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I grew up not far away, and when I was a teenager, The Pit was a punk paradise, thick with mohawks and safety-pin earrings and skateboards and nerds who actually argued about The Smiths versus The Cure.
A Big Man Who's Lived a Bigger Life Jason Gay 2011
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During warm fronts try spiners, in-line or safety-pin.
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During warm fronts try spiners, in-line or safety-pin.
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(One of Versace's most iconic dresses was a safety-pin dress Elizabeth Hurley wore in 1994.)
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So we're borrowing all this stuff and it's cheaper to safety-pin it than stitch it.
Backstage: 'Burn Your Bookes' at Taffety Punk, Folger's 2010-2011 season 2010
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They are as smelly and degenerate as any other bovver-boys on the streets, and stupid as hell (safety-pin through the brain).
Archive 2007-09-01 Newmania 2007
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They are as smelly and degenerate as any other bovver-boys on the streets, and stupid as hell (safety-pin through the brain).
Tory Punks ?..... Newmania 2007
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They are as smelly and degenerate as any other bovver-boys on the streets, and stupid as hell (safety-pin through the brain).
Archive 2007-09-02 Newmania 2007
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It was an awful thing, and yet because of that experience he-not a great inventor or genius-invented the pin that now is called the safety-pin, and out of that safety-pin made the fortune of one of the great aristocratic families of this nation.
Acres of Diamonds 2008
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In March, Vivienne Westwood launched a "hard-core diamond" line, with heavy orb rings for big hands and diamond-studded safety-pin earrings sold individually, for men.
Good Life 2007
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