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#63711 04/03/02 09:49 PM
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Honoring dear Jackie's request, this continues here a thread from Q&A, the prior portion of which is found at
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=63166

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Anybody remember the joke about the guy who got expelled from the nudist colony because when playing leapfrog he balked. Repeatedly.


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12:26:39 2002 Which reminds me.....the modelling discussion board, to which I also belong, has a very interesting (and veeeeery looooong) thread about male models getting an erection while posing.


This is really over the top, and totally inappropriate for this board. I wasn't going to dignify this thread with any sort of comment, but this has gone too far.


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AnnaStrophic: do you mean the entire thread? I thought the basic issue--which has, admittedly, suffered a digression from the linguistic to the, um, anatomical -- was a legitimate question. Two words (nude and naked) that seem to denote the same condition but have slightly different connotations were discussed.



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Yes, Alex, as Jackie noted elsewhere, the question itself is interesting and legitimate. I was referring in particular to the post I quoted. That's all I gots to say on the subject.


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As has been said on this board before, "Men are so sensitive about their anatomy."


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Well clearly the only proper thing to do is to bring back the nudity. How many terms/synonyms/expressions can you come up with nudity? Let's see...

Naked as a jaybird
In ones birthday suit
au naturale


Personally, I am opposed to nudity. If God had intended for us to around unclothed then we would have been born that way!


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Dear Keiva: you remind me of the words of urologist who was teaching us how to catheterize a male patient, a procedure which is one of the ultimate indignities a man can endure. Fraught with fear and frequently with pain.
" Remember that the patient's penis is as near and dear to him as yours is to you."


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dr. bill, you knew my response would be medically limerical, didn't you?

There once was a man with a hernia,
Who said to his doctor, "Goll dern ya,
When fixing my middle
Be sure you don't fiddle
With matters that do not concern ya!"



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(thanks Uncle Bill!)

My apologies - I shoulda known it would be too much to introduce that link to a group that doubtless includes people too anal to be able to deal with nude modelling at all.....It is actually a fascinating discussion - but maybe only for those of us (male OR female) who are comfortable with our bodies. (Nevertheless, I have had a PM from someone who intends to check it out, so it certainly wasn't posted in vain. Someone was interested, so there! )

The naked/nude debate, I'm enjoying enormously. More, more! (there was a naked/nude debate on the models's discussion board, and interestingly enough, though none of them are linguaphiles, they all had a lot more to say about the dichotomy, and they said it a lot more eloquently. But perhaps that's just because it's a subject that's closer to their hearts than it is to anyone's here, and they obviously think about it a lot more - spending so much time nude as they do. I'd post a link to that excellent thread but now I is tremblin' in me boots.)

For the list of naked/nude words/expressions:

in the buff
naked as the day I was born
without a stitch on


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