Neal, I don't think an apology was necessary to these walking health hazards. If the government wants to really collect extra tax dollars for projects in 2009, forward; they should add extra taxes to cigarettes, fast food establishments, and tax people that are overweight (outside their BMI) especially people on Medicaid and Medicare. Oh, and the breeders. There are two many people having children without the proper means to support them.

His hell would be two 400 lb beuaties on each knee with tats giving him a lap dance while chaining smoking.

My heaven would be Ann Coulter doing the same thing to me.

If you're thinking about getting a tattoo, think of the old sailor you saw sitting on the barstool next to you....the one with the anchor on his wrinkled, blemished forearm that now looks like a nasty bruise.

Too funny, Neal, too funny...LOL...or should I have said,"Ewww...gross"? My fave are the fatties with the midriff shirts and the hip hugging jeans that should have stayed out of style...nobody looks good in those...they make everybody's butt look fat.

ANYWAY...do these people not look at themselves in a mirror before they go out??? If you are overweight, DO NOT WEAR A MIDRIFF SHIRT!!! The flesh of your oversized belly hangs out the front and you look like trash. Have some dignity...at least, when I was overweight, I had the good grace to wear loose, flowy styles to cover it up some. No spandex for me back then, I knew the cellulite in my legs would show...but then again...I LOOKED IN THE MIRROR BEFORE I WENT OUT!!!

Neal, I do a lot of grocery shopping. I had to use a cart for quite a while due to serious surgery but I weighed 175. The load rating for most grocery store carts is 250 pounds, including groceries in the basket. I see few people of normal size in such carts. I do see many from 300-400 pounds and up in them.

I still have mobility problems and use braces and a cane to get around but I can push a shopping cart. I was in a grocery store a few weeks ago and saw a person of probably 400 pounds with a full basket reach up and over balance the cart so it tipped over. The aisle was perhaps 8 feet wide and this person successfully blocked the aisle all by herself. I would have offered assistance but couldn't begin to help without a winch. It took six employees to right the vehicle and occupant and she was screaming about a lawsuit. Guess it was the store's fault she was so fat. By the way, I learned to estimate weights back on the farm when I would estimate market weights of livestock and I was usually within 5% relative of the scale weight.

I bet half those lard laden ladies are buying their smokes and burritos with food stamps courtesy of you and I....

As the old song says: "If you want to be happy for the rest of your life ... Make an ugly woman your wife."
Funny!

I don't begrudge fatties wearing scanty, loose clothing... after all, it's hot under all that fat (I know from experience).

But what always amused me is the types of people who get tattoos (I have a tattoo artist friend). One easy class to identify is the young college aged girls who think that tweety bird or rose will be just so darn cute on their thigh. But then I don't think they realize what it's going to look like when they've blown up from 115 to 300 pounds by the time they're 35. Not so cute anymore.

At least they were not rolling into the local 7-11 for burritos and donuts in a oversized wheelchair.

Neal, I am not a woman, fat, have a tatoo on the ankle, eat Giant Microwavable bean burritos the size of a newborn baby, but I did used to smoke cigarettes. I had my last Cigarette 49 days ago and you are apart of the reason. I heard you say once, "that last one was your LAST one". I just never bought another pack, and never bummed another smoke. Thanks. You really helped me stop that nasty habit.