I will never find it, but I once read a message board post by a white supremacist who got some racist screed tattooed on his hands. Unfortunately tattoos on hands can fade. What he ended up with was “Iran City.”
No bad tattoo thread would be complete without a link to http://www.hanzismatter.com
Not a misspelling, but while we’re on the subject of tattoos…I got this in an email. It says, “This man thought he had a great tattoo…until he went to prison.”
(Not safe for work.) http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c222/rhythmace/tattoo.jpg
This is somewhat NSFW, so careful clicking!
I have a tattoo of a sword on my forearm with a banner over it with the word “WORD.”
When someone asks what it means, I usually tell them the “S” got left off by mistake.
A friend told me once he met a young guy in a London pub who had SNIKS tattooed on his forehead.
Turned out he’d done it himself, using a mirror. (Didn’t actually say ‘SNIKS’ but I can’t do the mirror-image letters for ‘SKINS’.)
A buddy of mine told me about a guy he knew. They were drinking together (a good start to any story) and this guy being a huge Judas Priest fan decided to tattoo the words “Judas Priest” on his forearm. When he finished, he showed my buddy - who said, “You spelled it wrong”. The guy went into another room, grabbed a lighter and proceeded to attempt to burn the ‘i’ and ‘e’ out of the middle of the word Priest. But, that wasnt’ the misspelling - he didn’t write Judas Preist, he wrote Judus Priest. He could have easily changed the errant ‘u’ into an ‘a’.
So, now he has Jud(fucked up a)s Pr(scar tissue)st.
I don’t think that is a tattoo. It appears to be done with paints.
He’s a moderator here. Apparently the tattooed was a big fan of IMHO.
Heard about this on NPR this morning and thought I’d share: Tattoo parlor sued again over misspelled tattoo
Thanks for the bookie linkie about tats. I have always wanted to do my own coffee table tat-centric book. It is so fascinating.
Some Knitting Tats.
I’ve compiled a nice little email collection of about 20 other knitting tats, that if anyone is interesting in the good, the bad, the WTF and the really cool, PM me with your email and I’ll send it along.
Scratch that last bit. Apparently, my humble collection has gone awol from it’s file. ARRRRGGHHHHHH!.
I know it’s not fair to make blanket assumptions about people who do a particular thing, but let me ask this: Has anyone seen a university professor showing off his or her tats? I would actually like to have a small tattoo of our family’s livestock brand on my shoulder, but clowns like this make me shy away from it.
AAAAIIIIEEEIEIEIEIE! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Those are fun but as a crafter, I shudder at the one with the perfectly good yarn bursting into flames. :eek: 
I’ve seen a number of tattoos on a number of University professors. I was not a student at the time, I was also a professor. I suspect that profs tend to get tattoos in spots where you can easily cover them up.
I’ll see if I can find it, but a few years ago there was a thread here about a professor who’d had his face tattooed in amazingly bright tribal designs.
So, uh, anything less noticeable than this should be okay.
I bet he has tenure.
I always wanted to get a law related tattoo. Maybe the scales of justice with a scroll underneath that says “MAMA TRIED.”
Wow, us English types are much too conservative! Maybe I’ll start a trend in the English department – a tattoo on my member that says “participle”. I could use it as a “teaching tool”. Gives a whole new meaning to “spare the rod…” hmm?
Anyway, thanks for the link – ignorance fought, somewhat.
