International sign for Nudists???

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  RedGater

  Jul 16, 2011

  [quote]Be careful with that. The image might be copyrighted re using it outside of TN.[/quote]  Not that I have made a bumper sticker, but I believe I am allowed to make up my own for my own personal use... ie not for others or for profit? I'm no copywright lawyer, but I believe that is the case.

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  Srcon28

  Jul 16, 2011

  [quote][quote]Most people don't put "bluejay" and "naked together.[/quote]    The actual expression is"naked as a jaybird", but it's archaic enough that few still use it. NIM's suggestions:Logo ...Button ...The outline is of a fig leaf. I note that JohnThomas suggested that while I was off Googling for the leaf and creating the images. Great minds think alike, it appears.[/quote] Interesting but some folks may take that as "No Poison Ivy  or Sumac" if they don't know what the leaves look like...

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  Philfreeeuk

  Jul 16, 2011

  [quote]Curt said ......[/quote] [quote]The original premis being something universally recognizable by nudists, not textiles, to simply indicate an "insider" so to speak... Should be simple, recognizable, universally non-offensive in any country in the world. I'd suggest a simple letter "N" with no embelishments whatever. I also like a combined letter consisting of a lower case n and lower case u run to gether to make a sort of highly exaggerated tilde.[/quote]   I wrote this before you did, but had another crash before I could post it :)

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  ManOfWicklow

  Jul 16, 2011

  We seem to be getting nowhere at the moment, so lets just make it quite plain and simple for people to understand. Have a tattoo on your forehead, with these words-Nudism is Natural.

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• ME

  Member

  Jul 16, 2011

  My 2 cents worth, I would vote for the Jaybird in flight, with a lily in its beak. Beautiful image, recognizable to those who matter, and inoffensive to those who are unaware of its meaning.
  Could you imagine a bumpersticker with the Space probe image on it? Some prude would spray paint your car in days!
  And the Fig leave with a line drawn through it? It immediately gives a thought to a negative statement, and I like to have positive things in my life.
  The idea is to find a symbol we can all recognize, not a political statement.
  Put my vote down for the Jay Bird!

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  CabotCheese

  Jul 16, 2011

  [quote][quote]Be careful with that. The image might be copyrighted re using it outside of TN.[/quote]   Not that I have made a bumper sticker, but I believe I am allowed to make up my own for my own personal use... ie not for others or for profit? I'm no copywright lawyer, but I believe that is the case.[/quote] ANY copy is a violation of copyright. Typically private use goes unnoticed and unpunished wheras copying for profit is persued in court. There are some notable exceptions especially when talking about the RIAA where they will sue a single parent into oblivion who has simply consumed copied music on their compter hard drive.

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• ME

  Member

  Jul 16, 2011

  The Blue Jay as sign won't work. Come to Toronto on a Saturday afternoon and you might think you are seeing 40,000 nudists wearing blue jay hats.... however you are just running into fans of The Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club

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  kramtrohs

  Jul 17, 2011

  Yeah, im having hte same problem too - I don't know whats going on??

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  ManOfWicklow

  Jul 17, 2011

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  sunlover1006

  Jul 17, 2011

  I have just been thinking .......... Are you a true nudist if you wear a hat????

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  ManOfWicklow

  Jul 17, 2011

  [quote]I have just been thinking .......... Are you a true nudist if you wear a hat????[/quote]

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  diceman

  Jul 17, 2011

  Looking at the reduced image of the jaybird, I see it reduces nicely and will work. I'd say, right down to the size of a button on a shirt would look good. Even cuff links, lapel pins and the like will do well. I do like the bird with the white lillies better.

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  Tom === Thomas S. Tierney

  Jul 17, 2011

  [quote]Everyday in our ordinary work or social lives, we pass hundreds of people, if not more.  Some of us are fortunate to have met thru the site or at resorts. So we know each other thru there... BUT is there another way to tell who is a nudist in the plain clothed world? Is there a secret sign or something? hahaa besides being nude![/quote]  To answer the original question. “is there another way to tell who is a nudist in the plain clothed world?” Yes! I wear a Deer Park Nudist Resort T-Shirt or Sweat Shirt whenever I go to the market or Doctor or wherever. I carry free day passes with me. If someone approaches me and asks questions I answer them and give them a pass. Several have used them. If a complete stranger looks at me and frowns I mentally flip the fool the finger. Why should I care what a complete stranger thinks of me? Don’t tell me all the reasons you can’t admit you are a nudist. I’ve heard them all. The big secret of a “Secret Badge” or whatever will soon be known by the general public. How does that protect you? Either proudly display your colors or stay hidden.

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  Michael

  Jul 17, 2011

  People have the concept of what I was saying... but they're making the images too detailed and complicated, we're talking a flag or a button... not something that's going to have all kinds of colors. div id="mainphoto"[url=../members/picturecomments.php?id=57961520#][/url]/div div /div divHopefully that worked /div

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  Michael

  Jul 17, 2011

  OK, i was going to piggyback on my other post but it was messed up the first time so i feared editing it lol.  The bird is solid color, but a bluejay blue, the flower is a solid white, the background is supposed to resemble a sun, and the blue around it is something that could easily be changed, but would be for something like if you ordered a flag or something.

  BTW I know the drawing is crude, if someone else can figure out the computer part of it better, or draw it better, go for it.  I sketched that out, scanned it, opened it in a file editing program called irfanview, whited it out to take the details out of the scan so it would work better in paint, opened it in paint, added the circle around it and the colors, saved it, and uploaded it here.

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  ManOfWicklow

  Jul 17, 2011

  [quote][quote]Everyday in our ordinary work or social lives, we pass hundreds of people, if not more.  Some of us are fortunate to have met thru the site or at resorts. So we know each other thru there... BUT is there another way to tell who is a nudist in the plain clothed world? Is there a secret sign or something? hahaa besides being nude![/quote]   To answer the original question. “is there another way to tell who is a nudist in the plain clothed world?” Yes! I wear a Deer Park Nudist Resort T-Shirt or Sweat Shirt whenever I go to the market or Doctor or wherever. I carry free day passes with me. If someone approaches me and asks questions I answer them and give them a pass. Several have used them. If a complete stranger looks at me and frowns I mentally flip the fool the finger. Why should I care what a complete stranger thinks of me? Don’t tell me all the reasons you can’t admit you are a nudist. I’ve heard them all. The big secret of a “Secret Badge” or whatever will soon be known by the general public. How does that protect you? Either proudly display your colors or stay hidden.[/quote]I agree, either show it or shut it.

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  Tom === Thomas S. Tierney

  Jul 17, 2011

  [quote]People have the concept of what I was saying... but they're making the images too detailed and complicated, we're talking a flag or a button... not something that's going to have all kinds of colors. div id="mainphoto"[url=../members/picturecomments.php?id=57961520][/url]/div div /div[/quote][quote]divHopefully that worked[/quote] [quote]/div[/quote] If I wear this no one will know I am a nudist except other nudists? Please explain how that will work?

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  Tom === Thomas S. Tierney

  Jul 17, 2011

  [quote][quote][quote]Everyday in our ordinary work or social lives, we pass hundreds of people, if not more.  Some of us are fortunate to have met thru the site or at resorts. So we know each other thru there... BUT is there another way to tell who is a nudist in the plain clothed world? Is there a secret sign or something? hahaa besides being nude![/quote]    To answer the original question. “is there another way to tell who is a nudist in the plain clothed world?” Yes! I wear a Deer Park Nudist Resort T-Shirt or Sweat Shirt whenever I go to the market or Doctor or wherever. I carry free day passes with me. If someone approaches me and asks questions I answer them and give them a pass. Several have used them. If a complete stranger looks at me and frowns I mentally flip the fool the finger. Why should I care what a complete stranger thinks of me? Don’t tell me all the reasons you can’t admit you are a nudist. I’ve heard them all. The big secret of a “Secret Badge” or whatever will soon be known by the general public. How does that protect you? Either proudly display your colors or stay hidden.[/quote]I agree, either show it or shut it.[/quote] Bravo!  I could not have said it better!!!!!

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  Michael

  Jul 17, 2011

  [quote]People have the concept of what I was saying... but they're making the images too detailed and complicated, we're talking a flag or a button... not something that's going to have all kinds of colors. div id="mainphoto"[url=../members/picturecomments.php?id=57961520][/url]/div div /div[/quote] [quote]divHopefully that worked[/quote]  [quote]/div[/quote]  If I wear this no one will know I am a nudist except other nudists? Please explain how that will work?  I think the general consensus has been that it's not so much a secret sign as one that's just not well known.  I mean if you aren't a nudist you don't tend to know what the AANR is, that doesn't make it a secret organization... this is just giving an "image" to promote nudism, not the AANR not a specific club.  Um... what's a good example?That's a symbol for the Human Rights Campaign that shows public support of gay equality.  If you didn't know that you wouldn't know what it was, but if you do and you see it you know that the person wearing it is a supporter of equal rights.  Anyone could find that information out, it's not like it's a secret what it means, but it's not well known unless you are actually a supporter.  What a symbol like that does is makes someone feel safe going "so you're a nudist? So am I, we should totally spend the rest of our time together sans clothing" instead of having to guess whether or not you're friends are nudists or if they'd be panicked by the idea and think you're something else entirely.

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  Tom === Thomas S. Tierney

  Jul 17, 2011

  aren't a nudist you don't tend to know what the AANR is, that doesn't
  make it a secret organization... this is just giving an "image" to
  promote nudism, not the AANR not a specific club.

  So we are going to re-invent the wheel?

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  ManOfWicklow

  Jul 17, 2011

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  Tom === Thomas S. Tierney

  Jul 17, 2011

  [quote][/quote]   Beautiful! I wonder what I can pin it to.

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• ME

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  Jul 17, 2011

  [url=http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KJke0VdiNOHCEAaziJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBraHUyODBpBHBvcwM0MjEEc2VjA3NyBHZ0aWQD/SIG=1m61ftrkt/EXP=1310975637/**http%3a//images.search.yahoo.com/images/view%3fback=http%253A%252F%252Fimages.search.yahoo.com%252Fsearch%252Fimages%253Fp%253DLife%252Bis%252Bshort%252Bplay%252Bnaked%2526b%253D421%2526ni%253D20%2526ei%253DUTF-8%2526xargs%253D0%2526pstart%253D1%2526fr%253Dfp-tyc8%26w=140%26h=175%26imgurl=stickthisgraphics.com%252Fimages%252F12939294352391622662131.jpeg%26rurl=http%253A%252F%252Fstickthisgraphics.com%252FLife-Is-Short-Play-Naked-Decal-Sticker-FUNS18.htm%26size=14KB%26name=Life%2bIs%2bShort%2bPl...%26p=Life%2bis%2bshort%2bplay%2bnaked%26oid=1a89f2c67a8bc08ba8fadfb5ebcb2fe5%26fr2=%26no=421%26tt=6050%26b=421%26ni=20%26sigr=12eduf23q%26sigi=11pjc8u93%26sigb=13oiuf8bq%26.crumb=LJQBuYCvP2T][/url]  I've seen this lil guy on tee-shirts & such... it's cute!

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  Michael

  Jul 18, 2011

  [quote]I like being subtle.  I do not care who knows I'm a nudist but that doesn't mean I want to go around shouting it out loud like I got a chip on my shoulder.  A bluejay pin, flag, tee shirt would be a classy symbol.  It might even add a little intrige to the culture.[/quote]   Totally the point.  It's also a way to introduce nudism publically in places where it's expressly outlawed anywhere in public.

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