IMHO, anyone who has a tattoo that gets blocked by clothing is a hypocrite… :rolleyes:
I have a friend who got the Zig-Zag man tattooed on his arm while in the US Army; now that he no longer smokes cigareets without any printing on the paper, so to speak, he never wears sleeveless shirts.
I know a lovely woman with a wonderfully rendered tree across her entire back… someday I hope to see more than a few twigs 
(Hi, Mary!)
I have an jpg of a man with a big face tatooed on his belly, his penis is the tongue sticking out. I have e-mailed it to all my friends.
The internet is good for something.
One of the cleaning ladies at my SO’s workplace has a scroll tattooed on her arm with the names of her six children on it. The scary part is, there’s room for at least three more.
By the way, all the children’s names begin with the letter S.
Oh, I tried to let this one go. . .But as some one with tattoos currently hidden by clothing, I had to take offense. Pray tell, what do you mean by this my fine furry friend?
FTR, my tats come out and play sometimes, but usually in the summer. . .when it’s not fifteen freekin below zero - but thats another story.
I have a panel from a Calvin & Hobbes daily strip tattooed over my right shoulderblade. It’s wonderfully detailed and has ten different colors.
Which is great: I have never regretted it.
But, the panel was reproduced only slightly larger than it appeared in the book I took it from. And it’s been five years, so the words in Calvin’s speech balloon are starting to blur already. I don’t know what to do about it.
Have any of y’all reading this thread seen the movie The Pillow Book?
I saw a guy with an Adis (sp?) symbol on his arm. don’t know what the hell was up with that.
How about a “W” on each buttcheek? When you bend over it spells “WOW”
More tatoo lore: a rooster and pig tattooed on the feet prevent drowning, no shit guys.
Richard Speck had a “born to raise hell” tattoo. However, those who would emulate Speck by getting an identical tatoo should go the full distance get the same breast augumentation he had in his posthumously released video.
A butterfly (papillon) is a traditional French prison homosexual tattoo, although in Henri Chariere’s memoirs he discloses no sexual activity.
There was once an 1960’s wrestler named Baron Von Roscke (sp?). My brother used to hang out with his kids. The baron had an anchor on his penis “for when he weighed anchor” (although a more common navy penis tattoo is a set of chevrons “if they bust me down they’ll have to pull my crank and my rank.”)
And do you remember the “love” and “hate” tattoos from “Night of the Hunter?” I grew up with at least one guy who had “hate” and “hate.” Sheesh.
First or all, on the idea of getting someone else’s name tatooed on you . . . a teacher of mine in high school showed us a tatoo of a buffalo on his arm (he was in to Native American culture). He said the buffalo covered the name of his ex-wife. He said when he first got the tat of his wife’s name, the artist told him after it was on that it meant he was going to lose her (his wife). The artist told him that the only person’s name you could get tatooed without losing them is your mom’s. Supposedly it’s an old sailor’s thing.
An idea that my friend had, but he never went through with it (you’ll see why) was to get a picture of a penis in a nuse tatooed on his calf. That way he could tell people that he’s “got a dick that hangs below his knee.” Seems pretty clever to me, but then again, doesn’t everything when you’re in high school?
In the summer, I was a guy with a huge tattoo of a consisting of a mountainscape, complete with a goat on one of them. God only knows whay he wanted it.
Once, while vacationing in Hawaii, I saw a guy with “This Is A Tattoo” across his back. I don’t know if it was really a tattoo or if he just had a friend use magic marker or something, but sheesh… couldn’t he have done something funnier and had “Don’t Read This” put on his back?
Thinking of getting a $100 dollar bill tattooed on my penis…(if you knew how my wife can blow a hundred bucks!..)
There is a guy in my office with a tattoo of UPC bar code, complete with numbers, on the back of his neck. It cannot be completely hidden by a shirt. I sometimes wonder how funny his “statement” will be when he is older (he is early 20’s now)
I knew a guy who got his first name tattooed down his left forearm. I said the same thing, “Are you going to forget your name or something?”
I always pictured him looking at his watch: “Okay, it’s 2:15, and oh, yeah, my name is Michael.”
My Dad’s told me this more then a few times (generally whenever I say I am thinking of getting a tattoo… and I am thinking. I’ve been thinking for about 2 years on what to get.)
But at one time my Dad was in the navy (he did managed to get out without a tattoo) and he’s told me that when he was in he thought of getting a tattoo of a barber pole on his penis. He said he thought of it in the hopes that a girl might mistake it for a peppermint stick 
I don’t know if she ever went through with it, but I knew a woman once who planned to have an enormous sunflower tattoo on one breast. Her nipple would be the center of the flower, and the petals would radiate out to cover the entire breast.
She was a very attractive and shapely girl, and it probably would have looked great for the first couple decades. After that, though …
I saw a guy in the dining hall the other day whose sleeveless shirt revealed an enormous brand of his fraternity letters (Tri-Omega). It stretched from his shoulder to his elbow, and the letters must have been at least half an inch thick. Granted, this guy had beautiful biceps and it was quite striking, but damn! I can’t imagine how long that must have taken and how much it must have hurt.
My mom’s getting a tattoo of a sheep this Thursday. She collects sheep and has loved them all her life so it’s an utterly appropriate image for her, but it’s enough out of the ordinary that I can imagine a stranger shaking his head and saying, “What the hell was she thinking?”
I didn’t actually see this one (thank god) but my friend John says that his uncle has a tattoo on his butt of Elmer Fudd saying “Be vewwy vewwy quiet, I’m hunting wabbits!” It’s a reference to the “wabbit hole.” It baffles me why someone would want to get a tattoo like that, but what confuses me even more is how that would’ve come up in a conversation. “Gather ‘round, children, I’ll show ya somethin’!” shudder
When I got my tatt (don’t worry–it’s not lame), I asked the artist what the strangest tattoo he had ever done was.
He showed me a picture of a guy’s 8" wide, across-the-small-of-his-back…toaster.
Never understood that one.
I have two friends who both have been talking about getting this done. One for sci-fi reasons (he probably won’t go through with it,) and one because she wants to protest the objectification of women in a capitalist, consumer-oriented society. I encouraged her to get an ACTUAL barcode, though, and not just a bunch of random numbers. I wanted her to get the bar code for Malibu Barbie.
I think it’s cool.
Now that I think is a cool idea.