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| New Obesity Boom In Arab Countries Has Old Ancestry |
| 2004-12-31 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 yo mamma wears a should be shame enough, for all involved |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-31 9:21:28 PM |
| #7 Wow, I wonder what variation on "Yo Momma" jokes they have over there... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-12-31 9:17:07 PM |
| #6 Thank you PB. That sounds much better than what I wrote. Off topic: Happy New Year, all! Drive carefully, and come home safe!! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-12-31 7:41:17 PM |
| #5 TW - I believe you're thinking of Peter Paul Rubens. |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2004-12-31 4:54:35 PM |
| #4 Well dang and double dang. Don't that beat all? |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2004-12-31 3:04:55 PM |
| #3 Way back when he was working in Cairo, Mr. Wife's driver boasted that his beautiful wife weighed 100 kilos. He was aghast at the photo of me (then I was still slender as well as short, and my 100 was measured in pounds, not kilos), and the fact that after five years of marriage I had produced neither sons nor children. In a world of excess, beauty is measured in restraint, and we get anorexics and bulimics. In a world of poverty, the rare ability to afford excess defines beauty (remember all the rubinesque lovelies Rubin painted? (Is that the painter I mean? Art History is not one of my strengths), not to mention Tevye's dream of his wife with a "proper double chin" in Fiddler on the Roof.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-12-31 2:54:56 PM |
| #2 "...If she threw up, she says, her mother forced her to eat the vomit. Stretch marks appeared on her body and the skin on her upper arms and thighs tore under the pressure. If she balked at the feedings, her mother would squeeze her toes between two wooden sticks until the pain was unbearable..." - of course this is not even close to the horror of denying women the right to join the Augusta country club |
| Posted by: martha burk, cynthia mckinney, maxine waters 2004-12-31 8:41:18 AM |
| #1 "The belief that rotund women are more desirable as wives helps explain why much of the Arab world -- which stretches from the Persian Gulf in the east to Mauritania in North Africa -- is experiencing an explosion of obesity." Guess that explains why |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-12-31 8:30:35 AM |