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Florida sucks and you know it.


YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, another Florida article--seems like a lot of skate trips have been hitting it up as of late. The Tampa Pro and Am contest brings a lot of skaters to the Dead End state. This isn't going to be an article that starts off with "I woke up at 6:00am and drove to the airport, my flight sucked Blah, blah, blah." You know how the rest goes; you've read them before. Everybody goes through the same shit when traveling, no need to keep bringing it up. It's not about how you got to the airport, the shitty shit·ty  
adj. shit·ti·er, shit·ti·est Vulgar Slang
1. Of very poor quality; highly inferior.

2. Contemptible; despicable.

3. Unfortunate; unpleasant.

4.
 food you ate, and how much of a bitch you are to travel with! Yes, I was only kidding about the whole Florida Sucks thing. I really don't want to go there next year and get a beat down from my friends' wives who grew up there. Florida is a great time, lots of different places to skate like concrete skate parks, backyard pools, and of course street stuff. Oh yeah, and the titty bars rule too! Skateboarders there love to drink beer and the southern hospitality is in full effect. If you think it sucks, you're hanging with the wrong people and in the wrong places! Just look at the skate talent that's come out of Florida over the years. There's something in the water for sure.

Mike Peterson Porter Michael "Mike" Peterson (born June 17, 1976 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American football Middle linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. Also played for the Indianapolis Colts from 1999-2002. , lien air, Kona

Florida Fun Fact #1: Bike Week in Daytona Beach--David Allen Coe plays for free every night at the Iron Horse Saloon

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Rodney Jones, noseblunt nollie flip

Florida Fun Fact #2: Flamingos get their color from how much shrimp they eat--the more shrimp, the deeper the color

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Peter Hewitt Peter Hewitt can refer to:
  • Peter Cooper Hewitt
  • Peter Hewitt (film director)
, feeble to fakie Fakie is, in skateboarding, a synonym for riding backwards on a skateboard. When used in conjunction with a trick name, like "fakie ollie", it means that the trick was performed while with your normal back foot as the front foot on the nose of the board, rather than the back of the  

Florida Fun Fact #3: On Thursdays in Florida it is illegal to fart in a public place after 6:00pm

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Steve Brandi, pop shove-it A pop shove-it starts like an ollie: the skateboarder jumps up and kicks the tail down in order to get the board airborne but then also pushes the tail of the board to its side in order to get the board spinning. The rest of the trick is like in a normal shove-it.  

Florida Fun Fact #4: Miami installed the first bank ATM, designed especially for the local fruitbooters

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Jordan Hoffart, nosebone

Florida Fun Fact #7: There are a ton of hot chicks that like to drink in Tallahassee

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Graham Bickerstaff, 360 flip

Florida Fun Fact #8: Beer of choice with the bowl trolls: Old Milwaukee Old Milwaukee is an American lager-style beer currently brewed under contract by Miller Brewing Company, and owned by Pabst Brewing Company. The Old Milwaukee marquee is used by a vast family of products which includes Old Milwaukee, Old Milwaukee Light, Old Milwaukee Ice, and Old  (not Budwiser)

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Tyler Hansen, back lipper

Florida Fun Fact #9: 367 death row inmates waiting for execution

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Cab, back Smith stall

Florida Fun Fact #10: More golf courses than any other state

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Jimmy Lannon, ollie Ollie may refer to the following:
  • Shortened form of the given name Oliver
  • Ollie (skateboarding trick), the skateboarding trick invented by Alan "Ollie" Gelfand
  • Ollie Impossible, a variant of the trick first performed by Rodney Mullen
 

Florida Fun Fact #11: You will still see people wearing neon beachwear, just like in the '80s

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Kyle Berard, Cab backside BACKSIDE, estates. In England this term was formerly used in conveyances and even in pleadings, and is still, adhered to with reference to ancient descriptions in deeds, in continuing the transfer of the same. property.  disaster revert

Florida Fun Fact #12: Chuck Dinkins still Has a pro model out

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Author:Ogownn, G. Ed
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Date:Aug 1, 2005
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