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Posted: 2/10/2006 8:33:59 AM EDT
A while back, somebody posted a pic of their new molan labe tattoo. Anybody know who it was or have the pic?
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FYI if you're considering that tattoo yourself, you may wish to do a spell check on that one.
(MOLON LABE) I hope my Spelling Naziness will be overlooked by the fact that this would be a fairly permanent mark on his body Edit: Aggie types faster than me. |
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Thanks man. That was just what I was looking for. I thought I remembered that you did the research on spelling and letters for ancient Greek. That's why I was asking. I found a few different images online and they all used different characters and/or spellings.
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The first one I found is the one that was right. Wikipeda. Look up Molon Labe and it's there.
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Man, Dusty, you have got some hairy, scarred-up arms!
<--------------------------------- FWIW, here's my molon labe tattoo |
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By the way, right down the middle of your shin, you better be MUCH MAN to handle that shit. Worse than my sternum or nipple, or calf, or back or forearms. |
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If you were really Special Ops, you would've gotten it on your forehead
Crap, that must have hurt! You must have been a skateboarder with all those scars. (Guess how I know.) |
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Haha, that's the exact same thing I was thinking. I thought we had some sort of Sasquatch here. |
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Check didn't come in so the arm stays as shown for a few days. Damn liar told me Saturday it'd be mailed monday. It was mailed today
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Seems I knew someone who had it tattooed on their arm, misspelled of course
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Ok, so the arm should undergo it's amazing transformation tommorrow. Stand by for pics tommorrow afternoon.
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Ok, someone please tell me what "Molon Lave" means. I alwyas see it, yet I do not know what it means.
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"Come and get 'em" "Come and take 'em" Something to that effect. |
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In the context of the Persians telling an ancient Greek king and his army to hand over their weapons in exchange for his life and that of his bodyguards. This was the Greek king's response! Check it out in Wikipedia. good stuff! |
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Fire hydrant at the base of the wrist with a hose coming off each of the 2.5 connections, crossing behind the "343" and then spraying halfway up the side of the maltese cross, with the water splashing off each side below where it his the flames that we are adding to the top of the cross. there will be crossed axes low behind the hydrant and two banners, one saying "never" the other saying "forget" There will be rubble added behing all that with 2 roughly badge shaped stones coming up between the "343" and the bottom of the badge. One will say "PAPD 37" and the other will say "NYPD 23" On the outside across my wrist it's going to say "lets roll" in a nice flowing script. Above that will be an M-4, bayonet affixed Helmet on the butt sticking out of the ground and a traditional yellow ribbon crossing over the middle of it, in the front and the loop of the ribbon will cross behind the helmet. And then each of the 5 armed services will be Initialed in the ribbon at the base. The third narrow side of my arm will have a thin, open scroll, that has the part of Psalm 23 in the Bush used in his Speech on 9/11. Crossing behind all this, in the background will be a random pattern of stars and stripes. Tommorrow (if my damn check comes in) will just be the outline of all that. Later, probably late next week, we will add the outline to the upper part of the arm. It'll all be done in black and gray with one exception. A pheonix will be rising out of the smoke and steam made from where the water contacts the fire on the maltese cross. It's wings will run up the outsides of my arm leaving a big open space on the flat outer part. In that flat outer part will be The Twin Towers, The pentagon, and Flight 93, Flight 93 will be out of scale and quartering away from the WTC so no one thinks its one of the planes that flew into it, and it will also have a large "93" on the fuselage near the cockpit. Between all 3 of these images will be tiny angels flying around. On the ball of my shoulder there will be the face of Jesus looking down upon the images crying tears of blood. I've designed all of it myself, my tattoo artist has drawn it all out because, quite frankly, I can't draw that good. I wanted to make sure that I included everyone that died that day and has, and continue to die and sacrifice fighting the war on terror. Estimate about 9 hours in the chair and $1000 for the rest of the outline and another 8-10 and about another grand to do all the color. There won't be any open space on my arm at all. On the inside of my bicep I'm not sure what I'm going to put there yet but I have a few ideas. |
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Oh yeah, on my leg, After my arm is done, we're adding a pillar or plaque around the "molon labe" to make it look etched in stone. On the outside of my calf will be a statue of Leonidas, on the back of my calf will be the inscription "....the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...." And I have no clue what I'm putting on the inside yet. I may have a contest for ideas
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Dusty,
Damn....that sounds kick ass. Be sure to post the progress. I drew my first tat, and then my artist put his own flavor to it (which I ended up liking). I have some, very little, drawing ability so I like to make my own preliminary sketches. I couldn't imagine tackling a sleeve though. I would just leave the drawing to the artist at that point. |
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TAG for the new TAT tomorrow.
By the way Dusty, Did you ever get that Titanium made into your glock pendant or whatever you were going to do with it? |
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When the arm is done, it's going to be entered in several contests and we'll have some other work going to. I want a pin up girl. That's classic tattoo work and I don't have any good old school stuff. All my ink has very deep, personal meanings. I don't have anything "just because" I'm thinking Betty Page with a Thompson on the outside of my left thigh would fit the bill. |
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Wait until you hit your knee... or the back of your knee. Or the front of your ankle where your foot begins. Fun times. They were all worse than my shin. |
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fuck yea! sorry about the disappointment with "reshaping" titanium. It was worth a shot I guess. |
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I've seen people get it as (modern version):
ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ and ΜΩΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ Which one is right? Would be good to know, cause I'm sitting in the chair this week working on a half sleeve, and have really thought of adding in the saying. |
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And actually, in ancient Greek, it'd be more like [mo.lón' la.be'], where the accent indicates a long vowel, periods indicate syllable breaks, and apostrophes indicate the stressed syllable.
Modern greek would have it [mo.lón la.ve]. |
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