For your consideration:

[Forty Rod]

(Credit John Weeks, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Sunday 1-17-2010)

The world has come to this. At more and more airports, more and more of us are being
sent through whole-body scanning devices that allow security attendants to get a good
look at us under our clothes. And opinion surveys are showing that most of us are OK with
this.
I think we might as well go the next logical step and take off our clothes altogether,
not only at airports but everywhere else. Let's just go around naked. It will make things
easier for everybody.

Now, relax. I'm not talking about total nudity. Good heavens, no. We will wear big floppy
hats, to protect our skin from harmful sun rays. And we will wear shoes to protect our
feet. But that's it. We'll be buck naked everywhere else.

Think of the benefits. First, we'll be able to nip this whole body scanning business in
the bud. Since we'll be naked to begin with, checking in at airports will be a breeze.
We'll only have to submit our shoes and floppy hats for inspection. The line will move
quickly.

We won't need to pack much, either, so there won't be long waits for baggage check-in and
baggage claim.

Baggage? We don't need no stinking baggage. We're naked!

Life will be different, and better, in so many ways. We'll save tons of money, for
example, because we won't need to buy expensive clothes any more. And our houses of the
future will be much more spacious, because there will be no need for clothes closets. Or
laundry rooms, for that matter.

That's right, we won't need washing machines or dryers or shelves full of detergent and
bleach and fabric softeners. Think of the time we'll save, without the constant drudgery
of doing laundry.
It will be a better world in other ways, too. We'll put a quick stop to those bothersome
strip clubs, for example. In fact, the whole porn industry will be put out of business.
Who's going to pay money to see naked people, once we all are naked?

Communal nudity is going to be good for our health, too. I think we'll see a renewed
interest in fitness once we no longer are able to camouflage our flab under layers of
clothing. We'll eat less and we'll exercise more, in order to build better bodies. We'll
look better and we'll live longer.

The world will be cleaner and more sanitary, too. We won't be passing germs around with
all the casual hand-shaking and hugging that we presently do whenever we greet each
other. Honestly, naked people are going to think twice about touching each other at all,
unless they really mean it.

Speaking of hygiene, all public venues with seating, including entertainment and sports
facilities, restaurants, churches and buses, will provide disposable paper seat covers of
the same sort we presently see in public restrooms. We'll be able to sit down with
complete confidence!

The world is going to be safer in other ways, too. Bad guys will have a tough time
carrying guns, for example. And besides, once we have nothing to hide any more, there may
be fewer bad guys in the first place.

We all will become better adjusted. We all will develop better attitudes about one
another. Once we all are naked, we will look at each other with new eyes, without
suspicion, without the hangups of unhealthy curiosity and class consciousness and
covetousness that now plague us, due to these accursed clothes we are forced to wear.

Truly, I can think of precious few problems we will face, once we decide to bare it all.

Crowded elevators may be a bit awkward, at first, but eventually even these will cease to
be an issue. We'll go into them as total strangers, and we'll come out of them as fast
friends!
   
   

[Vern]

Howdy......
I was just thinkin bout some of that HOT LEAD bouncin back at ya at the shooin range......

Vern / Foothills Drifter...

[Professor Marvel]

You thought this last winter was cold?

and there is a saying about nude beaches -  the ones who ought not to go there are the ones who do.
"what's that laying there on the beach? It appears to be an old elephant-skin rug...."

going to get mighty ugly ought there...
yhs
prof marvel

[amin ledbetter]

I don't know about that Forty! There's some people I would just as soon not see naked. Like my mother in law!!! 

[GunClick Rick]

I WAS IN THE POOOL

[GunClick Rick]

Hey Forty i sent ya an email..I think you should check it out