Another threatening T shirt

http://pix11.com/2013/01/23/airline-asks-man-to-remove-threatening-princess-bride-shirt/#ixzz2Ir9Rqhhv

Apparently not everyone has watched the classic film “The Princess Bride,” including several Qantas airlines passengers who were unsettled on a recent flight by a man’s Inigo Montoya t-shirt.

Wynand Mullins was settling into a flight from Australia to New Zealand when a flight attendant told him his shirt had some of the other passengers worried, and asked him to remove it, according to New Zealand’s Stuff Magazine.

“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die,” was the terrifying quote — one of the most famous lines from the movie. Incidentally, it would likely please the writer to know that 25 years later, the line is still packing such a punch.

“I was wondering where they would find a shirt for me, being on a plane and all,” Mullins told the National Business Review online. “The thought did cross my mind that it would either be a blanket or the pilot’s jacket.”

Alas, the flight personnel thought better of the request and did not return to make sure he did. Quantas didn’t have any official record of the incident because it was handled in the air, according to Stuff.

“I thought it was all a bit silly,” Mullins told New Zealand’s Stuff Magazine. “The person next to me was laughing, because they knew the movie.”

Read more: http://pix11.com/2013/01/23/airline-asks-man-to-remove-threatening-princess-bride-shirt/#ixzz2Irn3GKaA

I would have taken off the shirt. Then refused to cover up. They'd second guess their judgement when they begin to fear my moobs more than the shirt.

If that were me, the whole plane would be blinded by horrifying pasty whiteness.

They should have polled the passengers.

I would like to believe that if the intercom said "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya", some significant proportion of any planeful of people would have answered "You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Trans_Maro wrote: If that were me, the whole plane would be blinded by horrifying pasty whiteness.

Same here.

Following the logic here for a moment... wearing a t-shirt with the word "die" makes you a threat and removing it disarms the situation by removing the means with which you may bring harm to others. Forgetting that reads like the plot to a wiley E. coyote skit.... I will test this theory by wearing pants with the lyrics to Last Caress on them. Either way, I win.

I saw this earlier. Inconceivable!

Jerry wrote: I saw this earlier. Inconceivable!

I do no think that word means what you think it means.

[runs off to search for Rodents of Unusual Size......capybaras fear me]

Well at least the Aussies aren't as big Bob Costases as the Brits:

http://weinterrupt.com/2010/12/man-barred-from-flight-for-transformers-shirt/

Stewardess: Take off that shirt
Passenger: What shirt?
Stewardess to large security guy: tear his arms off...
Passenger: Oh...you mean this...shirt?

ransom wrote: They should have polled the passengers. I would like to believe that if the intercom said "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya", some significant proportion of any planeful of people would have answered "You killed my father. Prepare to die."

My wife uses the quote as her voicemail message. Some people stil ldon't get it.

I sometimes use it on a nametage when at a convention/party that requires those stick on "hello, my name is" tags.

It's only a matter of time before someone wearing a shirt emblazoned with the words "Die Fledermaus" is led away in shackles for making people feel "threatened".

Ignorance reigns supreme.

I have that shirt! I get comments from total strangers when I wear it because they think its hilarious. Never been asked to get off of a plane, though.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/9f70/?srp=1

Gotta admit, it's a pretty brilliant idea.

^ Wow I expected the words to be a lot bigger.

Fun fact: Wallace Shawn, who played Vizzini the Sicilian, is a lauded playwright, holds a degree in history from Harvard and studied at Oxford with the intent to go into foreign diplomacy. His father, William Shawn was the long-time editor of the New Yorker.

Would have been funnier if he had removed the shirt, only to have the words written on his chest in sharpie.

ransom wrote: They should have polled the passengers. I would like to believe that if the intercom said "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya", some significant proportion of any planeful of people would have answered "You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Even funnier if the intercom had said in reply, "stop saying that!"

Now I want to watch Princess Bride, if only I had a Holocaust Cloak...

BTW, two things to remember:

Never get into a land war in Asia and never go against an Australian when beer is on the line! Its one of the classic blunders!

The problem with this world is people seem to think they have a right not to be offended.

Is this T-shirt threatening? If not, I'll probably still buy it.

1988RedT2 wrote: It's only a matter of time before someone wearing a shirt emblazoned with the words "Die Fledermaus" is led away in shackles for making people feel "threatened". Ignorance reigns supreme.

I had to look it up... it would be worth making the shirt just to wear it

Do you think they allow Ice Cube to fly now that he's in kiddie movies even though he had a song called 'berkeley the Police'?

RossD wrote: Do you think they allow Ice Cube to fly now that he's in kiddie movies even though he had a song called 'berkeley the Police'?

Sure as long as his shirt isn't offensive.

"Have fun storming the castle, boys!"

Man I love that movie . . .

i had some tee shirts made up, the front says "CALL THE LAW" on the back it says "OAK TREE YOUR IN MY WAY" not quite as fun as I had invisioned but what he11.....