# Not everyone likes Inigo Montoya **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324 "2013-01-25T15:18:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/1 "2013-01-25T15:18:42Z")
Yup. You may want to [not advertise your admiration so openly](http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/8210199/Prepare-to-die-t-shirt-causes-stir-on-flight). > [@](#): > > Mr Mullins, a Kiwi living in Sydney, was one of the first to board his Auckland-bound flight on Sunday evening. While other passengers took their seats, Mr Mullins was approached by a flight attendant who said some people on board were intimidated by the words on his shirt. > > The shirt had a large name tag which read: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/2 "2013-01-25T15:24:00Z")
Deciding who is the lamest in that particular story is a nearly impossible task. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/3 "2013-01-25T16:01:13Z")
I’m a fierce proponent of free speech, and that line is one of my favorites from a favorite movie, but I think I might be taken aback if I saw a fellow passenger with that on his shirt. Probably harmless, and thoughtless. But what if the passenger had intended it to be a morbid foreshadowing of what was to come, and he was part of a twisted, nefarious plot? ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/4 "2013-01-25T16:02:49Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I’m a fierce proponent of free speech, and that line is one of my favorites from a favorite movie, but I think I might be taken aback if I saw a fellow passenger with that on his shirt. > > Probably harmless, and thoughtless. But what if the passenger had intended it to be a morbid foreshadowing of what was to come, and he was part of a twisted, nefarious plot? I’m sure forcing him to change to a Hello Kitty shirt would stop the plot in its tracks. ETA: Simply put, if he’s planning to go on a murderous rampage aboard the plane, it’s unlikely the plan calls for using a particular shirt as a weapon. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/5 "2013-01-25T16:07:15Z")
If he’d just left off that dying part… On a road trip through the south, I visited a random church for a Sunday morning service, and got handed an adhesive nametag. Printed at the top was “Hello, my name is:” … Yes, I did. No one got it. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/6 "2013-01-25T16:18:33Z")
> [@PacifistPorcupine](#): > > I’m sure forcing him to change to a Hello Kitty shirt would stop the plot in its tracks. But it would make the passengers more complacent on the way to their doom. > [@](#): > > ETA: Simply put, if he’s planning to go on a murderous rampage aboard the plane, it’s unlikely the plan calls for using a particular shirt as a weapon. As a weapon, no, but saying that announcing a bad action means the bad action wasn’t planned makes no sense. If that were the case, we should insist that ALL passengers wear that shirt, and protect everyone. No True Scotsman (terrorist) would announce his intentions, right? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/7 "2013-01-25T16:19:23Z")
He starts some interesting and entertaining threads. I guess he’s just got to control himself on airplanes. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/8 "2013-01-25T16:45:35Z")
Good thing the pilot didn’t have six fingers ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/9 "2013-01-25T16:49:23Z")
They missed a golden opportunity to make everyone happy. Give him a post-it to put over “Die”, with an alternate word. “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father. Prepare to FLY!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/10 "2013-01-25T17:09:56Z")
Look, he loved his father. If the sons of bitches are going to kill people’s fathers, they have to expect revenge. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/11 "2013-01-25T18:01:22Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Look, he loved his father. _We’re beggars and blighters and ne’er do-well cads Drink up me hearties, yo ho Aye, but we’re loved by our mommies and dads Drink up me hearties, yo ho_ ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/12 "2013-01-25T18:35:46Z")
I have a “Lost” T-Shirt that depicts (among other things) the plane breaking apart in midair. I wear it occasionally, and once I happened to have it on the same day I was going to be flying. On the way to the airport it occurred to me that there might be some kind of reaction (I was thinking more about security than other passengers) so I pulled another shirt on over it. It would probably have been fine, but I figured I didn’t need the hassle. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/13 "2013-01-26T23:33:24Z")
Don’t you know that “Die” is German for “The”? How is “Prepare to The” scary? [/Sideshow Bob] ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/14 "2013-01-26T23:57:23Z")
> [@](#): > > “The flight attendant said to me: ‘Are you able to remove it because some of the passengers are quite intimidated by it’. I thought it was all a bit silly. The person next to me was laughing, because they knew the movie.” > > Mr Mullins said he didn’t have another shirt to wear and hoped he would get to wear a pilot’s shirt - but wondered how the other passengers would then react to that. > > The flight attendant left in search of another T-shirt but never returned - and didn’t make eye contact with Mr Mullins again. He couldn’t just turn the shirt inside out? In my high school if someone came in with an offensive shirt that’s all they had to do. Turn it inside out. I used to wear a Marlboro Fleece (my dad had a lot of Marlboro miles and it was a nice fleece). A handful of times a teacher would have an issue with it and just make me put a piece of tape over the small Marlboro logo on the sleeve. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/15 "2013-01-27T00:04:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _We’re beggars and blighters and ne’er do-well cads > Drink up me hearties, yo ho > Aye, but we’re loved by our mommies and dads > Drink up me hearties, yo ho_ LOL! ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/16 "2013-01-27T00:25:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > He couldn’t just turn the shirt inside out? In my high school if someone came in with an offensive shirt that’s all they had to do. Turn it inside out. I used to wear a Marlboro Fleece (my dad had a lot of Marlboro miles and it was a nice fleece). A handful of times a teacher would have an issue with it and just make me put a piece of tape over the small Marlboro logo on the sleeve. logic!! cut it out! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-everyone-likes-inigo-montoya/648324/17 "2013-01-27T00:27:50Z")
Why hasn’t the real [Inigo Montoya](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) shown up in this thread yet? Hmm very suspicious…