GRGR(26) - The Fatty

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Sat May 13 16:48:37 CDT 2000


Howdy

How fat is Slothrop?  Evidently 'e's still a got a well-fed Yank's
frame, even if he's never had much to belly up to the bar.  Americans
are STILL the fattest people in the world.  Fat as Holbein's Henry VIII
(the most American of all the British monarchs). Fat is rich. Fat is
healthy. Fat is satisfied. Fat is never sated. 

Mark


--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ----------
> (568.10) "You're the fattest man in the world."
> ----------
> 
> How fat IS Slothrop?  Although this might be the hopeful hyperbole of
> a 
> pigless child, there are numerous other GR references to Slothrop's
> girth.  
> I'd never pictured him as fat, but I guess I've got to change my
> mental 
> image of him from a Jimmy Stewart [ http://www.jimmy.org/ ] to a Lou 
> Costello [ http://sicilianculture.com/people/costello.htm ].
>
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