Instructional Ink for IRKs

Many thanks to the illustrious @thumperchick!

My tat is on my upper arm, and I never wear sleeves, so it’s visible all the time. I get loads of compliments on it, like “Oh! What a cute elf! Is he from an anime?” and “I love your tattoo! That’s Yoda, right?”

@Kyeh they actually have a pretty cool logo! So what I read from this is that the I4I crew should get to know each other’s life events more and maybe be in a band together, and one day it will go into Amazon’s lease that people with the tattoo can get a free audiobook once a quarter? But that we won’t, really, because it won’t be the same.

I looked up the logo to get a better look at it. There is a certain looseness with facts in the history of it. From http://jimmythecornman.com/about/ :

Jimmy is named after the youngest son of Robert Jr. who was 5 at the time. He sits on a corn on the cob shaped rocket, commemorating when the first man landed on the moon in the 1970’s. It is said that “Jimmy the Cornman” was on that flight and his recipes fit his slogan of being “Outta this world”.

(Emphasis added).

@djslack Hah, I had to look up the moon landing, not great at remembering dates - but for a write-up they should have checked.
I actually love the little guy on the corncob rocket - it’s cute and really amusing.

@elfunkman I’ll see if I can explain the tattoos.

They are official, meh tattoos.

It started as a birthday celebration and someone at meh had the bright idea of offering a “special” prize if someone would get an Irk tattoo. They didn’t think anyone would. Ha! They don’t know us too well, I guess.

Anyway a couple of people got tattoos. Here is the thread about it:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/tattoos--or--when-the-community-does-something-unexpected

From there the tattoo thing was offered at another birthday and another and another. Probably another, I think.

Anyway, officially, it has to be a Meh invitation in order to get free Irks.

I’m sure others will correct me if I am wrong about all of this.

Edit: We do need a name for this motley tattoo group.

@elfunkman We need an official meh invitation. I don’t know if they’ll open it again. Also, I was at charity ball recently for my work and my boss was there and happened to notice my ankle tattoo.
She said: I have to ask… do you have a beaker on your ankle?
me: oh, yeah I do.
her: what’s the story behind that?
me: I’m cheap (then I went on to explain the website and the tattoo for mystery boxes of stuff)

@elfunkman To answer your question about fake tattoos, Meh asks for a receipt from the tattoo shop and then each time Meh has a mehrathon, those with official tattoos must post a picture to show that they still have theirs on their body.

@elfunkman oh and yes, they keep a list somewhere of the official “in kids” I am sure. I believe @thumperchick is the keeper of it.

@elfunkman @mbersiam The correct answer was It’s a flask, you heathen.

To me a mehoo sounds like ‘yahoo’, but more meh, I guess.
I know people have ‘jokingly’ put a sharpied tattoo pic up.
And yes we get an IRK as long as we post on the thread during the mehrathon. Pic has to have the date (or something showing it’s a mehrathon day,)and the tattoo.

@remo28

I was too lazy to use a sharpie for my attempted fakeout. Used the cheapest ballpoint I had handy. It looked BAD.

Somehow, they saw thru my apparent perfection.

However, I thought they could have at least wasted some Meh $ and shipped me an empty/TexasAir IRK box.

Since all this happened on April First, and since I’m kinda known as a @f00l.

@remo28

To me a mehoo sounds like ‘yahoo’, but more meh, I guess.

#mehtoo

@cynloub Well, don’t do it just get Irks - it’s not currently open to new applicants - see above in this thread.

@Thumperchick
/giphy thank you!

@Thumperchick Thanks!