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Striptease heats up global warming event
Brocktown News ^
Posted on 09/08/2006 6:21:36 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
SYDNEY - A saloon-style striptease at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists and government officials hot and bothered.
Rebecca Gale, who led the team of dancers from Miss Kitka‘s House of Burlesque, said the performance was in reasonably good taste and she didn‘t understand what the fuss was about.
"The most that any of the girls get down to is vintage lingerie, which is corsetry and stockings," Gale told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Friday. "It‘s not like we were doing full nudity and simulating sexual acts or anything like that."
But some in the audience objected to the Wednesday night show in Australia‘s old Parliament House, and the dance troupe was asked to stop about 10 minutes into a 45-minute routine, Gale said.
When Environment Minister Ian Campbell learned of the show, he canceled his department‘s sponsorship, and the Agriculture Department followed suit.
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; striptease
To: COBOL2Java
Seeing red or blowing hot air ... Rebecca Gale at the climate conference show at Old Parliament House last night.
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posted on
09/08/2006 6:23:23 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
09/08/2006 6:23:36 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: COBOL2Java
Er... now I see why they were upset.
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posted on
09/08/2006 6:25:35 AM PDT
by
trashcanbred
(Anti-social and anti-socialist)
To: COBOL2Java
Was Clinton there to start the blowing?
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posted on
09/08/2006 6:26:29 AM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
To: P-40
I'm sure Hillary wouldn't have objected to the performance. It's for the cause of global warming, don-cha-know. See, they're taking off their clothes because it's warm, and...
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posted on
09/08/2006 6:26:49 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
To: COBOL2Java
"Keep it on! Keep it on! Keep it on!"
To: COBOL2Java
I see now why I'm more partial to real American strippers. They're tan not pale, flawless by surgery, control their weight with cocaine, and of course go to the dentist.
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posted on
09/08/2006 6:30:48 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(What's Russia's and China's part in all of this?)
To: COBOL2Java
"The most that any of the girls get down to is vintage lingerie, which is corsetry and stockings,"
no good then is it?
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posted on
09/08/2006 6:49:18 AM PDT
by
Mac1
To: COBOL2Java
Rebecca Gale, who led the team of dancers from Miss Kitka‘s House of Burlesque, said the performance was in reasonably good taste and she didn‘t understand what the fuss was about. If it had been the Alvin Aley troupe doing the same thing it would have been caled "art" and nobody would have complained.
It's all in the spin.
Shalom.
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posted on
09/08/2006 6:51:49 AM PDT
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
To: ArGee
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posted on
09/08/2006 6:52:47 AM PDT
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
To: Sybeck1
I see you haven't traveled much across this great country of ours... ;-)
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:34:55 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
To: COBOL2Java
Please don't take off those balloons.
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:38:38 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Liberalism: what happens when normally intelligent people just give up)
To: ArGee
It's all in the spin. EXACTLY! I recall climatology researchers, male and female, having quite a lot of fun with risqué humour...such as joking about the similar names of NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and Encare (contraceptive product). But the setting for this exhibition might have been a bit inappropriate.
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posted on
09/08/2006 8:12:12 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
To: trashcanbred
No kidding, woof.
I can imagine all the scientists reaching for their change purses and trying to put together a dollar to give to the strippers.
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posted on
09/08/2006 8:22:39 AM PDT
by
Holicheese
(Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
To: COBOL2Java
"The most that any of the girls get down to is vintage lingerie, which is corsetry and stockings," Gale told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Friday. "It‘s not like we were doing full nudity and simulating sexual acts or anything like that."
Well, sign 'em up to play the Vatican.
That's one butt-ugly stripper in the pic.
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