phred’s Posts
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For the loved ones now gone--yours and mine--
And the friends that we've lost, we repine.
Let us lift our champagne,
And sing out a refrain,
Of that bittersweet song, "Auld Lang Syne."


When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Halloween is approaching; it's clearish
I plan to appear buccaneerish.
I'll wear red pantaloons
And round earrings, like moons--
Do you think, at my age, I'd look queerish?

The Decalogue, given to Moses
By Jehovah, was no bed of roses.
It made moral demands,
And today it still stands,
Though it's often ignored, one supposes.

Since my pain's grown too powerful, drug me;
Bring my loved ones all in here to hug me;
Tell the doctors to go;
Turn the lights way down low;
Say you love me again--then unplug me.


It's his arrogance holding the floor
As he talks like his word should be law.
I'd like to rebel
With a firm, "Go to hell--
You obnoxious unspeakable bore!"

Being obese, in itself, is a curse.
Comorbidities make it much worse--
Even harder than hell
To become really well--
And a drain, sad to tell, on the purse!

The mirror crack'd from side to side,
"My curse has come upon me" cried,
The Lady of Shallott!
Alfred Lord Tennyson


When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Mahatma Gandhi always walked barefoot and ultimately the soles of his feet became thick and very hard. He also was, of course, known to be a man of deep spiritual conviction. He undertook hunger strikes as a political protest and at times was both thin and frail. Furthermore, due to his weird diet, he suffered from bad breath. VERY bad breath.
In fact, in time he came to be known as "a super-callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis."

When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp!

Mahatma Gandhi always walked barefoot and ultimately the soles of his feet became thick and very hard.
He also was, of course, known to be a man of deep spiritual conviction. He undertook hunger strikes as a political protest and at times was both thin and frail. Furthermore, due to his weird diet, he suffered from bad breath. VERY bad breath.
In fact, in time he came to be known as "a super-callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis."

Being obese, in itself, is a curse.
Comorbidities make it much worse—
Even harder than hell
To become really well—
And a drain, sad to tell, on the purse!


When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp!

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"to talk of many things,
of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
of cabbages and kings,
and why the sea is boiling hot,
and whether pigs have wings"
and Claudias got her surgery date,
and that is why she sings!
Apologies to Lewis Carroll

Does your antiobesity mean
You prefer only folks who are lean?
Do you worship the thin
And think fatness is sin?
I'm your man, six-foot-two, 113.

Being obese, in itself, is a curse.
Comorbidities make it much worse—
Even harder than hell
To become really well—
And a drain, sad to tell, on the purse.

The mirror crack'd from side to side,
"My curse has come upon me" cried,
The Lady of Shallott!
Alfred Lord Tennyson
