[Byrntrigan]

It's not a Shark with a chainsaw, but it's pretty cool none the less.




Go Team Venture!

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Is that Fred from Scooby-Doo?

[OpTard]

i've got a line on getting a sketch from chris mcculloch (jackson publick) of brock samson wearing pajama pants.

let's see how more reliable at getting me a sketch the customer ralph at my comic store is than you.

oh, and GO TEAM VENTURE!

[punk/core]

I love the Venture Bros., and I'm WAY geeky..... but even I feel like knocking your lunch tray out of your hands right now.

[BTR]

It'll be so fun for you to explain that to any kids you have.

[Byrntrigan]

Would it really be any more weird to explain all the other tattoos all over my body?

The Punisher logo should be next...

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Can't you just get a life-size tat of Pun on your pinky or something?

[Byrntrigan]

Since it'll only be an inch, yes.

[Lucky]

I always thought that geeky tattoos were such a weird contradiction. I mean, tattoos are basically the universal sign for "cool." Not to say they necessarily are. I've seen guys with little gay emo stars, all those douchebags with tribal tattoos, and hundreds of dolphins, fairies, and frogs on ladies. But still, at its heart I believe everyone who goes and gets a tattoo is doing it because they believe it is cool.

So tattoos that scream "GEEK!" always seemed so strange to me because they seem to go against what I understand tattoos to be.


Incidentally a large reason I never got a tattoo is because I've always been worried that I'd get it and realize I wasn't cool and I had one of the bad ones. That and I'm cheap and I realize that after 40 your tattoos are almost guaranteed to look ridiculous.

[Byrntrigan]

The Venture Bros. are cool Lucky.

Oh, and BTR, my son thinks it's cool, even though he doesn't know wo or what it is as I don't let him watch that cartoon. Now if I got a Spongebob tattoo or Scooby Doo he'd be all over that.

[Lucky]

If you say so. Sorry, Byrne, but as much as a geek as I am I'm basically with punker. Some primitive part of me wants to give you a wedgie.

But on the bright side having just one letter in your tat avoids the obvious embarrassment.

[Byrntrigan]

HA!

That was funny! Who says you don't have a sense of humor.

[Eric O'Mac]

Yeah, I mean, I don't think I'm the expert on "cool" but I think I can honestly say that I've never heard of the Venture Bros/ being considered to be cool.

But then again, to each their own. If you think it's cool, then more power to you. "Cool" is an objective term to begin with. Everyone has different definitions of cool. So go with what you think and don't worry about what us naysayers say. You'll make it further in life that way.

[BTR]

What I really meant by that is that in a decade or so if your kid really wants to know about your tat an obscure cartoon is strange to describe. I'm just trying to imagine my Dad justifying a Thundarr tat or something 10 years after most people have forgotten about it.

I guess it's easier w/ DVD and the Internet. And it makes more sense for you to have it in your 30's than early 20's for some reason.

In the end, I just don't really care for tattoos.

[Lucky]

Yeah, I think you and I are both there. And to that end aren't most tattoos potentially tough to explain at some stage of your life? At some stage you're a grandfather with a cartoon character branded on your arm. Or at a PTA meeting showing the Chinese symbol for "strength" (at least that's what the guy at the shop said). Or reaching for the cookies you keep out of reach of the kids and revealing your tramp stamp.

A bad tattoo just happens to come with the extra weight of looking stupid when you first get it.

Dec 14, 2008 21:58:24 GMT -5 Eric O'Mac said:

So go with what you think and don't worry about what us naysayers say. You'll make it further in life that way.

HEY! Where's the fun for the rest of us in that?

Muttley tattoo, here I come!

[Byrntrigan]

Now THAT would be cool. Don't forget Dick Dastardly!

[Fire-Babe]

Dec 14, 2008 21:30:20 GMT -5 Lucky said:

Incidentally a large reason I never got a tattoo is because I've always been worried that I'd get it and realize I wasn't cool and I had one of the bad ones. That and I'm cheap and I realize that after 40 your tattoos are almost guaranteed to look ridiculous.

My tattoo still looks awesome

[creepy]

My wife wants me to get a tattoo, but I can't even make up my mind on what to buy with a $75 gift card to Best Buy, I'm such a non-committer to everything.

Plus, I think they're pretty trashy, although I smoked for 12 years and I thought that was trashy (no offense to anyone who has a tattoo or smokes)