Emil Shares His Timon and Pumbaa Tattoos

Back at the end of July, I met Emil in Penn Station. He shared these two tattoos from his left arm:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCUbO6Xv2neQrdBMQOHViqvBFjljeAGgjivFmxcGJiGtY46GWKKg7wZTVZ2wresp-w5apL5yhgGAESjwlu0bFtVSSi-NNLBydiVrb54kSYT6_YqObQd17gFzKrxYNmhGqwgvzeCoIajZA/s615/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCUbO6Xv2neQrdBMQOHViqvBFjljeAGgjivFmxcGJiGtY46GWKKg7wZTVZ2wresp-w5apL5yhgGAESjwlu0bFtVSSi-NNLBydiVrb54kSYT6_YqObQd17gFzKrxYNmhGqwgvzeCoIajZA/s640/photo.jpg" width="330" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnV_vwiD9HYrvNtuMcPr6al6SEJYIlnRZH2xqxG9YGEfbg5AhKZC1cqFofq1eZB1XhOrQPjM8fjAtZCbXUe5J4p_pbv2H3-wzMUT-M8VUnCZb6GdnuJEH3vmMyqZW20dz1oCsJ2lBHnPU/s615/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnV_vwiD9HYrvNtuMcPr6al6SEJYIlnRZH2xqxG9YGEfbg5AhKZC1cqFofq1eZB1XhOrQPjM8fjAtZCbXUe5J4p_pbv2H3-wzMUT-M8VUnCZb6GdnuJEH3vmMyqZW20dz1oCsJ2lBHnPU/s640/photo.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">These are the characters <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timon_and_Pumbaa">Pumbaa (top) and Timon (bottom)</a> from the Disney animated film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_King">The Lion King</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Timon is a meerkat and Pumbaa is a warthog, and both were the characters providing comic relief in the film. </span><br />"Why did you get Timon and Pumbaa?" I asked.<br /><br />"They are my idols," he told me.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Emil credited an artist named Richard Holm at </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magic-Man-Tattoo-and-Art/101450726561465" style="font-family: inherit;">Magic Man Tattoo and Art</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Skövde, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sweden. </span>Believe it or not, these are not the first tattoos we've come across from Magic Man Tattoo. A piece was featured previously <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/12/roundabout-tale-of-swedish-tribal.html">here</a>, back in 2009.<br /><br />Thanks to Emil for sharing his tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><b id="internal-source-marker_0.689785297261551" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2012 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are reading this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b>

Emil Shares His Timon and Pumbaa Tattoos

Back at the end of July, I met Emil in Penn Station. He shared these two tattoos from his left arm: These are the characters Pumbaa (top) an...

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