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DON'T GRIND W/O A COPER
Everyone knows that the next
best thing to skating is women, at
least that's how I feel. So, if you
have enough sense to wear a helmet
or kneepads when you skate, you
ought to have enough sense to wear
a condom when you're having sex.
I didn't, and my ex-girlfriend is preg
nant. I'm only 17 years old and this
is literally destroying my life. I am
constantly depressed. All you
skaters and everyone else out
there-don't be as ignorant as I was;
learn the facts about sex and keep
yourself protected. For yourself and
your friends, be careful.
Too Young To Be a Dad
Somewhere in Mass.
JAZZ PEST
We have a severe problem in our
town, all of these old ugly people
come to our town because we have
a jazz festival. Why do the teens
have to suffer through it? Why can't
we have a rock festival with some
hardcore? Or EZ-E?
Lars EDS Hamner
FH, WA
A) The people will be even uglier.
B) Start a hardcore band and play
the jazz fest. Set up a mini-ramp and
tell them it's some aboriginal percus-
sion instrument. Ted
UNDYING QUESTION
One question. What are all these
vampires doing reading skate
mags?
Blake Olson
River Grove, IL
Skulls, scabs and Puszone, dude.
T-ed
BROKEN BONE HOME
My son Seth is an avid reader of
Thrasher, and a participant in many
sports, especially skateboarding. My
philosophy is that kids should be
allowed to have fun. We as parents
should give them the courage to try
all the things they want to do. Isn't
that why we have health insurance?
Make sure our kids are well-
equipped and send them out. Now
here's my problem. My son's body
can't take all the things he wishes to
do. He's had broken bones and just
six weeks ago got a full-length leg
cast off. And now! Crushed cartilage
in his right ankle.
Is there a solution? Probably not,
I guess just lots of understanding
and love from a parent. Thanks for
listening to me.
S. Hjort
Petersburg, AK
Courage is great, but it works best
in tandem with common sense-
unless you want to keep paying more
for health insurance. T-ed
SCALY MODEL
Why doesn't Mike McGill put a
fish on his board? You know, gill-
fish. Get it? How 'bout a trout?
Mr. & Mrs. Fisher
Rochester, NY
HOW LOGO CAN YOU GO?
Don't you hate it when you
outgrow your skate T-shirts and you
don't have enough money to buy a
new one? Well, I have a solution to
this problem. For example, you cut
cut the symbol on the back of an OJ
Il T-shirt you've outgrown and get
Momma to sew the patch onto a
blank T-shirt. It also works well if you
sew a VSW or Psycho Skates logo
onto a sweatshirt.
Stephen Prentice
Morristown, NJ
if you tattoo the logos on your
forehead they never wear out. T-ed
MAVERICK DICK
There is a guy in our hick town
named Diver Dick. He drives an ugly
blue Ford Maverick. There is a
skateboard and a lady with a shop-
ping cart scratched in the paint on
the side of it. Skaters beware! This
is no joke! He will run you down on
sight, as he has tried to do to us
several times.
НО НО НО
Jonas & Chad
San Juan Island
We all know that Natas spelled
backwards is Satan, but did you
know that Natas scrambled up is
Santa?
Brian Guess
Middleton, WI
MINIMAL CRIMINAL
Me and my friends are always get-
ting busted for skating. The
neighbors say skate in the street, the
cops say skate on the sidewalk.
We've got ramps but nowhere to put
them. We're going to the city
building and try to get a place to
skate. My dad said, "Give up skating
and take up robbery. Thieves never
get caught anyways."
Joshua M. Hoch
Sandusky, OH
LIVES TO SKATE
Most of my life has been pretty
lame. I never really had any good
friends because I was shy and I was
sort of a tomboy anyway. When I
was a freshman (I'm a sophomore
now) I saw a lot of skaters and de-
cided to try it out myself. It looked
like a lot of fun and I figured I could
do it without competition from the
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