Colour traditional-style tattoo of Homer Simpson crouching in green leaves above a blue ribbon banner reading Praise Jebus, on the upper leg.

Homer Simpson with Praise Jebus banner

Traditional · Thigh · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows the cartoon character Homer Simpson bending forward among green leaves, with a blue ribbon banner beneath him carrying the words Praise Jebus in black lettering. The linework is bold and dark with solid fills and little shading. The palette is yellow, green, blue and grey against the skin, and the design sits centrally in the frame.

Traditional Thigh Banner Leaves Lettering Cartoon

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Dilys had the banner spread across the kitchen table since six, and the paint was still tacky when Aled came in stamping snow off his boots. He leaned over her shoulder and squinted. "It says what?"

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"Praise Jebus," she said, not looking up. "Ivan's boy did the lettering on the chapel board last year and it came out lovely. This year he's in Carlisle with his girlfriend, and the black tin was all I could find in the shed."

The banner was for the Christmas fair at Tanglewood Farm, where the cattle shed had been swept out for trestle tables and a raffle. The children had begged for the bald fellow from the telly, so Dilys had drawn him bent over a sack of turnips, grinning like he'd been caught in the hen house, with green leaves tumbling round him and a blue ribbon underneath. Aled said the man looked more startled than holy. She said that was the point.

The fair opened on the coldest Saturday in December. Ruth Pugh, the vicar, stood under the banner with a mug of mulled cider, read the words twice, and laughed until she had to sit down on a hay bale. "Leave it up," she said, wiping her eyes. "Somebody will come in next year and think it's a vow."

By teatime the children had written their names along the ribbon in felt tip, and someone had added a small cow in the corner. Dilys counted the raffle money on an upturned bucket and found the banner had raised more than the cake stall, which Aled said was the only sermon anyone had listened to all year.