Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 26, 2010

Ug. I’d never be able to leave the house.

kittenpah: I’d be able to leave the house … but I suspect people would start asking me not to, for aesthetic reasons …

[Danae’s skullbook is missing the bite of the apple in the second frame.]

Fat cats beware, you may not be imposing in the Emperor’s new clothes!

I dunno. Maybe Bob’s right.

I have been embracing this philosophy for years now. This is going to sound odd, but naked people have nothing to hide. And that is not a play on words.

Well, it’s an interesting idea. But, glancing at my weather station which shows 34 degrees outside, there are GOOD reasons why it would not be practical.

Just had a “flash” of all them anorexic models strutting their funny walks down a catwalk….. Even my glasses fogged up.

Bob’s shoulder pads get me……….

There would still be cavity searches…. ; - |

“My wife told me she’s afraid of the dark, she saw me naked, now she’s afraid of the light!” - R. Dangerfield

You know… You can kill some one with just about anything, including fists and day to day objects. Plus as Matt1075 said. IT GETS COLD!

Personally, I like Vermont’s solution. They passed a law that said any one can carry a concealed weapon with out a license. And its working, Vermont has a very low crime rate.

I like Vermont’s idea. No “CCW needed.

Cleokaya, I’ve a firm subscriber to your idea and have been for years. Except in winter, of course. I don’t like frostbite. LOL

If the good Lord would have wanted us to be naked, we would have been born that way.

What bad guy indicator is covered by clothing?

That will finaly get us serious about our pilates and diet!

Clothing lobby will be a problem, for sure!

Central heating, insulation outside and solar radiation blocking will be challenges. Is body paint and temp tatoos OK?

Body paint is the future. Soon we shall all be naked. Like this: http://www.gocomics.com/loveis/2008/01/03/

Great insight, Wiley

I wouldn’t want to leave the house until the outdoor temperature got to at least 72.

Dick Gregory suggested many years ago that we could end wars by requiring everyone to fight naked, so that there would be no uniforms to let the combatants know whom to shoot at.

As I recall, he complained that the Katanga rebellion put the kibosh on his hopes for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Reminds me of a diet that I devised many years ago: Ya had to eat naked, with mirrors and people . We never miss Non Sec, Thanks Wiley

@ Wiley! And the naked body scanner controversy a lot longer than that.

Thanks RichardSRussell – I remember reading that book over 30 years ago, but couldn’t remember the title. But Danae’s premise made me think of it right away. I’ll have to see if I can find a cheap used copy. (Even cats weren’t immune…)

sombodyshort - when did it become “junk”? Mine has and always be “Family Jewels” and never “junk”. Calling it “junk” makes it seem like you don’t care enough about it….

“Man is the only animal to wear clothing… and the only animal that needs to.” I forget who said that; I was thinking Mark Twain, but the nearest Twain quote I could find said that “man is the only animal to feel embarrassment, and the only animal that needs to.” Close, but no cigar, five-cent or otherwise.

And, of course, Gary Larson did that great strip in which two bears are looking over the fence of a nudist colony, and one says to the other, “Well, there goes my appetite!” How true. Makes me (almost) feel sorry for the low-wage TSA screeners who have to sit in front of the screen and watch the endless parade of beer bellies and droopy boobs…

Bdaysuit, I knew you would understand. :-)

When full body scans fail, that will be the next step. You have to fly in the nude so you can’t sneak anything aboard an airplane. By the way, no carry-on luggage either.

A couple things this made me think of…

without having any clothing, men would all have to have ‘murses’ (male purses) for their keys, wallets, etc. - ech! I’m very glad I live in Florida and not Maine, or Washington, or Alaska, or anywhere further north… and man would it suck to be in Chicago’s windy city. Only thing better might be southern California, but who’d want to live in California anymore… heck, who could afford to?

Ya Know, Danae’s Plan actually sounds like a very good one ta me…..

Puddle, Twain said that man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.

There’s an email going around about how we should have to go through an enclosure that would detonate any explosive a person would have on them. Sounds better than the scan:)

Last January a flash-mob staged a nude protest at the Berlin-Tegel Airport in Germany over airport body scanners.

One imagines it is pretty cold in Germany in January.

TSA found a new way

‘Personally, I like Vermont’s solution. They passed a law that said any one can carry a concealed weapon with out a license. And its working, Vermont has a very low crime rate.’

Sure, and New Mexico should pass a mandatory personal water flotation device law, then state that because of the law, the drowning rate in NM is very low!

The Puppet Masters, yes. Movie? Never saw it. I’ll have to look.

Gee, Wiley. I was planning on a trip to Israel, but if I have to fly nude, I’ll just stay home.

Personally, I’ll walk.

Wiley ; what? NO CARRY ON! That would deprive us of watching the clueless trying to stuff and jam a bag that obviously isn’t going to fit into an overhead bin. There goes the most entertaining aspect of flying. Of course it does keep the same clueless soul from saying “Sorry!” every time he bumps into you as he/she attempts the impossible.

@ defunctdoormat How about that sparsely populated city in Cobb county Georgia? You know, the one near the little village of Atlanta.

The city’s website has the following entry under Our History:

The Gun Law Kennesaw once again was in the news on May 1, 1982, when the city unanimously passed a law requiring “every head of household to maintain a firearm together with ammunition.” After passage of the law, the burglary rate in Kennesaw declined and even today, the City has the lowest crime rate in Cobb County.”

I’ve always believed that if the TSA wanted to be REALLY draconian it should make everyone strip down and, after a super-thorough body/cavity search in a designated area, make everyone dress in pocketless one-size-fits-none coveralls and shackle them by one foot to their seat. Only a flight attendant would be able to release someone to go use the restroom, and there’d be a strict time limit on how long they’d be able to use it. Only after the destination was reached would all pris…uh, passengers be released and they would be allowed to re-dress and leave.

Reynard61: That sounds almost like you paraphrased the pamphlet on “Concerning the Transport of Crimminals and Slaves to the Colonies” circa 1785. But i could be mistaken.

LOL! Well, if I did it was purely unintentional. (To my knowledge I’ve never even read that little gem of penal “wisdom”…) It just seems to me that that’s the direction in which we’re headed at the moment.

No wonder Danea’s always cooking up trouble–dad’s down at the bar with Bob, leaving her alone to create problems.