# What’s your tattoo story?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 7, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-tattoo-story/972858 "2022-10-07T00:22:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-tattoo-story/972858/83 "2026-06-23T21:45:55Z")

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It took me a long time to finally get a tattoo. My favorite band since high school was the Ramones so I always figured that when I see them in concert, I’ll get a tattoo of their logo. Seeing them in concert never happened. I also thought about getting a tattoo while in the Army, like jump wings, but I also thought that was kind of cliche, so I never followed through with it.

In 2023, my daughter’s best friend since they were little babies started apprenticing at a shop. She does great work (and was even happy to let my wife be her third professional tattoo customer, right after her mom and her dad) so I figured that I would jump in on the action.

This is one of my actual axes, I have hockey tape on it that looks like diamond plating and the screaming face is Richie Ramone (who I have seen in concert twice). Excuse the bit of blood on the pic, I hit the bottom of Lake Michigan after jumping in near Montrose Harbor.

[[Album] My axe tattoo - Album on Imgur ![](https://i.imgur.com/JZnB5vw.jpeg?fb "My axe tattoo - Album on Imgur") ](https://imgur.com/a/UugwChd)

I got the second on 2024 after I saw my tattoo artist publish a picture of a punk rock cardinal on her social media. I thought “Hey, I like punk rock music and I like cardinals.” The only drawback of this tattoo is I now get asked if I am a fan of the St Louis, Arizona, Illinois State University, or Iowa State Cadinals. The answer to all of those is no.

[[Album] My cardinal tattoo - Album on Imgur ![](https://i.imgur.com/97A4lS3.jpeg?fb "My cardinal tattoo - Album on Imgur") ](https://imgur.com/a/DZ98cnc)

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