Becks' New Tat: Say What?

David Beckham airs out his hot abs and shows off some new body art. Becks and the rest of the LA Galaxy were in Dallas playing a sold-out charity game against FC Dallas.

We're not sure what kind of writing Becks has scribbled on him (Buddhist? Japanese? Buddha-nese?) or what the heck it says. Any guesses?

UPDATE:
TMZ's resident Asian orthography expert reveals that the ink is comprised of cursive Chinese characters, the first of which means "life," and another of which means long life. There are several characters meaning "wealth." All in all, something along the lines of Becks being rich for a real long time. Yeah, that seems about right.



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31. "Buddhist" is a religion, not a language. You guys at TMZ are morons. That's like saying "Is that English or Catholic? Catholish?" Ha ha HA! Catholish! We are SO WITTY!!" I don't know what it says, but they're Chinese characters.

Posted at 2:49PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Amy

32. Posh needs a sandwich???

Posted at 3:16PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Felicia

33. "Alfred E. Newman rocks!!"

Posted at 2:55PM on Mar 17th 2008 by carpediem

34. “The tattoo is written in traditional Mandarin Chinese and is an old Chinese proverb that says: 'Death and life have determined appointments, Riches and honors depends upon heaven.'

Posted at 3:05PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Amber

35. I wonder how long it will be before Becks takes his sons to get tattoos of their own?
Even the latest tattoo is thicker than Posh`s waist.

Posted at 3:01PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Tainted Love

36. 29-B.) And a TMZ-ist is someone that follows the teachings of TMZ and speaks TMZ-nese.

"I think he's turning Japanese..." (Bad Vapor Ref, I know!)

Posted at 3:08PM on Mar 17th 2008 by DOÑA RACHELA

37. Fools!! It reads Confusious say overhyped over the hill soccer player will soon waste your time by trying to decipher dorky tatoo that reads Confusious say overhyped over the hill soccer player will soon waste your time by trying to decipher dorky tatoo that reads Confusious say overhyped over the hill soccer player will soon waste your time by trying to decipher dorky tatoo that reads Confusious say overhyped over the hill soccer player will soon waste your time by trying to decipher dorky tatoo that reads Confusious say overhyped over the hill soccer player will soon waste your time by trying to decipher dorky tatoo that reads... Last symbol say "We use no MSG"

Posted at 3:15PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Julc

38. "Slippery when wet"

Posted at 3:18PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Translator

39. It says. " WHAT MAKES JACK A DULL BOY ?"


Posted at 3:21PM on Mar 17th 2008 by The Joker

40. YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 3:40PM on Mar 17th 2008 by YankeesRule

41. follow this mess of ink for a good time .


( it is not straight , the tattoo bends into his bollocks . )

Posted at 3:49PM on Mar 17th 2008 by it goes down to his nob

42. he and his skinny fake boobed wife already want to go back to england but the english don't even want them back .

they should go back to spain .

can you belive she still insists those boobs of hers are REAL !!!!????

she really takes us all for mugs .
heather mills just took paul mc to the cleaners, next she will be living in l.a too .

just say no .

Posted at 3:50PM on Mar 17th 2008 by it goes down to his nob

43. Yes, it says Daneen you are a sexy bitch...Victoria who?

Posted at 4:38PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Daneen

44. This is Chinese callagraphy, actually very nice.

Posted at 4:37PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Greenshoes

45. 3. Loosely translated it says "TMZ can kiss my Ass"

Posted at 2:01PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Bubbles

12. It says "Baby Spice Was Really My First Choice"

Posted at 2:15PM on Mar 17th 2008 by CoolGirl2008

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that kind of made my hilariousisness height of the day (not an amusing day...)

Posted at 5:50PM on Mar 17th 2008 by MakeTheScaryRepublicansGoAway

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