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Forrest Gump

Written by

Shannon Larratt

Please don’t ask me about what type of maintenance is being done on the IAM server or why, because I am not involved in it and not able to answer adequately. Here is my official answer to these sorts of things — if only to myself, but if it works for me, maybe it works for you too — at least for the next few months, as put to the flesh by Rodney Purrington of Piercing Emporium in Worchester, MA:

shit-happens.jpg

Comments

32 responses to “Forrest Gump”

  1. Mikey Avatar
    Mikey

    Shit hot.

  2. Mikey Avatar
    Mikey

    Shit hot.

  3. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    obla di obla da, right? 🙂

  4. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    obla di obla da, right? 🙂

  5. bastian Avatar
    bastian

    Haha… shouldn’t that rather read “Forrest Dump”?

  6. bastian Avatar
    bastian

    Haha… shouldn’t that rather read “Forrest Dump”?

  7. Lizz Avatar
    Lizz

    Love me some Piercing Emporium!

  8. Lizz Avatar
    Lizz

    Love me some Piercing Emporium!

  9. blackandblue Avatar
    blackandblue

    i think the title should be re-named “Forrest Dump”

  10. blackandblue Avatar
    blackandblue

    i think the title should be re-named “Forrest Dump”

  11. Valon Oddity Avatar
    Valon Oddity

    forrest gump and the phrase he says in the movie when the car drives by and splashes him with mud he says “shit happens”

  12. Valon Oddity Avatar
    Valon Oddity

    forrest gump and the phrase he says in the movie when the car drives by and splashes him with mud he says “shit happens”

  13. blackandblue Avatar
    blackandblue

    yaahhh… i think we got that

  14. blackandblue Avatar
    blackandblue

    yaahhh… i think we got that

  15. Isabel Avatar
    Isabel

    There’s no ‘h’ in Worcester!

  16. Isabel Avatar
    Isabel

    There’s no ‘h’ in Worcester!

  17. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Isabel – You’ve obviously never heard someone from out of state pronounce it!!

  18. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Isabel – You’ve obviously never heard someone from out of state pronounce it!!

  19. Isabel Avatar
    Isabel

    Oh I have, Rob… That’s no excuse to me though. 😛

  20. Isabel Avatar
    Isabel

    Oh I have, Rob… That’s no excuse to me though. 😛

  21. Skod Avatar
    Skod

    Lol, rock on Rodney! Keep kicking ass and hopefully your laptop will get fixed!

  22. Skod Avatar
    Skod

    Lol, rock on Rodney! Keep kicking ass and hopefully your laptop will get fixed!

  23. iDEATH Avatar
    iDEATH

    Damn straight, even if I don’t have the accent… Woustaa

  24. iDEATH Avatar
    iDEATH

    Damn straight, even if I don’t have the accent… Woustaa

  25. Laura Lethal Avatar
    Laura Lethal

    that’s awesome!

  26. Laura Lethal Avatar
    Laura Lethal

    that’s awesome!

  27. casey Avatar
    casey

    this is actually my girlfriends dads tattoo.

  28. casey Avatar
    casey

    this is actually my girlfriends dads tattoo.

  29. Rodney Avatar
    Rodney

    my laptop sucks more that a korean whore..but you already know that..nice cutting by the way skod..looks sick

  30. Rodney Avatar
    Rodney

    my laptop sucks more that a korean whore..but you already know that..nice cutting by the way skod..looks sick

  31. kate Avatar
    kate

    oh yeah well that MY DADS tattoo 🙂 xoxoxo

  32. kate Avatar
    kate

    oh yeah well that MY DADS tattoo 🙂 xoxoxo

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