Thursday, July 17, 2008
Special Events The 10 Greatest Misspelled Tattoos
Posted by Edith on Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Starting this week, every Thursday I'm going to show you one of the things I spend too much time looking up for no reason. I already have a really big backlog.
Up first: misspelled tattoos. The "CHITONW" tattoo got a bunch of press a few months ago--it was so outrageously bad that afterward a bunch of people got it on purpose in ironic solidarity. What else has been misspelled, permanently, on someone's body? Unfortunately, I bet a lot of people don't come forth. STET. Here are my favorites:
10. Good job.
9. "Hello, nice to meet you."
8. Wait, there's real text for this that I'm not making up--it's from someone in Beijing:
"Mine simply says FRUNK. The letters are so beautiful and flow so smoothly into each other. The word actually means old soul with young spirit in English. How cool is that? :-)"
7. "Pretty much it's my favorite song. It's like, when you feel pain it's because you're doing something that you're doing on purpose, and you're like, this is it."
6. "Fuck! Mother fucker."
5. "Siiiiiiiiiiick."
4. Aaaand this one isn't a misspelling, but
3. In the same vein...
2. "Hey you guys, look what I got. Check it out. Dave, you guys, John. Look at this shit!"
1. My favorite! OK clearly this one is written in Sharpie (right? please let it be Sharpie/not be Sharpie), but it's amazing. The kid is like four years old, also. Look at that Grim Reaper. This is the best tattoo in the world. The end!
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no, edith, your awsome. also, tattoos based on photographs, pretty creepy.
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The one I'm most concerned by is #3, not only because the kid on the right was made to look like that Chucky doll from those movies, but because, did the girl on the left receive a horrible birthmark in the middle of her forehead? Or is that something else?
worning, before reading the above post, please make sure bladder is empty.
These are great! I feel bad for laughing at #4, though...some guy now has a zombification of his deceased wife tattooed on him forever.
man, looking at #3 and #2 makes me extremely thankful that my portrait turned out amazingly well... but thats what actually searching for a good artist gets you... i spent two years looking for mine, obviously these people didn't have that kind of time, or didn't care... but honestly.. what makes me the most sad- is that they probably think they are amazing tattoos...
I'm just curious: do you think the tattoo artists pointed out the misspellings or just laughed and shook their heads at the idiocracy?
#5: Four misspellings, plus the nonsensical puzzle-piece motif make it beyond terrible.
MTV had a reality show about sororities. The season I saw took place in Buffalo, NY (I think). One of the rushes, Julie, was from Long Island and she needed a way to show the world what a wild and crazy girl she was...like get some ink that spelled out her (self-imposed) nickname, which was Jewelz.
So of course the tatoo comes out as: Jew Lez
It's perhaps my favorite piece of television ever. I think of it nearly every time I see a tatoo...so, you know....I think about it a lot.
it's "tattoo", not "tatoo", rebecca. don't visit an ink parlor any time soon, even if you have great tales about misspellings you've seen on TV.
OK...I need someone to explain Frunk to me. Am I retarded? I can't figure out what that's supposed to be.
@Stop Smoking: It all depends on the artist. I've seen fantastic portraits that look exactly like photographs. Just stunning. And then there's #4.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frunk
Frunk
To act very drunk when you have not consumed as much alcohol as you said, to act fake drunk.
The Frunk one is a photoshop from a joke website, it never happened. it's satirizing the popularity of Chinese tattoos in America, even though we don't know what the characters mean.
but have you seen this one...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/j4m35/tm_4.jpg
Thought you'd like to see these before you get any more tatoos! LOL... be sure to read the comments below them.
These are the perfect foil to those hipster Chinese tattoos that probably actually mean "I cannot read my tattoo".
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Frunkly speaking,
Judging by the number of misspellings in these comments, I don't know what you're laughing about.
Sorry. You probably didn't understand that. Here:
Jugging bye the number of mispellings in these coments, I don't know what your laffing a bout.
"Your" for "you're" is my pet peeve and the number one misspelling I see on the net. "Your" is for "your pencil, your teacher, your dick."
"You're" is for "you are," as in, "You're an idiot."
it's not uncommon for the pre-tattoo release form to include a bit about the artist and shop not being responsible for any misspellings in text tattoos. if i were the artist faced with the dilemma of correcting it or letting it go, i'd honestly probably let it go...
My goodness. Not only are they scarred for life but it's spelled incorrectly....OMG, those ugly likenesses of the people. I would have shot the tattoo artsist (oops..i mean artist)
I would just like to add a tattoo to this list. It was inked onto a young lady in a couple of my classes at university. She posted it on facebook, so I will add her caption as well:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b359/hiddenlies/amber.jpg
"This is My christmas present everyone! lol..aint it pretty? It says "Amber Rose" in Mandarin (Kudos to Angel)....and aint the art work great? Call up Craving Ink if you want great art like this! LOVE IT"
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The Frunk is a fake, not sure how that slipped by. From a satire article spinning around the whole American kids with Asian characters deal.
Number #9 is misspelt on purpose. I frequent the BME website where that was taken from, and the person who got it wanted it spelt like that. Not sure why.
You should probably try and do a little research on these kind of things next time.
Im a tattooist, and every time people come to me with text, no matter if it is in english or latin or spanish or french, whatever i always ask em if theyre sure that they spelt it right, i cant understand how somone made some of these mistakes its rediculous. o yer an portraits are the hardest thing to do, but those are done hilariously shit
Too Funny! On TMZ they showed a guy that got the State of California tattooed on his forearm, which I thought was kinda stupid, but then I saw that tattoo was reversed so the coast was in the East. What an idiot!! I think he might have a lawsuit on that one.
I knew someone who accidentally had "Minor Treat" on his arm instead of "Minor Threat"
Don't let Artists who specialize in sketching Skulls and Reapers of Death and Hell Spawn etch your Loved Ones onto your Body.
This reminds me of one of my favorite bash.org IRC quotes:
[hoLy] Ouch
[hoLy] my friend is giving me a tattoo with a bic pen and a knife right now
[hoLy] hurts so much but he almost finished
[hoLy] Hes finishing up the I in SATIN
[Ruff] ...
[hoLy] Yeah, so it'll say HAIL SATIN
[hoLy] This is gonnna be awesome
Whoever did those portrait tattoos suck pretty badly. There are a ton of other people around that are cheaper that you can probably still afford. Don't waste your money on shit like that. :)
Just to comment on the tattoo artist named Tricksta who quite eloquently states:
"i always ask em if theyre sure that they spelt it right,"
and then goes on to state:
"i cant understand how somone made some of these mistakes its rediculous. o yer an portraits "
(that last part i have no idea what Tricksta is trying to say.)
The main point is if THIS is a conscientious tattoo artist. Imagine the run-of-the-mill one.
Thanks for making the point of the article.
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