Davidf,

I see the performance of sports nude as an overarching principle we should embrace and continue while I see the exclusion of women from both competing or observing to be less fundamental - a mere matter of local traditions that our current law would not permit in any case.

We are able to have the best of both worlds in this matter. There is no need to accept the bundle in whole.

Rusty

<< I Like Poirot, I would willingly entertain you with a sport (and dress) of my choice - and the smile on your face would be reward enough. :-) >>

Gee thanks Lexi …………… I think! ( :> /

Thanks for the congrats, Lexi - it was a good day.

Ludwig,

"Gee thanks Lexi..........I think!(:>/"

You sound like you're having second thoughts...

Having successfully quested and won the approval of fair Lexi and Poirot, Ludwig sat down with his head in his hands and thought, "What have I got myself into?"

: )

Dear passionate Poirot and foxy Lexi,

Yes… what on Earth HAVE I got myself into here?? ( :>#

I’d like to take you up on your offers, but um…. I wonder if I’d get out alive?!?!?!

Crikey, it is no wonder I have been single for 23 years!

Females are just SCARY!!

Never mind, Ludwig.
There's a lesson in all this. And that is: that passionate intelligent women are far more intimidating to the average male that a football-toting bimbo in lingerie.

: )

Dear Poirot,

Passionate intelligent women, intimidating or not, may look quite appealing in lingerie. There is a song about the intellectual strip teaser which refers to Gypsy Rose Lee.

I interviewed Leslie Howard
I interviewed Noel Coward
I interviewed the great Stravinsky
But my greatest achievement
Is the Interview I had
With the star who worked for Minsky
I met her at the Yankee Clipper
And she didn't unzip one zipper
I said "Miss lee you are such an artist.
Tell me why you never miss.
What do you think while you work?"
and she said, "While I work
My Thought go something like this."

REFRAIN 1

Zip! Walter Lippman wasn't brilliant today
Zip! Will Sorayan ever write a great play?
Zip! I was reading Schopenhauer last night
Zip! and I think that Schopenhauer was right.

I don't want to see Zarina
I don't want to meet Cobina
Zip! I'm an intellectual
I don't like a deep contralto
Or a man whose voice is alto
Zip! I'm an heterosexual.
Zip! I took intellect to master my art
Zip! Who the hell is Margie Hart

REFRAIN 2
Zip! I consider Dali's paintings passé
Zip! Can they make the Metropolitan pay?
Zip! English people don't say clerk, they say clark
Zip! Anybody who says clark is a jark!

I have read the great Kabala
And I simply worship Allah
Zip! I am suck a mystic.
I don't care for Whistler's Mother
Charlie's Aunt and Shuber's brother
Zip! I'm misogynists
Zip! My intelligence is guiding my hand
Zip! who the hell is Sally Rand?