We knew the Russians were making out like bandits with chintzy Auburn merchandise designed with poor attention to detail, but apparently they’re not the only ones.
Here’s a photo of an Auburn shirt spotted recently in Thailand that could totally be a “What’s Wrong?” feature on the back of a Highlights Magazine (how many errors can you spot?).
We have to admit, though: The Auburn Flying Suplex would be the most killer singular nickname for a football team ever. (Can anyone translate the stuff at the bottom?)
Via Irrelevant Musings.
Related: Another Auburn shirt with an identity crisis. (And obviously made in Thailand.)
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Yeah I think it says “WAR DAMN EAGLE!”
I thought it was “Buck Fama”
How ironic you included the promo for the 2010 Season DVDs in an entry for an errant T-shirt, as the set I’ve seen had the misnomer “University of Auburn” printed on the actual disks. Someone at XOS Digital should be beaten.
I am willing to pay 328.85 Thai baht, plus shipping, for someone to send me that shirt.
It looks like a flying suplex is a cosmic pro wrestling move. Perhaps it’s something for the linebackers to try next fall?
Found on Wikipedia:
Suplex, flying attack combination …
One wrestler would apply a stalling vertical suplex and elevate the opponent while the other wrestler executed a flying attack like a flying crossbody block or a missile dropkick from the top rope, driving the opponent to the ground from an elevated height.
flying suplex- what happens when wareagletigersplainsmen gets translated into thai and then back into engrish.
Yes, Pat I’d like to buy a vowel…a “U” please.
sorry couldn’t resist!
Looks like we were found in 1982… The year of Bo Jackson.
I’m going to Thailand next month. I’ll pick up as many as I can carry back if I run across any.
That would be awesome, Michael.
I was founded in 1982. I deserve that shirt.
The fact that its yellow. No respecting fan would buy it… unless it was bought from tailand
At least they spelled Tigers right.
The script at the very bottom is actually Japanese katakana (phonetic characters for words “borrowed” from other languages, in this case, borrowed from English).
It translates into the Japanese version of “suplex”. Literally it reads:
suupurekkusu
but spoken by a Japanese person would sound very very similarly
to “suplex” except for the “pu” and the “ku” sounds. The ending “u” is mostly silent. (the japanese ‘R’ sound is very similar to the English ‘L’
sound so the “re” could be read by us as “le”; double consonants “kk”
imply a very slight pause before saying them)
Japanese consonants always come with a vowel after them,
except for the letter ‘n’. So they can’t directly make the “pl”
sound in “suplex”. There is no “x” in Japanese so they approximate
it with a “k” sound as in the “k” in “stinks”.
Brant is correct on the Katakana translation.
i need that shirt