On Dec 19, 2:42*am, Leonard Blaisdell >
wrote:
> In article >,
>
> *Sqwertz > wrote:
> > The number of tattoo shops in Austin has pretty tripled in the last
> > 18 months. *And there are several hundred more competent tattoo
> > artists in Austin that work out of the home that can almost make a
> > living just by word of mouth advertising. *Not to mention the
> > jailhouse artists.
>
> I'm all for getting tattoos when you turn sixty. They'll be legible when
> you croak. A great friend of mine signed up for the Marines the day
> after Pearl Harbor and got the tattoo "Death Before Dishonor" below a
> skull with a knife through it on his forearm. I got to know him in 1977.
> His badge of honor was a bluish blotch.
> I can just hear the grandkid forty years from now asking grandma what
> that blue blotch is on her lower back and being told "Oh, kiddo, that
> used to read... ".
>
> leo

In college I see all sorts of young kids that are almost already
covered. In a speech class, one girl did a speech on tattoos, and
presented various pics of one of her own tattoos in its various
stages. It wrapped from her right ear, down her trunk, and circled
her left leg down past her left ankle. It was skulls and hearts and
flowers and nautical stars and lightning bolts and stuff. In essence,
by time she was 18 she had almost 2/3 of her body already inked.

She was kinda cute otherwise.

-J