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Per the title text: I've overheard various people mention, usuallt in arguments, tattooing information to prevent it being forgotten. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.147|172.69.68.147]] 22:06, 20 December 2019 (UTC) M.Striker
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Per the title text: I've overheard various people mention, usually in arguments, tattooing information to prevent it being forgotten. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.147|172.69.68.147]] 22:06, 20 December 2019 (UTC) M.Striker
  
 
Reminds me of [https://www.ikea.com/se/sv/p/markerad-matta-kort-lugg-vit-svart-00434753/ this rug] (sold by IKEA), which looks like a giant receipt of the very same rug. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.111.187|162.158.111.187]] 23:09, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 
Reminds me of [https://www.ikea.com/se/sv/p/markerad-matta-kort-lugg-vit-svart-00434753/ this rug] (sold by IKEA), which looks like a giant receipt of the very same rug. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.111.187|162.158.111.187]] 23:09, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
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The tattoo subtext makes me think it's referring to the 2001 film 'Memento', a film noir in which the main character tries to solve a mystery while suffering from amnesia so he carries a bundle of clippings from motel-room to motel-room and has the most important clues tattooed onto his body.
 
The tattoo subtext makes me think it's referring to the 2001 film 'Memento', a film noir in which the main character tries to solve a mystery while suffering from amnesia so he carries a bundle of clippings from motel-room to motel-room and has the most important clues tattooed onto his body.
 
[[User:RimGreaper|RimGreaper]] ([[User talk:RimGreaper|talk]]) 23:55, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 
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Firesign Theater had a scene in their album, "Don't Crush that Drawf, Hand Me the Pliers," that has a mural named, "Heroic Struggle of the Little Guy to Finish the Mural." [[User:Cosumel|Cosumel]] ([[User talk:Cosumel|talk]]) 17:16, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
  
 
I'm disappointed that the bulletin board itself only counts as one of the generic office supplies. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.222|162.158.34.222]] 10:39, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 
I'm disappointed that the bulletin board itself only counts as one of the generic office supplies. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.222|162.158.34.222]] 10:39, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

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Per the title text: I've overheard various people mention, usually in arguments, tattooing information to prevent it being forgotten. 172.69.68.147 22:06, 20 December 2019 (UTC) M.Striker

Reminds me of this rug (sold by IKEA), which looks like a giant receipt of the very same rug. 162.158.111.187 23:09, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Getting all information on that receipt correct would be quite challenge even with pre-ordering ... -- Hkmaly (talk) 23:13, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
The explanation suggests the actual receipt is printed on the rug, but it's not custom made. 162.158.234.140 16:31, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

The tattoo subtext makes me think it's referring to the 2001 film 'Memento', a film noir in which the main character tries to solve a mystery while suffering from amnesia so he carries a bundle of clippings from motel-room to motel-room and has the most important clues tattooed onto his body. RimGreaper (talk) 23:55, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Firesign Theater had a scene in their album, "Don't Crush that Drawf, Hand Me the Pliers," that has a mural named, "Heroic Struggle of the Little Guy to Finish the Mural." Cosumel (talk) 17:16, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

I'm disappointed that the bulletin board itself only counts as one of the generic office supplies. --162.158.34.222 10:39, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

A quick search provided a real world example of the title text "A tatoo if a tatoo parlour receipt". The exercise of string and tacks is left for readers of Pinerest Iggynelix (talk) 15:09, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

This example should be added to the Explanation!
ProphetZarquon (talk) 16:15, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
If only that bit of the Explanation could also serve as an example... 162.158.158.93 20:24, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
Added it and other things here above to the explanation. Of course he was from Norway... (Said the Dane, next door neighbor to Norway, with almost the same written language :-). --Kynde (talk) 23:08, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

ROTFL because it reminds me of some program managers at a former company who thought they could organize tasks on a large project by putting them up on a board and sequence-ordering them with colored twine. Made for a nice piece of modern art and not much more. Cellocgw (talk) 15:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

I think that its a play on puting the cart before the horse. You can't make a Thumbtacks and string diagram without thumbtacks and string, you can't tattoo a receipt for the tattoo without having got the tattoo. 172.69.63.213 16:58, 23 December 2019 (UTC)