Comments on: Several Unrelated Items, None of Which Are Symptomatic of Anything at All

By: Flat Tired

Flat Tired — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:12:07 +0000

Did you at least remember to close the lid afterwards?

You’re a gem, Fatty!

By: Dave in Lehi

Dave in Lehi — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:37:40 +0000

Okay, I’ve been researching this for the past 24 hours, non-stop. I’ve downed 13 48 oz cans of Dr. Pepper, and ate my way through mine and my 3 kids’ gingerbread houses (lightly toasted with Reeses Pieces and Hershey Kisses) and have found the answer. It is a government conspiracy and here is my proof. I decided that I might be getting fat, but of course that can’t be true, but just in case I started a diet. Well, that day some dude wearing Men in Black attire, dropped an entire box of donuts on the table and said, “Take as many as you want.” You see, the government has put something in the donuts to make us fatter! Beware!!

By: Charisa

Charisa — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:32:22 +0000

I think if you purchase really super expensive clothes the sizing is smaller. Tricky marketing isn’t it? :)

Thanks for the laughs today :)

By: SurlyCommuter

SurlyCommuter — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:53:05 +0000

I read a very official report that showed definitively that fat cells, like matter, are constant, another feather in the cap of the re-distribution of weight theory.

Its funny how all the really good weight loss information comes in the form of commercials after 9:00pm! I have ordered free thirty day trials of several GUARANTEED products for “people who don’t just want to lose weight, but pounds of body fat”. If I’m doing the math right I should lose around 98lbs and 19inches (I hope I don’t get shorter) in the next 7 days! Hooray!

By: Boz

Boz — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:42:18 +0000

Eldon, what ever you do, don’t get a Nintendo Wii w/ the fit program. It is a lie filled cpu that insults all my theories about myself. I am not weak, unbalanced(muscle-wise), or obese. It sez I’m all of those terrible things. It also skews the results from it’s tests and training programs to reinforce it libelous conclusions. Stay away from it at all costs.

Wait, it seems like I have the highest scores in my house. That makes me the King, right?

By: buckythedonkey

buckythedonkey — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:34:40 +0000

Welcome back.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:22:51 +0000

you could always challenge your athletic prowess as a guest participant in the Sumo Wrestling competition on the ‘Best Damn Sports Show’…the training for that is excruciating I am told.

By: Onan the Barbarian

Onan the Barbarian — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:05:39 +0000

Welcome back, Fatty.

FWIW: I took up tennis and JUST started playing ice hockey for the “off season”. I’m 45 and live in Minneapolis and yeah, I’m not a “hard core” cyclist during the winter months.

Fat and proud.

By: kiwi

kiwi — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:50:26 +0000

Jean Yes… No Micheal balls jean for me( I can only dream)!

Gap jeans for me, more money for cycling wear!

Kiwi

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:21:18 +0000

Really bad luck that all those products have failed at once, at the same time as the altitude sickness setting in.

Best to avoid that high altitude pulmonary edema, I saw it in a movie one time – naturally your symptoms are not of a mere mountain climber (simply “day trippers”) but of a long-term high altitude explorer, living with only the facilities available to the local natives!

Possibly the clothes shrinkage you are observing is also due to the high altitude? If it’s affecting your clothes, it could also be shrinking your road bike, which would explain the problem with your drops. You’re quite right, though, you shouldn’t need to use the drops – especially in the thin air up there!

I recommend you purchase only products that are manufactured at a similar high altitude, just in case. Italy has lots of mountains, perhaps you could get a nice Italian bike; it should be far more robust to the thin air.