Thanks to wheatbread1877 for this silly little tattoo of a youthful grim reaper riding his Big Wheel. Tattoo by Sin-D at Creations in Revere.

Even though it’s the holidays and I think I probably deserve a break, I’ve tried to post lots of stuff to keep you amused. You got a big tattoo gallery today, a piercing shot, and even a couple suggestive entries of pretty girls. So no complaining! But if you do… Here’s who I’m sending your way.

Family Guy tattoo done by Toran Marshall at Generation X in Willoughby, Ohio.

Ha ha, Marty has Pooh on his butt! Better learn to wipe!

Yes, I am so immature and easily amused.
Tattoo by John Hilsmeyer at Miller Cotton’s in Worcester, MA.

Yes, it’s a MY SPOON IS TOO BIG tattoo. If you’re not sure what this is about, you can watch the inspirational video here (if that link is broken, just search online for “my spoon is too big”).

I think I may have confused my records, but if I didn’t, that’s done by Rev. Marshall at Exotica Tattoo in Madison, WI. Marginally related are these wedding tattoos by Alastair “A.J.” Cameron-Hodges at Mom’s Tattoo in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Now I feel dumb because I can’t remember the origin of this tattoo… Phil told me about it (and the first one in the entry too) when it came in, but he’s gone fishing today… So someone post in the forum about these!

Poor Jynx (at Electric Expressions in Kenner, Louisianna), being forced to snif his customer’s armpit while doing a series of star tattoos for her (unless you get off on that sort of thing)…

You’ll find that it’s rare for me to say I don’t like a tattoo. I’m cool with anything from little roses and dolphins and stars on up to large radical custom work… But I’ve got to admit that these “EXIT ONLY” tattoos rub me the wrong way.

Seriously, it’s not funny or witty at all. And if you ever find your chubby homophobe ass in a situation where all that’s protecting you from anal rape is that tattoo, you can pretty much bet on it backfiring terribly and doing little to defend you.

See, that’s a better way to do it…

Right now a customer of Cheyenne at Oddball Studios in Portland, OR, is flipping out about the nautilus tattoo they got on their nape. Apparently their friends ribbed them about the end of it looking like a penis, and now they’ve convinced themselves that the cock was actually added to the drawing as a cruel and twisted joke by the tattoo artist. They’ve been slagging the studio to BME members, on LiveJournal, and it’s even become a Fark photoshop contest.

Here’s the tattoo in question:

I mean, I guess I can convince myself there’s a cock in there if I really want to believe it, but if I’m stretching my “must see tubesteak now” muscle that far, I’m in a world of dick, and seeing forests of wang all around me (the supermarket’s cucumber and zucchini section is my pornography). Here’s a few pictures of a real nautilus shell. The left most one is one of the pictures that the client showed Cheyenne, and the others I grabbed from Google as examples:

They all kind of look like cock if that’s really what you’re desperate to see — and if you’re not a confident person, I suppose you could come to truly believe it if you’re friends teased you about it… But I think when you transfer the blame to the tattoo artist and actually start campaigning against what to the best of my knowledge is a top quality shop, you’ve crossed a karmic line that reflects very poorly on you.

To the wearer of the tattoo, I have but one piece of advice for you: If you ever go to the zoo, avoid the elephant enclosure.

Anyway, the tattoo doesn’t look like a cock. It looks like a urinal (source).

I’m not so sold on it, but Rachel is a fan of ranch dressing. That said, she’s definitely not as big a fan of it as this customer of long-time BME contributor Chris Govier (check out his portfolio for some nice portrait work by the way) at Dragon Ink in Swansea.

Edit: I messed up my files somehow; this tattoo is actually by Shauncey Fury on Brandon from Across Five Aprils. My apologies to everyone affected!