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All About Eve
Posted Jul 15, 2008 by Geoff Fox
Updated Jul 16, 2008 at 01:14 PM
Eve Ferber was sincerely shocked that her joke – involving a specific part of the female anatomy and a golf ball – couldn’t be printed in The Tampa Tribune.
“You’re kidding me!” she said, standing topless in the middle of her street.
She crossed her arms and thought for a moment.
“OK, how about this one?“
Suffice to say that many of the jokes in Ferber’s book, “Bare Naked Humor,” which she published last year, would result in exasperated letters to the editor if printed in your morning paper.
And while the illustrations probably wouldn’t make Larry Flynt blush, they might make Hugh Hefner uncomfortable.
Among the many quotable characters I’ve interviewed over the years, Eve, now 88, is one I won’t forget until I die, develop Alzheimer’s disease, suffer a catastrophic injury or move to Amsterdam.
At an age many people don’t reach, the longtime resident at Lake Como Family Nudist Resort, off U.S. 41, is more active than most school children on summer break. She exercises for 30 minutes twice a day, either by walking, riding her customized orange Schwinn bike, playing tennis or swimming.
“Every now and then, I have a cigarette,” she said. “My main motto is: everything in moderation. Food, sex, exercise – everything in moderation works really well.”
A native of Breslau, Germany, she has never lost her thick accent. She has two children, four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and scores of loyal friends.
For 30 years, she was married to Tim Ferber, until his death about 30 years ago. While she described the marriage as “very happy,” she said it took her 20 years to talk him into a swingers’ lifestyle.
I asked her what she did until he warmed to the notion.
With a smile, she said, “I freelanced.”
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Por (Ed Batchelor) on July 17, 2008 (Suggest removal)
That was a great article about Eve Ferber. Like you said - her book is quite risque (but interesting and worth buying as a “library addition”). I found this url with more about her and her book - - http://www.myspace.com/aa1eve
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