I’ve been wanting to get the name Abbie Hoffman around my right ankle.
That is so clever I almost can’t stand it! I’ve been wanting a tattoo for years but can never decide on what I’d possibly be interested in forever. I’m leaning towards some sort of abstract design (like the Celtic stuff), a celestial motif, or a bar of music – but what song? I’m thinking the Armour Hot Dog jingle. 
Once a girlfriend and I were going to get tattoos together as a female bonding ritual and we came up with the idea of matching “I’m with Stupid” ones with the fingers pointing at each other, lol. (Oh, how that refrence dates me!)
Love stinks! (Yeah, yeah!)
I was thinking maybe a sword (not a skinny fencing one, Imean alike a cool one) or a two headed battle axe either on the spine or on the bicep… I think that would look neat.
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Tell me about it. I’m a Cancer Rat. Even worse, I was born in a Water year, so I’m a Drowned Rat with Cancer. How very appealing.
Even if I could get over the pain and the fear of getting a tattoo (pain because of the needle; fear because I’m slowly growing to look as bald and as fat as my father, and imagining him with a tatoo or a pierced ear induces either absolute terror or hysterical fits of laughter in me, which is the real reason I have nothing tattooed or pierced), there’s no real symbol or picture or phrase I could think of being branded with that might last me a lifetime. Guess I’m just unimaginative.
JMCJ
I would never amend my sig line as a way of reminding people to nominate or vote for me in any way. That would be just tacky.
I always wanted a palm sized reproduction of Starry Night (or maybe The Scream) on the back of my shoulder.
Or a little teddy bear (for Ted) and a little angel(for frankie).
I checked into getting a delicate viney design from the tip of my big toe around the side of my foot to the heel.
I know a girl whose brother commited suicide recently, she got his name in chinese on her foot.I think thats a beautiful sentiment.
When mom is gone, I will get one of her birth sign…Cancer.
Irony is my enemy.
Kells, I’m not dissing your friend in any way, but this actually highlights something about tattooing I’ve never gotten: Her brother died so she had his name permanently affixed in a foreign language, and on her foot? I mean, I respect her right to remember him as she chooses, but I don’t get that. But, then, I don’t get a lot of things.
Jodi
Fiat Justitia
Hey kelli
Don’t get one for me…Jeez we’ve barely just met!
-Frankie
“Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?”
-Bad Religion
I’m not the tattoo type, but if I were to get one, it would be a single rose, about the size of a quarter, right between my pectorals.
Either that or a python strangling a 12-point buck in the middle of a forest fire, spanning my lower back and both buttocks.
I can’t decide.
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
“I’ve been wanting to get the name Abbie Hoffman around my right
ankle.”
That would be cool especially if you could weasel your way out of paying for it.
My ideal tattoo is the same (except with my Western Zodiac sign, Capricorn.).
Eschew Obfuscation
Well, I have a 4 inch square Hanzi/Kanji meaning “enlightenment, to awaken mentally (meaning all of a sudden you just understand everything), Comprehension” and more meanings I forget ;). Anyway, future tattoos I thought of was:
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a pine tree clutching a rock, in chinese style. Representing strength in the face of adversity.
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Bamboo, in black work. I like the meaning of it, because it bends in high winds but does not break. Reminds me that we all need to be flexible but strong.
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The kanji / hanzi for water (because I am a pisces, and it is a water sign, and also because I am fascinated by the sea, ponds, rivers, and rain). Surrounded by a circle with stylized lotus petals surrounding it.
All would go on my back. Anyway, i dont plan on getting anything within the next few years or so. My newest tat has satiated my deisre for tattoos, for the moment. But I do plan on getting both arms done, and something on the back of my left calf. I may embellish my newest tatt though (maybe some outlining, and maybe a back ground of some sort).
It’s worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance…
I’d never get one. Mostly because I’d want to have drawn it myself, and I’m never satisfied with my art, especially in retrospect years after.
And anyway, I’m a big yellow coward.
But if I was to get one it’d be one of these:
- Overlapping metallic plates down my spine
- Railway tracks down the side of one leg
- Computer circuitboard designs over my heart
- A jester’s cap on my upper arm
- A Buzz Lightyear Star Command logo on my wrist
- A Judge Dredd badge on my shoulder blade
Actually, some of those sound kind of cool! 
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One of the new styles that recently became popular is called “Biotech”. Mostly inspired by the work of H.R. Geiger, people have things similar to your metallic plates tattooed. I saw somewhere on the net where they did a biomech back piece, where it looked like the skin was cut open on their back and you could see the spine. Interesting piece.
It’s worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance…
Sorry to disappoint you UKE, but no tats… yet.
I’m planning to have GBS take me to her artist sos I can get a Stealie up high on my left bicept.
(For the Grateful Dead illiterate: A Stealie is the red, white and blue stylized skull on the cover of the Steal Your Face album.)
I also want to get Ripple (The purple Dancing Bear – also a Dead icon).
No anchors, no battleships, no "USN"s… but really I am a sailor, guys!
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I would not, in normal circumstances, ever get a tattoo. I actually hate them, and consider them a little like spray painting a rose (stole that reference).
But, if I were in prison, to avoid all of the anal rape, I would probably get a tattoo of “AIDS survivor” in as prominent a place as I could have it placed (except for right on my ass, I think).
Bucky
Oh, well. We can always make more killbots.
There simply isn’t anything I’d want to put permently on my body.
But when I was in high school, I thought it would look kind of cool to have a katana crossed with a rose on my left shoulder blade.
Thank GOD I never got drunk back then!
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
How about a watch on your left wrist?
Or a set of rabbit tracks leading down the small of your back, disappearing into your waistband… (that’s one unhappy rabbit)
Or a snake with it’s head on one hand, coiling up your arm, clutching a ship on your chest and being grabbed by an eagle then coiling down the other arm with the tail ending on the other hand.
No, I don’t have a tattoo and am not fully cognizant of the excrutiating pain that would be involved in getting that tattoo.
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
sorry to disappoint you, surgoshan & others, but no such thing as excruciating pain. i have them over bone, over my spine, over muscle only. no big deal. i barely felt what he was doing on the last one over my right hip.
true, different people have different degrees of pain tolerance. but except for some small spot here or there that’s probably over a nerve bundle just below the skin, the worst it is is really, really annoying. one person after another i’ve talked to has said the same thing. some spots are more tender, but overall any one area sort of goes numb after a couple of mintues.
plus, the artist doesn’t work w/out stopping. there will be a burst of maybe 30 seconds, stop for 10-15, another burst, stop for more ink. you don’t need some incredible pain tolerance or to be a masochist. & the effects a really good artist can get are awesome.
Ok. Just prove my ignorance why don’t you? Meanie. 
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
I wouldn’t get one either. I can imagine what some of those tatoos will look like when you are 80 and more wrinkled than an Akita.
Like Drain I would choose my football team’s logo, the Broncos…so they didn’t make it to the playoffs, I still love em.
I would consider a wolf, I love wolves.
If the state of Colorado wasn’t a weird square, I would do that, but too boring.
Oh man, now I wish I wasn’t such a damn wuss, I want the Broncos logo on my shoulder blade!!!