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Old 06-03-2010, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by T-Dub
well, like all things I read this and tried really hard to understand it. My face fell off and now all that is left is the skull. Thanks alot. Now I am branded for life. Oh wait. Check the avatar. That's my latest tat.
With your fallen off face and tattoo - I think it'll work for 'ya. . .
I'm just glad I was able to help.
 
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Old 06-03-2010, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by NSCoyote
well my fascination can be surmised by either one of two things or hell both.
A: my familys history in the navy or rather its background during the days of piracy on the seas of old
or B: my sick and twisted mind

neither of which has been proven but i do like skulls
Man I love how that looks under the black light. Is that a new style of tatoo ink you can get? I've never seen it!
 
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Old 06-03-2010, 08:35 AM
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I sport a skull, wings and flames tattoo. The tattoo has nothing to do with Harley or motorcycles. I was a paratrooper for 9 years and most of us had a a scull with wings and flames... It all flows from the paratroopers representing "Death from Above." My battalions motto (508th INF) was Fury from the Sky.

No skulls on my bike. I wouldn't mind one but haven't found one that fits my vision for the bike which is pretty much anti-chrome, anti-commercial. A part or product with a standardized skull just seems wrong to me.

Just my .02 cents worth. Ignore if it doesn't fit your view.
 
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Old 06-03-2010, 08:44 AM
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I was watching Gene Simmons Family Jewels and his son Nick was wearing a t-shirt that read, "My other shirt has a skull." I thought it was hilarious!
 

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Old 06-06-2010, 07:51 PM
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No skulls on either of my bikes. Not that I don't think they look great, I just chose another theme.
I do have a skull ring I picked up at the 2010 Laughlin run and a Harley shirt with the Willie skull design.

One of my buddies hates skulls so I wear them to freak him out.
 
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Old 06-07-2010, 02:45 PM
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I have a skull on my bike for every year I was told "you will get killed on one of those things"

23+ skulls.

From a vet perspective I go with the phrase "for we who are about to die"...and from the Lafayette Escadrille, "raise your glass to the dead already, and hurrah for the next one to die!"

I also like the simplicity of the willie G. skull design.

Mike
 
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Old 06-07-2010, 03:01 PM
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OMG...skulls on a motorcycle...why would anyone do that?
 
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For me it's thumbing my nose at death. We all know its coming so live until it happens.

My tats include the grim reaper, skulls, FTW, a wild jester and several other images that fit my personality as well as my life.

It’s just my little way of not fitting in.
 
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