fred wrote:
"Curt" wrote in message
oups.com...
Police Chief Paul Goward kissed his $92,000-a-year job bye-bye over
name calling. (Take note MFW and, yeah, just about every author of
fitness articles/bodybuilding magazines.)

The chief apparently sent out a memo titled "Are you a jelly belly,"
which didn't sit too kindly with some members of his department - one
stated that the memo was "the icing on the cake."

heh

Can you taste the irony?

"In the end, the department lost 190 pounds - all of them belonging
to Goward. He was forced out as chief because some of his officers took
offense at the memo.

The Oct. 11 memo bruised feelings on the 80-member force, drew at least
one anonymous letter of complaint from officers about the chief's
management style and made his department the butt of jokes about fat
cops and doughnuts." From:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226808,00.html

More from the article (and what I'd call evidence that someone's being
oversensitive):

Instead, he provided a list of 10 reasons police officers should be in
shape. He said overweight police poorly represent the profession, poop
out when chasing suspects and might have to resort to "a higher level
of force" if a criminal got the upper hand in a fight. He said
out-of-shape cops are a liability to the city and their families.

"Take a good look at yourself," he wrote. "If you are unfit, do
yourself and everyone else a favor. See a professional about a proper
diet and a fitness training program, quit smoking, limit alcohol intake
and start thinking self-pride, confidence and respectability. And stop
making excuses for delaying what you know you should have been doing
years ago. We didn't hire you unfit and we don't want you working
unfit. Don't mean to offend, this is just straight talk. I owe it to
you."
/copy and paste

How could anyone argue with that? What? Oh, yeah, I should know -
people can argue against the sun being hot, against water being wet,
and, yes, that up is really down, etc. Never mind.

And, Freides, is this off topic?

--
Curt

The White American male is a sad caricature of males a mere 50 years ago.
Most have
become totally degenerate. Hauling fat asses on a quad or atv is called
"sport". Watching
NFL football while gobbling massive amounts of junk foods is a lifestyle.
Moon-faced
men riding guads to hunting grounds. Motorcycles abused as masses of suet
straddle their
frames. Worst of all, these pus-guts have become politically correct puppets
of their bubble-butted
wives.

Fred

I am writing an article, "Moonface Nation".

ted

feeling bored Ted, so you must spread your cross posted gospel?



wrote:
fred wrote:
"Curt" wrote in message
oups.com...
Police Chief Paul Goward kissed his $92,000-a-year job bye-bye over
name calling. (Take note MFW and, yeah, just about every author of
fitness articles/bodybuilding magazines.)

The chief apparently sent out a memo titled "Are you a jelly belly,"
which didn't sit too kindly with some members of his department - one
stated that the memo was "the icing on the cake."

heh

Can you taste the irony?

"In the end, the department lost 190 pounds - all of them belonging
to Goward. He was forced out as chief because some of his officers took
offense at the memo.

The Oct. 11 memo bruised feelings on the 80-member force, drew at least
one anonymous letter of complaint from officers about the chief's
management style and made his department the butt of jokes about fat
cops and doughnuts." From:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226808,00.html

More from the article (and what I'd call evidence that someone's being
oversensitive):

Instead, he provided a list of 10 reasons police officers should be in
shape. He said overweight police poorly represent the profession, poop
out when chasing suspects and might have to resort to "a higher level
of force" if a criminal got the upper hand in a fight. He said
out-of-shape cops are a liability to the city and their families.

"Take a good look at yourself," he wrote. "If you are unfit, do
yourself and everyone else a favor. See a professional about a proper
diet and a fitness training program, quit smoking, limit alcohol intake
and start thinking self-pride, confidence and respectability. And stop
making excuses for delaying what you know you should have been doing
years ago. We didn't hire you unfit and we don't want you working
unfit. Don't mean to offend, this is just straight talk. I owe it to
you."
/copy and paste

How could anyone argue with that? What? Oh, yeah, I should know -
people can argue against the sun being hot, against water being wet,
and, yes, that up is really down, etc. Never mind.

And, Freides, is this off topic?

--
Curt

The White American male is a sad caricature of males a mere 50 years ago.
Most have
become totally degenerate. Hauling fat asses on a quad or atv is called
"sport". Watching
NFL football while gobbling massive amounts of junk foods is a lifestyle.
Moon-faced
men riding guads to hunting grounds. Motorcycles abused as masses of suet
straddle their
frames. Worst of all, these pus-guts have become politically correct puppets
of their bubble-butted
wives.

Fred

I am writing an article, "Moonface Nation".

ted

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
news
On 3 Nov 2006 04:07:24 -0800, wrote:

I am writing an article, "Moonface Nation".

I was out taking some video of my favorite trout stream yesterday
which is located in state forest land in Pomfret. The stream is about
four miles long and traverses some farmer's land that I know well.
Most of these farmers allow hunting and fishing (as I do) as long as
they ask permission every time they go out and they stay within the
confines of the posted land.

Anyway, I parked my car and started walking the stream bed, I noticed
that the closer to the road, the more tree stands there were. I must
have counted 15 tree stands in a space about 100 yards long and maybe
30 wide. The further I went back along the stream bed, the stands
started to thin out until I was about two miles in, only the
occasional stand and at the three mile mark, none. :)

What that proves, I don't know, but there is a point there somewhere.
:)
--

"What the hell's the deal with this newsgroup...
is there a computer terminal in the day room of
some looney bin somewhere?"

Bilgeman - circa 2004

It proves that the deer are now driving cars to get a drink from the stream.
;-)

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
news

Jelly Belly

http://www.eisboch.com/BeanMachine700.jpg

Eisboch

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:39:21 -0500, gfretwell wrote:

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:44:53 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

The further I went back along the stream bed, the stands
started to thin out until I was about two miles in, only the
occasional stand and at the three mile mark, none. :)

What that proves, I don't know, but there is a point there somewhere.

It means the fat *******s would shoot deer out the window of the car
if they could. ;-)

It might not be the walk in, it might be the walk out dragging a 150 lb.
deer.

"thunder" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:39:21 -0500, gfretwell wrote:

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:44:53 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

The further I went back along the stream bed, the stands
started to thin out until I was about two miles in, only the
occasional stand and at the three mile mark, none. :)

What that proves, I don't know, but there is a point there somewhere.

It means the fat *******s would shoot deer out the window of the car
if they could. ;-)

It might not be the walk in, it might be the walk out dragging a 150 lb.
deer.

Have you ever heard comedian Ron White's routine about hunting from a pickup
truck, "...on SOMEBODY'S land..." (no idea who, because of the beer - ends
up shooting his mother's propane tank, which was initially mistaken for a
cow. :-)

It might be here somewhere - I can't listen at the moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZhVHBLNQnQ