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Old 03-02-2021, 03:03   #16
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Re: The History of Traditional Sailing Tattoos

Meanwhile... a really true story.
About 50 years ago I was working out of Hong Kong on ships owned by one of the noble houses.... up until Mao went postal they had traded with mainland China and this had not endeared them to the government in Taiwan.
But trade is trade... and in the early 70s we were calling at Keelung a few days after sailing from Manila.
Now you could fly into Taiwan from Manila and just go on your way... but we had to be humiliated..... on arrival all the ship's bogs were sealed for the port stay ... and the crew had to line up outside the 'hospital' - a single cabin on the poop - nothing fancy .
I think the concern was typhoid or cholera ... don't remember... any way..
Three locals in hospital... drop your daks... glass rod with curly bit on the end up inside one... on your way... 'next!'
How you say "inscrutible expressions'?

So... two Australian engineers decided - in Sydney - to have a pair of big eyes tattooed on their buttocks... the sort of eyes you see on the bows of Chinese junks.... big scary eyes.... that'll make them pay attention..

A few weeks later back in Keelung.... drop... bend ... how you say 'inscrutable'? .. they didn't even blink...

So if you ever meet a 70 something with eyes on his bum... tell him Ping says 'hello'....
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Re: The History of Traditional Sailing Tattoos

In 1962 while serving aboard the USS HORNET, CVS-12, there was an old Gunners Mate who had a W tattooed on each cheek of his rear. When he bent over it read WOW, but when he laid down it read MOM.

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Old 03-02-2021, 19:04   #18
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Re: The History of Traditional Sailing Tattoos

Whilst in the army, it became a craze to get a tattoo.
One mate, when a little worse for wear, went to an obviously poor tattoo artist and asked for a rearing stallion to be put on his bicep.
Sadly, one day when we were working, i noticed his bicep flexing and the rearing stallion somehow - became a laughing donkey!
He haw!
And he would have that for life!
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