# Woohoo!  Airport Security Works!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-airport-security-works/442325>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 22, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-airport-security-works/442325 "2008-03-22T09:42:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-airport-security-works/442325/1 "2008-03-22T09:42:33Z")

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Homeland Security: [Keeping Americans safe from foppish Brits.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080321/ap_en_ot/author_deported)

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> British writer and self-styled dandy Sebastian Horsley was denied entry to the United States after arriving to promote his memoir of sex, drugs and flamboyant fashion.
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> Horsley said he was questioned for eight hours Tuesday by border officials at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey before being denied entry on grounds of “moral turpitude.”
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> The 45-year-old author was traveling to New York for the U.S. launch of “Dandy in the Underworld,” his account of a life dedicated to sex, drugs and finely tailored clothes.
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> “I was dressed flamboyantly — top hat, long velvet coat, gloves,” Horsley said. “My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish. I thought that would get me through.”

I don’t know about you, but I feel safer already.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-airport-security-works/442325/2 "2008-03-22T15:33:17Z")

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Geez. I thought “moral turpitude” went out with girdles.

Old Governor of New York resigns during sex scandal.  
New Governor of New York, on second day in office, calls press conference to discuss his extramarital affairs.  
Couple days later, Governor of New Jersey admits to having had threesomes with his wife and his chauffeur.

Sure is a good thing that we kept someone like Horsley out of the country. If we let him stay, he might have wanted to become a naturalized citizen and then run for public office, and then where would we be? I ask you, _where would we be_?

Right where we are now, apparently. With elected officials who like sex and prostitutes.

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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-airport-security-works/442325/3 "2008-03-22T16:50:13Z")

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> “I was dressed flamboyantly — top hat, long velvet coat, gloves,” Horsley said. “My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish. I thought that would get me through.”

I’m imagining Willy Wonka trying to get through airport security…

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-airport-security-works/442325/4 "2008-03-22T17:03:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose]  
Geez. I thought “moral turpitude” went out with girdles.  
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[Guess what _else_ is back?](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88460861)

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> The fashionable man with a little extra girth is turning to something women gave up years ago. _The Wall Street Journal_ reports that younger men are more open to wearing “body shapers” — or guy girdles — taking as much as an inch-and-a-half off a beer belly.

[Murphy Brown] What the hell happened to your ‘Y’ chromosome??? [/MB]

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-airport-security-works/442325/5 "2008-03-22T17:23:04Z")

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We did this in an earlier thread, dodn’t we?