Conference rdvax::grateful

    I've seen that a popular ankle tattoo is a peace sign, a happy face,
    and a heart really small right in a row.  Maybe replace the heart with
    a dancin' bear or terapin.
    
    Jeff

    hhmmm, that's a different idea.  So it kind of looks like an anklet?
    As I'm sitting here looking at my ankles (yea, my ankles!) I'm thinking
    I'd rather have it done on the inside ankle area, a *little* less
    noticable (you know how some people just *don't understand* ;^}
    
    rochelle

 Just don't get a mushroom especially if Adam is around :-)









 Jum

    
    
    re: -.1
    
    HAH!!!
    
    

Yeah, I might chew on your ankle! :-)

Ask Lisa, she has a shroom on her ankle (no I didn't chew it, but yes, she does
have one).

The ankle seems to be a popular place for a tattoo!  I like the turtle idea!

adam_tattooless

    I was thinking of starting a note like this a month ago!
    
    I have one.
    
    It's a "Darmiscotta" (like a ying-yang, but made with a black
    and a white dolphin)  meaning 'the never ending circle of good
    and evil'.
    
    It's on my leg about 1/2 inch above my outside left ankle bone.
    
    My mom loved it.  No one's said anything negitive about it so far! 
    
    Had it now for about 6 months.  Definitely want to get more work
    done to it.   
    
    Yes, it _did_ hurt, but it was a nagging stupid pain.  Afterwards
    it felt like I'd cut myself with a razor for about a day.
    
    Norm's in Pawtuckett RI does a real nice, CLEAN job.  
    
    If you want it, get it, 'cause in about 5 years it'll only cost
    about $100 to get it removed if you want to.
    
    I'll never get mine removed.  It was a conscious choice, one I
    can live with for the rest of my life.  And hey!  If I *ever* have
    kids, and they have kids, they can say how cool "grandma" is!
    
    :-)
    
    
    sparky_marked_for_life_and_proud_of_it!
    

RE:   <<< Note 290.6 by LJOHUB::GILMORE "A Fly can't Bird but a Bird can Fly" >>>
                     -< Makes a great conversation piece! >-

   >    Yes, it _did_ hurt, but it was a nagging stupid pain.  Afterwards
   > it felt like I'd cut myself with a razor for about a day.
    
    


   Thats a long time to be cutting one's self with a razor..I suppose it would

   hurt   :-)






 Jum    

I like my tattoo - it makes me happy.  Even though Adam did threaten it once
upon a time.  :-)

I had thought about getting a tattoo for years - a mushroom on my ankle, kinda
like the Allman Brothers 'shroom.  Finally I decided I had been thinking too 
long *not* to be serious.  So I made an appointment with a very well-known
artist in New York.  I walked in with a friend of mine and was immediately
drawn to all the butterflies on the wall.  They were so pretty, and the colors
(a new vegatable die) were so bright and vibrant!!  Well I couldn't change my
mushroom idea of five years, so I got both.  The butterfly is flying over the
mushroom, looking like she's about to land.  They are on the outside of my 
left ankle and they are full of colors - even now, 2 years since it's been done.

I was told that the type of dye used won't fade but the best thing to do is
to take good care of it (bacitracin, no sun) for a couple of months after you
get it.

And no, it didn't really hurt, it WAS annoying though as sparky said - kinda
like a bug biting me for 45 minutes.  The outline that is, the color is
nothing.  But I must say, the ankle is one of the better places to get one;
first of all you can sit comfortably while it's done, secondly it's not one of
those spots (like upper thigh or chest) that fluctautes with weight gain/loss. 
My friend has a tattoo on her thigh and now, after a baby it looks like someone
drew a picture on an expanded balloon and then let the air out.... 

I am thinking of a second one .... (third actually I guess) - a bluebird on
my shoulder.  :-)

My advice is to think about it until you are really sure, cause they don't
come off as easily as they go on.

Lisa

    
    I've got one too...  got it about 5-6 years ago.  Mine is right
    near my hip bone, kinda in the crease of my leg - not visible
    unless I'm in a bathing suit, or nekkid of course.  It's of
    a flower (kinda like a daisy) with long vine like stems coming
    out of each side w/a few leaves.  It is only about 2 inches in
    length and 1/2 inch diameter.  I like it.  It has faded alittle
    bit and probably could use a touch up on the colors, the petals
    are white, middle yello and leaves green, but I don't think I'll
    be rushing out to get it done anytime soon.  I got kinda sick 
    when I got it.  No, I wasn't under the influence of anything but
    I tend to have a very weak/nervous stomach and I passed out when
    I got it!  (don't mean to scare anyone who is thinking of getting
    one - I'm just a wimp!)  ;-)
    
    I usually get comments like "is that a REAL tattoo?" and stuff 
    like that.  Pretty funny.
    
    The first person I told about it in my family was my grandmother
    and her first question was "is it a snake?" but after she saw
    it she liked it.  
    
    MJ

    I've wanted a tattoo for a long time.  I've found the design I want. 
    It's a painting by Georgia O'Keefe.  It's a black petunia against a
    white petunia.  I may have the white petunia done in pale pink.  I'd
    like to have it just above my knee.  I found the artist, he does my
    son's tattoos.  Now I just need the courage.
    
    Rose
    

    I might have one.  Might get another too.

re  <<< Note 290.12 by RDVAX::MOLLENHAUER "WisdomisrespectedHatredisrejected" >>>
                           -< they can be addictive >-

>    I might have one.  Might get another too.

You're not sure whether you have one now?  ;^)

    maybe it in a place she can't see !

    Keep 'em guessing.
    
    		I know! I know! I know!
    
    HA!
    

    
    An unasked for comment regarding tattoos (warning : may be
    objectionable material for some) :
    There is a very high incidence of tattooing amongst people who have
    been physically and emotionally abused.  The pain associated with the
    tattoo process is psychologically familiar to the pain experienced over
    a long period of abuse.
    
    End of unasked for message
    
    carol

	could be ... but I've never been known to follow norms.

    Makes sense in a way.  I just wanted one.  Don't really know
    why, but I wanted one for a few years.  It took me that long
    just to get the courage up to do it!
    
    Same here about norms.  I DIDN'T by any means want a rose, and
    I DIDN'T want it on my shoulderblade like most "normal" women.
    
    sparky_Un-normal_tattooed_person_in_recovery_
    
    					(and not from the tattoo)
    	:)
    	

If I were going to get a tattoo, I'd shave my head and have two eyes tatooed on 
the back of it. 

8^)


Scott

Scott, You sound like my boyfriend who said he was going to get one (eye) smack
dab in the middle of his forehead!   :-)

> If I were going to get a tattoo, I'd shave my head and have two eyes tatooed on 
> the back of it. 

Scott, why don't you get just get an eye on each of your butt-cheeks...
Or would that confuse people too much?

:-) x 1000

Dave

>Scott, why don't you get just get an eye on each of your butt-cheeks...
>Or would that confuse people too much?

Why I outta...

    Well, I got my tattoo while I was in San Francisco.  It's a little
    dancing bear (couldn't find a terrapin) that's a bright turquiose with
    maroon for the little tuft of hair.  It's kicking his leg dancing and
    it's on the inside of my right ankle.  I seem to disagree with everyone
    whose had one, the coloring hurt the worst!  Next time (ok, so MAYBE
    there will be another..;^) I will only get an outline....HA!
    
    It's still really red and at the moment pussing all over (yuck!!). The
    redness is creeping down from the tat a little...kind of like blood
    poisoning..eeek!  Just called a parlor, and he thinks I'm just having a
    reaction to what I'm using on it...some kind of lotion FILLED with all
    kinds of natural herbs and such.  Switching to Neosporin (verrrrry
    sparingly) and if it doesn't clear up by tomorrow well then.....but all
    in all...I'm still verrry glad I got it.  Cant' wait to see my mom's
    face when she sees it!!  She thought I was crazy for wanting one in the
    beginning....8^)
    
    rochelle  whose_tattoo_is_verrrry_painful_at_the_moment_that_I_can't_
    	      even_touch_around_it!

    Maybe we're the only one's "brave" enough?
    
    :)

I noticed that too Marv.  Interesting huh?  I'd speculate, but then I may
say something stupid and insulting and I hate it when I insult myself.  ;^)

    We may be the only ones brave, but right about now, I'm feeling
    like the stupid one!   The redness has gotten *much* worse and it looks
    like I'll be spending my lunch at the doctors office 8-\   Boy, if my
    mom only knew!  Keeping this from her till its all better...at least
    TRY to keep it from her....I don't need to hear the old "When are you
    ever going to learn that momma knows what she's talkin about" line 8-)
    BUT, it would tickle her to say it ;^)
    
    Did anyone have any adverse reaction to their tattoos?  I just cant'
    believe mine!\
    
    rochelle

I don't have a tattoo, but I did seriously think about getting one during my
senior yr at college (tattoo place right up the street from where i lived).
One reason why I did not get one is I could not decide what to get.  I wanted
to have it put on my left arm, above half-way past the bicep....

    Im not a tattoo but I play one on TV !
    
    I thought about it but then I passed out drunk at the bar and never
    thought about again....anyway I can't think of anything I would want to
    have stuck into my body that rilly would be there as long as I still
    had the apendge connected to my mainframe....
    
    Chris_de_plain_de_plain :')

Rochelle,

I hate to say it but did you ensure that the place where you had your tattoo
done was using clean needles?  Where I went he opened the needle new for me
and threw it away after he was done.  That coupled with the fact that he was
a world known artist (of tattoos) made it a bit more expensive but it was 
worth it, and still is close to two years later.  Anyway, I did the bacitracin/
change the dressing twice a day thing for however long he told me to and all
was fine. You are probably just getting an infection.  Keep it moist with
ointment such as bacitracin and clean gauze and you should be OK.  Do you 
have sensitive skin, it kinda sounds that way.  Don't worry....

      <<< Note 290.30 by SLOHAN::FIELDS "Better make it through today" >>>

>>    Im not a tattoo but I play one on TV !

sick sick sick!

:)
bob

    Yes Rochelle!  No Neosporin -- bacitracin.  But first, clean
    it with soap and water!  Keep a gauze pad on it, but make
    sure there is always a layer of bacitracin on.  After the 
    first 3 days, no more gauze but plenty of bacitracin.  
    
    Don't play with it, don't scratch, don't pick, don't do
    anything.  
    
    Sounds like this guy wasn't that clean.  Mine threw away all
    his needles too.  Sterilized them in an oven before opening
    the package even!
    
    Might want to go to a more reputable artist and see what they
    have to say.  Your doctor may not have an answer.
    
    If you want, I can get the phone # of Norms in Pawtuckett RI
    where I went.  If you call he may be able to tell you what's
    wrong!
    
    sparky

     <<< Note 290.30 by SLOHAN::FIELDS "Better make it through today" >>>

>    Im not a tattoo but I play one on TV !

Gee, Chris, you look taller, in person! :-)

Dave

	HA!  :-)

    see how good of an actor I am :')

    Well, just got back from the doctors'.  I've got a severe infection, I
    don't know how to pronounce whatever it's called (now why don't that
    surprise us??).  My doc gave me som Duricef and if it's not all better
    by Saturday, she may put me in the hospital 8-\   So, let's hope this
    stuff works.
    
    The place I went is verrry reputable.  Maybe some of you have heard of
    the guy..Lyle Tuttle.  Very big in the bay area.  I talked with the guy
    who did it, and the dye is mineral based non-toxic whatever.  I was
    there as he took the needles out of the sterile package...not taking a
    chance of catching anything, especially in San Fran!!  He said NO
    bandages, not to use ointments of any kind, just to let it dry out. 
    I'm going to get some of the betadine soap and keep cleaning it every
    couple of hours or so.  BOY, when I do something *good* I do it GRATE! 
    No half ass things for me! no sir-ee! >8-|   Oh well, ain't no thing to
    me. 8-)  Just something else to look back on and laugh one day! ;^))
    
    rochelle

    I hope the infection doesn't ruin the tattoo.  Don't they charge by the
    area?  I've heard prices like $50 for a few square inches.
    
    I've seen pictures of tattooing in the Pacific islands, they pierce the
    skin with bamboo slivers and put the ink in with straws. Ouch!  And
    these people cover themselves with tattoos!
    
    Scott_who_would_like_a_cool_tribal_design_but_doesn't_have
    _the_nerve
    

    IT HAD BETTER NOT RUIN THE TATTOO!!  I'll be majorly bummed!  This
    costed me $70.  This place charges $100 an hour, a little above the
    average, but as I said before, this was a verry reputable place.
    
    Speaking of charges.....I'm warning the men right now, sqeeze your
    legs!  The following HURTS!
    
    In the list of charges, and the wording is rather funny, it lists:
    If tattooing the penis, there will be an additional $200 handling
    charge above the cost of the tattoo.
    
    OUCH!!  I saw a picture of one (a nice one at that! ;^> ) with a pretty
    intricate design.  I want to know just how they would do that, and um,
    well, how would they tattoo it so that the design wouldn't er, stretch?
    
    rochelle

	Hope that infection clears up soon, rochelle!  

>how would they tattoo it so that the design wouldn't er, stretch?

	Wouldn't the point be to have it so the design was normal under
conditions suited to stretch, and partially obscurred, otherwise?  Which
reminds me...

	There was a guy who was engaged to a woman name Wendy.  He was so
enamoured of her, that he decided to have her name tatooed onto him.  Now,
under normal conditions, his tatoo read "WY".  However, when Wendy inspired
him, the whole tatoo, "WENDY" was visible.

	Well, he and Wendy got married.  For their honeymoon, they went to
Jamaica.  While there, they went to a nude beach.  Now, after some time in
the heat of the afternoon, Wendy is getting thirsty.  Our hero gallantly
goes to the bar to fetch them something cold to drink.  Since this resort
doesn't want to make the patrons uncomfortable, the staff dresses (or rather
doesn't) in the manner of the guests.  While waiting for the drinks, Wendy's
husband notices that the bartender has a "WY" showing in the same place that
he does!  "Wow, I had my wife's name tatooed on me, and it's 'WENDY'.  Does
yours say 'WENDY', too?" 

	The bartender fixes him with a withering gaze.  "No, it says 'WELCOME
TO JAMAICA, HAVE A NICE DAY'."

Mark (who avoids altering his body in ways that won't wash off in the shower)

    
    *8^)   I've heard that joke! heheheheheheh

    Okay, today's tattoo update....
    
    Doing good, redness has calmed to just around the tat.  Seems to be
    scabbing nicely, little pus..(gawd this sounds soo gross!) 8-)  The
    calf and shin area are now verrry sore, seems the infection has
    attacked the tissues there...can't see redness tho, maybe a good sign.
    Remembered to take the antibiotics, (amazing!!) and got some betadine
    soap last nite (damn that's expensive!!) and I'm keeping it cleaned. 
    (I love the smell of that soap!)  I haven't put any ointment on it,
    think I should?  I figured I'd get it to heal faster letting it
    dry....don't feel to good with the pants rubbing it tho, but can't roll
    them up cuz it hurts the leg...:-p
    
    BUT!!  I still got that silly grin on my face! *8^)))))))   Ain't
    nuthin gonna git this girl down!!  <grin grin grin>
    
    rochellE

re: tattoo joke

Hilarious!  One of the better ones I've heard lately!

re: rochelle

Get well soon!

adam

    
     What's the stupidest tattoo you ever saw? A friend of mine has
    a pretty good one.....of course he was falling down drunk when he
    got it, and picked out the rudest one they had.
    
     it's a devil's face, with a naked woman sitting spread eagle with
    the devil licking her.....pretty nasty eh?  His mother cried when
    she saw it.....and of course he got it just above the elbow where
    it's easily visable.
    
    
    Sean

A few of us saw a woman at the Grafton Flea Market with a very large (I'd say
10 inches) tattoo of a man taking a leak below her shoulder blade on her back.
It was very detailed you saw his um, pee-er (that with which he pees :-) and a
stream of, well you know and below the "puddle" on the bottom was the word
"Plunk".

    
    
    
           HOWS ABOUT STEAL YOUR FACE

Yeah, but in twenty years it'll be Stoof You Ado and the woman behind the
counter will be lookin' funny at your arm when you go to pick up your
Social Security check.  ;^)

    
    REPLY
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    SEAL YOUR FACE
       36544
    

    
    
           I have a steal your face on my left shoulder-only cost $40 and 
      looks great. I'm thinking of getting a bear with a guitar on the
      other shoulder-I play...
    
                                  Jeffy

    I was at Snakes Tatto the other day getting a new nose ring........for
    my oldest daughter (had ya fooled, eh?) and saw little dancin bears
    tattos, tiny ones...for 40-60 bucks!!! sh*t, a bumper sticker is a lot
    cheaper!!!  %^)
    
    
    rfb

    Yabbut, doesn't the bumper sticker wash off in the shower?
    
    ;-)
    
    tim
    

    Good one Tim! But that's why I use those tatoos from the cracker jacks 
    boxes,,,they last at least a week, even with showers!! 
    rfb