I wonder whether Diogenes would consider lowering his standards?

Regards

David

" >

At least she recognised your Divine qualities in calling you " God "...

I was once walking on on the street and heard a three year old say to
his mother (in Japanese): "mama mama! the gaijin (foreigner) is so big!" :)

doug

To which I always replied to such an asinine comment: "Well, unlike you, at
least the fat is around my waiste and not between my ears!" That usually
shut them up.
Or you could try: "Yes, I may be fat but you are stupid, ignorant, ugly AND,
I can always lose weight!"

They probably know that it's rude to comment on the weight of somebody
unless the person brings it up first. :-)

--
Cheri

Bev-Ann wrote in message ...

You guys (and ladies) will probably get a kick out of my recent
discovery and solution.  When the weather turned cold, I eventually took
my winter clothes out of storage (love those space bags) and have spent
quite some time taking them all in or giving them away (heh heh).  I was
flummoxed as to what to do about my long thermal underwear, though (hey,
we Californians get cold EASILY and I only use spot heaters sporadically
and no gas heat due to chemical sensitivities).  The year before I had
tried to find women's long underwear big enough to fit me, but couldn't
find any, so I went to the men's department at K-Mart.  I bought long
underwear for XX-Large (or maybe even XXX-Large).  They had the annoying
flap in the front and the waistband barely covered the crack in my
behind, but at least they worked well enough.  THIS year they were WAY
too big in the waist and hips (but still fairly snug in the legs -- go
figure).  They didn't have any seams in the sides, so I supposed I would
have to improvise and make some.  That flap was pretty annoying in that
it would give an strongly ridged outline, and, even being way too big on
top, they STILL barely cleared the asscrack.  Sigh ...  I idly wondered
if they would fit better if I turned them around so that the flap was in
the back.  Sure enough, the waist evened out all the way around!  I
snorted in derision at the idea that men though they needed a flap so
big that it needed to cover a package that was as big as my a.s!  After
thinking it through, though, I decided that, just as women tend to put
weight on in the hips, men tend to put weight on in the belly and have
fairly flat butts (compared to women), and THAT'S probably why they were
so big in the front and small in the rear.  I wondered if they merely
turned men's long underwear around and simply used extra fabric instead
of adding a flap when they made women's long underwear.  

In any case, the other half of my solution was to make a seam replacing
the flap all around the edges of it -- no thick flap outlines and now
they fit (asscrack and all)!