# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/21 "2008-07-18T21:21:05Z")
[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] Putting “Cumslut” in as my first name and “Bottom 4 Lyfe” as my second name was fun. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/22 "2008-07-18T22:23:11Z")
Not a misspelling, but just an awesomely off-the-wall [tattoo](http://www.capohedz.com/typebrighter/uploaded_images/interestingtattoo2-738829.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/23 "2008-07-18T23:02:30Z")
[QUOTE=liberty3701] Not a misspelling, but just an awesomely off-the-wall [tattoo](http://www.capohedz.com/typebrighter/uploaded_images/interestingtattoo2-738829.jpg). [/QUOTE] Well, that’s not very nice. Everybody _loves_ Raymond. ---
**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 19, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/24 "2008-07-19T00:25:49Z")
[QUOTE=liberty3701] Not a misspelling, but just an awesomely off-the-wall [tattoo](http://www.capohedz.com/typebrighter/uploaded_images/interestingtattoo2-738829.jpg). [/QUOTE] You would think Ray would keep his wife under better control than that. Letting her get a tattoo…pfft! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/25 "2008-07-19T04:14:33Z")
Do you have the frunky frunky frow! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/26 "2008-07-19T04:27:21Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] 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: [/QUOTE] I LOVE stories/pictures of awful tattoos. There was recently a whole book of them released that I will eventually get around to buying. I’ve seen that #4 before. I really feel bad for the guy. He was probably just trying to do something nice in the emotional disaster phase following his wife’s (obviously untimely) death. Fucking moron tattoo artist should’ve manned up and admitted he wasn’t going to be able to pull it off. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/27 "2008-07-19T04:41:06Z")
From the comments: > [@](#): > > The Frunk one is a photoshop from a joke website, it never happened. it’s satirizing the popularity of Chinese tattoos in America, even though we don’t know what the characters mean. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/28 "2008-07-19T04:51:00Z")
Tattoos are remarkably easy to photoshop, by the way. I photoshopped a tattoo onto myself and posted it onto my Myspace page once. I put it up with a bunch of other very obvious photoshops thinking people would realize I was just showing off my mad shop skillz\*, but EVERYBODY thought it was real. A bunch of people told me they thought it was a photoshop at first but then realized it was real because they could see the bruising. I was like, “you think that can’t be photoshopped? 😕” \*that is a joke. I suck at photoshop which is why when I make something that accidentally turns out decent I like to show it off ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/29 "2008-07-19T05:33:57Z")
> [@](#): > > There was recently a whole book of them released that I will eventually get around to buying. What’s the book? I love them too. But I want truly epic bad tattoos, not just sloppy ones (the ones at that site all qualify, but some other “bad tattoo” site’s I’ve seen are overrun with simply mediocre tattoos) . ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/30 "2008-07-19T05:39:03Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] 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/) [/QUOTE] That sounds like something my former co-worker (the one who wound up in prison in Singapore for five years for pot possession) would do. He got a large tattoo across his back of a world map, done in outline. His plan was then to fill in each country as he visited it. Not a bad idea, except a) the quality was pitiful, and b) the tattoo artist left off Japan, the guy’s home country. Plus there was that whole prison sentence putting a crimp in his world travel plans. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/31 "2008-07-19T06:38:29Z")
[QUOTE=Gaudere] What’s the book? I love them too. But I want truly epic bad tattoos, not just sloppy ones (the ones at that site all qualify, but some other “bad tattoo” site’s I’ve seen are overrun with simply mediocre tattoos) . [/QUOTE] [No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%\*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever](http://www.amazon.com/No-Regrets-Worst-Ridiculous-Tattoos/dp/0446582077/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216449304&sr=1-10) The reviews up to a couple weeks after release were unanomously raving, but there are a couple bad ones on the front page now. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/32 "2008-07-19T09:41:08Z")
I’m imagining Barbara Feldon (as I am wont to do anyway, but I digress) if Don Adams’ character had been Frank Smart: 99: “Oh, 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 19, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/33 "2008-07-19T13:38:01Z")
For making a good fake tattoo my friend used black sharpie and then painted over it with clear finger nail polish. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/34 "2008-07-19T13:45:37Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] From the comments: [/QUOTE] You could post a picture of your face and people would say it was photoshopped. It’s a common troll in many forums. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/35 "2008-07-19T17:13:49Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] You could post a picture of your face and people would say it was photoshopped. It’s a common troll in many forums. [/QUOTE] No, they will call it “a bad photoshop” 🙂 I don’t think it’s even necessarily a troll as much as everybody wants to be the one who spots the hoax. It’s always hilarious when people are calling something a bad photoshop and it turns out to be real (it has happened here on the dope before.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Walking\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@The\_Walking\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Walking_Dude)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/36 "2008-07-19T20:38:42Z")
I had a friend in high school that had a pretty bad one. We played basketball together and he would often go shirtless. He had his last name tattooed as a nameplate on his upper back. In really well-done, beautiful Old English letters: Garbor. It was really nice, except his last name is Harbor. So, there he is with his name misspelled in a tattoo on his back. What could he possibly do? Apparently he could put an “X” through the G and have an H tattooed above it. It was really hard not to say anything, fortunately he is bigger than me(which is saying a lot), that really helped me keep my mouth shut. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/37 "2008-07-19T20:59:50Z")
[QUOTE=The Walking Dude] He had his last name tattooed as a nameplate on his upper back. In really well-done, beautiful Old English letters: Garbor. It was really nice, except his last name is Harbor. [/QUOTE] How the hell did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/38 "2008-07-19T21:10:01Z")
[QUOTE=velvetjones] All the more pathetic because more than one person missed the mistake. The guy getting the tattoo and the guy doing the tattooing. [/QUOTE] If I were a tattoo artist, I would ask people exactly once, “Are you sure that’s what you want it to say?” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/39 "2008-07-19T21:12:46Z")
[QUOTE=The Walking Dude] He had his last name tattooed as a nameplate on his upper back. In really well-done, beautiful Old English letters: Garbor. It was really nice, except his last name is Harbor. So, there he is with his name misspelled in a tattoo on his back. What could he possibly do? [/QUOTE] Legally change his name to Garbor? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Walking\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@The\_Walking\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Walking_Dude)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967/40 "2008-07-19T21:24:04Z")
I’m not entirely sure, I never asked. As per my comment above it seemed safer that way. One may presume that the tattooist may have misheard him and, knowing the friend in question, he was quite possibly under the influence of some mind-altering substance. It definitely elicited a double-take the first time I saw it. I really couldn’t believe someone could mess up that bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-typo-hall-of-shame/456967.md?page=3)