Cash cow.
McDonald's Corporation has announced that it will begin
selling skateboards and bicycles bearing the fast food 2company's
brand in a new effort "to burn off burgers and fries with
exercise." No word yet if, when, or how sometime McEndorser Tony
Hawk - This article is about the American skateboarder. For the British comedian and author, see Tony Hawks. For the New Zealand basketball player, see Tony Hawke.
Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12 1968), known as Tony Hawk might be involved in this rather odd scenario. Tony recently made
an appearance at Disneyland with California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] to promote the actor/politician's physical fitness
program. James O'Mahoney, the former skate high jumping stand-in
for Ronald McDonald in the old days is reportedly in training at the
Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. skatepark. Perhaps this too is somehow relevant to these
strange high profile proceedings.
And if any further proof of Tony Hawk's "just a regular
guy skater" status was necessary, what could be better than this?
The Bird hanging out in Wynn's, which is Vegas' newest
pleasure palace, in the company of Steve Wynn Steve Wynn is the name of a: - Steve Wynn (songwriter)
- Steve Wynn (developer) of Las Vegas casinos
, Matt Damon, Wayne Gretzky
and the billionaire Warren Buffet. After a dinner of Dom and lobster,
Tony competed in a high stakes poker High Stakes Poker is a cash game poker television program broadcast by the cable television network GSN in the United States. The poker variant played on the show is no limit Texas hold 'em. tournament. See, he's just
like all of us. Really.
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