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   Mack A. Damia to rob.chorley@gmail.com   
   Re: "He asked for a 13 but they drew a 3   
   13 Mar 22 08:58:24   
   
   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:27:21 -0700 (PDT), rob.chorley@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >13 cool tattoo probably the Mary Jane interpretation is right but a tattooed   
   31 literally means “wank” in Turkish street parlance 3 looks like a gripping   
   hand and the 1 - well you know what that looks like.  So the lyric means he is   
   such a looser that    
   he wanted to link himself to illicit drugs but ended up being branded a   
   wanker.  That’s how I’ve always interpreted it anyway.  Blessings...   
      
   The tattoo artist drew a transposition.  31 is a transposition of 13.   
      
   Fairly common mistake in bookkeeping/accounting.  The difference is   
   always divisible by 9.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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