Quote Of The Day
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"In French, LaBeouf means 'beef,' but mine is spelled wrong. It should be 'LaBoeuf.' My grandmother was a beatnik lesbian in the '50s, who hated her family and decided to change the spelling, and it's been that way ever since. So you go to France and people are like, 'LaBeouf? You have an illiterate last name.' By the way, Shia is a bad four-letter word in French. So the literal translation of my name is 'Shit the Beef.' Kind of rock-starry isn't it?"
- Shia LaBeouf to Parade magazine, on his interesting names
[Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
Fat Actress
Yeah , mine's french too. It means HAIRY BALL SACK!
funny.
Re: harrybalsac – you need to trim.
i'm sick of hair in my mouth.
i dont think he's cute at all.
Shia LaDouche works fine.
shia can i have ur kids
LOL Very rock starry
BIIIIIIIIIIGGGGG LIAR !!! I'am french and i can say that SHIA doesnt' mean SHIT at all … it does mean nothing (just like his sex appeal)
wow.
my new avatar is up in just seconds.
way to be on it mario.
I wanna have his babies!!!
No Shia, not kind of rock-starry…are you sure it doesn't mean shit for brains??!!!
first.
i thought shit in french is merde?
shit the beef LOL.
Re: Melissa is always right – shut yo mouth
Re: mama of 2 – howd u get a pic of me?
he was good in transformers.
HAHA! He's funny. Sounds like his parents had a good sense of humor too giving him that name… either that or they didn't want kids.
Why all the hate toward him?…I dont get it but I was waiting for someone to disprove what he said about his names translated…
Hmm shit head in french is like -due a la fuk- or something right?…not in that spelling but I mean phoenetically.
Re: mandzie f baby – lol
you are sooo colorful.
he is gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Rieco – 12
i like this one……..shit the beef……..i may have to change my name……maybe not
p.s. thanks for the translation….now i get it!!….lol
haha
"shia" does not mean shit in french
"merde" means shit in french.
what a moron.
however, his name is just one apostrophe away from being muslim:
SHI'A - the second largest denomination of Islam.
i thought he was muslim. not very "rock starry" at all. but very "muslim!"
SHIA MARRY MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
yawn….bored
freshhh
Re: shomakhang – lol
Re: harrybalsac – talking to vous monsieur sac
Re: shomakhang – Re: jeska122 –
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newsflash…….all languages have slang
He always comes off quite charming in his interviews
im french and the first time i saw his surname i just laughed and then i thought there was a mistacke in his name… like exactly what he said….
btw, beatnik in french means " dick fuck" so shia has the whole package!!!!
best comment ever
Funny, nice sense of humor.
Shia did not say that his first name meant 'shit' in French. Look where the quotes end. Perez added that part on. Shit in French is merde. The name Shia is Hebrew.
This makes me like him more than I did before (i was neutral)
Well, in french "the beef" would actually be "Le Boeuf" and not "La Boeuf". And "chia" (no s) means "shitted" not "shit".
FUCKING FUNNY BUT NOT TRUE
His parents had a good sense of humor if that was true. The closest to shit that Shia comes to is chier (to shit). Actually it is more closer to shi'i or shiite. Now if he changes his name to Merde LaBeouf we may have something there. Typical star making up a story as he goes along.
i'm still partial to shia ladouche.
mERDE!
is the french term for Shit.
he is obviously full of it.
shia does not mean shit in french
Shia didn't say the last part, about Shia being French for shit, Perez/his staff added it on, notice where the quotes are. It's just Perez/his staff's crappy grammar again.
Wow. I would have to do a name change
thats some funny shit there
shia's so cute…
chier in french means taking a shit. So there you go. I prefer that to hebrew.
Okay, maybe LaBeouf is a bastardization of of le boeuf. And I will give him that S-h-i-a is four letter word in France or the US. But there is no way shia means shit. How stupid does he think we are? Merde! What a creep.
I'll never complain about my surname again, I swear.
A little french lesson for everyone here who say "shia doesn't mean shit!!!!"
Chier in french means "to shit"
Présent:
Je chie
Tu chies
Il chie
Nous chions
Vous chiez
Ils chient
Passé simple:
Je chiai
Tu CHIAS –> SHIA
Il CHIA —> SHIA
Nous chiâmes
Vous chiâtes
Ils chièrent
that's all so when Shia says that his name means shit, he's actually right.
well, if it was really french, it would be Chia (past tense of to shit => shitted) Le Boeuf (=>the ox)
if he wanted to give an explanation, he should at least do it well ^^
love ya perez!
Sorry my ass is vegetarian.
LOL…that's cute…he is still my future husband.
ahahahha
thats awesome
He's funny. He may be a jerk, but I like him! Funny guys are always a turn-on.
you guys are all fucking idiots.
shia DIDNT SAY HIS NAME MEANS SHIT IN FRENCH.
PEREZ ADDED IT ON.
omfg morons.
I was gonna bring some precisions, but it has just been done.
Anyway, don't really get his comment on LaBoeuf that should be written LaBoeuf but whatever
Who the hell cares if he didn't translate it right, he's saying how he got his name, not giving you a french quiz. Get over it.
If his grandmother was a lesbian in the 50s, how did she have a baby, Shia's parent? I thought they didn't let lesbians have kids back then. Maybe I'm wrong…
Um, did anyone actually bother to read the interview in the magazine? He did indeed say that, and it's not Perez adding it on, as if he would do such a thing!
He's such a cutie, honestly!
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there is just something about this man… MMmm. and he was so cute on ellen the other day.
To be totally accurate,
Shia doesn't mean anything in french although it phonetically sounds exactly like "chia" which either means "defecated" (past tense baby
).
La boeuf also isnt right: boeuf being male it should be Le boeuf.
lol, shit the beef.
lmao
American French teacher here - like many have said, "shia" does NOT mean "shit"! "Chier" means "to shit," which is kinda close, and anyway his last name should be LE BOEUF, not LA - so it's totally spelled wrong!!
I know, this is annoying crap, but just shows the ignorance of this moron. He is SUCH a flash in the pan - kinda like Colin Farrell! What's that dude done lately?? Well, here comes another one…
@britney's vagina:
Good point - although nobody really technically speaks in the passé simple (it's a literary tense, as in written in books, for those who don't know).
If we're being TECHNICAL, that is…
Lol hes so fucking hot. Shia i want youuuuu
awww!! thats so cutee!! i love you shit the beef!!!!!
I thought merde was shit, anyway he is still adorable
Shia does not means shit. It mean (he/she/it) SHITTED. Il chia!
when he was on letterman he said that his name means “thank God for beef”
i think someone just earned himself a new nickname….
aww. i love Shai!!!!!!!
dont make fun of his name. who cares.. he is still freaking sexyyyy!
GAHAHA
I gave birth to a 10lb 2oz boy with no pain medications so "Shit the beef" sounds about right! hahahahahahaha!
IF YOU WANNA FLY GET OUT OF THE PLANE!!!!!!!!
SHUT UP AND JUMP BITCH!
This is sort of hilarious.
True, boeuf is French for beef, but merde is shit in French, not Shia.
AWESOME I GOTTA COME UP WITH SOMETHHING CUNNING LIKE THAT FOR MY KID!
so your name would really be merde laboeuf and not shia if you are shit the beef
Why all the Shia hate? It wasn't him who changed the spelling of his last name, it was his grandmother, so SHE changed the "le" to "la" as well. Not that big of a deal.
hahahahha i love shia
I went to the Transformers 2 wrap up party in New Mexico on Saturday. Josh Duhamel and Tyrese were there. They were super friendly. They played a volleyball tournament and signed autographs for the fans. It was rumored that Shia and Megan Fox were there…but they didn't come out to meet the peeps! It kind of pissed me off. There was a party at the nightclub later…I didn't go though. I had my 17 year old with me. Josh and Tyrese are HOT! I got some great pics!
lmaoo. i totally love him.
hahaha thats pretty funny. shit the beef!
i freaking love him…embarrassing enough, i've loved him since even stevens… lol…
I LOVE SHIA!!!!
You have to love shit the beef!!!!
"So the literal translation of my name is Shit the Beef."
ROFL!!. Seriously though, I'd change my name a.s.a.p.!
Re: k-lee –
Most deffy.♥
OK HE'S SO TALKING SMACK!
- The Beef in french is LE BOEUF ( Not LA) - So hes so wrong on that one.
- Shia does NOT mean Shit but Chiote means toilet ( perhaps pronounced a little the same …
but anyhow - Shia get a grip - youll all around WRONG! whatever its a big bunch of nothing but still … all wrong.
Shia is the funniest he is the best!
Shia rocks!
all his moives are FANTASTIC TOO!
:)
Actually, it should be LEBoeuf, not LABoeuf. I always thought that was funny.
I am French and This Is SO WRONG…
Shia is really shit and how can a Beatnik lesbian give birth if she only fucks women ???? Got to explain that one…
Perezsito, te chiero mucho
NOT THAT I CARE WHAT THE FRENCH THINK… HOWEVER…
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THE ENTIRE FRENCH SPEAKING WORLD THINKS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST NEW MOVIE STARS IS NAMED "SHIT THE BEEF".
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AND CELEBRITIES HAVE THE NERVE TO BLAME EVERYONE BUT THEMSELVES FOR AMERICA'S NOT-SO-FAVORABLE STANDING IN THE WORLD!!
his name is fucking hot, just as he is (:
He was great in Disturbia, but outside of that…shiteous.
shia means gift from God…um…he's said this before in interviews….google it
he's a tard. Merde is french for shit, not shia…but it might as well be