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Originally posted by Reshpeckobiggle:
What do you call these, when there's a twin thread?

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Uncalled for.
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Thank you, thank you for not Dobbieing properly and providing a link.
 

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Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
 
And the reason it's called a Dobie is that there was a poster here by that name who started the tradition. In my opinion Dobie did it the best, too.
 

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Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
 
I've always pictured you and everyone else who posts at Hatrack as completely clothed in a manner appropriate for discourse in polite company. If you (or anyone else here) posts in the nude, I'd rather not think about it.

Not that I think there is anything wrong with nudity per se, I just find it distracting. That and I find that most people look better with clothes on.
 

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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion.
 

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Posted by suminonA (Member # 8757) on :
 
Well, I know plenty of people that I find better looking in the nude, but I won't admit that here as it may sound like I'm depraved or something. I did consider once living in a nudist colony, because I see nothing inherently wrong with the “default” ( ) clothing position of Humans.

A.
 

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Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
 
I never said all people look better with clothing on. Nor did I say that I thought there was anything wrong with nudity. I said most people look better with clothing on. (And I suppose I should revise that to say most Americans look better with clothing on.) When you consider that half of Americans are over 35.3 and more than half of Americans are over weight, I think that "most look better with at least some clothing" is a fairly safe statement.
 

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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
This reminds me of a discussion I once had with artists about the distinction between "nude" and "naked", wherein nude adhered to some ideal of the human body, while naked was more the human body as part of nature.
 

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Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 
The Naked and the Nude (perfectly safe link)
 

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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
Nice. (This is an appreciative nice and not a cooly sarcastic nice - I looked up the author of the poem and everything.)

[ January 10, 2008, 12:37 PM: Message edited by: pooka ]
 

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Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
 
I'm with MPH. Thank you for not providing a link.
 

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Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 

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Originally posted by pooka:
Nice. (This is an appreciative nice and not a cooly sarcastic nice - I looked up the author of the poem and everything.)

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Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
Thank you, thank you for not Dobbieing properly and providing a link.

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 

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Originally posted by Tante Shvester:

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Originally posted by Reshpeckobiggle:
What do you call these, when there's a twin thread?

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Uncalled for.

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
I like that poem because the words sound awesome but I've never really been able to figure out who the poet was talking about. Obviously nakedness is preferred over nudity by the poet, but I can't tell who he means by nudes. Does he mean like people selling something? The porn industry and people like Madonna or Brittney who sell their sexuality to the public for money? That doesn't seem to fit very well either. Can someone help me understand that poem?

The nude are bold, the nude are sly
To hold each treasonable eye.
While draping by a showman's trick
Their dishabille in rhetoric,
They grin a mock-religious grin
Of scorn at those of naked skin.

The naked, therefore, who compete
Against the nude may know defeat;
Yet when they both together tread
The briary pastures of the dead,
By Gorgons with long whips pursued,
How naked go the sometime nude!

What is a mock-religious grin of scorn?
 

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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
 
"How nude do you think I am?"

Not at all. Everyone knows that reshpeckobiggle people wear clothes under their clothes.
 

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Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
 
I can't post in the nude anymore 'cause I have a roomie now . . .
 

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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
Nude is Venus Di Milo. Naked is Rodin's John the Baptist. Both would not get by in BYU's art museum.
 

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Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
 

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Originally posted by aspectre:
"How nude do you think I am?"

Not at all. Everyone knows that reshpeckobiggle people wear clothes under their clothes.

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We call ourselves "never-nudes."
 

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Posted by suminonA (Member # 8757) on :
 
You were born with clothes on?
 

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Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
 
Yes, a pair of cut-off jeans. You can see the pockets coming out the bottom.
 

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Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :
 
I take the "nude" in Robert Graves's poem to be those who think that they're being transgressive ("treasonable") or making a statement ("cloak[ing]" themselves in "rhetoric") by going without clothes in some situation. I don't think it's just people in porn; it's also people who while having sex get off on the idea that society disapproves of what they're doing.

Maybe a "grin of scorn" is the look you give someone who's doing something you think is wrong and doing it so stupidly you can't help but laugh. "Mock-religious" must mean having the form of a religion but relatively trivial content. So the "nude" must be treating the state of being without clothes as something more transcedent than it is, and pitying those who aren't so enlightened.
 

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Posted by The Reader (Member # 3636) on :
 

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Originally posted by Reshpeckobiggle:
Yes, a pair of cut-off jeans. You can see the pockets coming out the bottom.

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