Rows of surgical staples look a zip fastener. All that is needed to complete the illusion is the option of inserting a couple of more staples which are designed to look like the running fastener and the crimped ends of a real zip.
-- xenzag, Jan 20 2013

Surgical stapling http://www.umm.edu/...cision-closures.htm
Diagram image of stapled wound. [xenzag, Jan 20 2013]

Zipper tattoos http://www.google.c...AQ&biw=1245&bih=640
Honestly, some people are just too weird for words. [AusCan531, Jan 21 2013]

Silly, except I think it might be marketable.
-- Kansan101, Jan 20 2013


It would be good for children, but not young children or they might unzip it [cringe].
-- DIYMatt, Jan 20 2013


Some (many actually) people seem to think tattoos of zippers are cool [link]. The image of the lady with a real zipper in her cloven tongue rather grosses me out.
-- AusCan531, Jan 21 2013



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