# Another stupid T-shirt... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 25, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934 "2008-01-25T07:43:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/1 "2008-01-25T07:43:25Z")
…not a military thing, so I thought it best to start a new one. So I’ve started seeing some shirts around here. “Here” would be the Rio Grande Valley, deep south Texas, more than a third of Mexico is north of us. It has been, and will alway will be, profoundly Hispanic in population, culture, and bias. Anyways, the shirt: **"Pink Cheese, Green Goes"** Say it out loud, and it’s “Pinches Gringos” That’s “Fucking White Motherfuckers”, nearly. Now. I am not a light-skinned guy. I cross over well enough to live, work, and marry down here without getting into it… But what would happen if I wore a t-shirt that said "FUCKING MEXICAN WETBACK DOUCHEBAGS " ? Yeah, I’d die. Pinche mojado needledick flyfucker at the pulga… ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/2 "2008-01-25T19:00:30Z")
God, I love multi-lingual swearing! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/3 "2008-01-25T19:59:06Z")
Okay, that cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/4 "2008-01-25T21:39:02Z")
Am I the only one who doesn’t get it? Pinches gringoes? What? Should I have taken Spanish in high school? ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/5 "2008-01-25T22:00:00Z")
Considering those of us who’ve posted so far are awfully close to Mexico, I wouldn’t pay it too much mind. We’re probably the demographic that would be around enough Spanish speakers to understand it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/6 "2008-01-25T22:08:50Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac] I have taken Spanish in high school? [/QUOTE] I did. Doesn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/7 "2008-01-25T22:14:52Z")
I keep thinking of the Honda SUV commercial, with the car chatting with a crab. The car rambles on about surfing, but the crab says only, “ **I peench**.” I laughed every time I saw it, but now I wonder if I was missing a pun in Spanish. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/8 "2008-01-25T22:28:35Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] I keep thinking of the Honda SUV commercial, with the car chatting with a crab. The car rambles on about surfing, but the crab says only, “ **I peench**.” I laughed every time I saw it, but now I wonder if I was missing a pun in Spanish. 😕 [/QUOTE] I love that commercial! I do it all the time to my husband and we laugh like loons. But I don’t think you’re missing anything there. It’s just great comedic timing and accent usage. I can swear in spanish pretty well. You can’t live down here and not pick that sort of thing up over the course of thirty some years. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/9 "2008-01-25T22:42:52Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac] Am I the only one who doesn’t get it? Pinches gringoes? What? Should I have taken Spanish in high school? [/QUOTE] I get the impression that “pinches” in this case is a Spanish word, not the English third-person present tense of “pinch.” I don’t know specifically what it means, but I gather it’s a derogatory adjective; the OP used the singular form of it in the final line of his post, which I also didn’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/10 "2008-01-25T23:04:10Z")
Guys, the OP basically says what it means. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/11 "2008-01-25T23:07:41Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Nader] Say it out loud, and it’s “Pinches Gringos” That’s “Fucking White Motherfuckers”, nearly. [/QUOTE] For all the people who are having trouble reading, the stuff after “That’s” and before “nearly” in that sentence is the English translation. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/12 "2008-01-26T00:01:21Z")
[QUOTE=scout1222] Considering those of us who’ve posted so far are awfully close to Mexico, I wouldn’t pay it too much mind. We’re probably the demographic that would be around enough Spanish speakers to understand it. [/QUOTE] Well, I’m not terribly close to Mexico (other side of the gulf), but we have a large Mexican population in Florida (along with Cuban and Puerto Rican), and I studied Spanish in school. I was actually complimenting \*\*Darth Nader’s \*\* multilingual swears in the last line of the OP, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-stupid-t-shirt/434934/13 "2008-01-26T00:23:42Z")
Well, by golly. Everyone else in this thread fails to understand the Spanish, and I go misunderstanding the English! 😉