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- From: richard@Apple.COM (a flying squirrel)
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- Subject: Re: Food for thought, was : Bear Crap
- Message-ID: <74560@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 02:01:10 GMT
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- Dave Kerlick writes:
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- >>GDM:
- >>I realize we're probably not going to do away with the prejudice
- >>against "overweight" any time soon; but there is no reason
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- >To put it in another light, how would tall people fell if they were
- >referred to in the media and by others as "overheight?"
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- Are you suggesting that tall people be felled like trees? ;^)
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- Your analogy does not wash, m'dear. The common perception, right or
- wrong, is that people can control their weight through exercise and
- diet. With vertical stature, one gets what one's genes dictate. No
- amount of "Richard Simmons' Deal-A-Meal" would shorten (or lengthen)
- people. Only a bandsaw could do that.
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- a flying squirrel is: richard@apple.com Apple Computer Inc.
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