What kind of dork gets a conrail tattoo?
A CONRAIL TATOO ??? WHY?
Perhaps someone like…; no, I won’t say who. I could add, “Why even mention this thing?”
Lady Firestorm says “If it’s on his butt maybe it’s a ‘cutie mark!’”
Private joke between us and Zugmann.
Perhaps, a Foamer with too much time between trains? [:-^]
Or maybe, a guy, who could not aford a military band to perform a Tatoo? [:^)]
OP?
Forgive me for raining on this man’s parade, but I never saw the Conrail logo displayed like this anywhere, anytime.
First, the color is (was) much more of a true blue; this looks to be blue-green.
Second, the symbol was never shown (that I know of) with the letters on their side. As shown, it looks like a theatre marquee. I’d have turned the letters 90 degrees clockwise.
Third, the very idea of putting a corporate logo of any sort on my (formerly, to be sure) beautiful body makes this Age of Aquarius Boomer just shivver with horror.
Fourth, in about 20 years, will this lad be saying of his tattoo, “No regerts”?
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What started this is that a young freind of mine (22) has a Conrail Quility Tatoo. He got in railfanning via his instrest in grafftie art and then got sucked into geekdom from there.
Looks more like a stencilled or screen-printed paint job - too solid, dense, and uniform to be a tattoo - they’re usually somewhat transparent/ less opaque/ faded/ thin, etc.
- Paul North.
thanks, Larry–I certainly could not afford that band. Nobody should conplaim about that tattoo.
After the end of the performance, I saw that several other band performances are available.
I concur-it looks a lot like the temporary tatoos given out to kids. I have some Pointless Arrow and F40PH ones from Amtrak’s 40th somewhere.
It does look to me like something that a child might want on him/her. As NKP guy said, it certainly is not true to life; it is something you might expect from someone who knows a little about Conrail and does not know enough, or care, to be true to the original.
Now that there’s some “Quility” work. [:-,]
Um, how is that… uh… nevermind. I probably don’t even want to know.
Make the aquaintance of a pack of ten-year-old girls, I’m sure they can explain “cutie marks” to you!
How do I know? My spies are everywhere…
By the way, I was asked once if I’d ever gotten a tattoo when I was in the Marines.
“No!” I said, “I never got that drunk!”
You appear to have been a most unusual Marine. I don’t think that I’ve ever met an ex-Marine without the globe and anchor tattooed somewhere.