I tricked Joe. He said that when we have a house and at least one acre of land, that I could get 1 alpaca. Know what an alpaca is??

A CAMEL!!

well, cousin to a camel. No hump, don't think they can go without water for too long, adapted to high altitudes, but they do have those beautiful eyes. And their wool makes nice yarn and cloth (insanely expensive, but lovely).

Yay, Toddson!

Yay Toddson with the low blood pressure! Well done.

Monkey stencil border Whoops, can't link to the specific page, but if you search for "monkey" the relevant stencils will come up.

Thank you all. Now the doctor's told me to work on getting my weight down. (I know I'm getting old - he looked about 14.)

RAGE:

Salon has an article on their front page about Hot Topic [link] where they seem to feel the need to consider the question of whether making non-fugly large clothing encourages obesity.

Lawrence Miller, a clinical health psychologist with the Nutrition, Exercise and Weight Management (NEW) Kids Program at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, says that feeling attractive in clothes could decrease a teen's motivation to lose weight -- though only insofar as "feeling attractive" is her or his main goal.

Yes, clearly, the best option is to shame large kids and teens into conforming. In fact, lets do away with clothes for fat people all together - it just helps them pretend to fit in. That would be hard on the thin folk, though - maybe some burlap bags would do the trick?

Pink, and pretty pillows? Yes. Beads, ehhh...I don't know. For a baby? Granted, she can't get at much now, but that will soon change.

Penelope Cruz arrived with a CAMEL. He was very cute.

Not only that, they had a picture in the Boston Globe of it nuzzling her cheek. Not a big PC fan, but it was almost lethally cute.

Oh my, big fucking smack with a large cluestick for Lawrence Miller.

Yes, clearly, the best option is to shame large kids and teens into conforming. In fact, lets do away with clothes for fat people all together - it just helps them pretend to fit in. That would be hard on the thin folk, though - maybe some burlap bags would do the trick?

I read something elsewhere, and I can't attest to its accuracy, because it was elsewhere. During the Schiavo case, someone linked to an op-ed piece which took the position that Terri Schiavo was going to die, because she'd been a fat kid.

In the op-ed piece, it stated that the way children's weight is considered/analyzed, how they define overweight children is those children in the top 15 percent for body mass--in other words, 15% of kids are always considered fat, because it's a self-defining statistic. Is there any truth to that?