# What is the most bizarre tattoo you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2005, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382 "2005-07-27T08:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/21 "2005-07-27T16:02:24Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > One guy had a strip shaved down the middle of his head, running from front to back. In this strip he had a partially opened zipper tattoo. It was kind of neat because the artist had made it to where there was a bit of skull showing and also a hole in the skull so it looked broken and open to show some of the brain. Ha! That’s good. More morbidly I’ve seen this ---------- sort of sign with the little scizzors that used to be on cartons of juice etc. around someone’s neck. Not only do I think that is a bit too eerie to be funny, it has also rather unexpectedly dated as most juice cartons now have the flip open thingy. I’ve heard of but not seen a fox’s tail tattoed on someone’s arse so that it looked like the fox was disappearing up the person’s arsehole. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/22 "2005-07-27T16:06:05Z")
I’m a nurse, I work at a large birthing hospital in CA. I see lots and lots of tattoos on a daily basis and one still haunts me. I see cute and silly: Pikachu, Daffy, Yosemite Sam tatted on hips and butts and bellies. I see countless names of significant others and mothers. I see gang signs. I see flowers, tribal, flames. Tatts on necks, faces and legs and lower backs, breasts and hands and arms and labia. Let’s not even go there with the piercings. But one tattoo sticks in my mind. On the outward aspect of her right lower leg, about 18 inches in total length, a pretty young woman had a tattoo. From ankle to knee, very finely wrought and in excrutiating detail, was a long-haired woman. Naked. Bent over and looking at you from between her own legs. And she looked nothing like the woman on who’s leg she resided. I still haven’t figured that one out. ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/23 "2005-07-27T17:10:46Z")
Oooh, I’ve seen some really impressive ones. I really find irezumi tattoos amazing (I have a small number of books detailing them, actually), but I don’t know that those are bizarre, so I’m going to put two up in particular. The first I only saw in a photo. A girl had herself tattooed, hairline to toes and out to her fingertips, in puzzle-piece outlines. It was a very neat effect, almost hypnotic, because she had this very clear, white skin, and the light blue she used stood out distinctly without being loud, as such. The next I saw a couple months ago; a very toned guy (not bodybuilder huge, but with very good muscle definition) had his left arm tattooed like an anatomy diagram out of Gray’s, in very bright color. The skin hadn’t shifted, so all the tattoos actually fitted right over the muscles they depicted, so it looked scarily like he’d been peeled there. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/24 "2005-07-27T17:16:53Z")
All I could think of with the brain-zipper tat was that it’s going to terrify the other residents at the old people’s home when that guy eventually gets old and bald. I know people get tats there because they reckon that if they grow their hair it’ll be covered, however nature isn’t kind to many men in their later years, and your hidden tattoo could become a permanently visible fixture. The other scalp tattoo I’ll always remember was a guy who had a little snake curving down towards his eye, complete with a naked Eve (the biblical one, not the Doper) holding an apple on the back of his head. Looked good now, not so good when he’s older and balding and rude bits of Eve start to appear. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/25 "2005-07-27T17:22:45Z")
There was a guy in my unit in the Army who had two cartoon eyes tattooed on the head of his cock, and the words ‘Tunnel Rat’ along the shaft. He took immense delight in showing it off. I imagine he scared quite a few young ladies. ---
**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 27, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/26 "2005-07-27T17:24:24Z")
A full back tattoo, some of the most amazing artwork I’ve ever seen on skin, with incredible coloring and a mind-blowing amount of detail… …of Greedo. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/27 "2005-07-27T17:24:41Z")
> [@Ludy](#): > > The best tattoo I have seen would have to go to my brother; he has our family crest stylized on his shoulder blade. I only say it is the best because I can’t think of anything that will have as much, if not more, meaning when he is 80. I’ve got my family crest (clan Cameron) tattooed on my right shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/28 "2005-07-27T17:27:36Z")
At a concert once I stood behind a trailer-trash type couple. They each had tattooed, on the back of the neck, a hand flipping the bird. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/29 "2005-07-27T18:08:48Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > All I could think of with the brain-zipper tat was that it’s going to terrify the other residents at the old people’s home when that guy eventually gets old and bald. > > I know people get tats there because they reckon that if they grow their hair it’ll be covered, however nature isn’t kind to many men in their later years, and your hidden tattoo could become a permanently visible fixture. > > The other scalp tattoo I’ll always remember was a guy who had a little snake curving down towards his eye, complete with a naked Eve (the biblical one, not the Doper) holding an apple on the back of his head. Looked good now, not so good when he’s older and balding and rude bits of Eve start to appear. Exboyfriend of a friend of mine had a large octopus tattooed on his head. He was very careful to have it all fit in his hairline so he could grow his hair back and hide it… The guy was dumb as a post…and is now balding at 25 ---
**Author:** ![Rock-n-Rolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@Rock-n-Rolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock-n-Rolga)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/30 "2005-07-27T18:59:50Z")
Like **Hal Briston** , I used to see a girl working in my university’s library who had an extremely detailed, almost photorealistic tattoo of a toaster. One of those 1950’s chrome types. Never could work up the nerve to ask her if she had a thing for classic kitchen appliances; too afraid that maybe she’d pull up her skirt to reveal a deep fat fryer inked on an unmentionable place… ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/31 "2005-07-27T19:01:47Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > All I could think of with the brain-zipper tat was that it’s going to terrify the other residents at the old people’s home when that guy eventually gets old and bald. He’s the type of guy that if they were terrified, he’d just laugh his ass off. He looks like a hoodlum, but he actually a very nice guy. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/32 "2005-07-27T19:53:54Z")
[From a previous incarnation of this thread:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=1104160#post1104160) > [@Kellibelli](#): > > I saw a woman twith a tatoo of the crucifiction - of Winnie the Pooh. > > Thats right , Winnie the Pooh, nailed to a cross, dripping blood… charming. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/33 "2005-07-27T20:09:31Z")
Didn’t see this one in person, but it scared the hell out of me when I clicked the link. [Skull](http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A50710/high/bmegl086211.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ultraviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/34 "2005-07-27T20:26:45Z")
> [@Cyn](#): > > On the outward aspect of her right lower leg, about 18 inches in total length, a pretty young woman had a tattoo. From ankle to knee, very finely wrought and in excrutiating detail, was a long-haired woman. Naked. Bent over and looking at you from between her own legs. > And she looked nothing like the woman on who’s leg she resided. > I still haven’t figured that one out. She was probably lesbian or bisexual. My ex-girlfriend had a very detailed, probably 6-inch long tattoo of a cat woman on the inside of her left leg. As a dyke, she appreciated the beauty of it. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/35 "2005-07-27T20:31:46Z")
The \*\*Dale Ernhardt #3 \*\* with Dale’s face inside the 3. Taking up a beefy man’s bicep. I can’t imagine liking a race car driver that much. Still, it was a beautiful ink job. WEll done. Strange, but well done. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/36 "2005-07-27T20:34:33Z")
Oh, the other one that springs to mind is a guy who had on the side of his neck a set of praying hands with a rosary wrapped around them. Ummmmm. I know you are probably religious and all that, but …WTF? ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/37 "2005-07-27T20:38:57Z")
The praying hands on the neck one is oddly common. That image is flash in a lot of shops. Why the neck though? ---
**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 27, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/38 "2005-07-27T20:58:49Z")
Steve-O from Jackass and Wild Boyz fame has **Your Name** tattooed on his ass. He says it’s so he can make bar bets betting people “Hey, I’ll bet you $50 I have your name tattooed on my ass.” ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/39 "2005-07-28T00:08:19Z")
> [@picker](#): > > There was a guy in my unit in the Army who had two cartoon eyes tattooed on the head of his cock, and the words ‘Tunnel Rat’ along the shaft. > > He took immense delight in showing it off. I imagine he scared quite a few young ladies. Aah, aah! Pain!!! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382/40 "2005-07-28T00:56:47Z")
I was gonna post the Winnie The Poo one. Saw it in a tattoo mag. Also in a mag, a guy who lost an arm just above the elbow. Tattooed around the edge of the stump were dotted lines and the words “Cut Here.” Also from a mag, a full back tattoo of an old guy tattooing a bound and gagged young girl. In real life, a guy with a shaved head and a life sized “evil clown” tattooed on the back, like the skull one posted above. In real life, a woman with crappy homemade lettering that said “John + Mary”, underneath was “Bob + Sue”. \* \*Don’t remember the exact names [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-bizarre-tattoo-youve-seen/314382.md?page=3)