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I can't - there weren't any cameras when I was a child.

That way lies mania, and we both know it.

More likely obese, given years of weighing people and checking BMI's (yeah, they're not the most accurate measurement if you're very muscular or have a large frame, but they're fairly useful for the vast majority.). [Please note - this is not a personal slur, but a clinical judgement. I have been obese, and am still overweight, so I have no room to make fun of anyone.]

That's why they're so prevalent in the obese - more wear and tear, coming at a younger age.

Joint issues are more prevalent in the obese, and, should an obese person need a knee or hip replaced, the outcome is almost always less successful than in a patient of normal weight.

It amazes me that you can consider yourself the better guy in almost the same breath as saying that you threw a tantrum. Dexter gets put in time out when he acts like that.

I'm supposed to get it Monday night into Tuesday; time to panic, because my plow guy is down with pneumonia.

Oh, please, not the HAES party line. Obesity is always unhealthy; it just takes time. You don't notice anything yet, yet being the operative word. If nothing else, by the time you're 45 or 50, your knees, your ankles, and your back will tell you how unhealthy obesity is. That is, if you don't develop hypertension and/or diabetes before then.

Well, if that's what you meant, I can't tell you about any of the animals on your list, but I can tell you to never eat woodchuck.

yeah, and it's cold enough in these parts so that they stay fresh for a while. Y'know, I've got a retaining wall next to the driveway that needs to be replaced...

I suppose that it does keep out the riff-raff.

OK. Thanks - it is better without that.

You have to keep replacing the old ones with fresh.

The roadsides would be a lot cleaner.

This is rather distressing, mostly because I can't quite figure out where all the arms and legs are.

Then I will be pleased to collect dead hookers for you - for architecture.

Naw, don't do it - unless you're collecting them, too.

That's good. Every young man needs a hobby, and I will be happy to help Ric with his dead hooker collection (for science).

I thought so.

...that when I'm driving on the thruway and I see a large black garbage bag on the side of the road, that I automatically think "dead hooker"?

Coffee, cigarettes, and old, bad horror movies .

Duct tape.

If it's a mammal, you can eat it. Just don't eat polar bear liver - 4 oz of polar bear liver contains a lethal dose of vitamin A.

Hey, do you want to get slapped? Actually, work is therapeutic - one needs to be in a routine as far as sleeping and meals, and one has to think about something other than how miserable one is. And getting something accomplished is a great boost to one's self esteem. And as far as solving your issues, well, you've made a step. You got a job. Now that you know you can get one, you can get another one and keep it.