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Some more stuff Here is some two and froing between myself and brother Gregg. With Agent David being cc'd in, of course. Hi Mikey Boi What the fuck you talking about? I don't remember anything about you giving me a Moneygram receipt. Love Greggy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Greggy Boi Please tell me this is one of your jokes. Love Mikey --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Mikey Boi Had you going there for a bit you dozy cunt. Ha ha I'll have look for it. LMFAO Greggy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Greggy Boi Very funny. Love Mikey ----------------------------------------------------------------------- An hour later Hi Mikey Boi You wouldn't believe the shit morning I've had. I can't find the receipt. I've looked everwhere for the fucking thing. I'm really not joking this time. I thought I might have left it at our sisters house, Marcia. Anyway to cut a long story short while I was driving over to her house I went into the back of some fuckers car. I probobly wasn't concentrating when I got to the traffic lights and the next thing - bang. The strange thing is that I couldn't see anyone in the drivers seat in the other car. Anyway the door of the car, that I hit, flew open and this dwarf (yes thats right a fucking dwarf) got out and came storming over to my car. He wasn't fucking happy, I can tell you. What shall I do about the receipt. Love Greggy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Greggy Boi Never mind the receipt are you ok? I just remembered you took a photo of the Moneygram reciept on your phone, Friday night. Can you send that to David, instead. While it's fresh in my mind are you still interested in joining the Muff Divers Club, over in Muff, County Donagal You know both Sister Chlamydia & Sister Contra Seption are Muff Divers, don't you? They absolutely love it. Here's a link Muff Diving Donegal Ireland Scuba Diving Ireland Love Mikey

This thing is alltime by Jef Whitehead .

I've just sent this. Enter Greggy Boi and cc'd to David (Elliot Ness) Oliver. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> Date: 20 May 2012 09:14 Subject: Fwd: $800,000.00 Lottery Win To: [email protected] Cc: Agent David Oliver <[email protected]> Hi Greggy Boi You know that Moneygram receipt I gave you on Friday night to look after. Can you send a copy to that FBI bloke, David Oliver. His email is [email protected] Hey fancy bumping into Sister Chlamydia, on Friday. What a piece of luck. I forgot to mention. You know those delicious cheese flapjacks she makes well she gave me some the other week. It dosn't get any better than lying on the bed eating Sister Chlamdias cheesy flaps, on a Saturday morning, after a night out on the lash. Love Mikey

its nice that your paying attention, and its nice to know your can quote a respectable tattooer but at the end of the day its your choice. youve seen regino's work so if you like it what difference does it make. go get tattooed. plus whos give a flying fuck who the best is.

Here's the photo of the Moneygram receipt he is going to receive from my brother Greg. With strategically placed fingers hiding the important info (reference number & security question & answer).

He's still onboard He got back to me asking for a copy of the Moneygram order. He asked me to send the money via Western Union but I pointed out the original email said Western Union or Moneygram. I opted for Moneygram over Western Union as Western Union MTCN references can be tracked online, Moneygram has no such facility. So he can't check online to see if I'm fucking with him. The only way to find out is by him getting off his arse at visiting a Moneygram Agent in person. Anyway here is my latest email. This is where I introduce another member of the Brady Bunch, my brother Greg. Hi David One little thing. I hope you don't mind but I had to change the question and answer. You see in your email you said I should use TRUST as the question and GOD as the answer, I'm am a committed Christian, David, and to use the Good Lords name on a money order form would be wrong. I was speaking to Father Phil McAvity and Father Roger Boyes in the pub last night and they both agree. As the 2nd Commandment says Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain. I left the copy of the Moneygram receipt with my brother, Greg Brady, for safe keeping. I'll get him to send you a copy, Warm regards Mike

Trick question. Lemmy is God ;)

Searched, and didn't find a thread on wolf tattoos, so I decided to make one. Daryl Rodriguez, Hold It Down Tattoo: John Reardon: Chad Koeplinger: Jelle: Daniel Trocchio: Kim-Anh Nguyen-Dinh: Stefano Cera: Clay McCay: Erick Lynch: Ron Henry Wells: Steve Byrne: Jef Whitehead:

The educational requirements for police vary from state to state and city to city. I think it is terrible what happened in this situation but it is not fair to assume all cops are like this guy or that we are all high school drop outs. I have my bachelors degree and so do most of my coworkers in fact our department requires at least 90 credits or an associates degree.

Oh, man, did I violate some uber-hip protocol by saying "inked"? Hey-I'm SO sorry to use what is a common slang term in my area to denote the Art Of Tattooing. And no, I'm definitely not a tattooist, but I've been around enough blocks enough times to have a pretty good idea of what's what.

Check out this chest piece, both by Nick Colella. Can't go wrong, the man has that Traditional thing going on! This pic is from the Chicago Tattooing Company website, there are many more there and on Nicks site, which is linked from there. And if that ain't enough, take a look at his Tumbler feed... http://chicagosfavoritetattooer.tumblr.com/

And the latest Hi David As I haven't heard back from you I take it that it will be ok to send the fee via Moneygram as per the original email. I have to leave my house now as the local office closes at four o'clock on a Friday. That'll give me just enough time to draw the cash from the bank and do the transfer before it closes. Speak to you later. I have to go now. Kindest regards Mike Reply Mike, You can send money. David From me 20 minutes ago hello Davud What a day I've had. I only just gpt back from the pub. Great craic with my brother Greg celebratinh my lottery win. Guess what.In the post office I bumped into Sister Contra Seption & Sisper Chlamydia. They were buying some bat plugs or something. Thats one great feckin post office. They sell all sorts of stuff. Anyways I pledged a £20,000 Donation of my winninings to the local convent. I'ts the least I could do as they nursed my Daddy during his final weeks. Have you received the money David? When will I get my cheque? Best Mike

Lmao. At some point maybe this story line needs some romance? David seems like quite a sweet guy and look at how much he's trying to help you. You really should maybe let him know that feelings may be starting to grow ;) either way

Ok at the risk of sounding like a huge bitch i'm gonna post this anyways... As far as I know Scott and company started this site to promote good tattooing, and good tattooers. I've noticed lately in the members gallery there have been a lot of bad tattoos uploaded. Is this just going to turn into another tattoo photo gallery where anyone can post photos of every horrible tattoo they do, and then have people thinking that work is good because they saw it on a site that claims to promote only good tattooing? I feel bad when I log on and on the very first page there's awful tattoos being shown. Am I just a horrible person for thinking this or do others feel the same way? I feel like if I wanted to see average bad tattoos I could just do a google search or visit one of the numerous tattoo design websites. Is it wrong to have a moderator removing bad work at the risk of offending the person who uploaded it? We seem not to have a problem telling people in the forums when a tattoo is shit.

Whenever I feel down, I remind myself "fuck. At least Im not Shane McGowan". Cheers me right up.

It was nearly a month ago now, but my last piece was done in Nashville @ Black 13. Timmy B. Anchor & rose on my neck. Can't wait to get back to that guy again, might have to make it a birthday present to myself. http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6060/52918237078323336951212.jpg Hooray for first post, breaking the ice.

@dcostello "let me go boys, let me go boooyss!"

I've only ever known one guy who owned a shop and didn't tattoo that was cool. Tattooing was his family and he took care of it. But for that one exception, the old code was how he ran things and this thing we do was better having had him in it. On the other, vastly more full hand...I've seen so many awful shops run by outsiders who think the only thing their business needs to really take off is one more gimmick -- because in today's mall mentality the more marketing and gimmicks you have the less people are going to pick up on the low grade crap you're pushing. They want to run them like some kind of mashup between a strip club and a Spencer's Gifts so they can sell that cutting edge, mallternative vibe while the actual work takes a back seat. After all, it's just a product and we're used to buying cheap, low-quality products, right? They have no place in our business. They can make bad calls, run the business down, force bad legislation because they can't self-police something they don't understand, flood the market with garbage and then...walk away...because they didn't invest their lives into it, just their money. They see it as an investment so who cares what happens to it after they've had their go at it?

Ohh Dan....we know your old school, im sure you can take some ball busting. irezumi is a great contributor to this forum/site so relax lets not push away the people here who make this place interesting as it keeps thinning out more and more and we keep getting "tell me what tattoo to get,tattooer to get it by and city to get it ins posts"(not from you, dont worry). That said, I like your posts and your loyalty and history you bring as a long time tattoo "collector" for lack of a better word. No need to have a chip on your shoulder.

Not sure if he would have cited Picasso as an influence but when I look at Lee Roy's wolves I think of Guernica . Lee Roy Minugh

Drink of Kings. I spent about 45 minutes tonight in the aisle of the local liquor store debating Makers/Ginger vs. Jim/Coke...Jim/Coke won tonight. Jim/Ginger is my drink. Cheers.

@jade1955 that is my favorite asahi and just a plain out good beer.

This kind of reminds of me of a guy who walked into the shop awhile back. Basically he just wanted to talk about Lewis Hess from Atlas Tattoo and how good he was and how he was the only one who could pull off the tattoos he would want. That statement I thought was a little much, but I like Lewis' work so I went with it and let him rant a little bit. He showed me his tattoo, yes he only had one, and it wasn't from Lewis. Then out of nowhere he told me how he never cared for the traditional style that came out of a certain shop that my owner just happened to work at for about 10 years before opening this one. I kind of went off on the guy and told him everything I was thinking and I felt bad, because I think he just wanted to feel cool in the tattoo shop and drop some names. Now I know this thread isn't exactly like my situation, but looking for someone to tell you whether Regino is the best or not is not going to happen, it's just not that cut and dry and if there were any issues people had with his style, it would kind of be in bad taste to do in this thread. Go to Invisible and see what he is all about, and look at his stuff if you still aren't sure, but if your gut tells you he is the guy for you then he probably is.

you're right, you are DEFINITELY not a tattooer.

Hey man, Its Nathan... we work together.

@jayessebee, Mark Bell's drimmel work was a major topic of discussion today. You came up as well. Funny shit.

Nice to see TTW chiming in. Agreed. Get tattooed from people when you like their work. I guarantee the best tattooer in the world (if that that is even possible) is somebody none of us have ever heard of of banging out amazing work day-in and day-out and not giving a good goddamn about whether anyone thinks he/she is the best tattooer.

I didn't want to jam-pack a single post but here's the dame from Steve Whittenberger, just killer. So stoked to get it done. Oh & in addition to my previous post, the spot I'm getting it in can be said to be a relatively "feminine" spot. But ftw give em hell.

exactly. Regino is an amazing tattooer, and an equally amazing painter/artist.

I think Perez was amused by the choises you gave. Is he great or best. Is he god or Lemmy :)

I know what you're saying Avery, but I don't think I'm too old to hang it up. The day you say "i'm too old to skate" is when you start getting old. Some of my best friends, P Wee & Joel Long from Bolder Ink, are over 35 and 40 and still skate, just like me. I'm pretty sure Grime still skates. Obviously Mike does too. All of us have broken an arm (or two!) but it doesnt mean it's gonna stop us from ever skating again. 3 years ago P Wee & I were at Vail and halfway through a day of riding when we noticed the guy in front of us on the lift was 60something and still ripping. PW turned to me and said "we still got 30 or so years left of this". This is how I see it too. I'm also not scared to look like the old man and wear wristguards and a helmet.

It sure was, I had to pay extra for that. :)

Nothing "neo" here, just straight-up Traditional American tattoing done by the man I believe is one of the masters of the style today, Nick Colella of Chicago Tattooing Company. He laid this on me this afternoon in about three and a half hours.

They've got some great stuff on that site. 419 is a reference to article 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code. I don't think my scammer is Nigerian, though. Nigerian scammers tend to be warm and friendly at first (all phoney of course). This arsehole makes a minimal effort and as a result probably gets little success. The scammers email address is [email protected]. So the person is probobly Eastern European. bigmir.net is a Ukrainian web portal.

So you can get a tattoo and a lap dance at the same time and you're complaining?????

just watched Grizzly Man. it was surprisingly captivating and at times it was so unbelievable that i wasn't sure if i was watching a real documentary or actors playing roles. there's also some amazing animal footage that seems unreal at times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogYDUmIigw0

TimmyTats and Krooked Ken

I love my ray ban wayfarer's , does this mean i'm a hipster....:eek:

He got back to me this morning. A man of very few words. Mike, It can only be released to me when i pay the fund to the department.Today is Friday, you have just today to send the fund so as to get your check to you asap. I've sent this back Hi David I am a bit confused. I thought you said I had won this money but you are now saying I have to send the fee by today. Why is this. You didn't mention this in your original email? I take it I can send the money to your bank account via the post office transfer like I suggested in my email. What will happen if I can't get the money to you today? It's just that I'm not very mobile at the moment and have difficulty getting around. I only came out of hospital last tuesday and I am still recovering after having a strapadictome. Kindest regards Mike

Can I be naked?

Cross-posted to the other thread, but figured I could throw this here as well. by liam sparkes

Here is the Melanistic Pantera Pardus piece he did on Thea Hogan at American Graffiti in Sacramento...

more dragons from artists I admire.

I have also noticed many of these people uploading shitty work aren't even members who are participating in the forums or the blog sections so it makes me feel like they are just trying to post pics in hopes of getting customers, which kind of defeats the purpose of the website...

What about non-tattooers selling all of us tattoo equipment? Some will speak strongly against those who don't tattoo owning shops and swear off ever giving them money, but then will make an order with a non-tattooer owned supplier and unknowingly act hypocritical. I think in tattooing these days, in my opinion, we need good people who care about the business and who bring something positive to the table of tattooing, tattooer or not(although tattooer preferred). I just came back from working at Frith Street Tattoo in London, I watched a bunch of very well known and respected tattooers work there in the last two weeks, not to mention the incredibly talented crew that are residents their. The owner, Dante, is not a tattooer, but he is a good human being and cares for his employees as if they were family. I am proud to say I worked there and as far as Dante(the owner) goes, I would take a bullet for him.