like to cite?

You might as well say something's instead of something is.

People do that all the time. "Something's rotten in Denmark," for example. Such usage might be considered a colloquialism (or, in that instance, a clichéd expression) or sloppy diction, but it isn't improper usage of a contraction.

And when you are quoting someone the period does come after the end quote...I think.

Not in American (U.S.A.-style) English; when the period ends the sentence and the quoted phrase, the quotation marks go outside of that period. Rather than citing chapter and verse in "Chicago Manual of Style" or "Teach Yourself Grammar and Style in 24 Hours," thanks to a google.com search I found this supporting info (emphasis mine):

"Punctuation, such as question marks, exclamation points, colons, and semicolons, belong inside the quotation marks if they are part of the original quotation." --http://www.uwtc.washington.edu/courses/tc231/style/quotation_marks.htm

You can see some exceptions on that page.

The T-shirt that's the reason for this thread is still a stupid T-shirt! ;)

[Wonder Warthog]

"American Traveler International Apology Shirt. Back: "I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him." In the six official UN languages."

Can we get a similar shirt that says "Bring it on" in those same languages???

[Fawnn]

Can we get a similar shirt that says "Bring it on" in those same languages???

LOL!!! Excellent idea!!!

[Wonder Warthog]

"A domestic version (US$16), without English, is also available for those who want to make a statement, but not to monolingual locals."

Typical gutless leftist scum--too cowardly to say things "to your face".

[ditto h]

The good thing about this shirt is .. you can wear it for 5 more years!

[dufekin]

You sure this isn't the Dissdent Frogman's International Traveler Apology Shirt. I'd like to see some Frenchmen wearing it. Let's see if we can get it for Jacques Chirac.

[Tamzee]

The liberal/left idiots wear a shirt like that abroad and yet still have no clue why people call them unpatriotic...

[mewzilla]

I've got to get me some of those!

[CPOSharky]

"I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him." In the six official UN languages.

Here's one with the english, grammar, and syntax corrected.

"I'm sorry I'm an idiot. I voted Gore."

[roderick]

Fellow Freepers,

Allow me to quote the following from P. J. O'Rourke's classic "Holidays in Hell", 1988.

Chapter 14, "Among the Euroweenies"

We're the badest-assed sons of b*tches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We're three quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, France and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn't give us room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d'Antibes. And we've got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go.

You say our country's never been invaded? You're right, little buddy. Because I'd like to see the needle-dick foreigners who'd have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying "Cheerio". Hell can't hold our sock hops.

We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, f*ck longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I'd rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen and jack of all Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfast and sh*t them out before lunch.

Of course, the guy should have punched me. But this was Europe. He just smiled his shabby, superior European smile. (Gosh, don't these people have dentists?)

[Reaganesque]

Well, from one bi-lingual conservative I can only say to the creator of this shirt, "Muerdame, maricon."

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[Nick5]

But you can say "something's." As in the sentence "Something's happening here."

[Stefan Stackhouse]

as one poster on the comments board put it, "a few years too late; should have had it for 1993-2000".

Now there's a thought. . . buy them up to keep on hand just in case (GOD FORBID) the Democrats do manage to get themselves into the White House again. Could come in handy then. . .

[Nick5]

I think Mr. O'Rourke was being ironic. I may be wrong but I think the point of his post was lampooning what he sees as the boastfulness, arrogance and provincialism of Americans.

[ridensm]

"Something's happening here."

That isn't a sentence. Note the proper use of a contraction.

[Nick5]

Mom's in the kitchen and Dad's on the boat and Sally's in the garden and something's telling me it really, really is a sentence.