Editing 2255: Tattoo Ideas

| {{w|Lorem ipsum}} is the beginning of and shorthand for a long section of shuffled-up Latin text. It is often used by both print and web designers as placeholder text until final contents are available. Having a Lorem ipsum tattoo would possibly suggest that the tattoo's text is a placeholder for a "final" tattoo. [https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cb/a3/78/cba3788d5839c6f6dc24fcb488a2d4e8.jpg A real Lorem Ipsum tattoo found on the web] may just be a photoshop made by a tattoo artist.

Depending on the scale of the x- and y- axes, as well as the position and orientation of the graph on Randall's body, this might actually be feasible for Randall's entire lifetime. However, it would involve additional pain, expense, and time commitment. Maintaining this novelty tattoo for the rest of his life would seem excessive, but giving it up would once again mean he'd eventually be left with an outdated tattoo.  

| Some systems use "changeme" as an initial password, with the expectation that the password will be changed before the system is used.  In programming, some text fields are initialized with "CHANGEME" to allow the programmer to get the program running for development purposes while making it obvious that the actual text needs to be written and inserted, similar to Lorem Ipsum.  This would be a very difficult operation to perform with a tattoo.

| Intended to provoke the question "What does your tattoo say?" from people not fluent in that language, thus resulting in an interesting or confused exchange  (similar to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M&t=41 Who's on First]).

In case Randall got it in Spanish it would say: ''Es lo que dice mi tatuaje''. So a friend comes up and asks: What does your tattoo say?" Randall replies: ''Es lo que dice mi tatuaje.'' Friend: What does it mean? Randall: It's what my tattoo says! Friend: Yes I know, but what does it mean?...  

| The "tattoo epidural thing" is a mostly debunked medical concern that anesthesiologists attending women in labor would refuse to administer spinal anesthetic (which is injected through the lower back) by needle through the skin with tattoo ink, out of fear of introducing the ink into the spinal column.

| Might come in handy if/when going in for surgery. For instance, there is the {{w|WHO Surgical Safety Checklist}}, which lists the things always to be performed during surgery.  Surgeons do [https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7512/s56 mark patients prior to surgery] to prevent "wrong site" surgeries ("Oh, it was the ''right'' hip that needed replacing..."), but getting such markings as a tattoo would be unnecessary at best and dangerously misleading at worst.

| In the US, a {{w|Social Security number}} (SSN) is a unique, nine-digit number assigned by the federal government to citizens and other legal residents. The original purpose of these numbers was to track Social Security accounts, for collecting taxes and the payment of federal benefits. In practice, it is also widely used in other contexts in which an individual needs to be identified, including applications for loans, employment, and identity papers.  As opposed to many of the other ideas, SSNs [https://faq.ssa.gov/en-US/Topic/article/KA-02220 usually] aren't changed once assigned (often at birth), and neither is the design vulnerable to skin deformation. Thus, the tattoo typically continues to represent valid information for a very long time.

However, learning someone's SSN is often a critical step in {{w|identity theft}} because it is so widely used.  People are often warned to safeguard their numbers and be very cautious about revealing them. Tattooing one's SSN on a customer would mean that both the customer and anyone who happened to see his tattoo in the future would have access to it. That would be a wildly reckless move that very few tattoo artists would be willing to make.{{Citation needed}}  

| Likely a reference to [[286]]. "{{w|All Your Base Are Belong to Us}}" is a broken English phrase found in the opening cutscene of the 1992 Mega Drive/Genesis port of the 1989 arcade video game ''Zero Wing''. The use of this line (and others from the same game) became a popular internet meme for a short time in the early 2000s.

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