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I totally missed that one, too. Bummer. I thought the OP was talking about the classy hushxpuppyx in the stretched sleeve thread.

There's an ongoing "Marijuana and Life after Bariatric Surgery" thread that hasn't gotten volatile, so I guess the deleted thread was all about a particular participant rather than the subject.

I was kinda thinking it was stretched sleeve too.

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Dec 1966 Tom Jones, Green green grass of Home.

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They long to be close to you by the Carpenters. That was a good one!

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Since Tony Bennett has been named here, I want you to know that in 1964 I was at a friend's Sweet 16. It was in an old-style, glamorous sort of nightclub in Brooklyn, an unusual venue for a party for 30 or so teenagers. The entertainer was -- tada! -- Tony Bennett himself, in the flesh, live, right before our eyes. We all knew him, of course, but our callow selves were not fully appreciative. The show seemed to go on forever and we got quite restless. The adults of the Sweet 16 girl's family, at a nearby table, had a high old time, though.

What a great story.

There is a metaphor for this topic in there somewhere.

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I must have missed said post. LOL!

I must've too!

Darnit! It sounds like it was great entertainment.

She called us all fat. I was going to post but it was closed before i could. "Wrong, I WAS fat!". It wasn't her fault she was fat though.

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I thought she was a first time poster, but when I looked at her profile, she had threaded before. She did sound completely different. Maybe someone (a kid maybe) got hold of her account? She lost me with all the chat speak and thinly disguised swear words (including the N word). Oh, and we are all fat...except for her. She has reasons.

Everybody's Somebody's Fool by Connie Francis.

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They long to be close to you by the Carpenters. That was a good one!

Oooo that was a good one. Love the Carpenters!

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What a great story.

There is a metaphor for this topic in there somewhere.

I don't know about a metaphor, but it surely says that I'm a babe of advanced years. The French have a much nicer (?) phrase which translates as "a woman of a certain age." Me and Catherine Deneuve. Not bad.

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(stands up and clears throat)

It was my fault. She said she wasn't fat because of what she ate, she was fat because of genetics, so I told her to call her surgeon and cancel the surgery because it wasn't going to help her since she wasn't fat from eating, and the surgery restricts eating.

Sometimes, I'm a bad girl.

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(stands up and clears throat)

It was my fault. She said she wasn't fat because of what she ate, she was fat because of genetics, so I told her to call her surgeon and cancel the surgery because it wasn't going to help her since she wasn't fat from eating, and the surgery restricts eating.

Sometimes, I'm a bad girl.

You are our fearless leader. Now stand in the corner.

Catherine Deneuve is my fantasy alter ego.

To borrow from "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and perk it up --

Inner Surfer Girl, you are Catherine Deneuve.

Anyone who was a model for Marianne is an excellent choice for fantasy alter ego.

Edited by WLSResources/ClothingExch

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I love this....I looked up the song that was #1 the day I was born. Poor Little Fool by Ricky Nelson. I had no idea...and I know this song too... :D

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      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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