On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:57:26 +1300, Miche > wrote:

>In article >,
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
>> Ema Nymton wrote:
>> >
>> > Prisons will photograph the tattoos on inmates. This one prison in
>> > Texas, had the photographs in a binder.
>>
>> That's the reason my Dad taught me to oppose tattoos. They are used for
>> prisoner identication. I didn't even think about that until high
>> school. What if I never end up a criminal? At the time I must have
>> thought he meant that having a tattoo identified a person as a criminal.
>> That concept didn't wrok well with the WWII veterans in the neighborhood.
>>
>> Some folks don't like tattoos. It's a common feeling in many groups.
>> Thus to get a tattoo is to knowingly have problems with that set of
>> people. Other folks don't care about tattoos. It too is a common
>> feeling in many groups. Thus to get a tattoo is to knowingly put a
>> limit on yourself. Maybe that's why I've never bothered to get one so
>> far.
>
>Until I got one on my arm nobody knew I already had a tattoo on my back,
>since it was never visible under street clothes.
>
>How was I limiting myself?
>
>Miche

I suppose if you decided to become a nun at a nudist rectory... more
likely you'd be the hit of the party... they'd all be looking for
sister miche to test the sisters and brothers for polarity! teehee