Recently, a few of us in the office were tossing around the idea of opening a tattoo parlor in our front lobby. It started as a joke about how our graphic designers, given their artistic abilities, would make excellent tattoo artists on the side (in spite of the fact that not a single one of them has a tattoo).

But I was quick to point out that our little ink shop could also use the talents of our more word-inclined staff members. In fact, I’ve often thought that tattoo parlors would be incredibly smart to hire proofreaders.

I took a quick spin through the Internet to find tattoo typos that people are stuck with until the end of time (or at least until multiple sessions of very painful — and expensive — laser tattoo removal). Here are some of the beauties I saw:

“Only God Will Juge Me” (Hopefully God doesn’t deduct points for spelling.)
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“Tomarrow Never Knows” (But maybe “Tomorrow” does.)
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“Clemons University” (Or Clemson…either way.)
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“Sweet Pee” (I hope you meant “Pea.”)
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“Too Cool for Scool” (Indeed.)
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“Chi-Tonw” (This one actually led to a voluntary typo trend.)
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“Lifes To Short” (And death’s too long.)
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“Your Next” (My next what? I guess the guy ran out of fingers.)
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“I’m Awsome” (Not at spelling, apparently.)
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“No Regerts” (Except this one…)
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There’s no telling whether all of these tattoos are real; it is the Internet, after all. And some of the mistakes may have even been intentional (“Too Cool for Scool,” for example). But you know not all of them were. It just goes to show: Proofreading counts.