Sometimes, we pick on or tease one another - in private or online. We're pretty darned supportive of each other and aren't particularly competitive. Today, however, my buddy at The State Journal-Register, Mike Kienzler, who blogs as The Abraham Lincoln Observer (ALO), poked a little fun my way. He found a really bizarre story about an athlete who, believe it or not, had Abraham Lincoln tattooed on his neck. ALO shared it in his blog - with the challenge, "Ann Tracy Mueller, top this.
I didn't know we were having a competition. You be the judges. Here are the cards in our latest hand.
- Lincoln Buff 2 (aka Ann Tracy Mueller): Knox College Lincoln Studies Center gets a National Endowment for the Humanities grant of darned near a million bucks, which will aid Lincoln studies and promote the Lincoln legacy for years to come
- ALO (aka Mike Kienzler): Some overpaid jock spends his money inking his body up. It just so happens the image he chooses is Lincoln. This dude will be washed up in a few years and his body art long forgotten, but Lincoln scholars not yet born will use the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Herndon's Lincoln and other Lincoln Studies research.
I don't know, Mike. The tat is cool, but I think my hand trumps yours. Nice try.
2 comments:
Ann: Here you persist in thinking substance counts. Pshaw. We don't need no steenking substance.
Anyway, I never meant to imply I'm trying to one-up you. I know I'm outclassed. I was suggesting DeShawn Stevenson had one-upped you. Unless you have a heretofore undisclosed tattoo -- I know I don't -- I think he beats us both.
ALO,
No undisclosed tattoo here, either.
And, if I did, I must confess I don't think it would be Lincoln, even as much as I like him. I'd likely go for a small, but classy butterfly.
What, substance doesn't count? You mean all this time I've been wasting my time trying to make my work count for something when I could have just been throwing junk out there. Shoot, someone should have told me!
Cheers,
Ann
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