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Is he swimming or strutting?
The teaser says the author was strutting poolside while wearing a Speedo.
I get to the end of the article, and it turns out the author was suffering all of his angst over wearing a Speedo while swimming laps.
I don't think of Portland, Oregon as a hotbed of the fashion avant garde, but when I started lap swimming in 1989 the vast majority of male lap-swimmers wore Speedos, including me, the scrawny runner. This wasn't in the trendy athletic clubs, either, this was in a public pool in the basement of a local grade school.
What this article really needed was Graham Chapman, as The Commander, to come in halfway through and say "Allright, Mr. Broudy, stop this article, it's much too silly!" and stop the article.