August 2, 2005

• Will the Real Word please stand up?

  
  

   

  
  

  After posting that photo of Kane Hodder's "Kill" tattoo from the previous entry, I kept thinking about how much that sucker must've hurt. 

  
  

   

  
  

  And then I thought, "What if the tattoo hurt so much -- that it never really got fully completed?" 

  
  

   

  
  

  So I immediately began flipping through Webster's Dictionary and came up with three possibilities. 

  
  

   

  
  

  Perhaps Kane originally commissioned the word:

  
  

   

  
  

  Killarney [ki lar'ne], n.  Lakes of, three lakes in the SW Republic of Ireland. (Maybe Kane spent an unforgettable summer in Ireland, in which he partook the company of a young lass and sang sonnets to her whist sitting on the docks of the nearby trio of lakes.  But after the buzzing of the first four letters, he bailed and ran to the nearest icepack.)

  
  

   

  
  

  OR PERHAPS --

  
  

   

  
  

  Killifish [kil'e fish'], n. 1. any small freshwater fish of the family Cyprinodontidae, used as bait and for mosquito control 2. Also called top-minnow.  Any of several small North American freshwater killifish.

  
  

  (It would make sense that if Kane was an avid fisherman, he would prefer tattooing the word of the popular bait instead of an image of one -- thinking it would hurt a lot less.  But alas, in mid-word, the pain was still too great that the tattoo artist was forced to stop prematurely.)

  
  

   

  
  

  OR PERHAPS --

  
  

   

  
  

  Killiecrankie [kil'e krang'ke], n. a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians. 

  
  

  (Maybe Kane wanted to document conquering the Scottish trail during his travels.  However, he decided to throw in the towel after weakly asking the tattoo artist, "How many more letters?" -- to which the response was, "9".)

  
  

   

  
  

  But I suppose just like the age old mysteries of the Pyramids, Stonehenge and How many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop -- the world just may never know. 

  
  

   

  
  

  But then again, maybe he really did mean to have the word "Kill" inked into his bottom lip from the start -- to which means that I'm pretty much dead when word gets back to him that I wrote all of the above.  

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

  And for those who care, my recurring arc on Season 2 of  "Tru Calling" is available today exclusively at Best Buy.  It contains the final 6 episodes -- which includes the final unaired Christmas episode (Juicy Tidbit: Pretty much all of us were filled with a glass of red wine during the last shot of that Christmas episode as a last hurrah out into cancellation.  No one was drunk or anything but it was a bit weird drinking on the job -- but honestly, what was FOX gonna do?  Fire us?  Heh, heh.)  

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