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Volume 1, Edition 6 - Monday, 8th May 2000 - www.theskink.com
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Webster World Record But Still No Logie
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Sydney, Monday: Despite record utterances of the words 'mate', 'goodonya' and 'fair dinkum' during a February interview with Australian Cricket Captain Steve Waugh, a Logie is still proving elusive for Channel Ten Sportscaster Tim Webster.
Tim's Agony...
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The Dinosaur, Rugby Visionary
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What happens to commentators when they're put out to pasture? It's fun envisioning them nipping down the supermarket telling themselves about it, but if they're not qualified for anything what do they do?
Here we profile Norman 'Nugget' May, and the life he's fashioned for himself outside of sports commentary.
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Rugby League has been somewhat cruelly--however aptly--described as a 'mungos' game, i.e. one played by mindless automatons with as much aesthetic regard for their game as so many house bricks.
Here we profile three early nominations for The Skinks 'Mungo Hall of Fame'.
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Panty Raider Uncool: Women
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By Grant McCool
NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters) - Parents and critics are pressing a unit of prestigious publisher Simon & Schuster to reconsider releasing an Internet game "Panty Raider," in which participants find models to strip them down to their underwear to satisfy space aliens threatening to destroy Earth.
Continued…
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Canberra Rugby Identity Behind Old Poms Romanian Odyssey
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LONDON-, May 4 (Reuters) - A British over-40s rugby team was licking its wounds after a translation error led to them playing a team of super-fit professionals while on tour in Romania, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Royals Tour Organizer Rumoured Involved
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IN BRIEF:
Politics:
NSW Police discovered the body of a high-ranking politician, in suspicious circumstances, which was naked except for a NSW Waratahs jersey. To save the man's family further embarrassment they dressed him in women's underwear.
Media:
The Daily Telegraph has asked to retract a headline in Monday's late afternoon edition. The headline read "State of Origin, Who's in." In fact this should have read "State Of Origin, Who gives a fuck."
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Correspondent Tim Atchison is a New South Welshman trapped in Victoria, and yet despite the obviously crippling duality he's managed to fashion a life in that strange place. Here he regales us with the news that keeps the locals down there interested.
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