Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: there’s a woman in Wales with her dead cats tattooed on her back. The cats’ names are Tinky, Woody, Mr Brush, Mr Spock and Bella. While we don’t know with 100 percent certainty that Bella the cat is named after Bella the abstinent vampire lover from Twilight, I’m going to go out on a limb and file this one under “ladies who name their cats after Twilight characters do the darnedest things.” It’s a nice follow-up to the one who had to fight off Renesmee the cat with her husband’s c-pap machine.

Trust me: You’re going to want to see this tattoo.

Fran Bailey, 23, had the puss pictures permanently inked on her skin so can always remember them. Fran said: “I love my cats and I love my tattoo. A lot of people who have lost pets can relate to it.”
Fran took in the cats from animal shelters and cared for her poorly cats at her home in Newtown, in Powys, Mid Wales.
She said: “When I went to the rescue centre I asked for the most ill and unloved cats they had so that they would have somewhere to go.
“That meant the ones I had were ones with feline AIDS so they all died. On average I lost one every two months.”

Well yeah, if you’re adopting AIDS cats, you’re going to need at least six to last you the whole year, everyone knows that. Okay, enough foreplay, let’s see this tattoo with the incredible backstory:

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Apologies in advance if you’re an LSU fan and this is old news to you (I figured the boys at EDSBS would’ve known about this, and indeed he got a mention in last year’s Name of the Year bracket from NameoftheYear, eventually losing to deserving winner “Taco BM Monster”), but there’s an LSU defensive lineman named A’Trey-U Jones and I only just now found out about it (thanks, Larry). As you can imagine, this is an exciting day for me. An apostrophe AND a hyphen seems like an excessive amount of punctuation for one name, but presumably, he’s named for Atreyu, the Neverending Story’s warrior of the plains, who journeyed forth on the back of Falkor the Luckdragon in their courageous battles against The Nothing. I like to imagine A’Trey-U of Tickfaw taunts chop-blocking fullbacks with shouts of “COME FOR ME, GMORK!” in much the same fashion.

And I don’t want any whiteys acting superior in the comments section just because black folks give their kids crazy names. The owner of the 49ers (read, a rich white dude) just named his kid “Jaxon.” Yes, with an X.  Say what you will about crazy black names, “D’Brickashaw” is still a thousand times cooler than “Braden.” I’ll take excessively-punctuated, semi-obscure pop-culture homages over “cleverly” spelled alliterative fauntleroyisms any day.

[LSU]

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