Monday, July 21, 2008

scalp burn

Dear QotD?ers,

Good morning! I hope we all have a pleasant week ahead of us. I'll do my best to make sure your QotD? bits are entertaining.

This weekend we went to the world's best water park (true fact). The water was cold, the weather was pretty nice, but the park was crowded. That part wasn't too unexpected for a Saturday in July. Some people enjoy people watching, and there's nothing quite like people-watching at a water park. Of the hundreds of people, I never saw the same swimsuit twice. I did see a LOT of skin, and also tattoos! My favorite tattoo was a stick figure spouting profanity. The tattoo looked home done and not very well at that. And it was casually on display, as if profanity at a family oriented park is no big deal. Dude, at least your long hair was pretty.

Imagine that tattoos are painless, free and can be activated and deactivated.

Today's Question of the Day? is:
What tattoo would you get?
Remember, by deactivation you could make your tattoo invisible during serious events. You may assume that different portions of any tattoo can visibile and invisible at the same time.
Love,
The Asker

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I do not like tattoos. I do not even like freckles. I like smooth skin with no blemishes, tattoos, scars, freckles or tan lines. So I cannot envision any tattoo because it would just be ugly.

Bob got a tattoo for his thirty-fifth birthday. It is on his left arm and is a blue ox. Watch me roll my eyes.

Anonymous said...

If I could get tattoos that I could turn off and on, I'd probably go whole hog. I'd likely get a lot of really strong tribal designs that would work around hidden elements that mean a lot to me. The tattoo wings I've got would be incorporated, as well as an old key, a pawprint, a spider web, a quill, a dragon, a fish... It would be an ever-growing tapestry.

Anonymous said...

I'd get a trinacria. But I'd get it with a not so happy Medusa face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinacria

Stacy said...

Man, I am jealous about Schlitterbahn! Now that I don't live in Texas it makes me regret not going very much. I am hoping to go when I go back to Austin for work next month.

I have no idea what tattoo I would get. I think if I could turn it on and off I'd definitely get something funny...not something that was very meaningful.

jennifercaitlin said...

i'd get a tatoo ring on my wedding finger, only becaue i am TERRIFIED OF LOSING MY ENGAGEMENT RING.

so, if i KNEW i was going to be out and about doing stuff, i'd still have a 'ring', but one that wouldn't fall off.

Anonymous said...

I'd get a full-body "Latin-lover" tan tattooed to my entire exposed person. It's all the sexiness without the skin cancer.

Might as well tattoo on a 6-pack while I'm at it.

If there's enough magic tattoo ink left in the world, then I might get a tattoo of barbed-wire mesh over my back, tracing around my neck and down my arms to turn on when I feel intimidated by punk rockers or biker gangs.

Kristen, what would YOU get?

alicia said...

i really like the latin tan idea. brilliant!

i think i would get the hogwarts crest or the gryffindor crest, plus a symbol from my drum corps, plus an A&M something. then i would be "representing" all my factions without having to change clothes.

i wish i could get "you are an idiot" tattooed to the back of my car in this magical ink so that i could flash it at people when necessary.

Anonymous said...

Anne,
you and I have something in common.
I would not get a tattoo.
Whoa...Bob got a tattoo?
What do the kids say?

Anonymous said...

Kathleen,

The kids love it, especailly Jessica. She likes to sit there and trace it with her finger. But Bob is adamant about the fact that tattoos are for when you have grown up, gotten a job, bought a house, and proven yourself responsible...then you can get whatever tattoo you want. (Bob grew up??? Who knew??)

I told him that I fully supported the Blue Ox tattoo...that way if he did not make his business a success, I would be able to cut the tattoo out of his flesh in a grand moment of "WHY??"

I saw a grandma with tattoos on both her arms yesterday. Was that a communal squirm I felt??

Anonymous said...

I got a scalp burn also.
It is feeling better, though.

Anonymous said...

oh dear, what anne would think of me- eek!

my parents have funny hippie tattoos.


i have no clue what i'd want, though, but i will come back and edit if i can decide.