21.   On land, we wandered about, stopping to peek in at a tattoo parlor.

22.   Others used a trip to the tattoo parlor as a bonding experience with teammates or to prove their manhood.

23.   Q. In Massachusetts tattoo parlors are illegal, but some artists work at parties or out of their homes.

24.   Smoke from a neighboring building that had been fumigated caused the people in the tattoo parlor to briefly evacuate.

25.   Tattoo parlors, body piercing salons, motorcycle-parts boutiques and a couple hundred other small businesses selling T-shirts, doodads and gewgaws set up shop.

26.   Tattoo parlors may be illegal in Massachusetts, but the Phillies took Portugal to one with a five-run, nine-hit pasting.

27.   Take your pick of tattoo parlors.

28.   That melee was followed by the bombing of a Pagan-owned tattoo parlor in Philadelphia.

29.   Tattoo parlors are trattorias and the old houses of ill repute now entice visitors with fennel-and-cilantro culinary triumphs.

30.   The following spring, in Fort Myers, Fla., Swindell was back in the tattoo parlor.