[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pirate Bikini
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Walking my dogs long the Sitges beach this morning, I spied with my little eye a new kind of fashion statement, one that I have never seen before and hope never to see again. It was one of those Where are the Fashion Police when you need them? moments, hopefully to be filed away in a section of my brain labeled What can this person have been *thinking* and other imponderables not worth pondering as soon as I have finished writing it up here and thus purging it from my mind. It was a bikini, with a normal bottom, but with a top that had been sewn (not modified) to cover only one boob. It was like the Pirate's eyepatch of bikinis. The question Why? leapt to my lips. In Spain, all of the beaches are topless. Hell, all of the beaches could be nude beaches for that matter; nudity and the right to walk about nekkid as a jaybird is written into the Spanish Constitution. And there seemed to be no physical reason for the revealing of one of the set and the concealing of the other; both seemed equally natural, equally large, and equally well-formed. As many of you know, I'm not a big one for rules and unnecessary laws. But this may cause me to stray across the border into Conservatism. Both boobs bare: great. Both boobs covered: great. One boob covered, the other bare: pushing the limits of legality. Go figure. I mean, go figure... Since you're straying across the border into Conservatism in the bikini department, what's your take on this 95 year old woman's beach attire? --- A 95 year old woman has her own bikini show at the seaside --- Scroll down to see photos: http://www.zinkalo.com/2007/05/95-years-old-woman-bikini-show.html Beautiful! She's looking good for 95. She reminded me of Jubal Harkshaw(?) (from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land) talking about Rodin's Caryatid (and I looked it up): For three thousand years architects designed buildings with columns shaped as female figures. At last Rodin pointed out that this was work too heavy for a girl. He didn't say, `Look, you jerks, if you must do this, make it a brawny male figure.' No, he showed it. This poor little caryatid has fallen under the load. She's a good girl-look at her face. Serious, unhappy at her failure, not blaming anyone, not even the gods and still trying to shoulder her load, after she's crumpled under it. But she's more than good art denouncing bad art; she's a symbol for every woman who ever shouldered a load too heavy. But not alone womenthis symbol means every man and woman who ever sweated out life in uncomplaining fortitude, until they crumpled under their loads. It's courage, [...] and victory. `Victory'? Victory in defeat; there is none higher. She didn't give up[...]; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because Mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert H. Heinlein (1961) Beautiful, and she still enjoys the beach. JohnY
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pirate Bikini
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Walking my dogs long the Sitges beach this morning, I spied with my little eye a new kind of fashion statement, one that I have never seen before and hope never to see again. It was one of those Where are the Fashion Police when you need them? moments, hopefully to be filed away in a section of my brain labeled What can this person have been *thinking* and other imponderables not worth pondering as soon as I have finished writing it up here and thus purging it from my mind. It was a bikini, with a normal bottom, but with a top that had been sewn (not modified) to cover only one boob. It was like the Pirate's eyepatch of bikinis. The question Why? leapt to my lips. In Spain, all of the beaches are topless. Hell, all of the beaches could be nude beaches for that matter; nudity and the right to walk about nekkid as a jaybird is written into the Spanish Constitution. And there seemed to be no physical reason for the revealing of one of the set and the concealing of the other; both seemed equally natural, equally large, and equally well-formed. As many of you know, I'm not a big one for rules and unnecessary laws. But this may cause me to stray across the border into Conservatism. Both boobs bare: great. Both boobs covered: great. One boob covered, the other bare: pushing the limits of legality. Go figure. I mean, go figure... Since you're straying across the border into Conservatism in the bikini department, what's your take on this 95 year old woman's beach attire? --- A 95 year old woman has her own bikini show at the seaside --- Scroll down to see photos: http://www.zinkalo.com/2007/05/95-years-old-woman-bikini-show.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pirate Bikini
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: As many of you know, I'm not a big one for rules and unnecessary laws. But this may cause me to stray across the border into Conservatism. Both boobs bare: great. Both boobs covered: great. One boob covered, the other bare: pushing the limits of legality. Go figure. I mean, go figure... Since you're straying across the border into Conservatism in the bikini department, what's your take on this 95 year old woman's beach attire? --- A 95 year old woman has her own bikini show at the seaside --- Scroll down to see photos: http://www.zinkalo.com/2007/05/95-years-old-woman-bikini-show.html While my tongue *was* planted firmly in cheek in the above paragraph, I kinda like granny's bikinis better than the pirate bikini. She gets a free pass from the Bikini Police. :-) Chuckle That's a good, safe answer, Barry. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pirate Bikini
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: As many of you know, I'm not a big one for rules and unnecessary laws. But this may cause me to stray across the border into Conservatism. Both boobs bare: great. Both boobs covered: great. One boob covered, the other bare: pushing the limits of legality. Go figure. I mean, go figure... Since you're straying across the border into Conservatism in the bikini department, what's your take on this 95 year old woman's beach attire? --- A 95 year old woman has her own bikini show at the seaside --- Scroll down to see photos: http://www.zinkalo.com/2007/05/95-years-old-woman-bikini-show.html While my tongue *was* planted firmly in cheek in the above paragraph, I kinda like granny's bikinis better than the pirate bikini. She gets a free pass from the Bikini Police. :-)
