# If You Do It Three Times, Is It a Tradition? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284 "2003-09-08T13:03:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/61 "2003-09-10T22:27:35Z")
Okay. It’s taken a while, but I now have kitty pictures! They’re not the best quality, but it’s hard to take pics of these two – they keep moving! Here you go: [http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/stargazer\_503](http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/stargazer_503) Now, as for naked, you can picture me however you like. Hey. Hey! HEY! Not like _that_. [Eliza Doolittle]I’m a good girl, I am![/Eliza Doolittle] Naked is one thing, but _that_… that’s different. 😃 -stargazer (nekkid, mebbe.) ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/62 "2003-09-10T23:08:58Z")
No, no nakie time right now, too many cats with claws running around. Owww… bad memories… -Lil(most definitely at least slightly clothed) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/63 "2003-09-11T00:19:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wintermute \* > \*\*I hate to break it to you, **ShibbOleth** , but I am really, _really_ bad at official sports involving gas-filled, leather-covered balls. If you can win a gold medal in it, I suck, big time. > > On the other hand, I’m pretty good at _unofficial_ games involving balls and leather… 😉 > \*\* Like I care if you’re any good at the sport. Just so long as there’s lots of leaping and diving involved. And if you miss the ball a lot, well, all I can say is better you picking up a volleyball than **swampie** grabbing his morning paper, if you catch my meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Nausicaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@Nausicaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nausicaa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/64 "2003-09-11T00:38:21Z")
Geez, when this thread started it was about clean stuff like camping and powdered doughnuts and now it’s about nakedness and games involving balls and leather… well I’m just appalled! Nausicaa (averting her eyes from the nakedness and games involving leather balls) ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/65 "2003-09-11T01:58:01Z")
and grabbing, must not forget the grabbing, \*\* Nausica \*\* -Lil(averting her eyes, well maybe peeking a little) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/66 "2003-09-11T12:17:25Z")
**Shibb** just so you know, I do not walk outside naked to get my paper. I mean, it’s the front of my house and all so I dress for the neighbors. However, if you wish, I could just wear my robe and let it accidentally come undone while bending over. 😃 That oughta give him nightmares for a couple weeks! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/67 "2003-09-11T12:25:36Z")
Auggh! Soap, I need soap! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/68 "2003-09-11T12:50:52Z")
Or maybe I could wear one of those shortie robes. You know, the ones that may or may not exactly hide all my “business.” That way, I could just squat down to pick up the paper causing the robe to ride up just enough to show it all, ever so briefly. Bet ol’ **Shibb** will be gouging his eyes out and scrubbing his brain with bleach after that mental image. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/69 "2003-09-11T12:55:02Z")
**swampy** - he’s not the only one gouging here… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/70 "2003-09-11T13:11:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by swampbear \* > \*\*Or maybe I could wear one of those shortie robes. You know, the ones that may or may not exactly hide all my “business.” That way, I could just squat down to pick up the paper causing the robe to ride up just enough to show it all, ever so briefly. > > Bet ol’ **Shibb** will be gouging his eyes out and scrubbing his brain with bleach after that mental image. \*\* It’s a good thing that my temporary (I hope) blindness won’t allow me to read this post. I’m guessing. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/71 "2003-09-11T13:51:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*Auggh! Soap, I need soap! \*\* Ivory. I’d suggest Ivory since it’s 99 44/100% pure and it floats if you drop it. Very handy, floating soap. No perfumes of moisturizers or nuthin’. Just soap in that soap. -Rue. (thread cleaner) ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/72 "2003-09-11T14:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rue DeDay \* > \*\*Ivory. I’d suggest Ivory since it’s 99 44/100% pure and it floats if you drop it. Very handy, floating soap. No perfumes of moisturizers or nuthin’. Just soap in that soap. > -Rue. (thread cleaner) \*\* How? You cornered the market on Ivory earlier in this thread. Not fair to bogart the Ivory and then lord it over us. 😛 Anyway, I suspect that **Shibb** will want something a little stronger. Lye, perhaps. I personally have a fairly strong stomach (and I have seen porn from the '70’s), so the idea of **Swampy** in a shorty robe doesn’t really bother me. Just put a towel down before you sit anywhere, **Swampy** , honey. Hey, speaking of which, did anyone else see that _Sex and the City_ where Charlotte was dealing with this exact issue? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/73 "2003-09-11T14:35:58Z")
I was nekkid in the cee-ment pond last night. There! Take that mental image. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/74 "2003-09-11T14:45:29Z")
Methinks **Swampy** is an exhibitionist of the highest calibur! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/75 "2003-09-11T14:51:05Z")
OK - enough of the nekkid talk, now. My husband is living 700 miles away from me and I won’t be visiting him till next week. So stop talking nekkid. What’s wrong with discussing the weather? Sharing recipes? Telling jokes? Criminy, people, there’s more to life than conversations about supple young nudes cavorting in the sunshine, covered with a sheen of sweat… ummm… So, anybody like to play Canasta?? ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/76 "2003-09-11T14:56:32Z")
I’m afraid I never learned to play Canasta. The weather is beautiful here today though we won’t be enjoying it much as all the inhabitants of Casa Tanookie have a cold. Grrrrr. I don’t know too many good jokes but I do have some recipes if anyone wants one. There a whole post fully clothed! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/77 "2003-09-11T15:22:32Z")
Naked Canasta? While drinking Shasta\*? \*_Shasta, it hasta be Shasta_… soft drinks, probably local to California or the West Coast, from my long ago youth. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/78 "2003-09-11T15:39:16Z")
Kitties! **stargazer** introduced kitties and there has been a serious lack of ooooing and ahhhing. Well, everyone go click cause them kitties is cute!! **swampangel** , I got good and sweaty because I was walking for exercise! It was planned sweat! Three days a week I walk. Two days I do yoga. Which is what I’m about to do now! So, anyway needing a nekkid fix can contemplate my unclothedness once more, as I dress for an hour of stretching and peace. (Sorry **FCM**!) -Ellen. (ohm) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/79 "2003-09-11T15:53:55Z")
I am fully clothed and eating a Long John Silver’s Fish 'n More combo as we speak. The LJS drive thru lady must like me. I got two extra hush puppies. This is an impulse lunch. I was gonna go home for lunch, but I was out looking at yet again another bathroom and was driving down the main drag here when LJS just jumped out at me and made me pull into its drive thru. So here I sit eating fried fish, fried hushpuppies and french fries. I am also drinking a diet coke that comes with the combo. As far as I know it’s not fried. **Ellen Cherry** (heh. swampangel. I like it!) so since it’s planned sweat, then we can assume that the ensuing nekkidness was planned nekkidness. **tanookie** I do like to be nekkid in the cee-ment pond. The other mentions of my nekkidity were meant to gross out **Shib** which I think I did. The fact that I also grossed out **FairyChatMom** is all gravy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284/80 "2003-09-11T16:05:59Z")
So now I’ve got this mental image of **swampbear** skinny-dipping in a cee-ment pond full of gravy and fried fish. Oh yeah, and there’s a chee-hoo-ah-hoo-ah skittering all over him. Lucky for me I have his address - I know where to send the bills for my therapy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-do-it-three-times-is-it-a-tradition/200284.md?page=5)