Monday, August 27, 2007

For those of you who may feel as if we're a bit harsh...

Cut and paste this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070827/ap_on_he_me/obesity_rankings

Coincidence that this is on yahoo's front page today?

You all must also know that this in no way reflects how we see or feel about those we love, but is more a comment on the fact that the article-link I've inserted above must be written at all.

And since we needed to go to the party dressed as "Americans"; we couldn't just show up as, well, ourselves!
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5 comments:

Megan Hofacker said...

Actually my friend and I were just discussing this subject a couple of days ago. And Dave and I talk about it quite frequently too. The fact that Many americans are obese and How we are trying so hard to instill in the girls to excercise and eat right so that we don't become "fat". Hailey will even tell you just how imp. it is to run and stay in shape. Thanks for the pics none the less. It was very nice to see you guys, even in all your "fatness" We love you dearly and can't wait to see you!

11:12 PM
Bill said...

"For those of you who may feel as if we're a bit harsh..." ...for the record...that's not me! We continue to work out three times a week. I even threw in a couple of "example American lean specimens" on my recent blog. What I am concerned about is what appears to be a RAT hanging by its tail in the Chicken Ranch shirt picture! What's with that???

3:40 AM
cj and ubee said...

yoooooo created quite a stir with the party i didn't think it too harsh just thought you would have more respect for your parents than that as for the guy in the party shirt he could do better have him give me a call i'll help him out next time but then maybe you will not say anything next time because of the stir this time glad to see your getting some good out of the chicken ranch shirt great place to while away time have a drink play some pool nice to see you two been doing some traveling next time send some pix from amsterdam well i'm outa here got to go work out on some blueberry cobler and vanila ice cream before i go to bed sure will taste good after the fried chicken and biscuits mashed potatoes gravey and then all them trimmings so i had room for all them trimmings on the way home i had a couple big macs biggy frys and a big gulp and blew before i got home now that big gulp is a 32 oz coke hard to tell what a big gulp is there yoooooooo ubee

4:38 AM
TheVoiceofReason said...

TVoR is hungry!
VERY hungry.

...actually I was just reading an article online about this, too:

http://www.nysun.com/article/57654

A piece:

"Last year, McDonald's sales in France grew by 8%, almost doubling its growth in American sales, which have also rebounded in recent years. Every 12 months, one out of two French people visit McDonald's at least once. Annually, they consume 22 million McDonald's salads, 60,000 tons of French fries, 32,000 tons of beef patties, 12,000 tons of chicken, and 600 million buns."

And, from one of my favorite movies:

Vincent: You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in France?

Jules: They don't call it a quarter pounder with cheese?

Vincent: No man they have the metric system over there, they wouldn't know what the **** a quarter pounder is.

Jules: ok so what do they call it?

Vincent: A Royale with Cheese.

Just lookin' to stir the pot, so to speak. I really enjoyed the pictures!

We here in the colonies need to learn to laugh at ourselves, but we're not alone in that regard...

TVoR

4:16 AM
Anonymous said...

OK, OK, OK!! My turn. I was looking thru some of our pics from France and found one taken on the day we went to the Eiffel tower. When you see it you'll wonder how I could have forgotten it. I'll chalk it up to one of those traumatic times when your mind just blanks out horrible images. I'll see if Dad can scan it and put it on the blog. Mom :)

6:16 AM

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