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[Belletrist]

none i have are *racy* but i really *am* into tatts, and these are long term projs that get added to, i have photos of all stages... and since the pics are for me, i'm not real concerned if they're flattering or revealing. anyways thanks to my MSPaint skillz...

 

[DaShiVa]

OK, I was half kidding about the raciness, I do love tattoos, but that one above makes it hard to figure out where it actually even is.. It does look pretty cool - fairly recently done by the looks of it? Whats the script in the middle?

 

[Belletrist]

basically, the left half of this pic is my sternum and general area where cleavage would be had i any. and the upper right corner is the hollow just where my shoulder joint begins/where my clavicle reaches my shoulder.

it's not that recent, most of it... but i had a leaf added, and my tatt guy doublecoated the rest for me just cause he's cool like that.

the script is [very stylized] ancient chinese. basically it says, "bodiless, fearless," or, "without a body, you have nothing to fear" and it *means* no fear of death.

here, this'll work better for reference on the location. :

 

[fair dinkum]

I wasn't going to do this, but why not for a laugh.

This photo is of myself (on the right) and a friend of mine in South Dakota in 1980 outside the airport. I was flying back to Australia to recuperate from a few injuries. Ben (my friend) was the National High School Rodeo Bareback Champion and a bloody good cowboy. I rode bulls and we were both with the PRCA.


This photo is current and was taken last year. I'm 54 in a few weeks and yes you can see I've had a hard life.8-o

 

[DaShiVa]

That first pic is fantastic, it's basically what I expected when I moved out here to texas. needless to say I'm yet to see anyone in a "10 gallon hat" or with steer's horn bullbars or anything like that.

 

[DaShiVa]

basically, the left half of this pic is my sternum and general area where cleavage would be had i any. and the upper right corner is the hollow just where my shoulder joint begins/where my clavicle reaches my shoulder.

it's not that recent, most of it... but i had a leaf added, and my tatt guy doublecoated the rest for me just cause he's cool like that.

the script is [very stylized] ancient chinese. basically it says, "bodiless, fearless," or, "without a body, you have nothing to fear" and it *means* no fear of death.

Two thumbs up.

 

[HzG8rGrl]

I wasn't going to do this, but why not for a laugh.

This photo is of myself (on the right) and a friend of mine in South Dakota in 1980 outside the airport. I was flying back to Australia to recuperate from a few injuries. Ben (my friend) was the National High School Rodeo Bareback Champion and a bloody good cowboy. I rode bulls and we were both with the PRCA.
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This photo is current and was taken last year. I'm 54 in a few weeks and yes you can see I've had a hard life.8-o
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Very Distinguished. Not showing signs of hard life at all. Just a life lived.

 

[fair dinkum]

That first pic is fantastic, it's basically what I expected when I moved out here to texas. needless to say I'm yet to see anyone in a "10 gallon hat" or with steer's horn bullbars or anything like that.

I lived in the States for three years and I think I only saw one "10 gallon hat". Definitely didn't see any steer's horn bullbars even though they were in the movies occasionally.

Very Distinguished. Not showing signs of hard life at all. Just a life lived.

Thanks Tina, I think I'll use that "Just a life lived" line from now on.

 

[Belletrist]

i'm pretty sure i saw steer's horns on a truck in dallas. but dallas, well, is dallas.

 

[DaShiVa]

i'm pretty sure i saw steer's horns on a truck in dallas. but dallas, well, is dallas.

I'll admit, i don't go into downtown much, but I do live in Dallas, still haven't seen cowboy hats, steers horns or any rattlesnakes in, hmm, 7 years now. I havent been held up at gunpoint either tho, or shot at, so can't complain.

 

[Belletrist]

well, every time i've been in dallas, i *have* been to billy bob's... so that may have something to do with it.

 

[Pawpaw]

I'll admit, i don't go into downtown much, but I do live in Dallas, still haven't seen cowboy hats, steers horns or any rattlesnakes in, hmm, 7 years now. I havent been held up at gunpoint either tho, or shot at, so can't complain.

You need to get out of the city, or go to Ft. Worth!

I can't get 3 miles down the road without seeing one (other than my own).

I'm talking about hats. I haven't seen a vehicle on the road with longhorns on it for years.

 

[Taryn]

Well I tried to post earlier but it looks like it didn't take. That is one of the best tats I've seen in a long time Belle!

And Peter you look much better without the 70's porn stache!!

 

[DaShiVa]

heh the only 'cowboy' type hat I've seen around here is the Akubra my parents got my wife. and she never wears it.
To be honest, I probably have seen a few hats around, and not noticed, but the longhorn bullbars and the rattlesnakes I've not seen either of.

 

[Belletrist]

i have a cowboy[girl?] hat myself... but not one o' them fancy texan jobs. just my straw sun-hat version.

taryn, ty! all my own design, but i have to give huge props to my tatt artist (whose shop went out of business i'm sad to say, but he still does appts)... he's excellent and a perfectionist.

 

[leaford]

the script is [very stylized] ancient chinese. basically it says, "bodiless, fearless," or, "without a body, you have nothing to fear" and it *means* no fear of death.

How sure are you of that?

My friend Nui covers up tattoos all the time that don't really say what they're supposed to.

You know, it's supposed to say "Happy lucky prosperous life," but it really says, "buy one from menu A, get two from menu B."

 

[Belletrist]

oh, i'm sure of it, because i speak korean and read some chinese, and it's a verse from the tao te ching which i've studied in english and chinese for several years. took the characters straight from the verse myself and did the stylization myself. but yes, i have seen many language... mishaps (and practical jokes) of that type. like the a$$hole USAF pilot in korea that was a jerk to the korean seamstress that embroidered their ranks/names on their nametapes (the cloth name tag on the uniform) in korean and english for their tours @ Osan. guy walked around with "small penis" stitched in korean below his name for well over a month before the k's in his unit had laughed about it enough and decided to tell him.

 

[pianoguy]

oh, i'm sure of it, because i speak korean and read some chinese, and it's a verse from the tao te ching which i've studied in english and chinese for several years. took the characters straight from the verse myself and did the stylization myself. but yes, i have seen many language... mishaps (and practical jokes) of that type. like the a$$hole USAF pilot in korea that was a jerk to the korean seamstress that embroidered their ranks/names on their nametapes (the cloth name tag on the uniform) in korean and english for their tours @ Osan. guy walked around with "small penis" stitched in korean below his name for well over a month before the k's in his unit had laughed about it enough and decided to tell him.

Bwahahahahahaha!

 

[Belletrist]

don't f'k with people when they're sewing words on your clothes in foreign languages... X1000 if they're tattooing you with words in foreign languages.

 

[Taryn]

Oh I like that seamstress!! My kinda gal!