that in the USA a biology teacher called a Mr Freshwater has got into hot water for the practise of burning crosses into the arms of some students.
This fourth law of thermodynamics – that energy can be converted into unemployment – has rather scuppered my plans to celebrate my 2009 bicentenary by travelling the land with a brazier, offering to brand ‘there is grandeur in this view of life’ into the flesh of willing biology students.
Meanwhile I am delighted to see my old muse HMS Beagle has been represented as a tattoo on the skin of a most enlightened English teacher in Kansas.
One cannot but congratulate the gentleman concerned on his selection of such an icon of science and human endeavour. I admire his forthrightness in having the Beagle represented at anchor – should he have ink of her under sail, it would suggest that he, like I, has rounded Cape Horn under sail.
After one glass of port too many I did suggest that I might get a tattoo celebrating my being a Cape Horner, but Emma said that it was common and if I did I would be ‘in the guest room’.
….rather scuppered my plans to celebrate my 2009 bicentenary by travelling the land with a brazier, offering to brand ‘there is grandeur in this view of life’ into the flesh of willing biology students.
In this modern era, we have something called “sponsorship”, which in your day might have been called “philanthropy” but the two terms are not equivalent. I feel confident that you could obtain a sponsor to fund you for your excellent proposal above – some worthy and wealthy organization dedicated to the promotion of scientific knowledge.
Science tattoos are now increasingly popular, and not just with pirates.
Perhaps Emam could reconsider?
I had minor worries defying Her Majesty, her Church and its agents in English seats of learning, but if Emma said no tats, it was no Ttats.
Certainly, it is always the best course, to undertake whatever sacrifice is necessary to keep the domestic waters running smoothly.
No Tats is my line, also. I have yet to learn if it holds for those of the teenage persuasion.