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Originally Posted by Klondike
The resort and vacation industry in the US is based in New York, and it IS an industry. It wouldn't surprise me to see courses on how to hold wet-T shirt contests offered at the Cornell School of Hotel Management.
...OK, well on second thought, it would surprise me. You learn the tricks of the trade after class - wink, wink, nudge, nudge....
Klondike
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Close call! I was dialing up
www.cornell.ed....when I saw the last sentence. LOL
I've been working on a theory about this for quite a while. We (Americans) have a way of turning most anything into a "product." Perhaps it's a holdover from our industrial revolution roots. We take everything cool and spontaneous and fun, and streamline it into something to be force-fed to the willing masses.
It has a corrosive effect, wearing the sharp edges off unique human experiences and replacing them with mass-produced homogenous counterfeits. I can't help but think about the perfect example: Breast implants/boob jobs. I mean, how cool is it that a woman with smallish breasts can have them replaced with big knockers? Well, not that cool at all, it turns out. If you look around OCC for a while, you'll inevitably find that posts featuring "real" and "natural" girls get FAR better reviews than those of their enhanced colleagues.
Klondike, you also hit on another perfect example: That wonder of American ingenuity, the wet t-shirt contest. A wonderful, original concept that's been turned into a tasteless caricature. What would we rather see...a few cute, innocent girls from Dubuque and Dayton who had a few too many beverages at Spring Break and got up on stage? Or the brassy stripper types with fake body parts and pre-made "routines"?
It's like a bad "before" and "after" photo.
