My Wife is a Chinese Symbol
When I first met Ponzi, she had two tattoos - one on each of her ankles. Her body, her choice! They’re neither a “turn on” or a “turn off” for me. She has talked about getting other tattoos through the years, and I’ve certainly made a few bold suggestions:
- Whiskers on her cheeks
- “I’m with Stupid” on her left arm
- Blue squiggly lines on her calves
- A faux soul patch on her chin
- Stigmata on her palms
Fortunately, she doesn’t listen to me all that often. Not sure what prompted it, but while in Hawaii this week she decided to get a tattoo (nothing Digg-worthy, mind you) on her kwrist. That’s not a technical term, but since there’s a krelbow, there must be an inner wrist equivalent. She sent me an iSnapshot last night - and I responded in kind:
I believe hers is the Chinese symbol for “If I want to do it, I’m going to do it come hell or high water.” Mine, of course, is the Chinese symbol for “Great, now the dogs are going to want one, too.”
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15 Comments
E. Night
August 17th, 2007
at 3:40pm
My (Chinese) wife just saw that picture and says that word means “And”, leading to the inevitable question, “and… what?”
William Smith
August 17th, 2007
at 4:39pm
Tattoo’s can be incredibly ****. Thats all, nothing really to this comment except an observation. Heh.
Dawn
August 17th, 2007
at 5:31pm
LOL Hilarious response!
I have a yellow rose on my right hand so, of course, my response is: Good for Ponzi!
Ken
August 18th, 2007
at 3:40am
Peace!
Mark North
August 18th, 2007
at 6:31am
I work at a place where is seems everyone has one! I’m not crazy about them. They look ok when you get them but as time goes by they just get ugly. I think Ponzi looks fine without the body art.
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August 18th, 2007
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lamboman
August 18th, 2007
at 2:25pm
I wonder what Ponzi would look like with all the tatoos that you have suggested Chris…
MGFPR
August 18th, 2007
at 7:52pm
I have my name in my shoulder with roses, so I think is cool
Hugoton Horatio
August 19th, 2007
at 11:56am
What I think matters not, it’s your body. I’ve seen tattoos on people
since i was a wee bit of a child and as one previos writer said, as they
get older, they get ugly.
I always wondered what the people who survived the Nazi concenttration
camps thought of the tattoos they had forced upon them.
I knew a couple, both now deceased, who thought the Nazis were pure
evil. Even today when I see a tattoo, no matter what kind, I think of that
wonderful couple and how my perceptions of life changed when I asked
them about their tattoos.
Monica
August 19th, 2007
at 12:53pm
Actually, from the book that we chose our characters from, Ponzi’s tattoo is a Japanese character meaning harmony. It wasn’t decided on to make a statement to anyone else, rather a personal message to herself, as mine is to myself…we both got tattoos in Hawaii & no matter how ugly or stretched it will get in the future, we will never regret it!
drew olanoff
August 20th, 2007
at 1:02pm
i want the wtf?! one!
CoffeehouseSchmuck
August 22nd, 2007
at 10:41am
I am not a tattoo kind of guy ,but i am carrying around a spare 200 pounds i need to get rid of
K Page
August 31st, 2007
at 10:23am
jeez, I think you totally ‘get’ her. Amazing!
Quincy
November 14th, 2007
at 2:15pm
That symbol means ‘and’ when connecting nouns…could be worse though. A friend of mine got “fish dumpling” on his arm thinking that it was “shark”. haha
bob's mum
October 29th, 2008
at 9:24pm
That tattoo means harmony in japanese.