# Birthmarks, anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 1999, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399 "1999-11-22T00:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/21 "2010-07-23T11:55:01Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, **bella7500**. In general, we prefer that people not revive threads that have been dormant for, oh, a decade or more – we call them zombies – but [per the recent relaxation in rules about zombies,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/announcement.php?f=4) I’m going to leave this thread open. We’ll see if zombies sink or if they swim, eh? **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/22 "2010-07-23T13:17:08Z")
I have a tan-colored, dime-sized birthmark on my right asscheek. I tell my wife it’s how she can identify me if I make good on my threat to start doing internet porn. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/23 "2010-07-23T13:25:16Z")
I went my childhood with a good-sized mole right smack in the middle of my forehead – I heard a lot of Hindu jokes as a kid. My mother thought it was the most adorable thing ever, but fortuantely, over her protestations (“When he gets older, girls are going to think it’s soooo cute!”), my father had the good sense to have that sucker lopped off. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/24 "2010-07-23T14:26:45Z")
Damn, an 11-year-old post from me. At the time I wrote that post, I hadn’t even met my wife-to-be. Crazy. And lo, these many years later, I now can add that my daughter, age 3, has a birthmark on her left leg, just below her knee. Not too interesting, just a dark oval. But how much has changed in eleven years… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Nene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@El\_Nene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Nene)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/25 "2010-07-23T14:40:50Z")
I have over 100 beauty marks all over my body. Most are very small about the size of an asterisk on a keyboard. The biggest one is the size and shape of an almond on the inside of my lower right leg. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/26 "2010-07-23T15:03:23Z")
I have a light colored birthmark in the shape of Australia on the back of my left hand. “Look, there’s also a dot for New Zealand” I tell people, even though the dot is in the north east and New Zealand is actually in the south east. Nobody knows/cares. It’s much darker in the summer. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/27 "2010-07-23T15:25:55Z")
> [@T.Slothrop](#): > > I have a large black birthmark on my ass. If anyone calls “cite” on him I refuse to participate. Same here. > [@corkboard](#): > > I have a tan-colored, dime-sized birthmark on my right asscheek. I tell my wife it’s how she can identify me if I make good on my threat to start doing internet porn. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/28 "2010-07-23T15:41:08Z")
I have a mole on the end of my nose. But I weigh more than a duck, so we’re cool. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/29 "2010-07-23T15:58:14Z")
I have a streak of white/very blond hair on the back of my head. The rest of my hair is brown. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/30 "2010-07-23T16:31:39Z")
Oh yeah…The Littlest Briston has a red lightning bolt on her hand. It was there the day she was born, and I’ve marveled about how fricking cool it looks every day since. ---
**Author:** ![lexi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lexi/32/6806_2.png) [@lexi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/31 "2010-07-23T16:56:58Z")
I have two, a light pink birthmark below my lip on the right hand side of my face, and a small blue Mongolian spot near my tailbone on the right hand side of my butt. ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/32 "2010-07-23T18:18:44Z")
I have a bald spot on the back of my head in the shape of a butterfly. My two sisters also have the same bald spot, but they just have blobs, not cool shapes not mine. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/33 "2010-07-23T18:40:31Z")
It’s almost completely faded now but I have a coffee stain on my right thigh, 90° to the left of the knee. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/34 "2010-07-23T18:44:55Z")
> [@Trom](#): > > I have a streak of white/very blond hair on the back of my head. The rest of my hair is brown. Do you see dead people? I had a small raised one on my nose that turned into a basal cell carcinoma after being scratched during a volley ball game in high school. The doctors always said that the cancer wasn’t related to the birthmark, but I’ve never had a skin cancer anywhere else and I’m 61 now. I still think people should guard their birthmarks against injury :). ---
**Author:** ![Sudo\_Intellectual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sudo\_Intellectual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudo_Intellectual)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/35 "2010-07-23T19:42:21Z")
I have a small round brownish spot just under my right boob. Have had it since birth. It’s fairly uninteresting, except that my father has the exact same marking on the exact same spot on his chest. Which is again, not that interesting except that his is a scar, from when his brother stabbed him with a tree branch when he was 11. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/36 "2010-07-23T22:28:46Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > I have a small disappearing/reappearing coffee-stain birthmark just below my left eye. Weird. I was born with three coffeestains, and now there are only two. I wonder if the missing one that used to be on my leg will ever reappear. Not birthmarks, but…there’s a trio of dark freckles in that form the shape of a triangle at the corner of my right eye. Unlike my other freckles, which fade and/or disappear all together in winter, these never change at all. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/37 "2010-07-27T03:23:16Z")
Braaiinnss! When this thread started, I was practically a newlywed. Now, I have an 8-year old child who happens to have a mole right beside her navel–just like I do. She also has a really cool bat-shaped birthmark on on of her ankles. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/38 "2010-07-27T03:29:58Z")
On my lower right calf I have a light brown one. It kind of looks like a country. My mom has the exact same one on her lower right calf, too! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/39 "2010-07-27T04:01:24Z")
I have a large horizontal ellipse on my [left hand](http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs090.snc4/35874_410263807870_618567870_4346826_7112812_n.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399/40 "2010-07-27T11:48:19Z")
> [@Sudo\_Intellectual](#): > > I have a small round brownish spot just under my right boob. Have had it since birth. It’s fairly uninteresting, except that my father has the exact same marking on the exact same spot on his chest. Which is again, not that interesting except that his is a scar, from when his brother stabbed him with a tree branch when he was 11. You know yours is probably a nipple, don’t you? I have many freckles and moles in varying degrees of uninteresting and one small tan mark at the top of my left thigh. I don’t have vampire bite marks, but I do have (very small, for the trouble they’ve caused) matching moles on each side of my neck which I used to get teased about as being where my bolts had been removed, and wasn’t my head going to fall off, ha ha. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthmarks-anyone/11399.md?page=3)