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- From: avery@netcom.com (Avery Ray Colter)
- Subject: Re: Appreciation of the big & beautiful woman
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.224245.2310@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Oct29.235741.1286@netcom.com> <95479@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Oct30.231427.27666@netcom.com> <95775@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:42:45 GMT
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- crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
-
- <about the perception of wealth>
-
- Yeah, this is true. Especially with the perverse amounts of money I've
- heard being spend on weight-loss type things, and the sickening sums
- raked in by cosmetic surgeons and the like.
-
- And of course, all the anti-fat sentiment does drive down the price
- of high-fat foods, and therefore makes them more attractive to those
- on tight budgets. Asking a single mother of 4 to pay twice the cost for half
- the calories isn't exactly going to fly real well, by any rational logic.
- And with America's poor facing STDs, AIDS, and now a dramatic comeback of
- that old favorite tuberculosis, all these goings on about adiposity and its
- ills would seem to pale by comparison.
-
- So much the better for me in certain cases. I happen to like dark-meat
- of chicken, and so I always chortle at KFC that I pay less for the meat
- that tastes better.
-
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- "Heaviness is the root of lightness; calmness is the controller of haste"
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