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Post by dradtke on Nov 25, 2014 10:46:40 GMT -5
I think I've told the story about my daughter and my cousin. After my uncle's funeral a bunch of the family were sitting around and one of my cousins started expounding on Kids Today. He used Devon as a great example of a young person, hard-working, educated, excited about starting a career and off to a great start. On the other hand you've got all these slackers with tattoos sitting around on welfare with their tattoos and nothing better to do than get tattoos and show off their effing tattoos and what's up with all these tattoos. And while he was addressing the crowd Devon sat next to him with a shit-eating grin, quietly rolling up her sleeve.
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Post by aquaduct on Nov 25, 2014 11:12:42 GMT -5
Well I'm at least happy that they help you feel so much better about yourself. What would make you suppose that? The very nature of sympathy is understanding a shared human nature. Because you're not one of those sheeple.
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Post by millring on Nov 25, 2014 11:30:46 GMT -5
What would make you suppose that? The very nature of sympathy is understanding a shared human nature. Because you're not one of those sheeple. I'm also beautiful. That's what an older woman told me at my last show. She said, "You're really beautiful." I said "Thanks" She said, "It looks like you had your nose broken at some point?" I said, "Yes". She said, "That really works for you. Makes your look distinctive." I said, "Thanks" Older women really think I'm handsome. I've told this to my young nieces. They tell me that older women don't see as well as they do with their young eyes. I love my nieces.
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Post by drlj on Nov 25, 2014 11:35:19 GMT -5
I, too, am quite handsome. I tell Barb that all the time. She says, "Yes, but not John handsome." I don't see it. I find John funny looking and lacking in social skills but what do I know?
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Post by aquaduct on Nov 25, 2014 11:36:07 GMT -5
Because you're not one of those sheeple. I'm also beautiful. That's what an older woman told me at my last show. She said, "You're really beautiful." I said "Thanks" She said, "It looks like you had your nose broken at some point?" I said, "Yes". She said, "That really works for you. Makes your look distinctive." I said, "Thanks" Older women really think I'm handsome. I've told this to my young nieces. They tell me that older women don't see as well as they do with their young eyes. I love my nieces. My son and your nieces should get together. Sounds like they're cut from the same cloth.
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Post by aquaduct on Nov 25, 2014 11:39:27 GMT -5
I, too, am quite handsome. I tell Barb that all the time. She says, "Yes, but not John handsome." I don't see it. I find John funny looking and lacking in social skills but what do I know? Apparently you know enough to shut up when the conversation turns deadly.
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Post by RickW on Nov 25, 2014 11:47:36 GMT -5
I'm with peter. Wouldn't take much to get me to do it. I have considered it. But most definitely, it's got to be a statement that you're willing to live with. My daughter has got something quite tasteful. Considering the success she has had in her short life, she's a pretty strong person. At the same time, she has never been much for letting anyone see her private feelings, so we wonder. But I think this was a way of making a mental change for her. We as parents have placed her on a pedestal. It may be a way of taking a step off. Or, she just thinks it's cool. I dunno. I'm good with it.
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Post by epaul on Nov 25, 2014 11:50:51 GMT -5
Hey, Rick. Sounds like your beautiful daughter got herself a pretty cool tat, one that connects a few dots for her. Congratulations to the both of you!
I was thinking about getting a tattoo of a lutefisk, something to connect me to the Norway my forebears came from, but then I found out they don't eat lutefisk over there anymore, haven't for ages, never did like the stuff and quit eating it as soon as they got reliable ice boxes. That took some of the steam out of the idea. Plus, no one is sure what a lutefisk even looks like. Do I do some ugly fish with whiskers or a puddle of gloop?
Oh well...
Maybe another tractor. Always kind of liked those 800 series Olivers.
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 25, 2014 12:02:08 GMT -5
On the other hand, this guy really really loves cats--
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Post by Marshall on Nov 25, 2014 12:08:32 GMT -5
Man, those are ugly glasses. He should change them.
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Post by Doug on Nov 25, 2014 12:29:56 GMT -5
Hey, Rick. Sounds like your beautiful daughter got herself a pretty cool tat, one that connects a few dots for her. Congratulations to the both of you! I was thinking about getting a tattoo of a lutefisk, something to connect me to the Norway my forebears came from, but then I found out they don't eat lutefisk over there anymore, haven't for ages, never did like the stuff and quit eating it as soon as they got reliable ice boxes. That took some of the steam out of the idea. Plus, no one is sure what a lutefisk even looks like. Do I do some ugly fish with whiskers or a puddle of gloop? Oh well... Maybe another tractor. Always kind of liked those 800 series Olivers.
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Post by aquaduct on Nov 25, 2014 12:57:58 GMT -5
I suspect that with my family and enough wine (and a chemically induced coma during the procedure) James' dick tattoo idea might fly. Something about being dedicated to my wife. And then it opened up to a full sleeve with some kind of a Sistine Chapel ceiling work on it.
Then my funeral could be both open casket and open trousers declaring my eternal love for all to see.
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Post by millring on Nov 25, 2014 13:02:47 GMT -5
Then my funeral could be both open casket and open trousers declaring my eternal love for all to see. ....with a strategically mounted magnifying glass to ensure people can see the joke.
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Post by aquaduct on Nov 25, 2014 13:07:33 GMT -5
Then my funeral could be both open casket and open trousers declaring my eternal love for all to see. ....with a strategically mounted magnifying glass to ensure people can see the joke. Hey! If I wanted that kind of abuse I'd stay home!
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Post by millring on Nov 25, 2014 13:15:59 GMT -5
We here at the soundhole are full-service verbal abusers.
You're welcome.
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Post by dradtke on Nov 25, 2014 13:18:47 GMT -5
At a folk festival years ago I saw a sweet young thing with f-holes tattooed on her back. They looked good but my first thought was that in thirty years it might look like a cello.
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Post by millring on Nov 25, 2014 13:23:43 GMT -5
The good news is that there's always room for cello.
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 25, 2014 13:42:29 GMT -5
my first thought was that in thirty years it might look like a cello. Or maybe--
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 25, 2014 13:46:04 GMT -5
And of course in that time a man will have become this:
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Post by patrick on Nov 25, 2014 18:47:57 GMT -5
How about all forum members have a music tat. I got mine. I could go for a Circle of Fifths on my right inner forearm.
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