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ames Lileks: Some Tattoos Shout About You

Just great, now you're excerpting people's very names.
Here's a "J" for you.

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[broadsword]

Yes. Tattoos, purple Mohawks and chunks of metal stuck through the face DO shout something about people. And I am glad they have them. It makes it easier to figure out who to avoid when competence, trust and stability matter.

[Cogadh na Sith]

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.

Sounds like my kinda person....

[Prime Choice]

I think a lot of today's tattoos are just garish. Way too overstated. And I don't get the tattoos that girls have on the small of their back. I don't complain about it since they at least didn't mar the beauty of their breasts with those gawdawful designs.

Me, I've got three tattoos...but nobody knows 'cause I don't go out of my way to show 'em off. (One of 'em did make for prime time television coverage following Defcon VII though.)

[Old Professer]

Some people are stuck on the second note on the scale all their lives.

[skeeter]

While on vacation this summer I saw more tattoos than I imagined existed. Tattoos on pasty, fat middle aged men. On little old ladies. On 13 year olds.

And not tattoos of ship anchors or that old favorite, 'Mom'. I'm talking barbed wire, extravegantly colored pheonix birds, scorpions, etc. Some looked like Japanese woodblock prints. Many had three or more colors and completely covered one or both arms.

I concluded that many must've been temporary. Can anyone confirm if temporary tattoos are some sort of new craze?

[Conservative4Ever]

For a minute there I thought this guy was writing about me...but I didn't have a degree in Pre-Renaissance art.

Red

[Slicksadick]

"But Mom, I got free tickets to the concert".

[Just another Joe]

Tats are fine for those who like them.

I just never saw a tat that I thought I'd want on my body for the rest of my life.

[Radix]

I have never particularly cared for tattoos and I would never have one. Something about my childhood barber's arm who survived the holocaust always disturbed me.

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.

I will never understand, and I wish that I had just shut up about such matters.

Once again Lileks writes with wit and keen observation.

[rabidralph]

the elaborate tableaux on the back that look like you were horribly burned by an old YES album cover.

*giggle*

[Aggie1]

Just show me the young ladies with a tattoo because I know that's someone willing to do something today that they will regret tomorrow.

[Billthedrill]

Well, there was that time in the Navy when I wanted to get "Mom" tattooed on my bicep and it turned out there was only room for "om." Humiliating.

[Centurion2000]

I mean the florid decorations at the base of the spine

Nothing says BEER REST like a nice round tatoo at the base of the spine.

[GSWarrior]

Saturday at the beach I saw this girl wearing what I thought was a really colorful body suit.

When I got closer I saw that she was tattooed practically all over. Only in San Francisco.

[Hank Rearden]

Years ago, I was at a Tower Records (yeah, I know: "what's that?") and there was a moron at the cash register (ditto) with tattoos all over. And I mean all over.

The dolt even had spiderweb tattoos all the way down his arms, wrists, hands - right down to his fingernails; spiderwebs.

All I could think was "You're going to be at Tower Records until the day you die."

And I bet I'm right. I'd never hire someone so obviously mentally deficient. And some of my employees have some godawful tattoo messes - fortunately, concealed by clothing most of the time.

There's money to be made investing in tattoo-removal clinics.

[Dead Corpse]

My tattoo's are not there for you to look at. I got them because I wanted them there. They say little to anyone not me and trying to explain the meanings they do have to someone not me is pointless.

Just my two cents...

[Aquinasfan]

Not a Yes album cover!

[Fiddlstix]

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