SUZANNE: LET'S TALK TATTOOS AND T-SHIRTS
We all know that tattoos have been around for thousands of years, and can be anything and everything from an expression of someone's culture and religion to body art (after all, art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder) to a misguided and impulsive act done on the spur of the moment.
Tattoo is a derivation of the Tahitian word "tatu" meaning to mark something. The ancient Egyptians did it. The Greeks and the Romans did it. The Polynesians brought it to New Zealand, where a type of facial tattooing, Moko, is still used today. The early Britons, the Norse, and the Danes used tattoos ceremonially or as a way of depicting a family crest. Not to mention the early Japanese tradition of tattooing criminals with a mark for first, second and third offenses. (Three strikes and you're out!)
A more benign --- and less permanent --- form of this expression may be found today on T-shirts, bumper stickers, even vanity license plates. I admit I don't wear them, plaster them to my back bumper, or pay extra for them, but they fascinate me all the same. Here are a few of my favorites:
"Veni, Vedi, Visa: I Came. I Saw. I Did a Little Shopping."
"Procrastinate Now"
"Time's fun when you're having flies.......Kermit the Frog"
"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted." --- Mae West
"Fax is stranger than fiction."
"You have the right to remain silent. USE IT!"
"If the shoe fits, buy it in every color."
(This is one of my personal favorites. I moan and groan, and on occasion even weep, when I have to go shoe shopping. The problem: big feet and a size differential. One foot is a size 9½ and the other 10½. Those who've read my contemporary romance GOODNIGHT, SWEETHEART may recognize my feet since I gave them to my heroine, Sydney St. John.)
"It's great to have a friend to grow old with. YOU GO FIRST!"
And in the same vein: "The key to aging well is to pick one and stick with it!"
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"--- Ronald Reagan.
"He who laughs, lasts."
"I don't come with a lot of baggage, but I do have a few little carry-ons!"
"The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously." --- Hubert Humphrey
And last, but far from least: "Chocolate: It's not just for breakfast anymore!"
As we start the new week, do you have any T-shirt wisdom you can share with the rest of us?
Here's to a laughter!
Suzanne
Tattoo is a derivation of the Tahitian word "tatu" meaning to mark something. The ancient Egyptians did it. The Greeks and the Romans did it. The Polynesians brought it to New Zealand, where a type of facial tattooing, Moko, is still used today. The early Britons, the Norse, and the Danes used tattoos ceremonially or as a way of depicting a family crest. Not to mention the early Japanese tradition of tattooing criminals with a mark for first, second and third offenses. (Three strikes and you're out!)
A more benign --- and less permanent --- form of this expression may be found today on T-shirts, bumper stickers, even vanity license plates. I admit I don't wear them, plaster them to my back bumper, or pay extra for them, but they fascinate me all the same. Here are a few of my favorites:
"Veni, Vedi, Visa: I Came. I Saw. I Did a Little Shopping."
"Procrastinate Now"
"Time's fun when you're having flies.......Kermit the Frog"
"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted." --- Mae West
"Fax is stranger than fiction."
"You have the right to remain silent. USE IT!"
"If the shoe fits, buy it in every color."
(This is one of my personal favorites. I moan and groan, and on occasion even weep, when I have to go shoe shopping. The problem: big feet and a size differential. One foot is a size 9½ and the other 10½. Those who've read my contemporary romance GOODNIGHT, SWEETHEART may recognize my feet since I gave them to my heroine, Sydney St. John.)
"It's great to have a friend to grow old with. YOU GO FIRST!"
And in the same vein: "The key to aging well is to pick one and stick with it!"
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"--- Ronald Reagan.
"He who laughs, lasts."
"I don't come with a lot of baggage, but I do have a few little carry-ons!"
"The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously." --- Hubert Humphrey
And last, but far from least: "Chocolate: It's not just for breakfast anymore!"
As we start the new week, do you have any T-shirt wisdom you can share with the rest of us?
Here's to a laughter!
Suzanne
posted at 2:35 PM
