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Find the meme

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Shannon Larratt

Can you figure out the common theme in Rivers‘s finger tattoos by Dave Kruseman at Memorial Tattoo in Cabbagetown, GA?

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64 responses to “Find the meme”

  1. gogo_savvy Avatar
    gogo_savvy

    No fucking shit…Dave’s work on Modblog? Nice.

  2. Corky Avatar
    Corky

    I said the same thing when I saw that Kruseman’s work ended up here.

  3. jk Avatar
    jk

    At #15: Meybe you’ve forgot, but a couple of years ago a whole bunch of Hollywood celebrities got really into Kabbala.

  4. Balles Avatar
    Balles

    What the hell are mutton chops? O___O

  5. jk Avatar
    jk

    Balles: Those long, think sideburns. Just put “mutton chops” into Google’s picture search.

  6. starless_dark Avatar
    starless_dark

    I like how people were still speculating after rivers posted what they meant :p.

  7. nyssa Avatar
    nyssa

    Er, I just thought I’d point out that saying “Cabbagetown, Georgia” is kind of inaccurate, since Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood within Atlanta. There’s not actually a city called Cabbagetown.

    But the tattoos are neat, and it’s always fun to see a city (or, in this case, a neighbourhood) that I know listed. Hooray for Atlanta!

  8. Greta Avatar
    Greta

    Well… even though river already posted why he got the tattoos, I still like the story that #39 and #45 are pretty good.

  9. Day Avatar
    Day

    I know he already told us, but I’ll give it a try anyway…

    When coffee beans are harvested, jewish people carry them by horse to a market where they sell them for diamonds. Then, they are shipped overseas, The captains orient the ships by the stars and eat pretzels all day until they die from obesity.
    Okay. That wasn’t funny.

    Let’s give it a serious try:
    Coffee = Waking up = Life / Birth
    Star of David = Spirituality ?
    Horseshoe = Luck
    Diamond = Wealth / Beauty
    Anchor = Rest / a Home / family
    Star = Freedom / Orientation
    Pretzel = Always having something to eat
    Death = the final goal we all reach for (wow, I sound like a goth now…)

    So… it’s a description of a happy / lucky lifetime

  10. Mark Henderson Avatar
    Mark Henderson

    I had some old school sailor dice with those symbols on it. I used them to hustle short cash because no one knew what the symbols were so I could win whenever I wanted. Probably not that, but they are familiar.

  11. JESSICA Avatar
    JESSICA

    Does this remind anyone else of the movie gummo?

  12. Mary Avatar
    Mary

    Gummo? o.0

    Doesn’t remind me of Gummo, but he is adorable.
    Probably has the best sideburns on IAM.

  13. Golden Phoenix Avatar
    Golden Phoenix

    As a resident of Staffordshire in the UK i’d like to point out that i believe the “pretzel” is in fact a staffordshire knot.

    [EDIT: I’ve just read Rivers’ comment and i see i am mistaken. Bah, i thought i was being so damn clever too]

  14. Jake Avatar
    Jake

    everybody, scroll up a bit. anything by ‘rivers’ is the actual guy who got the tattoo explaining it. lol.

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