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Librarian Gets Tattoo of the Harry Potter Dewey Decimal Number - GWS Reader Ink
By Great White Snark | September 4, 2008
You’ve got to admire a woman who is so passionate about her life’s work that the whole world knows about it every time she wears a backless dress.
Meet GWS reader Becca, full-time librarian and aspiring first-ever human card catalog.
Demonstrating a geeky passion that could only be punctuated by rainbows and stars, Becca had the Dewey Decimal number (with the Cutter cataloging code, natch) for Harry Potter tattooed on her back.
I recently finished library school and decided to commemorate the experience with a tattoo that honors my favorite book series (and musical genre*) ever.
(* Check out www.wizrocklopedia.com if you aren’t familiar with Wizard Rock!)
And yes, she arranged for the tattoo to be colored in black and Slytherin green. No joke.
Cheers, Becca. Thanks for sharing and for reassuring us that the rise of the internet still hasn’t extinguished the beloved species known as the saucy librarian.
Do you have a geeky tattoo you’d like to show off? Contact me with a photo and description, and I’ll profile it in a post on this here blog. And I’ll even be gentle about it. Just ask Becca.
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Topics: Tattoos |
Tags: Harry Potter, Reader Ink, Tattoos
September 4th, 2008 at 6:35 am
That is positively awesome - what a unique, if slightly crazy, way to show you’re a fan. You go girl! Really original idea.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Wow.
I used to be really passionate about Goosebumps, but I’m really glad I don’t have “You’re in for a scare!” tattooed above my crotch now and for the rest of my life. Dumb.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:04 am
That is *so* cool!
September 4th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Uh: http://www.modelmayhem.com/abracadavra
September 8th, 2008 at 4:07 am
The “7″ at the end has a mole in it!
Or a black peanut.
You decide.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:54 am
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September 8th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Nice - but she should have got that mole removed first.
September 9th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
High five
=D
September 10th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
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September 10th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
As Bugs Bunny would say,
“What a maroon!”
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September 10th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
But she’s screwed if it changes with one of the many updates to the Dewey Decimal System.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am
great article, would have been worth my time if the images loaded sometime this century