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Grammar Cop: Shirty Spelling
Complaint: Misspelling of the word "believe"; silkscreening the misspelled word on a cotton/poly blend shirt and mass producing said shirt; placing shirt with misspelled word on mannequin at entrance of women's clothing store in strange Polish shopping mall.
Defendant: Women's clothing store in strange Polish shopping mall.
Report: Officer had just purchased plastic squeaking pig and doggie biscuit for insane wolf/dog. Couldn't help but notice transgression when walking by women's clothing store in strange Polish shopping mall.
Fine: 380 Zloty
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Comments
Maybe it's supposed to be that way. An obscure play on the words "believe" and "live," perhaps?
Posted by: Meredith | January 1, 2004 1:37 PM
I admire your optimism.
Posted by: Brian | January 2, 2004 1:39 PM
At least they didn't put 2 or more consonants together in trying to spell it. It could have said , " In life we wierzy´c."
My apologies for butchering Polish spelling.
Posted by: Greg | January 2, 2004 4:11 PM
My head hurts. I have spelled it correctly, and still have no idea what "In Life We Believe" means. We Live, Therefore We Believe? We Believe In The Whole Life Thing? It's the pointless ambiguity that offends me. You know, have at least one interpretation that means something, please.
The idea that it might mean "In Life We Be Living" is more than I can bear. You owe it to us all to buy this wretched shirt, track down the manufacturer, and beat a confession out of them with a rubber hose. On second thoughts, hold the confession, but otherwise carry on.
Posted by: PB Curtis | January 2, 2004 9:02 PM
At first I thought it might be some weird variation of "Choose Life" from the Wham! days. Maybe it's an anti-abortion message. Poland is 99.98% Catholic, after all.
Honestly I think it's just a badly assembled English phrase like ”Hot women in the middle of the road is just how I like it” [see Poland Dispatch: Catching Up With Capitalism for details]
Posted by: Brian | January 4, 2004 3:26 PM
In Death We Bedead.
Posted by: JHMc | June 21, 2005 6:50 PM
I wouldn't be caught be-dead in that shirt.
Posted by: Robin | February 26, 2007 9:26 PM