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Getting tattooed's a time-honored way to immortalize a loved one lost, a seminal life experience, or an ideal you hold dear, and almost always is a terrible, horrible mistake. Cruelly celebrating that fact, Ugliest Tattoos.

From a Berkeley chick and a guy named Stephen comes Ugliest Tattoos, a no-holds-barred compendium of the world's most "brain-explodingly terrible" ink, editorialized with snark so brutal, you'll pity their poor subjects. OK, no you won't. To wit:

A Beyond Sloppy Rendering of the Patriots' Mascot: "It's been a rough couple years for the New England Patriots...The fans deal with the disappointment in various ways. One guy drank an entire case of Narragansett Beer and then ordered his five-year-old son to draw Pat Patriot on daddy’s arm with a safety pin and the ink from his Crayola markers."

A Colorfully Cluttered Homage to "Daughter", "Country", and "Star Wars": "Is there anything else you’d care to defile -- I mean, honor -- by including it in this mess, or are you satisfied with just the three? Perhaps a religious emblem, beloved landmark, or deceased ancestor? Come on, I think I see room there on one of your love handles for a portrait of grandma."

"I'm Gonna Kill You, Ray Romano": "There's just one problem: you spelled 'My Parents Didn't Pay Enough Attention To Me' wrong."
 

 

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