On board.FUNBOX Q: What's the difference between a bowling ball and a rollerblader? A: You can't get a pitch fork to stick in a bowling ball. --Max Samsides, Knoxville, TN FIVE Sick Companies 1. Adrenalin 2. Anti-Hero anti-hero, principal character of a modern literary or dramatic work who lacks the attributes of the traditional protagonist or hero. The anti-hero's lack of courage, honesty, or grace, his weaknesses and confusion, often reflect modern man's ambivalence toward 3. Consolidated 4. Natural Koncept 5. Illenium --Jay Monson, LA Great Front Crooks 1. Scott Johnston (OG Hubba) 2. Mike Carroll Mike Carroll (born 1975) is a professional skateboarder from San Francisco who skated for H-Street and then formed the super team, Plan B Skateboards. In a mass defection, Mike started Girl Skateboards with fellow Plan B rider Rick Howard. Carroll is often sarcastic towards people. 3. Applebutters 4. Harmony 5. Alaska Jerry --Parker Conant, SF Tricks not as hard as you think 1. 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 tre flips 2. Fake ollie backside tailslides 3. Nollie big spins 4. Switch heelflips 5. Frontside half-Cab kickflips --Tony Nelsons, Groton, CT Tricks that are really hard 1. Regular hardflips 2. Any inward heelflip 3. Switch tre flips 4. Switch backside tailslides 5. Any vert trick --Tony Nelsons, Groton, CT Not-likely comebacks 1. Gator 2. Anthony Oglesby 3. Frankie Hill 4. Claus Grabke 5. Ryan Fabre --Andy Topher, Aimes, IA POET'S CORNER EMBLEM Toehead on his skateboard Threads through a crowd of feet and faces delayed to a slow stupidity. Darts, doubles, twists. You notice how nimbly the body, itself has learned to assess, the relation between the board, pedestrians, and immediate sidewalk. Emblem, emblem of fashion. Wearing dirty white in dishevelment as delicate as the falling draperies on a dandyish Renaissance Saint. Chain around his waist. One hand gloved. Hair dyed to show it is dyed, pale flame spiking from fuel. Toehead on a skateboard perfecting himself: emblem extraordinary of the ordinary. In the sexless sex·less adj. 1. Lacking sexual characteristics; neuter. 2. Lacking in sexual interest or activity: a sexless marriage. face eyes innocent of feeling therefore suggest spirit --Dan Hutchison, Miami, FL AWFUL TRUTH SKATEBOARDER HALT DENVER AIRPORT DENVER (AP) - Passenger screening at Denver International Airport This article is about Denver International Airport. For other uses, see KDEN (disambiguation). Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN, FAA LID: DEN), often called DIA was shut down for about an hour while officials tried to determine whether a teenager running the wrong way on an escalator had evaded security checks. Officials confirmed the teen had just gotten off a flight from New York's LaGuardia Airport LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) is an airport serving New York City, New York, United States, located on the waterfront of Flushing Bay, and borders the neighborhoods of Astoria, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst in the borough and had not breached security. Passenger screening resumed by 6 p.m. Friday. Authorities finally found the teen skateboarding on the platform for the trains that take passengers between the terminal and departure gates. The boy's name was not released. Authorities were considering whether to file disorderly conduct disorderly conduct Conduct likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, fighting in a public place, blocking public ways, and making threats. charges. Long lines of holiday travelers formed at the screening stations during the wait. --AP wire service NEXT 20 SKATERS 1. Oliver Rivas 2. Rodrigo Lima 3. Dylan Reider 4. Greg Myers 5. Crystal Solomon 6. Ben Gore 7. Van Wastell 8. Jeremiah Vance 9. Alexis Sablone 10. Jon Choi 11. Julian Quevedo 12. Daryl Angel 13. Casey Rigney 14. Jordan Hoffart 15. Victor Fonosch 16. Austin Seaholm 17. Gizmo Slang for any hardware device. See gadget. 18. John White 19. Alexandra White 20. Danny Cerezini --Crystal Solomon, Powder Springs, GA RELATED ARTICLE: FIRING LINE: BRIAN ANDERSON DOB DOB abbr. date of birth DOB abbreviation for date of birth; used in medical records. DOB Date of birth : 6.12.76 Shoe: 13 Height: 6'3" Weight: 187 Years skating: 16 Inspiration: Sun Curb or ledge: Ledge Ice cream: Rocky Road Wheels: 52mm First good axe: Steadham mini, OJIIs Country: Australia Tunes: GBV GBV Guided By Voices GBV Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (Library Service Northern Germany) GBV Gender Based Violence GBV Gross Book Value (accounting) , Sonic Youth, Interpol Book: Another Country, James Baldwin Movie: Raising Arizona Spot: Brooklyn Banks, five years deep Skaters: Cardiel, Marcus McBride, Mike Carroll, Stefan Janoski, Hosoi Wisdom: When I grow up, I want to be me |
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