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City not wild about request for nude swim
KOMO radio.com ^ | May 22,2007 | By Tracy Vedder

Posted on 05/23/2007 8:18:54 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

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To: squarebarb
Those are my thoughts, too.

These people always have the same mantra: "We don't want to impose ourselves on the 'normals', we just want to do our thing in peace..."

And yet, it always seems that doing their thing frequently involves more and more public locations. If people object, these sweet little, harmless freaks ALWAYS cry foul and claim that those in the objection are prudes, hypocrites, etc.

And sadly, for a fitness freak like me, most of the nudists look more like Tom Arnold instead of Arnold Schwartzenegger, you know?

21 posted on 05/23/2007 8:51:55 AM PDT by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Seattle freakshow on parade

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22 posted on 05/23/2007 8:52:10 AM PDT by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: stm

Well...that’s going to open a can of worms!


23 posted on 05/23/2007 9:11:14 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: stm

What do you need a bike helmet for?....If you crash, you’ve just left a 10 foot patch of your ass on the pavement.


24 posted on 05/23/2007 9:13:39 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Johnson even offered to post people on the path on either side of the pool to warn people that a "naked event" was happening so they could walk around it if they wanted.

My, what gracious condescension.

25 posted on 05/23/2007 9:20:53 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
But that also means that anyone walking by outside will see everything that goes on inside.

My guess is that after the first couple of minutes, nobody will be able to see what is going on inside unless the push their way through the people plastered against the fence already. :-)

26 posted on 05/23/2007 9:25:30 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

“”Fremont has that naked bike ride so why can’t we have the naked swim?” said Heather Guichard. “

I dunno Heather, send us a picture and we’ll tell you.


27 posted on 05/23/2007 9:26:55 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: SamuraiScot

“said Jasmine Stark, who is in favor of allowing the naked swim.’

Tell you what. As soon as we stock the pool with snapping turtles and cotton mouths, you go ahead and have your nude swim.


28 posted on 05/23/2007 9:28:29 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Every summer there are nude bike rides and fun runs.

Fun runs - I remember hearing about those. Those were the ones where numerous women were treated for black eyes and a lot of men ended up with stomach lacerations.
29 posted on 05/23/2007 9:32:20 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Put illegal immigrants on ICE)
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To: Badeye
”Fremont has that naked bike ride so why can’t we have the naked swim?” said Heather Guichard."

Excellent point illustrating why Freemont should never have allowed the naked bike ride to begin with.

30 posted on 05/23/2007 9:32:27 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: stm

Speaking as a male bicyclist, that looks awfully uncomfortable.


31 posted on 05/23/2007 9:32:38 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: robertpaulsen

Hmmmm. You have to admit, the nude bike ride does serve a valuable public service. Any time you can get idiots to publicly identify themselves is a good thing....


32 posted on 05/23/2007 9:34:12 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: AFPhys
which activity is more naturally done in the nude, biking - running - swimming -— I’d vote for swimming every time.

Years ago, before Vermont was taken over by trust fund hippies it was a conservative Republican state.

Vermonters hadn't elected a democRAT governor since the Civil War.

US Senator, George Aiken from Vermont had returned to the state to testify against a very important bill.

Some dimwit had introduced legislation to outlaw skinny dipping in Vermont.

It was and still is illigal to skinny dip at a public pool or beach in the state.

It was, and is still legal to skinny dip at a "swimming hile", of which there are many in the streams and rivers throughout the Green Mountains.

When the good senator testified, he mentioned that he had, and still did enjoy skinny dipping from time to time.

He asked any legislator who hadn't to raise their hands.

No hands were raised.

The bill failed.

By the way, I recall Senator Aiken, when required to file his campaign spending had a cost of $12 the most expensive year for postage.

As an aside... I never met him, but my grandmother mentioned she knew him well, I never knew how well until recently while doing genealogy work.

It seems he had taken a fancy to a young schoolteacher.

In those days, school teachers boarded in local folks' houses as part of their compensation.

She happened to be boarded in my grandparents' house.

Senator Aiken ate many a meal there, and they remained friends until his death.

33 posted on 05/23/2007 9:49:43 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Mogger
That would be "swimming hole"

I don't have a clue what my newly invented word, "hile" might mean.

34 posted on 05/23/2007 9:52:54 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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