Posted on 09/09/2004 12:10:53 PM PDT by quidnunc
You there: hey! You're a mother of three, a Bush voter, you sing in the church choir, you have a master's degree in pre-Renaissance art, and you have a gigantic flaming skull tattoo on your neck. Right? I know you're out there. Because every time I write about tattoos, and how I find some of the modern examples of Skin Adornment a bit excessive, I get a letter from someone who insists that she's all of the above, and there's nothing peculiar about her at all. True. EXCEPT THE GIGANTIC FLAMING SKULL TATTOO.
Let me be clear: I do not favor banning tattoo parlors. I do not favor stoning people with inky flesh, or herding them into pens, or encouraging anyone to shout FIE when they see someone who has decided to engrave his facial epidermis with a spider web for the rest of his mortal days. Whatever. Live and let live. It's your body. But after my last trip to the State Fair, I really wonder what people are thinking. …
I'm not talking about the classics — the anchor tattoo, an emblem of service, a heart with MOM, or any other small embellishments of your biceps' terrain. I mean the florid decorations at the base of the spine, the spiky tribal symbols around the neck, the elaborate tableaux on the back that look like you were horribly burned by an old YES album cover. … All I'm trying to say it this: I know you're trying to tell us something, but it's really not coming across too clearly. Perhaps if you wrote it down on a piece of paper and handed it out, we'd get it.
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if you've got a tattood FReeper list, by golly, add me!
OK, I'm a bible thumping fundamentalist Christian homeschooling father of 8, but I have a pretty cool pic of one of my tattoos on my homepage.
Hey I'm curious what you think of Leviticus law about tattooing? A lot of people give me grief about having of all things, a Bible tattooed on my arm as part of a sleeve, but I tell them that Jesus died so we didn't have to follow these laws.
I don't really know what to think. What are your thoughts?
I'll let you do the checking
I'm not gonna do it. *pause* Let's get Kerry! Yeah! We know he'll do it! He's looking for the gay vote!
Nyuk-Nyuk-Nyuk.
Correction. The SKANKS always seem to go for the guys with neck tattoos.
TIGERMAN!
That's one of the coolest tattoos I've ever seen!
EEEEEEW! He always freaks me out.
sorry...
I know you're trying to tell us something, but it's really not coming across too clearly. Perhaps if you wrote it down on a piece of paper and handed it out, we'd get it.
I have numerous tattoos. All it says is that I have decorations on my skin. There is no political or social statement.
A large peacock might symbolize my admiration for beautiful birds.
A large dragon might symbolize my admiration for the beauty of the Orient.
A large Eagle might symbolize my admiration for the United States of America.
An Army Eagle with banner (US Army) might symbolize my admiration for the United States Army.
Two Harley Davidson logos might symbolize my admiration Harley Davidson motorcycles.
Then again, they all might be just something to collect that I ain’t about to misplace.
"I told my kids to never get a tattoo as I would not look fondly upon it. One day my daughter came home with her tongue pierced."
My boyfriend told his daughters that they'd better never bring home guys with tattoos and piercings.
It should be interesting to hear what he has to say when they finally meet me and see the serpent rune tattoo I have around my wrist (in memory of my ultra-conservative father, who has passed on).
And the swan on the back of my neck.
BTW, I didn't get these tattoos until I was 45. I will always keep them.
Trogdor!
He was a man!
He was a Dragon!
And then I guess he was a Dragon-Man!
But he was still Trogdooooooooor!!!!!
Burninating the countryside . . . burninating the peasants . . .
LOL, that's a "Shoot Me" tattoo.
In Helena, MT most of the single women ARE skanks. Slim pickings up here in Big Sky country. Have you any idea how scarce single, college-educated, forty-something, mentally stable women are up here? Hen's teeth.
I think it'd be M*M or W*W
I agree- I am all for tattoos, piercings, etc.
We probably couldn't get the stupid people to put a giant red S on their forehead, but they do this WILLINGLY~~!!
Fine for you, but I prefer to remain unadorned.
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