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Happy Birthday Shawn!

Written by

Sean Philips

Shawn Porter is one of my oldest and dearest friends in this community. Aside from that, he has been an integral  part of the body modification world for longer than a lot of you guys have been alive. The BME Wiki entry on him has the basics on his contributions to this community, but really it doesn’t even begin to do him justice.

SPC , BME Extreme, the Modcon events and Scarwars are just a few of the bigger impacts he has made on this community. Aside from these and countless other contributions, he has also helped many people along in there body modification journeys, myself included.  Not bad for a guy who doesn’t work in the industry (or “hobby” as he often refers to it).

I won’t go on any longer about Shawn, as I am sure there will be plenty of other stuff shared in the comments section, but please take a moment to wish him a happy birthday, thank him for his contributions, buy him a gift or send him some well worn white cotton panties.

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Comments

13 responses to “Happy Birthday Shawn!”

  1. Piercedpussykat Avatar
    Piercedpussykat

    Happy Birthday!!

  2. Caleigh Green Avatar
    Caleigh Green

    Already sent him a message last night but happy birthday again dude!

  3. Shawn Porter Avatar
    Shawn Porter

    Thanks Shawn… I just recently found the pics from the weekend we met… I think the words “were we ever so young” do it justice.

  4. Shawn Porter Avatar
    Shawn Porter

    Haha. I spelled your name wrong. Ugh. Sorry. Sean.

  5. syrian Avatar
    syrian

    Happy Birthday, love!

  6. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Happy Birthday!

  7. JustJen Avatar
    JustJen

    Happy Birthday, Shawn!!!
    Hope it’s a great one.
    🙂

  8. quinnn Avatar
    quinnn

    Happy birthday Shawn!!

  9. Timothy Avatar
    Timothy

    Happy birthday, dude. 🙂

  10. Faeryloverette Avatar
    Faeryloverette

    Hmm, white cotton panties,Ii have a few to spare <3 you Shawn.

  11. jimmieknuckles Avatar
    jimmieknuckles

    oh my duder, the years have treated you well. happy birthday
    grrrrrrrr

  12. Rachie Tartz Avatar
    Rachie Tartz

    Happy birthday

  13. JohnnyThief Avatar
    JohnnyThief

    I was there for Shawn’s birthday on Monday, & no one was arrested. Very disappointing,…

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