What are you doing today?

[Back in the fold]

My official ban hammer is a 5 lb sledge hammer. But the head is detachable to reveal a built-in lightsaber. It also converts into a fine fishing pole.

Did you swipe it from your little guy that fishes in your aquarium ?

 

[gwand]

I think we need to pool our pocket money and put creatine in cans of spinach. Old guys of a certain age will get it, and buy it by the ton. We can then all settle down, and build a gym with 360 gallon tanks all around it so we can have something to watch while we toil.

The reference to spinach brought back a very old memory. When I was in medical school, I had a cadaver that when living was a merchant marine. He was tattooed from head to toe. Every square inch of his body was adorned with an image. In this day and age, that is not a rarity. However, in 1975 it surely was. The largest tattoo was a ship’s anchor blazoned across his chest and two smaller anchors on each bicep. I named him Popeye, thus the spinach reference.

 

[GaryE]

I worked with a tough old guy in the 70s, when tattoos weren't in fashion. They were for old guys who had been wartime merchant marine, and that was about it. He had an eagle - head on his throat, wingtips on his shoulders, talons and perch below his bellybutton. We were working one day and I asked him how long it had taken. He said quite some time, over a few weeks. Since tattoos were an unknown, I asked how painful it had been to have one done. He said he didn't know, he was drunk at the time.

I remember seeing a forearm anchor and being told, in reverential tones, that only a sailor who had done the ultra dangerous Murmansk Convoy run could have that exact one. I asked what would happen of someone got one because they liked it (I was a young teenager) and was told that a young person with that tattoo would be beaten up by every decent man who saw it. These things had rules!

People get tattoos for personal meaning now, but at one time, sailor tattoos carried serious messages.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I've never had a tattoo. I've had a few piercings, but none of them were on purpose...

 

[gwand]

I've never had a tattoo. I've had a few piercings, but none of them were on purpose...

Does circumcision count?

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Does circumcision count?

Let's keep it family friendly...

 

[jaylach]

I have one tattoo that being a Pegasus on my left forearm. It actually has meaning. First I think of a Pegasus as a symbol of freedom. Second is that there is a broken rope on the left foreleg. The rope is symbolic of my taking off a wedding ring that involved a woman I never should have married in the first place.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Took a hike with the girls today. About three miles up the PopoAgie valley, had some lunch, and back out. I’m not much of a photographer but there were tons of wildflowers (does anyone know what kind this is?), nice scenery, a young grouse that seemed to think one of us was its mother, and a rather amazing looking moth: a cecropia perhaps?

 

[jaylach]

Took a hike with the girls today. About three miles up the PopoAgie valley, had some lunch, and back out. I’m not much of a photographer but there were tons of wildflowers (does anyone know what kind this is?), nice scenery, a young grouse that seemed to think one of us was its mother, and a rather amazing looking moth: a cecropia perhaps?View attachment 369109
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As to the blue flowers I THINK they are Blue Bonnets.

Awesome looking moth! Ever seen a Lunar Moth? I THINK they would be very rare as far north as we are but would see now and then when I lived in Florida. They are VERY short lived and you will see one for a day and then gone.