January 25, 2004
Think Again Before Getting Tattooed

Sakai, an award-winning tattoo artist, was tired of seeing sacred Japanese words, symbols of his heritage, inked on random white people. So he used their blissful ignorance to make an everlasting statement. Any time acustomer came to Sakai’s home studio wanting Japanese tattooed on them, he modified it into a profane word or phrase.

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No-Prize to Nina for the submission!

Posted by Ellen at January 25, 2004 01:10 PM
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I think you've been had. I remember seeing that elsewhere (maybe even 18 months ago) that it's a prank. lemme go look and get back to you.

Posted by: liz on January 25, 2004 03:03 PM

yup, definitely had:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/roundup.asp

but a very well-done one, at that.

Posted by: liz on January 25, 2004 03:06 PM

Thanks!

You know, the funny thing is, I think we actually linked to the urban legends site at one point.

Getting old sucks.

Posted by: Scott on January 25, 2004 07:21 PM
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