# What tattoo would you get?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 28, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298 "2000-01-28T19:43:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/21 "2000-01-28T20:44:00Z")

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I’d get a combo of my classical astrological sign (Scorpio) and my Chinese astrological sign (Dragon). I lucked out getting two such ominous creatures, eh? 😃 😃

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When danger reared its ugly head,  
He bravely turned his tail and fled

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**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/22 "2000-01-28T20:45:00Z")

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> A Labyrinth in black ink

That gave me a cool idea… I should get my entire body tattooed with a maze… the enterance being somewhere visible, and the exit somewhere… not always so visible. And then invite certain people to solve it.

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[http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com)  
I’ve got a little black book with me poems in. I’ve got a bag, toothbrush, and a comb.

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/23 "2000-01-28T20:45:00Z")

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Tatertot, I love the idea! You should do it just because it’s funny!

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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/24 "2000-01-28T20:53:00Z")

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I always thought if I got a tatoo, I would get a symbol for “faith” (Japanese? Hebrew?), in red, though where I don’t know. I’d never do it, though, because I’m a big fat chicken.

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Jodi

_Fiat Justitia_

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/25 "2000-01-28T21:00:00Z")

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&, jeffie, you thought i wouldn’t respond on this? i’m gonna drag you some weekend to my tattoo artist so you can see what other gorgeous work he has done, beside on me.

THIS AFTERNOON, FOR SURE, i am getting that hummingbird tattooed on my belly (he’s been sick, his car has been sick, yuck.) it is part of a larger tattoo that is a flowered vine that starts on my lower belly, goes up over my left hip, swirls around on my lower back, up over my right hip, & rises up along my chest. there are several bugs on the vine & a bee, 3 butterflies, & a dragonfly floating diagonally up my back from my left hip to my right shoulderblade. i am going to have sort of a gauzy blue cloud done around the flying stuff to pull the whole thing together.

probably later i will have a chameleon added on the lower back part of my left hip & a king snake meandering along my right front thigh. i also plan a frog draped over my right ankle, a little turtle peeking up over my instep on my right foot & a snail & some mushrooms on the outside of my left foot.

i love this stuff & always have. the good tats, even if they are of ugly subject matter, generally show a lot of artistry. there are a few guys who will work freehand right on the skin, but most use pre-drawn flash, & all of them have dozens of books to go thru for ideas. most any of them, however, will work w/ you to come up w/ exactly what you are looking for.

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**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/26 "2000-01-28T21:00:00Z")

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Yggdrasil.  
But that’s today. I won’t ever get a tattoo because I’m too fickle. Body paint, sure; indelible tattoo, no way.

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All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.

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**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/27 "2000-01-28T21:03:00Z")

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Love my tattoo. Four flowers on my shoulder.  
The pain was worth it…

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Girlbysea (AKA: ChiefScott’s GBS)

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/28 "2000-01-28T21:08:00Z")

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I have a variation of the Mayan Yax glyph on the back of my left shoulder. I want to get something else, but I’m still not sure what. I’ve been thinking that a Moai would make a neat tattoo, but I’m not sure if there is a grey colour that is close enough.

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If I was discussing Lucy Lawless but I wrote Lucy Topless, would that be a Freudian typo?

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/29 "2000-01-28T21:09:00Z")

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I don’t even like bumperstickers on my car - I don’t think I could go for a tattoo. Although I like the celtic cross idea. I have a T-shirt made from a woodcarving of a celtic cross surrounded by a snake. My niece draaw the picture and my sister made the woodcarving.

StG

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**Author:** ![Linney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@Linney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linney)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/30 "2000-01-28T21:11:00Z")

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Lemmesee… If I were to get a tattoo, which I’m sure would result in the severe beating of my body by) #1, my mother. #2) My grandmother (whom I share with Strainger himself) #3) Strainger’s mom #4) there is no one else.

I have, however seriously thought of letting someone permenantly etch my skin with potentially toxic ink in the shape of an Ichthus (Christian fish type symbol) with the Greel letters IXOYE (meaning Jesus Christ God’s Son Savior) running the length of the inside of it = \<IXOYE\>\<. I would either have it on my right ankle/lower calf region or on my right shoulder…where the deltoit muscle inserts into my humerous.

You know, was looking at the people I’ve listed that would beat me if I ever got a tattoo. They’re all women. I’m not really a mamma’s boy…I’ve grown out of that phase. I think I’m blaming my fear of life-long comittment on that. 😉

How’s that for a long answer to a short question?

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“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even checkered with defeat, than to rank with those poor souls who neither suffer much nor enjoy much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt

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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/31 "2000-01-28T21:15:00Z")

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ADAM – Uh, what’s a Moai? Yours in confusion . . .

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Jodi

_Fiat Justitia_

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/32 "2000-01-28T21:17:00Z")

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Well, GBS has checked in, but we’re still waiting for ChiefScott. I’m hoping he has anchors on his forearms, a la Popeye.

I learned MY damn lesson, getting my left earlobe pierced in the late '70s, when it was still rare for a guy to do it. By 1990 EVERYONE had a %#%@#$@! stud in his ear.

Still, “love” and “hate” on the knuckles would be pretty nifty.

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Uke

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/33 "2000-01-28T21:18:00Z")

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## I already have one and I am contemplating a few more, i haven’t made my final decisions yet.

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/34 "2000-01-28T21:18:00Z")

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> Originally posted by jodih:  
> \*\*ADAM – Uh, what’s a Moai? Yours in confusion . . .
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Moai are the statues from Easter Island.

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If I was discussing Lucy Lawless but I wrote Lucy Topless, would that be a Freudian typo?

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/35 "2000-01-28T21:30:00Z")

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    - I’ve kinda wondered now and then about getting a tattoo. I’m wavering between two choices:

- The words “Religion Sucks” across the top of my back, above a giant picture of the Pope screwing a pig.
- “Hi”, on the bottom of one of my feet.
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    - I’m worried about the social implications though; when I walk barefoot in public, will everyone behind me think I’m saying “hi” to them? They might always be saying “Hi” to me! That could be a drag. - On the other hand, I think those temporary tattoo kits that go into a computer printer could be fun, particularly with the right person. And you’d get to do it over every few weeks! (the first girl I con into this will likely be massively allergic to the damn things)- MC

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**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/36 "2000-01-28T21:39:00Z")

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ChiefScott is asleep up-stairs… I’m playing on the computer… 🙂 sssshhhhh

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Girlbysea (AKA: ChiefScott’s GBS)

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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/37 "2000-01-28T21:45:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Moai are the statues from Easter Island.

Ah. Ta. This site is so educational!

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Jodi

_Fiat Justitia_

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/38 "2000-01-28T21:46:00Z")

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A married female friend of mine keeps getting hassled by the husband-unit about anal sex.

I told her she should get a “Do Not Enter” sign tattooed on her ass.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/39 "2000-01-28T21:50:00Z")

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Hmm, I could use a big tattoo of Shayna surrounded by Monarch butterflies near my heart, which would cause them to flutter.

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tattoo-would-you-get/13298/40 "2000-01-28T21:55:00Z")

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i’m looking to get a tattoo of a ladybug. it’d be by my hip only down and in a bit more. i’ve also had another fancy idea… but it’s fancy so i’ll shut up.

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“human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein

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