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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Food for thought, was : Bear Crap
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.193223.8017@spdcc.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:32:23 GMT
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- richard@Apple.COM (a flying squirrel) writes:
- >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
-
- >>To put it in another light, how would tall people fell if they were
- >>referred to in the media and by others as "overheight?"
-
- >Are you suggesting that tall people be felled like trees? ;^)
- >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.
- o
- Hogwash. Don't cut the tall people, stretch out
- the short people! Just get a rack, some of your nearest
- objectifiable friends and have a GRAND time!
-
- IF you choose your tallest objectifiable friends to
- "help" then everyone gets to join in on the fun...
-
- BBC
-