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SIDEWAYS GLANCE REALLY, YOU DON'T NEED TO SEE THIS, BUT ...


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--The video: ``You Gotta See This! Too Hot For Fox Sports Net''

--The price: $14.95 plus shipping and handling. Order by phone at 800-550-7922.

--The warning on the box: Contains nudity, violence and graphic language.

--What the warning really means: Contains gratuitously naked people, seriously shattered appendages
epiploic appendages  see under appendix .


ap·pend·age (-pnd
, young adults unable to defy the laws of gravity, white-trash cursing, backyard wrestling lowlights and/or other strong evidence to support the argument that humans do not necessarily possess the highest level of intelligence in the animal kingdom.

--Background: ``You Gotta See This!'' has been one of the more popular shows on Fox Sports Net. Each episode ties together an assortment of sports-related ``America's Funniest Videos'' clips. According to the show's producers, only 450 of the more than 30,000 stories that annually are researched make it on the program. The rest is either too tame or ends up for sale here.

--Viewing suggestion: If you can't stomach another Joe Theismann leg break on ``Monday Night Football'' or Jason Kendall ankle snap, fast forward through the first 15 minutes. A kick boxer, street luger, arm wrestler, skateboarder, bike rider and several bull riders wince See Windows CE. while experiencing various forms of excruciating pain. After that, it's nude sky diving sky diving, sport of descending partly by parachute from an airplane or similar craft. Engaged in for both recreational and competitive purposes, sky diving involves three phases of activity: the free fall, the descent with open parachute, and the landing. In competitive sky diving, participants are judged according to their style in free fall and their accuracy in landing near a designated point., boxing, wrestling and

mountain climbing mountain climbing, the practice of climbing to elevated points for sport, pleasure, or research. Also called mountaineering, it is practiced throughout the world.

Types



There are three types of mountain climbing. In the easiest, trail climbing, participants merely hike along trails to the top of a particular mountain. The trails generally are not very steep, and the mountains are relatively small.
, concluding with acts of teens gone wild for no one's real betterment.

--The irony: The video warns that parental discretion is advised to anyone who watches this. Yet, if parental discretion was there from the start, there wouldn't be this video.

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Title Annotation:Sports
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Article Type:Video Recording Review
Date:Mar 4, 2002
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