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Article: Put On a Bathing Suit And Dive Into Misery
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 14, 1994
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Forgive me. I really did mean to deal with world peace and
health care today. But I find myself compelled to address another
topic.
The topic is bathing suits.
Now I know some people might consider bathing suits to be a
superficial issue. But remember: One person's superficial issue can
be another person's metaphysical one. And today we consider bathing
suits from a purely metaphysical point of view. Plain and simple -
why do bathing suits still exist?
I mean, we know why they used to exist. Bathing suits once
existed to give women the freedom to frolic in the sea without having
to wear 40 pounds of soggy wet clothes. Thus, the first bathing
suits were only about 12 pounds of soggy ...