just a quick note; one of my favorite things about this forum is how far we get from the original topic. 'tis good. : )

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We like tangents like a bank likes signs and cosigns.

Would that be a river bank or do you mean a beach where gents (and ladies) tan?

Do they call them banks in the USA? Or are you suggesting an N U D E beach?

Do you mean a beach that is unclad?

We have one here, real Sandy Shore, although its real name is Maslins Beach. Unfortunately it is not safe to go nude in SA - that's South Australia - at present as tomorrow's expected maximum is 41C (106F) which is not too hot by Adelaide standards (we had a series of 40c plus days a couple of years back - it was 46C at 7pm one day )but the UV is cutting the paint of the cars and denaturing the road surfaces. Human skin is not meant to be subjected to that sort of thing, but you still see the idiots down at the beach at midday not wearing protection of their upper bodies.

No wonder it melanomas all round here.

I have this weird image of tumours besieging a town now. Thank you.

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Which, along with this image, will make me spray tea out my nose:

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I think that's Robert's cue...

Yes rivers have banks in the US a few can even have what can be called beaches. I guess Oceans have Credit Unions. There a a few Toples beaches in Florida and a few Nude ones in Califorinia.

Mmm, agree with Bunyip! It got up to 43 in some parts of Victoria. I look in disbelief at the traffic heading towards the beach and lobster-like people attempting to spontaneously combust. Is there a logic to it
?

Good heavens! I should avert my eyes at the next N U D E bank I see...

Is that a piggy bank?

Well.... skin might be visible.... Pigskin?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

there's a thing called a 'nudibrank' I seem to recall. It lives in the sea and is a sea floor dweller. If it goes under the sand it is in a sea floor cellar.

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"Lady Jane Beach" was the first officially sanctioned nude beach in Australia; an inner harbour beach on the north shore of Sydney Harbour. It caused quite a stir at the time as I recall and like any good entertainment, had an audience far greater in number than performers.

One of the legends of macchismo football commentary in Sydney at the time was one Rex Mossup (or, commonly, Rex 'Messup' for his unbridled talents in butchering the language beyond recognition), who lived on the North Shore presumably within viewing distance of the beach or one becoming like it. Seeing the whole degrading spectacle as an attack on Western civilisation as we know it, Rex famously complained - "I don't care if they want to go naked in private but I object to them shoving their genitals down my throat."

"Lady Jane" not "Lady Godiva"? Missed an obvious one there...

Out of curiosity, which Lady Jane? Presumably not the nine days' queen, but could it have been after Lady Jane Franklin, whose husband was once governor of Tasmania (long before he went missing in the Arctic)?

I don't know exactly which Lady Jane it was. The name appears to have originally been Lady Bay Beach and is now recognised by either name and often referred to by both in official documents. A second Sydney beach was proclaimed nudist at the same time as this one (1996 I think) and its name is Cobbler's Beach and I'm going to avoid the obvious one there as well!

Interestingly, a number of beaches in National Parks were officially recognised as nudist beaches in 1970 by the State Govt (NSW) but in the 1990's someone discovered that the State didn't actually have the legislative power to do this, but rather, it was in the jurisdiction of local Councils so that (drum roll please) the previously proclaimed nudist beaches were stripped of this status.

*groan* Well, at least the truth was laid bare.



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And the sunscreen industry folded, the next day.

Ah, Robert, what did NSW do on Monday? My desk calendar said it was "Australia Day (except NSW)". Now we're all curious what NSW does instead.

Celebrate NSW Day maybe?

Or get invaded by the Tassies....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland