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I am getting married in June of 1996, and I’d really like some information about committment/wedding/anniversary tattoos that any r.a.b. readers may have. We can’t decide if we want matching designs, or different symbolic pieces that remind us of each other, or family tattoos that incorporate children, etc. Does anyone out there have any work like this that they’d like to share with me? I promise with all my heart that I won’t steal your stuff. Please e-mail me. Thank you 
. — Beth "Kill everyone now." – Mr. Wrong
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I am getting married in June of 1996, and I’d really like some information about committment/wedding/anniversary tattoos that any r.a.b. readers may have. We can’t decide if we want matching designs, or different symbolic pieces that remind us of each other, or family tattoos that incorporate children, etc. Does anyone out there have any work like this that they’d like to share with me? I promise with all my heart that I won’t steal your stuff. Please e-mail me. Thank you .
Rule Number One of Tattooing — never get the name of a significant other tattooed upon yourself. Personally, I don’t think it’s a good idea to get any sort of committment tattoo/permanent body adornment because if anything goes wrong with the relationship, you will have a constant reminder of it upon yourself for the rest of your life. (Rule Number Two of Tattooing — never get the name of a band tattooed upon yourself.) -Gina
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: Rule Number One of Tattooing — never get the name of a significant other : tattooed upon yourself. This could get to be a real fun thread with the sort of ideas people can come up with for a list like this (did someone say a "top 10" list?) : (Rule Number Two of Tattooing — never get the name of a band tattooed upon : yourself.) Or anything that would be called trendy. Didn’t someone here mention several months back about people getting the "Bad Boy" drawings on tatoos? Whoever it was refered to "Bad Boy" as the 90’s version of "Keep on Truckin’" or some-such thing out of the 70’s. 23 Skidoo! :-) — Calvin Henry-Cotnam, CATE | "’Halifax’ is a native word for Ryerson Polytechnic University | ‘Harbour of kaka’" - Mary Walsh Toronto, Ontario, Canada | (aka: Joe Crow – This Hour Has 22 Minutes)
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(Rule Number Two of Tattooing — never get the name of a band tattooed upon yourself.) -Gina
as i learned only too well with my "Stone Temple Pilots : Givin’ it to Yer Mom" backpiece — – "Cthulu for President in ‘96 : Why choose the lesser evil?" – KRRC graffito
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.bodyart Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 48 NNTP-Posting-Host: apple-ip-36.ucs.indiana.edu – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am getting married in June of 1996, and I’d really like some information about committment/wedding/anniversary tattoos that any r.a.b. readers may have. We can’t decide if we want matching designs, or different symbolic pieces that remind us of each other, or family tattoos that incorporate children, etc. Does anyone out there have any work like this that they’d like to share with me? I promise with all my heart that I won’t steal your stuff. Please e-mail me. Thank you . Rule Number One of Tattooing — never get the name of a significant other tattooed upon yourself. Personally, I don’t think it’s a good idea to get any sort of committment tattoo/permanent body adornment because if anything goes wrong with the relationship, you will have a constant reminder of it upon yourself for the rest of your life.
Gina is correct in her advice not to get a tattoo you’ll later regret, but I think she sort of misses the point of Lisbeth’s post. A commitment tattoo is supposed to signal that the two of you expect your relationship to be perminant and you symbolize that expectation with perminant marks on both your bodies. Commitment tattoos don’t have to include names. Mine doesn’t – it incorporates my husband’s (he’s the Scorpion) tattoo into mine. I’ve thought about how I’d feel about it if we did break up for some reason. My conclusion was that it’s still a neet tattoo. (If I ever do come to have regrets over the tat it will be because it also has a bare-assed guy which restricts the circumstances in which I display it. Like I don’t show it completely in grocery stores. But even in this respect it is a commitment tattoo. For the tattoo is very queer. So it sinals my commitment never to return to the closet by perminanly m arking myself as queer. Julian Hurt "Now that it is denied them, people realize how romantic promiscuity was. Gay life without the sex is a theme park." -Andrew Holleran "Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess." -Hunter S. Thompson http://bronze.ucs.indiana.edu/~cpstone/Julian/Julian_Hurt.html
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enavarre sed: as i learned only too well with my "Stone Temple Pilots : Givin’ it to Yer Mom" backpiece
‘cept of course to get into concerts for free!-kmfdm and rocket from the crypt for instance shiva
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[snip] (Rule Number Two of Tattooing — never get the name of a band tattooed upon yourself.)
[snip] Does that include "NIN?" =:-} =:-} — William "Wild Bill" Corona "I’d rather be hunted as a wolf than slaughtered like a sheep…"
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Dear Beth, My fiancee and I decided to get symbols that were meaningful to us and related to each other. Mine is a cross within a circle….(+)…..and his is a circle within a circle…..(.)……(use your imagination). Mine is the symbol of the earth, his is the symbol of the sun. They are separate entities, yet they have more meaning when joined. The earth cannot survive without the sun’s warmth, and the sun is given meaning as it shines on the earth. If for some bizzare reason our relationship does not last until death, I will never regret the symbolism. It will be a reminder of a wonderful relationship with a magnificent human being. Congratulations and Best Wishes, Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology Oklahoma State University – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am getting married in June of 1996, and I’d really like some information about committment/wedding/anniversary tattoos that any r.a.b. readers may have. We can’t decide if we want matching designs, or different symbolic pieces that remind us of each other, or family tattoos that incorporate children, etc. Does anyone out there have any work like this that they’d like to share with me? I promise with all my heart that I won’t steal your stuff. Please e-mail me. Thank you . — Beth "Kill everyone now." – Mr. Wrong
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If for some bizzare reason our relationship does not last until death, I will never regret the symbolism. It will be a reminder of a wonderful relationship with a magnificent human being.
Hmmm… I once had a wonderful relationship with a magnificent human being. But after six years, I divorced the bitch. ‘Nuff said? If you reply to this message, your message WILL be *automatically* anonymized and you are allocated an anon id. Read the help file to prevent this.
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: Rule Number One of Tattooing — never get the name of a significant other : tattooed upon yourself. This could get to be a real fun thread with the sort of ideas people can come up with for a list like this (did someone say a "top 10" list?) : (Rule Number Two of Tattooing — never get the name of a band tattooed upon : yourself.)
Oh.. all right #3 — wherever it’s hardest and longest to tattoo, it’s the most painful #4 — a totally dead day will conclude with a shitload of people coming in 5 mins. before closing #5 — a cover-up will usually involve some skank nasty design that you know the person will want to cover-up again in a year #6 — there will be at least 5 Taz/Panthers/Marvin_Martians done per day #7 — never get work done by an artists that has had as much as/more than you to drink #8 — stay away from shops named "Gangreene and Blood Red" or "Tetanus Tatts" #9 — If you don’t think it will hurt, it will; If you think it will hurt, it still will (just not as much #10 — If you love it, it will scar/heal out ahh.. not a great list, and I mixed up artists and customer concerns… -Jesster (Deal with it) — Electric Ink Tattoo Salon | "God is dead" -Nietzsche 153 Waterman Ave. | "Nietzsche’s dead" -God East Providence, RI | http://www.wpi.edu/~jesster (401) 435-3393 | http://www.wpi.edu/~jesster/elec_ink.html
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: (Rule Number Two of Tattooing — never get the name of a band tattooed upon : yourself.) I don’t know about that- after 15 years, I’d STILL like to get a FEAR tattoo- probably will one of these days…(oh, just call me a sentimental fool…:)
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Newgroups: rec.arts.bodyart I am getting married in June of 1996, and I’d really like some information about committment/wedding/anniversary tattoos that any r.a.b. readers may have.
It’s a *poor* idea. No one else’s name, etc., is ever a good thing to put on your body–permanently. "Hey, do you do coverups?" "Yeah." "See this?" shows BETTY on arm, "can I get WILMA here?" "You’d think he’d learn," to me, after the moron leaves. — "It is not possible to convey sarcasm to certain members of the net without using a 2×4. The smiley face merely reminds them of why their head is being dented." — John Woods
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Newgroups: rec.arts.bodyart post. A commitment tattoo is supposed to signal that the two of you expect your relationship to be perminant and you symbolize that
So does everyone else. That doesn’t change anything; it’s still a seriously BAD idea. — "It is not possible to convey sarcasm to certain members of the net without using a 2×4. The smiley face merely reminds them of why their head is being dented." — John Woods
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Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology Oklahoma State University A commitment tattoo …snip it’s still a seriously BAD idea. …snip
I completely disagree. In my opinion, a commitment tattoo is a symbol similar to an engagement ring, only you can’t take off the tattoo (very easily). Let’s say the worst case scenerio occurs and the two people break up…..whether you have a tattoo, or not, the memory of that person is permanent. I would not choose to put someone’s name on my body, or any words for that matter, but I think symbols are wonderful. I have attached meaning to other body mods of mine. My first tattoo was with a previous fiancee. We didn’t last, but having the tattoo does not bother me a bit. It is part of my history just like any other permanent COGNITIVE memory. Go for it Beth!
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:It’s a *poor* idea. No one else’s name, etc., is ever :a good thing to put on your body–permanently. i’d have to agree with Clay, with one qualification. i’d never put someone else’s name, etc., on my body — as long as they were still alive. boy brent, astonished to see Clay posting here. Time to get all the fire extinguishers recharged… — boy brent | "This product not intended for
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: : A commitment tattoo : …snip : it’s still a seriously BAD idea. : …snip [schnips - lots o'reasons to...] : Go for it Beth! [thanks] I guess I started <? (and then missed) a big thread about this issue. Funny, I don’t recall asking whether or not I *should* get a committment tattoo :) – apparently some advice against doing so was thrown around. Some important relationships end, sometimes very painfully. *That’s life*. But I’m getting married, we’re having children together, and even if the marriage ends, it will not be erased from my past. If it goes bad and the tattoo reminds me of how much it all hurts, that’s my freaking problem. Looking at the wedding pictures will hurt, visits to lawyers will hurt, knowing that my kids are growing up away from one parent will hurt. Shit, every memory in my head will feel bad, and I can’t erase those any more than I can eradicate a little ink in my skin. I’m not an idealist, all I’m saying is that if my marriage fails, the least of my worries will be my wedding tattoo. And I know this from experience. I already have a tattoo that symbolizes a significant love relationship, the breakup of which caused me a huge amount of pain for a very long time. So much pain that I didn’t even think about the tattoo. Now I’m glad I have it, because it reminds me of the good things, and lets me know that I wasn’t totally stupid and misguided, and that there *were* reasons to continue living with someone who eventually made me so unhappy. It reminds me that my judgement of what was important was valid even if it went wrong later. Now the image has more to do with me and my strength than it does my ex-partner. I’m not a total dingbat who’s going to have her sweetie’s name emblazoned across her forehead because of sheer infatuated ignorance. I’m a big girl, I’m pushing 30, I know myself, and I don’t believe in shying away from pain if there’s a chance that I can derive some kind of joy in the process. Hmm, I suppose I’m talking more about marriage than tattoos here, but a tattoo is a committment in itself, and I haven’t been afraid to get the six I already have. This one doesn’t scare me either. Trying to find a white dress with long, opaque sleeves. Now that’s scary. — Beth "Mommy, isn’t it nice that boys can be doctors too?" – Emily H., age 4
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