- You can make the "metal fingers" gesture in text by means of two lower-case Ls surrounding a lower case M. In other words, lml. I guess you could also use slashes, like this: \m/. Depending on the font with which you are reading this, you will either be amazed by how metal this is or completely underwhelmed.
- Making this gesture is also known as throwing the goat. Were it not for the internet, I would never have this knowledge. Even with all my years as a metal head [circa 1983-1989], I never knew this.
- There are actually nudist races. For instance, there is the Dare to Go Bare 5K in Florida. I knew this already, but a post on RunningAhead reminded me that such people exist.*
* Having already stuck my foot into it with the barefoot runners, I hope I do not chafe my thousands of nudist readers. My shock and dismay comes not from prudery. Rather, it comes from the discomfort I would certainly feel by running in my birthday suit. Girls and boys alike, it seems to me, need a certain degree of support in certain delicate areas. Even when well protected in compression shorts or other such 'nad armor, my boys feel like they're been employed as a punching bag when I run more than six or seven miles.
Still, if you are a nudist runner and, like the barefoot runners, you feel compelled to chide me for casting judgment on your movement without ever experiencing it firsthand, I would invite you to save your comments. Not for all the beer in Bavaria would I run naked in public, at least so long as I have this spare tire preceding me. But if you feel compelled to press your case, please remember that arguments made with visual aids [photo- or videographic] are the most persuasive. ed d0t hammerbeck at gma!l d0t c0m.
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