TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Lately, I've been hooked on the show Bad Ink on A&E. The series follows tattoo artist Dirk and his sidekick Ruckus as they wander the Las Vegas strip searching for bad tattoos to fix. Often, people seek them out to repair their horrible ink jobs.

It is amazing to see what people actually get permanently inked on their bodies, and also really cool to see how Dirk can take something so bad and turn it into an incredible piece of art. That is talent!

I have one tattoo, and thankfully I like it, but if not these would be the guys I would call!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Wear your heart on your skin in this life."

HINT: (1932-1963), American poet, novelist and short story writer.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Modern-day (legal) tattoos are applied with a needle, tube of ink, electric motor and foot pedal. Ancient methods involved chisels, rakes and picks or soot-covered thread.

Several U.S. presidents are rumored to have had tattoos, including Franklin Pierce and Dwight Eisenhower. Theodore Roosevelt, however, is confirmed to have had a family crest inked into his chest.

"Tattoo" derives from the Polynesian term "ta" meaning to strike. Joseph Banks (1742-1821) brought the word Tattoo to Europe. It quickly replaced other ways to describe a tattoo such as "pric" or "marks".

Throughout history, the government has inspired the use of tattoos. In 1936, after the introduction of social security cards, Americans tattooed their numbers on their arms. In 1955, the assistant secretary of defense recommended U.S. citizens to tattoo their blood type on their arms in case of war.

In order to achieve a tattoo, the second layer of skin (dermis) must be pierced 50 to 3,000 times a minute by a tattoo machine. Consequently, the cells in the dermis are more stable and less likely to change throughout a person's life.

The first tattooing machine (the precursor to today's tattoo gun) was patented by Samuel F. O'Reilley in 1891. It was actually just a modification of an invention designed for autographic printing, first patented by Thomas Edison 15 years earlier.


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Wear your heart on your skin in this life."

ANSWER: Sylvia Plath.


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