Australia's Weekly Sports News Review

Volume 1, Edition 14             -        Monday, 3rd July 2000        -             www.theskink.com

Issue of The Week

Q. Is Nike's 'sorry' advertisement offensive?

I want to eat your children: Tyson
Okay, say parents

Los Angeles, Tuesday: The parents of teen pop supergroup Hanson have shocked the entertainment and boxing industries by offering up their children as food for heavyweight boxer and convicted rapist, Mike Tyson.

The revelations come amidst fears that Tyson, who's mental health according to a recent Morgan Gallup poll frightens more Americans than lung cancer, is on the lookout for other children to eat.

Sixth Sense kid also on the menu...

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Vote 1:
Christian Fundamentalists for a Police State Party.

In Brief:

Entertainment:
Sylvester Stallone has been heard in gym sessions yelling "Come on, Hewitt!" exhorting himself to bigger bench presses, Entertainment Tonight reports.

Medicine:
Greg Norman's recent hip surgery, shown live on the Internet, has led some e-mail humourists speculating whether it is the last cut he will ever make. Some of those receiving said e-mails have responded by saying "Ha ha". Others have replied with "yes". 

Science:
It will be several years before the complete human DNA map can clone an Anna Kournikova capable of winning past the 3rd round of tennis tournaments, says the latest New England Journal of Medicine. The original Ms Kournikova, when asked if she was worried about her inability to win tennis matches giggled endearingly, moved an errant lock of hair from her face and said "No, silly."

Osborne: Once played footy.

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Guest Poets

Well, poet, singular, but The Rabbit Trapper is nothing if not enthusiastic and has the important rhyming elements of poetry covered. Sir Henry Wordsworth isn't quaking in his boots because he's been dead for a hundred years. Here the Trapper gets into Stirling Mortlock and not Andrew Mehrtens.

Skink Book Review: Funny  Seppo travel writer, v. good.

Pop Quiz Hotshot: See if you can't guess the identity of Mr X in this excerpt from a magazine article written in January.

...If there is an element of sourness then it is in the treatment of Mr X., whose standing among his colleagues has never been higher.

Continued...

The Wacky World of Reuters. They must make us for mugs!

BUCHAREST, June 28 (Reuters) - Romanian prostitutes, their business hit

OSLO, June 27 (Reuters) - A bare-breasted blonde mermaid perched atop a

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OSLO, June 29 (Reuters) - A new fashion craze is threatening air safety in Norway -- teenagers are

The Latvian Pantsman on the Home of Cricket....

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