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Don't Turn Blind Eye to Eye-Tattoo Risks
The New York Post ^ | 7/31/07 | Dr. Rock Positano

Posted on 08/07/2007 6:05:47 AM PDT by Xenalyte

IF you think tattoos are so over, you've got another think coming. The latest in permanent ink? Tats on your eyeball. That's right - a sharp stick in the eye.

When doctors do it, it's called corneal tattooing; but when perfectly healthy folks looking for new horizons in tattooing, piercing, scarring, etc., do it, it's nuts.


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1 posted on 08/07/2007 6:05:48 AM PDT by Xenalyte
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To: martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows

The ick factor is strong with this thread.


2 posted on 08/07/2007 6:06:29 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Xenalyte

That’s too horrible to think about.


3 posted on 08/07/2007 6:07:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick (All the main characters die, and then the Prince of Norway delivers the Epilogue.)
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To: Xenalyte

Kind of limits your employment prospects though...


4 posted on 08/07/2007 6:07:58 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Xenalyte
If you’ve had your *corneas* tattooed...you may be a redneck.
5 posted on 08/07/2007 6:08:27 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: Xenalyte; dead

Mullah Omar.......paging Mullah Omar..........


6 posted on 08/07/2007 6:08:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (All I know about Minnesota, I learned from Garrison Keilor.............)
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To: Gay State Conservative; P-40; Tax-chick; Red Badger

I can’t figure out what’s on the tattooee’s forehead. Odd tan line, that.


7 posted on 08/07/2007 6:09:30 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Xenalyte

I had mine done in white so no one could tell my eyes were tattooed.


8 posted on 08/07/2007 6:10:08 AM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: JenB

“don’t click this ping” ping


9 posted on 08/07/2007 6:10:16 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Xenalyte

Some people are simply bent on self mutilation.

I don’t care for either.


10 posted on 08/07/2007 6:10:36 AM PDT by DB
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To: Xenalyte

This ought to clear it up........

11 posted on 08/07/2007 6:10:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (All I know about Minnesota, I learned from Garrison Keilor.............)
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To: TalonDJ; JenB

Yer cruel...


12 posted on 08/07/2007 6:10:57 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: Xenalyte

To me, ANY tattoo is a stupid indulgence; this one is beyond stupid.


13 posted on 08/07/2007 6:11:10 AM PDT by NRA1995 (To Congress and Mr. President: This is OUR country, and don't you forget it!)
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To: Xenalyte
I can’t figure out what’s on the tattooee’s forehead.

Moles, for one thing :-)

It does look a tan lane. Maybe he had some alien-look pattern done in dark paint for an outdoor event.

14 posted on 08/07/2007 6:12:18 AM PDT by Tax-chick (All the main characters die, and then the Prince of Norway delivers the Epilogue.)
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To: Xenalyte

Actually, that “Fremen” look is kind of cool.


15 posted on 08/07/2007 6:12:21 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Vor Lady

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew ick ick ick! ping


16 posted on 08/07/2007 6:12:23 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs ("What quails?" asked Jack)
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To: Xenalyte

The spice must flow!


17 posted on 08/07/2007 6:13:24 AM PDT by Sloth (You being wrong & me being closed-minded are not the same thing, nor are they mutually exclusive.)
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To: Xenalyte

Freaks will always be with us.


18 posted on 08/07/2007 6:13:28 AM PDT by mutley
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To: Xenalyte

Betting the guy with the kaleidoscope in his eye , while allowing some stranger to shove ink into his eye, would scream bloody murder if he had to drink so much as a drop of tap water.


19 posted on 08/07/2007 6:14:02 AM PDT by NRA1995 (To Congress and Mr. President: This is OUR country, and don't you forget it!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Not a ping.


20 posted on 08/07/2007 6:14:09 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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