While Dr. Cargill has it nearly narrowed down… the City of San Francisco has decided that there will no longer be nude dining in due to hygiene issues.
Widely seen as the most tolerant and liberal city in the U.S., San Francisco is drawing the line at nude public dining.
The city’s Board of Supervisors has adopted new rules that ban naked people from eating in restaurants, and forces nudists to place a cover on public chairs and benches before they sit down, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
Supervisor Scott Wiener, who introduced the legislation, said, “We did hear from folks in the neighborhood that these are actually tangible issues that are happening in the Castro and so the legislation is important for that reason.”
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Well there goes all of my evening attire.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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dangit!
Actually, “Well there goes all of my evening attire” seems like it would have been appropriate if naked dining had not been made illegal. As it stands, you need to say “Well here comes all of my evening attire.”
wait… birthday suit isn’t an evening attire selection?
If not passed, this could have made tenderloin, crabs and buns (even sourdough) redundant. You are lucky. Without clothes, you wouldn’t be able to tell the Wiccans from the Unitarians.
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