Ehm, it means something which paired with the original produces m2 symmetry (in the terminology used by my Christalography teacher, the Complexes teacher used a different terminology but I didn’t bother remember it beyond the exam). You know, like a person’s two hands…
I’ll go sit quietly in a corner now, ok?
This how idenderstand it too. If I got punched in the head and had a black eye – left eye – and my buddy was in the same brawl and also got punched in the head, for him to be my “mirror image”, he would need to have a black right eye. So when we were facing each other our black eyes would be across from each other as if looking into a mirror. Identical, but opposite.
If my buddy and I got mirror image tattoos, it would be my left arm and his right arm and standing side by side, our arms would look like this:
| … | … | … |
|Mom| … |moM|
| … | … | … |
Good try. Needs one tiny nitpick to get it just right, though. Notice that little bitty vertical topper thingy (I’m almost certain it has a name, and nearly as certain that a more erudite Doper will know its name) in lower-case “m”? It’s on the left. A true mirror image of it would make it shift to the right. It’s so little it’s hard to notice but a real Nit Picker would (and did 
).
I was hoping you might show up! 
That’s what I thought too. Instead they got
| … | … | … |
|302| … |302|
| … | … | … |
A serif. Good nitpicking, by the way!
Thanks squared – don’t you just hate that when it’s really “thanks twice” or “thanks two times” or merely “thank you, thank you” – where do they come up with squared or even worse “cubed” in such simple settings?
Not much imagination in that pair, I’d say. At least they could have gone for “302” and “203” which would have moved closer to the ballpark, reversal of the numerals notwithstanding. It would have been easier if they had gone for OTTO and OTTO.
Or TIT and TIT
I’d vote for that over “Hot” and “Cold” or “His” and “Hers”
Maybe even “real” and “sto-bought”
The worst part was sitting through his exposition of all the [del]coincidences[/del] amazing luck involving the number 302. (Yes, it’s *neat * he and his son were both born on March 2, but that’s all I’ll give them.) And apparently the tattoos took EXACTLY three hours and two minutes to complete. :smack:
One must ask: Did they plan that? Was the tattoo artist able to predict that? Or is this one of the mysteries of nature we must commit to memory?
Otto probably has plenty of guys tattooing his name on themselves, no need to encourage him.
Mirror image means reversed or flipped. There’s got to be some aspect that implies the whole “mirror” thing. If I meant identical, I’d use “identical.”
I have noticed that some of the Miami Ink clients are an interesting lot.
If they wanted mirror image tattoos the should have got
[ 302 ] & [ S0E ]
I mentioned it before but one person wanted “get busy livin or get busy dyin” and I could swear in the finished tat shot “dyin” started with “die” :eek: (it went around his calf so you couldn’t see the whole thing at once)
The memorial tats are interesting–people get them to complete the healing process. I don’t know if that would do it for me, but whatever it takes. The worst was the guy who ran over his toddler son and killed him. I was glad he and his wife made it through that but OMG how sad.