If Wishes Were Horses, Then Wingnuts Would Ride
Rich Lowry at America’s Shittiest Website™ wants a bailout too:
The annual rite has arrived — the NRO fundraising week (give or take a few days).
Er, the begging started on November 17, so I don’t think “give or take a few days” is quite telling the truth. I’ll bet Rich also tries to convince his girlfriends that 4 inches equals 9 inches “give or take a few inches.”
Believe me, we like asking for contributions even less than you like reading our appeals for contributions.
Probably not, or we wouldn’t be reading this.
I know this isn’t the best time to be asking anyone for help. Times are tough all around, but they are especially tough here at NR and NRO.
In fact, the NR cruise had to be shortened by a day this year.
We’re not complaining.
Liberals “complain.” National Review writers simply point out that their current financial state is requiring them to euthanize their pet dogs because they could no longer afford the kibble.
We’re not here for our shareholders (we don’t have any) or for massive bonuses (never have existed at NR and never will), but to defend our country’s freedoms and its ideals.
Which is why Lowry has magnanimously declined to draw a salary for the next two years and to work completely for free.
I know some of you are thinking, “Well, why don’t you free-market types get out and make a profit?”
Well, now that you mention it, Rich, yes, we were thinking that.
We do everything we can to maximize revenues and minimize expenditures.
Except move to cheaper office space in New Jersey. But, Rich, you’re avoiding the question. Why don’t you make a profit?
We’re a serious magazine and website of opinion. We’re not Vogue or Vanity Fair, with luxury merchandisers lining up to shower us with expensive advertising.
Oh dear, dear, dear. I think Rick just admitted that his readers are in such a crappy demographic that National Review can’t even attract ads from Absolut Vodka or, for that matter, Cool Ranch Doritos or even for those Miracle Pills That Burn Fat Without Diet or Exercise. That, of course, doesn’t prevent Lowry from shamelessly begging his financially-challenged readers to rustle up their last few quarters from under their sofa cushions and send them his way. Trickle-up economics, as it were. Better yet, sucker-nomics.
If it’s any consolation, it ain’t working, and NR reader appears to be finding only Oreo crumbs and funky tissues under their sofa cushions. Here’s the NR thermometer today after more than two weeks of begging.
If the fundraiser keeps up like this, don’t be surprised if you see in the next few days an online bachelor auction of that sly, sexy devil Mark “The Moooosliminator” Steyn.
Gavin adds:
Above: Mark Steyn (not pictured: Hugh Hewitt)
I know this isn’t the best time to be asking anyone for help. Times are tough all around, but they are especially tough here at NR and NRO.
I wonder why…
Look out. Someone might have to take the train and ride along the queers, freaks, unwed mothers, and dark people.
Jeebus, even public radio stations in small markets do twice as much as that in less than half the time.
You gotta hand it to them, these guys are all about blood, toil and money.
Someone else’s blood, someone else’s toil and someone else’s money.
Wait, Rich Lowry has a girlfriend?
Eh, it’s not like that sort of begging doesn’t happen on liberal websites as well. Every year Atrios holds a big beg-a-thon, and his readers dutifully pony up the cash–for what I’m not exactly sure, since he’s got to be the laziest and most content-free blogger on the planet. NRO may be full of stupid, but at least it’s full of something.
Two full weeks of blegging in a national market … & that’s ALL they got?
Talk about a ripe target demographic – I thought all those greedy neocons were totally loaded.
LOL, epic capitalism fail!
Teh Almighty Free Market has spoken.
Suck it, NRO!
Wow, Lowry really lays it out there: you, our readers, are such an unappealing market segment that no one will pay to reach you. Losers, all of you.
No idea what ads appear in the magazine but I suspect it’s a pretty thin little book these days. I think comsympinko @ 20:51 gets it in a nutshell.
Their support for free market principles and the success of the completely self-made entrepreneur (as the French would say if they had such words) is continually admirable.
“he’s got to be the laziest and most content-free blogger on the planet. NRO may be full of stupid, but at least it’s full of something”
Fresh thread is expensive stuff. Do you see a lot of it around here? Nooooo.
Wait, what happened to rugged rural-America-style self reliance?
I’m really staring to think that you have to be totally sociopathic to be a right winger. Like their Cognitive Dissonance Bone is malformed.
“Eh, it’s not like that sort of begging doesn’t happen on liberal websites as well. Every year Atrios holds a big beg-a-thon, and his readers dutifully pony up the cash–for what I’m not exactly sure, since he’s got to be the laziest and most content-free blogger on the planet. NRO may be full of stupid, but at least it’s full of something.”
I will agree that Atrios’ blog is pretty much worthless, but he’s not charging anyone for it.
I realize that the NRO is also free but this is the whole outfit gone begging, including the for-profit and for-sale-for-real-money National Review itself.
Think about it. They’re asking people to pay for the ostensibly free NRO and for those who already subscribe to the print version to pay more for the same service.
This is what happens when an entire political brand dies. The parasites will feast on the corpse as long as possible before it is skeletonized and they also perish.
Anyway… in a couple more weeks if they can crack 100K the NRO will simply declare that 100,000 was their real goal all along and thank their readers for helping them to exceed all expectations. Who knows, they may already have won!
It’s just like PBS!
…except instead of a lovely tote bag, you get Jonah’s blithering about Star Trek.
Whee.
What’s my photo doing up there with Mark Steyn’s name on it????
I’ll bet Rich also tries to convince his girlfriends that 4 inches equals 9 inches “give or take a few inches.”
My girl asked me for six and to make it hurt, so I fucked her twice and slapped her
*badumCHING*
Thank you, I’ll be here til Thursday…
Yeah, because collecting $200,000 would just mean that they’d have to pay higher taxes to Obama’s evil socialist tax-collecting Muslim empire. And we couldn’t have that, could we?
We’re a serious magazine and website of opinion. We’re not Vogue or Vanity Fair, with luxury merchandisers lining up to shower us with expensive advertising.
TRANSLATION:
“Damn, we suck if we can’t get Richard Mellon Scaife to pony up for even a quarter page ad!”
Someone might have to take the train and ride along the queers, freaks, unwed mothers, and dark people.
In fairness, Legalize, John Rocker doesn’t pitch for NRO…
Eh, it’s not like that sort of begging doesn’t happen on liberal websites as well.
Libs ask.
Conservatives threaten. Watch. The next fundraising appeal will involve K-Lo and a quart of Valvoline.
I am saving up my
NZ moneysshiny milk-bottle tops for when they start offering the nudecolandercalendar.“In fairness, Legalize, John Rocker doesn’t pitch for NRO…”
Thank you. John Rocker was due for his once-per-decade reference on a snarky left wing blog, and you just made that happen! Now he can go back to pitching for the Weehawken Ding Bats in peace.
What’s my photo doing up there with Mark Steyn’s name on it????
Ruggeds bounce?
See, the way public radio brings in the bucks is they offer great premiums at certain pledge levels. I don’t know why NRO doesn’t do the same thing. For instance, for a pledge of $50, they could send a copy of Barack Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth, with a notarized certificazte of kerning inspection; for $100, their subscribers could get a copy of the Michelle Obama audio tape from API; for $250, a dinner date with K-Lo; and for $500, just coffee with K-Lo.
Who wouldn’t want to support NRO? Look at the fantastic writing they’re producing – for instance Ramesh and Jonah are now in a “not a competition” to see who can confirm more Facebook friends. That there is insightful and topical commentary.
My girl asked me for six and to make it hurt, so I fucked her twice and slapped her
actor212: So, how long have you been an asshole?
You’re not from around here, are you?
Oh dear, dear, dear. I think Rick just admitted that his readers are in such a crappy demographic that National Review can’t even attract ads from Absolut Vodka or, for that matter, Cool Ranch Doritos or even for those Miracle Pills That Burn Fat Without Diet or Exercise.
Jesus christ on a raft with eggs, Lowery, are you telling us you can’t even get enough ad revenue from the colloidal silver and work-from-home scams who advertise on Limbaugh’s show?
That’s pretty pitiful, mister.
for $250, a dinner date with K-Lo; and for $500, just coffee with K-Lo.
For $1000 they’ll place a special web filter on the page that will screen out all K-Lo content.
Rich Lowry knows that it’s not size that matters – it’s how many little starbursts you can send ricocheting around the living rooms of America when Sarah Palin winks at you.
“Who wouldn’t want to support NRO? Look at the fantastic writing they’re producing – for instance Ramesh and Jonah are now in a “not a competition” to see who can confirm more Facebook friends. That there is insightful and topical commentary.”
It’s the NRO version of “Count Your Sexual Partners.” Sad.
I know this isn’t the best time to be asking anyone for help. Times are tough all around, but they are especially tough here at NR and NRO.
Yes. Things are always tougher for fat pampered pompous privileged pasty-faced know-nothing never-had-a-real-job hatebags who get paid to vomit their illiterate idiocy all over the InterTubes than they are for the restaurant servers, factory workers, service-industry employees and all those other less-deserving unwashed working-class masses who are always whining about losing their jobs and having their cars repossessed and being evicted from their homes and being denied health insurance because their child has asthma. GOD I hate these fucking creeps. Fuck them to hell and back.
Aw come on. Sometimes when Atrios is feeling particularly literary, he’ll write up to two paragraphs about what his opinion is on that day.
Eavesdropping Passerby: Hi, and welcome to Sadly, No! This is a blog of political snark and bad puns.
Hope you like it here!
Okay, that was a little harsh. But just a little.
one of the things that has brought me joy during these dark days of the market is that all these asshole free market types probably had most of their money in funds (at least I’m realling hoping so) and have lost a good portion of any wealth they’ve managed to scam from the braindead gop base.
Okay, that was a little harsh. But just a little.
I didn’t think so.
John Rocker was due for his once-per-decade reference on a snarky left wing blog, and you just made that happen! Now he can go back to pitching for the Weehawken Ding Bats in peace.
Please. Jersey wouldn’t have him.
He pitches for the Long Island Ducks…ironically, just a short train ride from the 7 train he so derided!
actor212: So, how long have you been an asshole?
I turned fifty one today.
Why, am I your father? Sure seems like it.
Ramesh and Jonah are now in a “not a competition” to see who can confirm more Facebook friends
Isn’t the Corner the group who about a year ago or so were playing with those lil’ toy tanks that shock you when your tank gets “hit” and were trying to see who could take the most abuse?
Nothing to do with the post, I just thought that’s representative of what we’re dealing with.
Happy birthday, asshole.
51 years as an asshole? Man, I’ll bet you’ve seen a lot of shit…
I suspect the NRO could turn a profit if their offices were in Nigeria. Chief Editor Korir may also have advice.
No-one ever called actor212 Picasso.
Consider VD Hanson’s appeal for donations:
Running the gamut from right wing nutjobs who toe the GOP line out of habit to right wing nutjobs who toe the GOP line as a knee-jerk response! Why the only other way you could get this sort of writing is by being on the GOP mailing list. But then – Hanson gives a shout-out to us:
BWAHAHAHAHHAAAHHA. People stopping by for the purpose of mocking them is a significant portion of their traffic! We lurves you to VD Hanson, never stop writing or the lulz will be that much further apart.
For $1000 they’ll place a special web filter on the page that will screen out all K-Lo content.
I like it! The Foul Ole Ron method of funding solicitation.
I think the next thing they should do is go subscription-only and put everything behind a pay wall. Within hours it would be Schrödinger’s Wingnut Website – no one will know whether it’s alive or dead until they look, but no one will pay, so no one can look. Maybe K-Lo and the gang are all still back there writing for free, or maybe not.
I turned fifty one today.
Hippo birdie two ewes.
Shorter Chris Buckley;
There but for the grace of ideological purges go I.
Too bad the sparkly shit Lowry saw coming from his TeeVee screen during the V.P. debate wasn’t a geyser of diamonds.
Want to save some serious money, NRO? Cut-off K-Lo’s Krispy Kreme allowance.
No-one ever called actor212 Picasso.
How did you know that’s what was playing on my iPod????
And thank you for the birthday greetings.
Hey, I’m an asshole to guys!
Even sadder than the NRObots begging for spare change?
The poor, benighted souls who have so far given over $75,000 for nothing at all…oh, wait, what’s this?:
“Donation Benefits
To reward donation support, we have created four distinct giving categories. Membership in these clubs will allow you unprecedented access to National Review editors and writers by offering the following benefits:
Club Gift Level Benefits
1955 Club $2500 or more A thru H
Affiliate Member $1000 – $2499 A thru E
Patron $500 – $999 A thru C
Supporter $100 – $499 A and B
A) “Thank You” letter and token of appreciation
B) Quarterly Publisher update
C) Listing in Annual Report
D) Monthly e-mail from NR editor/writer
E) Quarterly donor newsletter
F) Early access to cruise reservations
G) Quarterly conference call with NR writer/editor
H) Invitation to exclusive event during NR cruises”
Fuck’s sake. That’s less than nothing.
I think it’s cute how they think there will be future cruises…
Ramesh and Jonah are now in a “not a competition” to see who can confirm more Facebook friends
Well, considering that the Facebook friend count maxes out at 5000 (a musician I like recently reached the limit)…average donation of $50…I’ve got it! Doughy should be charging for the honor of becoming his “friend”.
Come on, Gavin, come up with the Photoshop we deserve:
The fundraising graph with “We’re Winning” above it.
1955 Club $2500 or more A thru H
Affiliate Member $1000 – $2499 A thru E
Patron $500 – $999 A thru C
Supporter $100 – $499 A and B
A) “Thank You” letter and token of appreciation
B) Quarterly Publisher update
C) Listing in Annual Report
D) Monthly e-mail from NR editor/writer
E) Quarterly donor newsletter
F) Early access to cruise reservations
G) Quarterly conference call with NR writer/editor
H) Invitation to exclusive event during NR cruises”
So, that’s $2500+ for a a newsletter, a phne call and the opportunity to give these ginks even MORE money. Why, sure, I’d call that a worthy investment.
If wishes were horses, then I would not need to shop at La boucherie chevaline.
If wishes were bullshit, wingnuts wouldn’t change a whole lot.
If wishes were Morses then – …. .. … / .-. . .- .-.. .-.. -.- – / -.. – – – . … -. .- – – -. – / … .- -.- – / .- -. -.- – – …. .. -. – -. / ..-. ..- -. -. -.- – .-.-.-
How’s the SadlyNo Tip Jar doing?
The begging seems to be on a 365 day cycle around here.
And we all know that real non-shitty news sources like NPR would never stoop to begging for money…or, God forbid, taking taxpayer cash straight from Uncle Sam.
Never.
If wishes were horses, why the long faces?
It’s a big doughy double whammy for the Pantload. His book didn’t make the NYT best 10 list (!) although islamoterrist material like The Dark Side and The Forever War made it. No champaign for him this new years eve, only the bitter taste of failure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/10Best-t.html?_r=1&em
..and they can also resist his stare when he’s walking down the street.
Hey Ringo, tell me more about these awesome NPR cruises… do I get a one-on-one with Ira Glass if I donate more than 2500 dollars?
The difference between NRO and NPR being that listeners actually like and care enough about the service to come thru and supply the neccesary funds.
Oh, and NPR listeners think of loyalty as a good thing.
NPR provides content.
If the fundraiser keeps up like this…
Somehow I suspect the fundraiser will languish along until an hour or two before it’s supposed to end, then a magical anonymous $125K donation will put them over the top.
It helps if you read all those “enough with the….” anaphora with the word “already” and in the voice of Jerry Stiller: ENOUGH WITH THE NICETIES ALREADY!
I don’t know why, but it reminds us old farts of the lovely Myron Cohen-ish Brighton Beach kvetches of our youth.
What is Ben Shapiro’s problem with nice ties? Childhood trauma? Speculation, irreponsibility, etc.
David Frost’s interview with Richard Nixon is still considered a hot topic in some circles.
Link?
Or whether Bill Clinton regrets giving al Qaeda a virtually free pass while disgracing himself and his office by having sex with an intern and then lying about it?
Former intern. Geez, Hypno-Dork, if you’re going to bitch about lying at least get your facts straight.
WordPress has made me a fuck-up.
Frost Vs. Nixon is a movie and play.
..and they can also resist his stare when he’s walking down the street.
And girls only turn the color of a lime, or maybe an unripe tomato.
They should try a dunking booth. That’s always a great fundraiser.
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I’ve been enjoying this quite a bit. For example:
Kathryn Jean Lopez: The Acela car I’m on to D.C. has a Free Acela WiFi test. I still want the whole darn thing privatized, but in the meantime — I suspect a long meantime — I’ll enjoy my free wireless. Well, free with the not-so-low price of an Acela ticket on this taxpayer-subsidized train Joe Biden loves so dearly.
So they’re desperate for money and she’s spending money not just on a service that her ideology condemns, but on a vastly overpriced and unreliable version of that service? On the NY-DC route, which I assume is what she’s taking, the Acela typically costs an extra $100 or so and saves *maybe* 45 minutes at most.
Sounds like prudent financial planning to me.
J8Juan said,
Hey Ringo, tell me more about these awesome NPR cruises… do I get a one-on-one with Ira Glass if I donate more than 2500 dollars?
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All $2500 will get you is a sloppy velcro hummer from Mark Steyn.
All $2500 will get you is a sloppy velcro hummer from Mark Steyn.
…the fuck?
All $2500 will get you is a sloppy velcro hummer from Mark Steyn
Is that what the kids are calling it these days!®
The most relevant questions involving this post and thread:
“Rich Lowry has a girlfriend?”
Proof ? A human?
Can she fog a mirror?
Is it O’Beirne? K-Lo? Freedom? Do they even count as “girlfriends”?
Does Mark Hemingway know about this?
Hourly rate of said “girlfriend”?
The list of donor “rewards” is interesting. I’ve been involved with a number of charitable organizations that do this sort of fundraising. The NRO clowns have clearly copied what they’ve seen in other places without really *thinking* about the rationale for (and presentation of) each item. As a consequence, they have no idea what they’re doing and look stupid. In no particular order:
F) Early access to cruise reservations
This is a funny one given how much time they spend desperately trying to fill up the cabins on their cruises. It’s not like you’ll miss out if you’re not RIGHT THERE AT THE WEBSITE when the reservations open.
H) Invitation to exclusive event during NR cruises
This smacks of “We don’t know what it’s gonna be, but we’ll make it up later.” “Exclusive reception” or “Exclusive round-table discussion” would be better.
D) Monthly e-mail from NR editor/writer
G) Quarterly conference call with NR writer/editor
Same. The conference call is not that bad of an idea, to be honest–personal attention is always good. As it stands, though, it’s phrased in a way that makes it sound like “whoever we can sucker into it–probably Jonah, or K-Lo if everyone is busy and we don’t mind the embarassment.” I can understand why they can’t list the particular people in advance, but they could do something like “a rotating series of National Review’s talented writers and editors.” (G should probably *only* be an editor. They can always bestow a temporary editorial title on someone if they really get stuck.)
C) Listing in Annual Report
…which only happens if you shell out $500 or more. What’s up with that? Everyone who donates less just gets ignored? The whole purpose of tiered donations with different labels for each level is to make lesser donors feel cheap while allowing greater donors to feel a sense of smug superiority. As a consequence, people feel shamed into donating more (if only to get out of the bottom tier). If you don’t put the lesser donors’ names in the stupid report, then their shame is private, not public, and is thus less effective.
A) “Thank You” letter and token of appreciation
B) Quarterly Publisher update
I’m frankly embarrassed that they even mentioned these as rewards. They’re not rewards. They’re standard. They’re automatic. They go out to anyone who gives you anything. Good God.
In fact, the whole ordered list looks silly. It reads like an internal document–the sort of thing you’d give to the envelope-stuffers to make sure they sent people the proper crap. Plus, for heaven’s sake, who writes “thru” instead of “through” when you’re sucking up to rich pretentious bastards for money?
I was briefly tempted to offer my consulting services to restructure their donation scheme in a far more rational way, but then I realized that I actually want these guys to fail. Plus, writing ad copy makes me gnash my teeth in frustration, and these guys obviously don’t have enough money to pay me anyway.
BOOT. STRAPS.
He totally ignored Al Qaeda? So those cruise missles he ordered launched at AQ training camps amount to a “free pass”?
Maybe one of them had “FREE” painted on it and the other one had “PASS”?
If wishes were horses, Mark Steyn would have died by now from a perforated colon.
This is hilarious . A lecture by Hulnkin Malkin on self-reliance immediately below a NRO headline begging for donations .
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDI4NTllZjZkMDhlNjMzMzdkMzVmYWRhOWRhNDA4MDI=
The Call of NRO
Wasn’t that the sequel to The Call of Cthulhu?
“Conservatives threaten. Watch. The next fundraising appeal will involve K-Lo and a quart of Valvoline.”
I could use a quart of Valvoline. I need to change the oil in my log splitter.
Any salary over a bi-weekly kick in the junk is a bonus for those fucktards.
Seriously, think about it a moment: Katherine “She’s Not Heavy … Well, Actually She IS” Lopez earns a paycheck, not for scrubbing floors, or as a crash test dummy, but as a writer. Something we all know she is incapable of doing. Sounds like a huge bonus to me.
In an ideal world, we could grab fat putzes who say they’re defending jack by drooling on their keyboards and drop them some place where people were exchanging views via bullets.
Hmmm. This one is actually tempting. Should I offer them $1,000 if they can demonstrate at least one credible threat to this country’s freedoms and ideals that NR[O] specifically averted?
I am saving up my
NZ moneysshiny milk-bottle tops for when they start offering the nudecolandercalendar.I’m saving up for the colander calendar. Can’t you just see K Lo and Pantload coyly clutching colanders to their soft bits? Steyn could be Mr December and have a festive Santa hat on his.
I’d pay money for that. Not mine, of course, although I’d be happy to rummage down the back of the couch.
The panic in the Corner is nearing its zenith. It’s 24/7/365 panhandling efforts are evidently falling well short of their goals.
Today, for example, K-Lo, Jonah and Rammesh are having a menage-a-trois regarding Facebook accounts; Victor Davis Hazy is beggin’ for dough and The Steynanator is reminiscing about some 20-year old song parody that he sung on most recent NRO voyage.
However, the most glaring illustration of intellectual ineptitude is Doughboy’s response after viewing W’s newest diggs in Dallas via an aerial shot on The Smoking Gun:
Yep. Nothin’ fishy there, eh?
So, all content? I mean, she is the editor of NRO; you could argue that everything there is somewhat hers.
Would that be too much to ask for? Just an NRO banner and a blank page, stretching off into beautiful endless infinity?
Times are tough all around, but they are especially tough here at NR and NRO.
Raise a glass!
Why don’t they all fly to Washington in their private jets and beg for money there?
Like f-ck they need the money, some crazy billionaire will be paying for their arses. This is just Cheetos and new pajamas money
Two Million Bucks … Buys a lot of house in Texas.
You think the house is pricey? You won’t believe how much he spent on the secret tunnel to Paraguay from the basement.
“F) Early access to cruise reservations”
Any chance they’ll be passing the coast of Somalia?
Shoot, Red Beard beat me to that one. That would be a great chance for these sea-going wonks to witness the power of unfettered individualistic capitalism in action.
Sell your fucking kidneys your fucking lying sac of shit scumballs. Go beg for some of Lynne Cheney’s book royalties and then tout her for the presidency in 2012 … swallow a big load of David Addington’s cum and maybe he’ll fart out some of his federal pension money for you. Move your HQ to Toledo fucking Ohio where the cost of living is 50 percent lower, you fucking frauds. Do one of those brave fucking libertarian Ayn Rand things like work in a fucking shale mine of better yet dig for some fucking coal in west virginia where the widows and orphans drink black fucking water for breakfast because of Bush’s mountaintop mining deregulation. FUCK YOU you fucking worthless soft-fingered frauds. Did I mention, FUCK YOU and your welfare-driven magazine, you never-worked-for-a-living loafered ass-kissing fops. Go the fuck to hell.
The Sadly No commentariat apparently doesn’t appreciate gypsy shit.
I gave to the Sadly No tip jar once and I still haven’t gotten my ^$%#%@%$ totebag!!!!
I myself can testify that Mr. Lowry does indeed ride the NYC subway, well he did at least once! I stood next to him on the platform of the downtown # 6 @ 33rd Street a while back. There’s absolutely no question that it was Lowry, as the stench of rotting corpses emanating from every pore of his soulless body was overwhelming.
That’s 4.5 inches, thankyouverymuch!
These people should actually want to go to Somalia to examine how life, with a government small enough to be drowned, is going
How about nude photos of Grover Norquist? Neocons and taxcuttermaniacs could buy them as “gag” gifts (and the thought of seeing Norquist in the nude certainly makes ME gag!)
People don’t really apreciate what they have until they loose it. Don’t you think?