Don't hate the diet, hate the writer. It's easy!

[attack_laurel]

Continuing with the sales enticements:

14k gold plate earrings and sterling silver earrings for those with nickel-sensitive ears.
Nightcap pattern samples for you to look at (Reconstructing History will have them) and pre-order.
A small number of hats (Eadric's booth).
Dress rosettes.

But enough of the sales pitch - As you may know (or might not -

Comments

[attack_laurel]

Sorry; the book has spoken. You are doomed.

Doooooooooooooooooomed.

[perilousknits]

I find the consumption thing a bit confusing . . . so if having a long face (a sign of thinness) dooms us to die of consumption, then wouldn't being fat be a good thing? But the author goes on to critique the round-faced non-consumptive people, so that I now have the impression that he thinks Consumptive = Beautiful.

So, really, the problem with this author is that he misses his beautiful Annabelle Lee . . ..

[greeneyedtengu]

ROFL!

[apollonia]

Doctrix Doctorum sounds like the name of a bad supervillian.

It was Doctrix Doctorum!

I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids! *pout*

[mistressrhi]

Go stewed prunes! Granted, he wouldn't let me pair them with plain yoghurt, so I might not find them so appealing all by themselves...

(I could totally go for the roast chicken, broiled mushrooms and cinnamon apples, though. I'll skip the mutton. I don't like mutton.)

Oddly enough, even as potentially the fattest of your readers here, I was rather amused by him. He was probably an arsenic eater. We all have our vices.

Heck, Jim Fixx died of a heart attack after jogging. Everything in perspective, baby. ;-)

[ladypyrate]

Amen sister!

I swear when I see these shows on tv with "slobs" like Jim Belushi with thin girls, it makes me want to hurl! I'll tell you what it is.. To paraphrase Kevin Smith: "All the penholders are MEN." Honestly. Men consciously or not, use these images to keep women "in their place". Guys can be fat, becuase they are, in their minds, "in charge". Women are the trophies, and hell who wants a fat trophy wife?

[popelizbet]

I kind of want to metaquotes this post, specifically:

"Then it tells us that fat people sleep too much, and we shouldn't take naps. Those fat, piggy people, with their naps and their milk! We hates them, we does, my carbonaceous-refusing precious!"

[attack_laurel]

Feel free. The whole "foreword" (like I said, it was easily three-fifths of the book) is just one scream after another. "No naps! Only fat people take naps! Or breakfast in bed!"

Seriously, no naps? I'd die.

[popelizbet]

Done. And yes, on no naps. I would die, or eat a skinny person in my raging foul humor.

http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6929772.html

[attack_laurel]

Cool. And the first comment is made of win. *snarfle*