#military tattoos

[texasaggie-seaknight]

Soldier stud Aaron… (part 2 of 2)

[thewordwideweb]

Tattoo: A real toe-tapper!

The human voice box is capable of creating only a finite number of sounds, so it’s not terribly unusual or surprising when the same sounds are put together in different parts of the world to make words with entirely different meanings. Take today’s Word of the Day: tattoo.

Tattoos, like the ones sported by my wife and daughter, are, as we all know, usually indelible marks made by inserting pigment into little punctures on the skin. “Tattoo” is derived from words in Tahitian, Samoan and similar Polynesian languages; words such as “tatau” and “tatu,” which mean, appropriately enough, a “mark made on skin; puncture.”

A perhaps less well-known tattoo is the military tattoo. My friend Michael recently returned from a trip to Scotland where, he says, for the first time since the pandemic began, they have resumed the military tattoo ceremony at Edinburgh Castle.

A military tattoo is “an evening drum or bugle signal recalling soldiers to their quarters; an entertainment consisting of music, marching, and the performance of displays and exercises by military personnel; a rhythmic tapping or drumming.” (Oxford Languages Online)

The etymology of the military tattoo is Dutch, and it’s a real toe-tapper! The original Dutch phrase was “doe den tap toe,” (“turn off the tap”), and it referred to a drumbeat or bugle call (or sometimes just a visit by the local police) to alert tavern-keepers near military bases to stop serving beer and liquor to the soldiers and send them back to their quarters. (Not unlike the origin of “curfew,” from the French “couvre-feu” – cover + fire – a time to extinguish the fire in the fireplace and call it a night.)

So that explains how Polynesian “tattoo” and Dutch “tattoo” are so radically different. But I’m not sure I can explain Hervé Villechaize as Tattoo on Fantasy Island. “De plane, boss, de plane!”

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Filippe Abreu

[holywhorror]

can someone tell me why special ops, former servicemen, cowboys, bikers, tattooed gun & knife enthusiasts, and metalhead gym rats are so hot?? what's the math behind this? why big scary man sexy?

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[texasaggie-seaknight]

Soldier stud Aaron… (part 1 of 2)

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[gghoneylove]

It is only me that can give you peace of mind 🥳🥳🤠🤠

Rest on me for a bit so you can cool off 🥶🥶🥶

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Jeff Sorensen

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Construction

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