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Australian Cheerleaders Told to Cover Up
AP - Yahoo ^ | April 15, 2006

Posted on 04/15/2006 5:55:40 PM PDT by EveningStar

Australian cheerleaders have been banned from baring midriffs by officials of the sport who fear displays of skin may encourage eating disorders...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: australia; cheerleaders
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1 posted on 04/15/2006 5:55:42 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

"fear displays of skin may encourage eating disorders.."

Next: Money display banned to avoid encouraging gambling addictions.


2 posted on 04/15/2006 5:57:53 PM PDT by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: EveningStar

Gee, I thought that one had to have exposed skin to get the sunlight to generate vitamin D.


3 posted on 04/15/2006 5:58:50 PM PDT by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: gondramB
Uhh, whose "eating disorcers"?

Not the cheerleaders certainly!

4 posted on 04/15/2006 5:59:07 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: EveningStar

I'll be the judge of that!


5 posted on 04/15/2006 6:00:04 PM PDT by steveo (Father's Against Rude Television. You may already be a member.)
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To: Howlin; onyx; Clemenza; Petronski; GummyIII; SevenofNine; martin_fierro; veronica; EggsAckley; ...

Misc ping


6 posted on 04/15/2006 6:00:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Pics? (I suspect we will have a few)


7 posted on 04/15/2006 6:01:26 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't call them "Illegal Aliens." Call them what they are: CRIMINAL INVADERS!)
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To: EveningStar

One may confidently assume the ban was imposed out of sheer jealous envy, not from concern over 'eating disorders' or anything else.


8 posted on 04/15/2006 6:01:27 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: EveningStar

pictures?


9 posted on 04/15/2006 6:02:42 PM PDT by fedupjohn (If we try to fight the war on terror with eyes shut + ears packed with wax, innocent people will die)
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To: EveningStar

PC Police are running rampant.


10 posted on 04/15/2006 6:03:31 PM PDT by jazusamo (-- Married a WAC in '65 and I'm still reenlisting. :-)
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To: EveningStar

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a short story years ago about where in the future, beautiful people had to wear a mask to cover their faces, intelligent people had to have a helmet that rang a gong in their ear every few minutes, etc, etc.

Life does imitate art!,


11 posted on 04/15/2006 6:07:11 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)
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12 posted on 04/15/2006 6:09:24 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Kooks For Kinky)
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To: EveningStar
This is wrong .......... wroooong !
13 posted on 04/15/2006 6:10:01 PM PDT by Panerai
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To: EveningStar
vs.
14 posted on 04/15/2006 6:10:24 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: EveningStar

This better?

15 posted on 04/15/2006 6:12:02 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Kooks For Kinky)
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To: investigateworld
Harrison Bergeron
16 posted on 04/15/2006 6:12:11 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: investigateworld
Harrison Bergeron was the story.
17 posted on 04/15/2006 6:13:32 PM PDT by reg45
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To: EveningStar

You beat me by 90 seconds! Drat!


18 posted on 04/15/2006 6:14:31 PM PDT by reg45
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To: freedumb2003

19 posted on 04/15/2006 6:15:53 PM PDT by elfman2 (An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
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To: EveningStar; reg45
Wow

The FReepdom is impressive!
Thanks
20 posted on 04/15/2006 6:16:51 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)
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