I’m Filipino-American so I know a few silly Tagalog words here and there that my mom says now and then.  My little sister and I like to combine some of these words to make completely nonsensical phrases.  One of these gems is “Ay sus ginoo, sapatos puwet kugmo!”  Any Tagalog speaker now should see that this doesn’t really make any sense, but that’s the point!  “Ay sus ginoo” is an expression.. kind of like saying “oh my god.”  I’m often greeted with that expression from my mom when I’m just goofing around the house.  The rest of it is literally, sapatos= shoes, puwet= butt and kugmo= booger.  So yeah, as you can see, it makes no sense.  Spanish speakers may notice the influence their language has had on Tagalog.

Anyway, the point of this post is that my sister and I wanted to make shirts with this phrase on them.  We would always talk about it, but never really do anything, so randomly I decided I was going to make mine at least… I didn’t know what shirt she wanted to use, and I didn’t know if she approved on the final layout of the letters.

Here’s the printout.

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