# Tattoo typo hall of shame **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967 "2008-07-18T16:54:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/1 "2008-07-18T16:54:19Z")
You might have seen [some of these before](http://thelmagazine.com/lmag_blog/blog/post__07160808.cfm). #5 packs in lots of spelling mistakes, but for true disastrousness you can’t beat #4, even if spelling isn’t involved… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/2 "2008-07-18T17:58:21Z")
The deck of cards one is just painful. How many mistakes can be crammed into one sentence?! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/3 "2008-07-18T18:03:10Z")
I kinda like “FRUNK”. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/4 "2008-07-18T18:08:58Z")
That little kids one has to be fake. Right? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/5 "2008-07-18T18:33:34Z")
Google “Mr Cool Ice” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/6 "2008-07-18T18:40:17Z")
Frunky. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/7 "2008-07-18T18:56:06Z")
True story - My neighbor across the street was shot and killed by the cops. First civilian shooting in my city in thirty seven years. (He was drunk and beating up his family. When the cops showed up, he tried to grab a knife off the counter, then when they wrestled him to the floor, he tried to get the pistol out of the holster of one of the cops. Bad idea.) His son got a tattoo some time later. IN MEMMORY OF MY DAD I saw it once. I didn’t have the heart to tell him, and besides, it fit somehow. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/8 "2008-07-18T19:02:09Z")
All the more pathetic because more than one person missed the mistake. The guy getting the tattoo and the guy doing the tattooing. Not to mention anyone else in the tattoo parlor who might have been in a position to say something. Frunk! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/9 "2008-07-18T19:11:46Z")
I just saw one yesterday either on The Dope? or on Jay Leno? or TMZ? (my mind’s going, I can feel it) of a guy who got the outline of the state of California on his forearm. Problem is the image was applied to his arm from a drawing then the outline traced by the tattoo guy. I guess neither of them noticed they were creating a mirror image of California. Oh yeah, [here it is.](http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/17/why-dumb-people-shouldnt-get-tattoos/) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/10 "2008-07-18T19:12:20Z")
I like Frunk. Not in a “ha ha” kind of way, but in a warm fuzzy little way. Frunk! ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/11 "2008-07-18T19:24:20Z")
[http://www.tatuagemdaboa.com.br/](http://www.tatuagemdaboa.com.br/) 1. Type your first name on the 1st line 2. Type your last name on the 2nd line (Skip your e-mail address.) 1. Click on “Vizualizar”. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/12 "2008-07-18T19:24:26Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] I kinda like “FRUNK”. [/QUOTE] “Frunk” is what MR2 people call the compartment in the front of the car. the engine is in the back, so you have storage in the “trunk” in the front. The frunk. “Fuck The Syst **s** em!” says sooo much. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/13 "2008-07-18T19:25:51Z")
Stuff like this makes me never want to get a tattoo. Again. Anybody have a clue on what Frunk is supposed to be? Maybe I’m thinking too hard and someone just lied to this poor Chinese person, but I’m wondering if it’s an alteration of a real word. It’s close to flunk, of course, but that doesn’t exactly mean an old soul with a young spirit. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/14 "2008-07-18T19:29:33Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Anybody have a clue on what Frunk is supposed to be? [/QUOTE] Ask the elephant with a cold what he calls his nose. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/15 "2008-07-18T19:46:19Z")
> [@](#): > > just saw one yesterday either on The Dope? or on Jay Leno? or TMZ? (my mind’s going, I can feel it) > of a guy who got the outline of the state of California on his forearm. > Problem is the image was applied to his arm from a drawing then the outline traced by the tattoo guy. > I guess neither of them noticed they were creating a mirror image of California. > > Oh yeah, here it is. Yeah, but it looks RIGHT when he looks at it in the mirror! ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/16 "2008-07-18T20:09:56Z")
Frunk. Rotsa ruck with that. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/17 "2008-07-18T20:18:26Z")
I saw the Frunk one as a comment on Americans getting tattoo’s of chinese symbols on them that have no idea what they mean. The description: > [@](#): > > The letters are so beautiful and flow so smoothly into each other. The word actually means old soul with young spirit… How cool is that? 🙂 seems like it could easily apply to that as well. Not sure why someone whould do that to themselves permanetly, though… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/18 "2008-07-18T20:37:27Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] [http://www.tatuagemdaboa.com.br/](http://www.tatuagemdaboa.com.br/) 1. Type your first name on the 1st line 2. Type your last name on the 2nd line (Skip your e-mail address.) 1. Click on “Vizualizar”. [/QUOTE] Wish they had a “girl” version, you know, with a hot guy, and an ugly/frumpy girl. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/19 "2008-07-18T20:55:08Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Yeah, but it looks RIGHT when he looks at it in the mirror! [/QUOTE] True but then the “LA” is frunked up. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/20 "2008-07-18T21:03:15Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] Oh yeah, [here it is.](http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/17/why-dumb-people-shouldnt-get-tattoos/) [/QUOTE] This is not why-dumb-people-shouldnt-get-tattoos as much as why-dumb-people-should-stay-clear-out-of-making-dumb-Internet-sites-dot-com. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967.md?page=2)