German Nudists Ready to Fly Naked
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.29.08 | 12:39 PM ET
For only 499 euros you, too, can book a spot on the July 5 flight from Erfurt to the Baltic Sea resort Usedom. Passengers can strip down once on board; the crew will remain clothed for safety reasons. “I don’t want people to get the wrong idea. It’s not that we’re starting a swinger club in mid-air or something like that,” Enrico Hess, the managing director of the travel agency taking the bookings, told Reuters. “We’re a perfectly normal holiday company.”
Perfectly normal, huh? I’m not sure I’d think it was “normal” if I had to strap in with a cold, metal seat belt.
Related on World Hum:
* Around the Globe with No Clothes On
* Nepal Contemplates Nudity Ban on Everest
Photo by notarivs, via Flickr (Creative Commons)
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
John M. Edwards 01.29.08 | 10:51 PM ET
Hi Michael:
This is interesting what the Germans have dreamed up. It gives new meaning to the term “Red Eye Flight,” if you substitute our organ for seeing for another part of the human anatomy involved in “doing.” I won’t go any further than that since World Hum already reserved “the right to remove comments with profanity . . . or other inappropriate material.”
Nevertheless, as a frequent visitor to Germany, where, believe it or not, people sometimes sunbathe nude in regular parks!, I will make one inappropriate comment. In German, the word for “glove” is Handschau (hand shoe): literally a shoe for the hand. Which ignited my Gothic imagination, since shaking a black leather glove looks a little bit like a vampire bat.
So the flying nudists might need a similar prophylactic to keep their extremities from getting cold (or bitten): what the British in slang call a “French letter” and the French in argot call a “Capot Anglaise” (English cap). Hence, my vote for slang for a German condom is “Deutsche Glove.”
Hey, I think I have a new essay idea!