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So I'd thought that Thrasher thrasher: see mimic thrush.
thrasher

Any of 17 species (family Mimidae) of New World songbirds that have a downcurved bill and are noted for noisily foraging on the ground in dense thickets and for loud, varied songs.
 had been removed from the shelves of the stores here in my town (paranoid, crazy man thinking). Just turns out that it sold out. I guess that is what happens when you live in a super skate city like Vancouver. My, how times have changed. Growing up in Edmonton, Canada we had to fight to skate. When I got myself into this crazy skateboard world there were no parks, just gangs of teenagers. Our gang was more about smoking the weed than doing the tricks. In the winter when the skate bug would hit we walked into the underground parkades (heated if we were lucky) and skated whatever we could find. It wasn't really considered breaking and entering breaking and entering v., n. entering a residence or other enclosed property through the slightest amount of force (even pushing open a door), without authorization. If there is intent to commit a crime, this is burglary.  only because they all were unlocked. We would usually get about a full hour before the security would catch on to us. Sometimes there would be a dozen dudes Dudes may refer to:
  • Plural of dude
  • The Dudes, a Canadian band
  • Th'Dudes, a New Zealand band
 in a huge underground game of POSER (POSER is the game of skate for the non-poser) when The Law would show up. Then we all would run. That was the adrenaline adrenaline (ədrĕn`əlĭn, –lēn): see epinephrine.  rush. There is just something about being a skater and running from The Law that we can all attest To solemnly declare verbally or in writing that a particular document or testimony about an event is a true and accurate representation of the facts; to bear witness to. To formally certify by a signature that the signer has been present at the execution of a particular writing so as  to. Think about all the times the law has come and kicked you right out. If they only knew. If we were not skating their forbidden places we'd be doing a lot worse. And now that The Man has started to build skateparks everywhere he can't understand why us skaters keep skating the streets. Well, I sure hope The Man doesn't read this. There has been all this talk of getting skating to the Olympics. The only way skating could get to the Olympics is if every single skate stopper was removed from every building, block, rail and curb of the world. Number two, getting a self-respecting skater to actually enter. Three, getting said skater to pass a friggin' drug test. The last time that I checked there was only one Andy Mac in our scene. Let's keep it that way. But what if I got all this stuff bassakwards, and if skating were in the Olympics? Then all of the world's skate stoppers stoppers

see stopper pad.
 would be removed. Skating is changing. A wise man once said that only poor men will gamble. So, I ask, do only rich men place bets?

John Richards John D. Richard Q.C. (born July 30, 1934) is the Chief Justice of Canada's Federal Court of Appeal.

Richard was born in Ottawa and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Ottawa in 1955, followed by his law studies at Osgoode Hall Law
 

Vancouver, Canada

Rich men cash checks--T-ed
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Title Annotation:MAIL DROP
Author:Richards, John
Publication:Thrasher
Article Type:Letter to the Editor
Date:Aug 1, 2005
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