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"How I Got Fat"

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  1. This is courtesy Alan, from another group:

    One of the first comic LPs I bought, back in the
    dim distant past century, was "My Son the Nut",
    Allan Sherman. Probably his best-known effort was
    "Hello Mother, Hello Father", the plea of a kid at
    Summer Camp to go home. But this one has stuck in
    my mind, and I found the words are on the net:

    'Hail To Thee, Fat Person

    I would like to explain how it came to pass that I
    got fat.
    Ladies and gentlemen, I got fat as a public service.
    When I was a child, my mother said to me,
    "Clean the plate, because children are starving in
    Europe."
    And I might point out that that was years before the
    Marshall Plan was ever heard of.
    So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times
    a day.
    Because somehow I felt that that would keep the
    children
    from starving in Europe.

    But I was wrong. They kept starving. And I got fat.

    So I would like to say to every one of you who is
    either
    skinny or in some other way normal-- When you walk
    out on
    the street, and you see a fat person, do not scoff
    at that
    fat person. Oh no! Take off your hat. Hold it
    over your
    heart. Lift your chin up high. And in a proud,
    happy voice
    say to him,

    "Hail to thee, fat person!
    You kept us out of war!"'

  2. Ahh, that brings back memories. But when I was a kid, the children were
    starving in Ethiopia, not Europe.

    I recall encountering the "Long Arm of the Law" once when I saucily told my
    parents they were welcome to send my food to those Ethiopian kids because
    *I* didn't want it.

    From then on it was strictly SUAEI: Shut Up And Eat It.

    Laura

    "Marsha" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    This is courtesy Alan, from another group:

    One of the first comic LPs I bought, back in the dim distant past century,
    was "My Son the Nut", Allan Sherman. Probably his best-known effort was
    "Hello Mother, Hello Father", the plea of a kid at Summer Camp to go home.
    But this one has stuck in my mind, and I found the words are on the net:

    'Hail To Thee, Fat Person

    I would like to explain how it came to pass that I got fat.
    Ladies and gentlemen, I got fat as a public service.
    When I was a child, my mother said to me,
    "Clean the plate, because children are starving in Europe."
    And I might point out that that was years before the
    Marshall Plan was ever heard of.
    So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day.
    Because somehow I felt that that would keep the children
    from starving in Europe.

    But I was wrong. They kept starving. And I got fat.

    So I would like to say to every one of you who is either
    skinny or in some other way normal-- When you walk out on
    the street, and you see a fat person, do not scoff at that
    fat person. Oh no! Take off your hat. Hold it over your
    heart. Lift your chin up high. And in a proud, happy voice
    say to him,

    "Hail to thee, fat person!
    You kept us out of war!"'

  3. "Laura" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Ahh, that brings back memories. But when I was a kid, the children were
    starving in Ethiopia, not Europe.

    China, here.

    --
    No Husband Has Ever Been Shot While Doing The Dishes

  4. Biafra for me.

    Jennifer

    None Given said:

    "Laura" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Ahh, that brings back memories. But when I was a kid, the children were
    starving in Ethiopia, not Europe.

    China, here.

  5. In article <[email hidden]>,

    Jennifer said:

    Biafra for me.

    We must be about the same age, Jennifer. When I was anorexic in my late
    teens, I was told I looked like "a Biafra victim."

    Priscilla

    Quoted message said:
    None Given said:

    "Laura" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Ahh, that brings back memories. But when I was a kid, the children were
    starving in Ethiopia, not Europe.

    China, here.



    --
    "Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what
    the hell happened." -- Cora Harvey Armstrong

  6. What I could never figure was....HOW does MY eating these god-awful lima
    beans HELP a hungry kid somewhere else?

    I BEGGED mom to, for god's sake, PACK EM UP and MAIL em overseas.....LET
    the hungry kids have my lima beans! PUHLEEEEEEZE!

    LassChance

    Start LC~5-16-05
    202-195-165
    (i only weigh on Sunday)

  7. In a previous article said:

    Ahh, that brings back memories. But when I was a kid, the children were
    starving in Ethiopia, not Europe.

    I recall encountering the "Long Arm of the Law" once when I saucily told my
    parents they were welcome to send my food to those Ethiopian kids because
    *I* didn't want it.

    From then on it was strictly SUAEI: Shut Up And Eat It.

    My favorite response:

    "Eat that. Children are starving in Russia."

    "Yeah? Name two."

    Vicki
    --
    Of all the stupid things I've done, this is certainly the most recent.
    - Chris Clarke

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