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Thursday April 10, 2003

07:44 AM

[ #11575 ]

"I'm not fat -- you're way too fucking skinny."
"Richard Simmons was misquoted in the movie Star Trek: Generations. The full quote is 'Time is the fire in which we burn calories!'"
If you want to feel better about yourself, hang around with fatter people.
Cat's love being fat and it appears they consider it a sign of verility.
In wilderness, no one chastizes bears for their pot bellies.

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you might also add.... (Score:2)

by hfb (74)

In Africa, beauty pagent contestants carbo-load before the contest so they look round and healthy instead of a victim of a famine like the white girls in fashion magazines. :)
- Re:you might also add.... (Score:3, Funny)
  
  by chromatic (983)
  
  Victim of a famine or victim of a drive-by heroin injection? It's so hard to tell anymore.
But... (Score:2, Funny)

by jmac (457)

I feel I really must point out that you're actually not fat. Seriously. I think it's strange that you seem to think this.
- Re:But... (Score:1)
  
  by jjohn (22)
  
  I feel I really must point out that you're actually not fat. Seriously. I think it's strange that you seem to think this.
  I'm not fat: I'm big-boned, mom says.
  Gosh, I don't think that came out right...
  - Re:But... (Score:2, Insightful)
    
    by pdcawley (485)
    
    I'm definitely fat. I think I might have got back under 350 pounds, but it's touch and go; I don't currently have a set of scales that goes high enough.
But then there's the Far Side cartoon (Score:2, Funny)

by Fletch (75)

With the rotund bear and the caption along the lines of `Harvey grew uncomfortable when the other bears stared at his enormous deer gut'.