A fuchsia high-heeled shoe balances on a coiled tape measure beside gold thread and a spool.

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Steven Wright

I'm going to get a tattoo over my whole body of me, but taller.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A deadpan joke about vanity and impossible logic: the speaker plans to cover their whole body with a tattoo of themselves, only improved by extra height. The picture of a taller self drawn onto the actual self makes self-improvement absurd.

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