Diggnation Episode 150

The stories talked on this podcast:

Top 10 Angry Television Reporter Moments Caught On Tape
Mario Kart Should Be Rated For Adults
How Long Can You Stare Into Jessica Alba's Eyes?
Food Portion Size, 20 Years Ago vs. Today
McLovin's Anti-Piracy PSA
Farmer Missing Sheep, Puts Up Electric Fence. Finds...
Nine Inch Nails (NIN) Gives Away New Full Length Album - The Slip

PS: Alex is giving away his Xbox 360 when he hits 20k friends on twitter and Kevin is giving away his iPhone when the new one comes out!

PSS: Diggnation will be live in New York City on June 4th!

Como eu fiquei 2 semanas sem postar, o TOP de Professores desta semana será misto. Antes de começar queria avisar que a estréia do Hot sobre a Gincana Literária será na terça-feira da semana que vem. Também quero avisar que na semana que vem na sexta-feira, vamos ter também um TOP Alunos – Os melhores da semana!. Pronto já avisei tudo, agora abaixo o resultado do TOP.

Cláudia - História

Joilma - English

Aldaléa - Português

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5/16/08 - 5/22/08

CLOSE CALLS:
30. forever [chris brown] (-)
29. damaged [danity kane] (-)
28. boyfriend girlfriend [c-side/keyshia cole] (26)
27. see you again [miley cyrus] (21) {Pk:6}
26. sexy can i [ray j/yung berg] (16) {Pk:2}
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25. american boy [estelle/kanye west] (-)
24. stop and stare [one republic] (13) {Pk:9}
23. love in this club Part II [usher/beyonce/lil wayne] (-)
22. leavin' [jesse mccartney] (-)
21. realize [colbie caillat] (19)

20. heaven sent [keyshia cole] (25)
19. i luv your girl [the-dream] (24)
18. all around me [flyleaf] (23)
17. closer [ne-yo] (20)
16. bust it baby (part 2) [plies] (22)
15. won't go home without you [maroon 5] (11) {Pk:6}
14. say [john mayer] (17)
13. pocketful of sunshine [natasha bedingfield] (15)
12. party people [nelly/fergie] (10) {Pk:10}
11. take a bow [rihanna] (14)
10. the way that i love u [ashanti] (12) {Pk:10}
09. no air [jordin sparks/chris brown] (5)* {Pk:1(1wk)}
08. bleeding love [leona lewis] (8) {Pk:6}
07. love in this club [usher] (6)* {Pk:1(2wks)}
06. customer [raheem devaughn] (7) {Pk:6}
05. she got it [2 pistols] (9) {Pk:5}
04. 4 minutes [madonna/justin timberlake] (8) {Pk:4}
03. touch my body [mariah carey] (2)* {Pk:1(2wks)}
02. lollipop [lil wayne] (1)* {Pk:1(2wks)}
01. the boss [rick ross] (3) {Pk:1(1wk)}

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Issue Date: 2008-05-24

Top 1-10

Top 11-50

1	53		Rihanna Take A Bow		Peak 1	Wks On 5
			SRP/Def Jam   |  DIGITAL   |  IDJMG

2	1		Leona Lewis Bleeding Love		Peak 1	Wks On 13
			SYCO/J   |  DIGITAL   |  RMG		RIAA

3	2		Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major Lollipop		Peak 1	Wks On 9
			Cash Money   |  DIGITAL   |  Universal Motown

4	3		Jordin Sparks Duet With Chris Brown No Air		Peak 3	Wks On 19
			19/Jive   |  DIGITAL   |  Zomba		RIAA

5	4		Usher Featuring Young Jeezy Love In This Club		Peak 1	Wks On 13
			LaFace   |  DIGITAL   |  Zomba		RIAA

6	5		Ray J & Yung Berg Sexy Can I		Peak 3	Wks On 15
			Knockout/DEJA 34   |  Koch/Epic		RIAA

7	6		Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake 4 Minutes		Peak 3	Wks On 8
			Warner Bros.   |  463036*

8	7		Mariah Carey Touch My Body		Peak 1	Wks On 13
			Island   |  011159*   |  IDJMG

9	8		Natasha Bedingfield Pocketful Of Sunshine		Peak 8	Wks On 13
			Phonogenic   |  DIGITAL   |  Epic

10	11		Danity Kane Damaged		Peak 10	Wks On 9
			Bad Boy   |  DIGITAL   |  Atlantic

O Botequeiros United Club, em associação com os Aspones e com Eu, Eu Mesmo e Irene, irá apresentar as 5 melhores músicas de bebedeira. Como vocês devem já ter percebido, eu não sou muito fã de "It´s Britney, bitch", então a seleção é, digamos, metaaaaal! Mentira, porque eu gosto de Michael "Little Yummy Children" Jackson, mas ele não está nesta lista. A lista é de rock, mas se quiserem complementar, be my guest!
Então confiram, comentem e opinem: sugestões são bem vindas e críticas... Bem, para críticas, liguem no nosso SAC, digitem 2, 5, 9, 8, 7, 22, 32675 e aguardem o fim da gravação.

5. Alabama Song - The Doors
"Well, show me the way
To the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why".

O resto da letra, você encontra aqui.

Ouça um trecho do Alabama Song

Jim Morrison, se estivesse vivo (ou se nós soubéssemos fazer uma mesa branca), escreveria para o nosso Contos do Bebum. Essa música, que foi escrita pelo poeta Bertolt Brecht, é um pouco melancólica, analisando profundamente. Se formos comparar, parece um texto do Bukowski, um hino a bebedeira. Não é da bebedeira boa e sim aquela terminal. Despedida em Las Vegas, tá ligado? Porém, é uma música divertida, parece até uma polka, para beber e brindar.

4. Too drunk to fuck - Dead Kennedies
"And now I got diarrhea
Too drunk to fuck
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Yeah, Yeah
Oooohhh".

O resto da letra, você encontra aqui.

Ouça um trecho de Too Drunk to fuck

Podreira! Punk rock no talo e serve para vocês, machões, que enchem a cara, não pegam ninguém e para compensar, começam a brigar. E o pior, acordam com as calças cheias. Muitos não entendem a ironia da música, porém é isso que eu gosto no Biafra: para meio entendedor, uma palavra basta! Para pular na galera e beber cerveja, que pode ser da pior qualidade mesmo.

3. Eu não bebo mais - Matanza
"Há muito tempo eu chego em casa muito mal
Sem saber direito o que aconteceu
Eu parei, eu jurei pra minha mulher
O problema é que ela bebe mais que eu".

O resto da letra, você encontra aqui.

Clique aqui para o link da música no radio uol

Matanza é o criador das melhores músicas de bebedeira. Essa eu gosto mais ainda porque tira o lado machista de que só homem bebe! Essa é pra você que acorda pelado em um canto da casa, com dores no corpo, maquiagem borrada (isso vale para os homens também) sem saber o que fez e decidido a parar de beber. Sua promessa dura até as 15 horas do domingo, quando você já está com uma cerveja na mão e quando percebe, dá uma de Homer: D'oh!

2. A Praiera - Chico Science e Nação Zumbi
"E na praia é que se vê, a areia melhor pra deitar
Vou dançar uma ciranda pra beber
Uma cerveja antes do almoço é muito bom, pra ficar pensando
melhor".

O resto da letra, você encontra aqui.

Ouça um trecho de A Praiera

Finado Chico sabia beber. Era o famoso bebum de feijoada, aquele que toma uma cervejinha, uma caipirinha, um torresminho e sai numa boa. O que é mais legal nessa música é que ela é fina, para pessoas que saboreiam uma bebida e não ficam enchendo o caneco e dando basfond por aí. Boa para uma tarde de domingo, com a galera e família se preparando para o almoço, naquelas conversas sem fim que são as melhores do mundo.

1. Rehab - Amy Winehouse

"I don't ever want to drink again
I just, ooh, I just need a friend
I'm not going to spend ten weeks
And have everyone think I'm on the mend".

O resto da letra, você encontra aqui.

Ouça um trecho de Rehab

Amy Winehouse é o Keith Richards de saia e cabelão. Ela é suja, drogada e prostituída, mas tem A voz. Esse hit do verão passado é bem fim da noite, com você cantando para o garçom, que é praticamente um terapeuta de alcoólatras. Essa é para a mulher largada, que fica com a cinza do cigarro até o topo e depois derruba tudo na saia, aquela que levou o pé do cara mais sem-vergonha do mundo mas está lá, bebendo para esquecer. Não, eu não sou assim, mas tenho uma amiga que é, sabe?

E essa é mais uma lista de top 5 do Botequeiros. Acompanhem nossa programação e saibam mais sobre bebidas, mulheres e dinheiro. Aqui é praticamente a Revista VIP.
Poxa, preciso de um texto mais feminino... Mulheres, may day!! Se vocês tiverem uma sugestão, avisem, ok?

Um beijo, um queijo e boa noite Brasil!

!!!

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I've always been a fan of speeches, and an even bigger fan of music. Will they blend? Let's find out.

I just so happened to have on me a collection of great speeches on my hard drive --- some from a self-descriptive collection, others from one handy Web site or another. I also had Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Songs of All Time.

The biggest problem I have with Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Songs of All Time --- ignoring that Supertramp got outright gyped --- is that the list turned out to be The Top 411 Songs Released Before 1980 Plus A Smattering of New Wave, Rap and Grunge. Flawed, but workable.

In short, my goal: To create playlists that mix speeches and music to get, for lack of a better idiom, a sense of what the decade was like in America.

What song would have been interrupted on the radio to carry the news that JFK was shot? Once Nixon finished his resignation address? When the Challenger exploded?

That in mind, I tried to keep the music more-or-less chronological and contemporary with the speeches --- no Blondie during the Johnson administration --- and, when needed, I edited the speeches down so that the whole playlist could fit on one audio CD. Each mix covers either two or three presidential terms; come back over the week or so to see what I came up with.

Due to copyright law and the like, I'm afraid you're on your own for gathering the songs. There's always iTunes, if you don't mind dealing into the hands of an unscrupulous corporate hegemony, and if you're unscrupulous yourself, there are plenty of other methods at your disposal.

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I neither condone nor encourage music piracy. Arrr at your own risk.

Duyung (2008 )

Exhibition of Fireworks (2006) - Series

Cerekarama - Demi Masa

Ayat Ayat Cinta The Movie (2007)

Tugasan Pelajar AF Minggu Kesembilan

It has been so much fun to be a part of this new project. Apatia and Mel have introduced me to many new designers, I've learned the importance of over sized food products, as well as, taking in the delights of team decision making like choosing a ground color for the land. (Personally, I still stand by the orange chenille.)

Anywho! Last night flopsie and I fiddled away at creating some freebies for the opening festivities. I created a less than perfect top known as The Star Lusty. It has all the intentions of being a good top, but doesn't quite get there all the way.

You can find this blouse in the main lobby of the Motel and in my shop (aka the Church)! There are other freebie delights from other FANTASTIC shops, as well as a few more surprises from me. *air hump*

If you go to the gurl's blog found under Second Life Designers, you will see a complete listing of all the current vendors to be found on the new Lloyd sim. There are lots and lots of quality stuff here, ladies. Well worth your time exploring. *double air hump*

Goldschmuck: Gelbgold-Kollier
mit lupenreinem weißen Einkaräter-Diamant

Gold:

18 Karat / 750,  Gelbgold (Schnepper Weißgold)

Gewicht:  86,53 Gramm

Länge im geschlossenen Zustand gemessen:  40 cm

Breite:  9,5 mm (ohne Verschluss gemessen)

Abmessungen des Mittelteils:  Höhe 17,1 mm,  Breite 11,9 mm

Erhaltung:  neu

    minimalste Lagerspuren, da einige Zeit in der Juweliersauslage

Verarbeitung:  sehr hochwertig verarbeitet

    mehrteilige aufwendige Goldschmiedearbeit

    hochglanzpoliert

    gegen geringes Aufgeld ist eine Änderung von

        Teil-Mattierung / Mattierung / Hochglanz möglich

    teils Handarbeit, keine übliche Massenware

    1A-Kastenverschluss, Sicherheits-Achter

Natürlicher Diamant INFO :

1 Stück:  1,18 Carat

Top Wesselton,  feines Weiß,  G

LC / IF,  Lupenrein

Brillantvollschliff,  facettierte Rundiste

Schliff und Proportionen wahrscheinlich sehr gut, mindestens gut

Echtheit und Wert:

Neues Echtheits-Zertifikat / Wert-Gutachten ist vorhanden

    und wird mitgeliefert (als ausführlicher Laborbericht,

    gerichtsverwertbar und von Versicherungen anerkannt).

Wiederbeschaffungswert INFO laut Gutachten:

35.000 Euro

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EINKARÄTER-KOLLIER TOP WESSELTON LUPENREIN 35.000 Euro NEU!

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The attributes the people in the following list have in common are their extreme level of obesity & the fact they are all deceased. The only British contender is a Mr G.Hopkins (at no.19) of Wales who lived in the 18th Century. He is said to have been brought to a London fair in a sturdy cart pulled by four teams of oxen, where an enterprising promoter displayed him in a stall alongside some prize hogs that were too fat to stand up.

The still living contender for the world's most obese person is Manuel Uribe,  a Mexican. Although since then he claims to have lost 990 lbs or, around half a ton.

In times past, their condition would have been described as gluttony, particularly in Christian societies where it was one of the 7 Deadly Sins.

Nowadays, morbid obesity, also known as clinically severe obesity, is an abnormal obesity defined as the condition of having body weight over 100 lbs over an ideal body weight or having a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or higher. The causes of morbid obesity are not well understood though, it usually comes about as the result of several factors, including diet, environment, genetics, metabolism and mental health.

The list below was complied by Dimensions Magazine: 

1. 

Carol Yager (1960 - 1994) of Flint, MI; 5 ft 7 in, estimated to have weighed more than 1600 lbs at her peak. She had been fat since childhood. In 1993, she was measured at 1189 lbs when admitted to Hurley Medical Center, suffering from cellulitis. She lost nearly 500 lbs on a 1200-calorie diet, but most of that weight was thought to be fluid, and she regained all of it and more soon after being discharged. Her teenage daughter, a boyfriend, and a group of volunteers helped take care of her. Despite extravagant promises by diet maven Richard Simmons and talk-show host Jerry Springer, Yager received little practical assistance in return for her media exposure (though Springer continues to profit from her appearance on his show, having rebroadcast that episode at least four times). She was refused further hospitalization on the grounds that her condition was not critical, despite massive water retention and signs of incipient kidney failure, and these problems led to her death a few weeks later.

Jon Brower Minnoch (1941 - 1983) of Bainbridge Island, WA; 6 ft 1 in, estimated as weighing "probably more than" 1400 lbs in 1979, at which point it took 13 people just to roll him over in bed. Minnoch, like many of the heaviest people, suffered from massive edema: his weight was augmented by at least 900 lbs of fluid at its peak. The former taxi driver had always been unusually heavy, reaching 400 lbs in 1963, 700 lbs in 1966, and 975 lbs in 1976, but he claimed to have been in no way handicapped by his size until a 500-calorie diet sapped his muscle strength and left him at the brink of death. Subsequent hospitalization brought him down to 476 lbs in 1981, mostly through the loss of 12 to 14 pounds of fluid per week. He was readmitted later that year after regaining 200 lbs in seven days. Although physicians at University Hospital in Seattle persisted in treating him with a 1,200-calorie diet, he weighed about 800 lbs at the time of his death. Other details of his physical condition were withheld from the press. Minnoch was the father of two children by his 110-lb wife, Jeannette.

Roselie Bradford (b. 1944) of Sellersville, PA; 5 ft 6 in, measured at 1053 lbs, but estimates that she weighed more than 1200 lbs at her peak two years earlier, a claim accepted by Guinness. Already over 300 lbs when she dropped out of college, Bradford became an exercise instructor, running seven miles three times a week, but continued her steady gain in weight. At 374 lbs she underwent an intestinal bypass operation, which caused serious complications. She was back to 350 lbs when she married her husband Bob in 1973, reached 500 lbs after the birth of her son, and as her body grew, so did her appetite. After contracting septicemia in the early 1980s, she spent most of the next decade in bed, eating - as much as 15,000 calories per day. It wasn't unusual for her to put away three large pizzas in 40 minutes (washing them down with diet soda), then ask for dessert. At her peak, she measured eight feet wide, and took up two reinforced king-size beds. Her bustline measured over 100 inches, and her hips carried 200-lb "saddlebags" that hung down her thighs as far as her knees. "People would visit me and sit on the bed, not realizing they were sitting on part of me," she recalled. When she fell out of bed, rescue workers used an inflatable cushion designed to right overturned cars to get her back into place. After being treated for symptoms of heart failure, she was eventually persuaded by Richard Simmons to embark on a five year diet, an experience she described as hellish. Tortured by hunger, by fast-food commercials, and by dreams in which she ate without limit, she nevertheless got down to under 300 pounds, setting a world's record for weight loss. She later sued the Star tabloid for suggesting that she couldn't have intimate relations with her husband at over half a ton.

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4. 

Michael Edelman (1964 - 1992) of Pomona, NY; Guinness listed him at 994 lbs, but his mother estimates that he weighed some 1200 lbs at his heaviest. He had already reached 154 lbs at age seven, and left school at ten because he could no longer fit into the desks. After that he spent most of his time in bed, or sharing massive meals with his 700-pound mom. Michael liked to start the day with four bowls of cereal, toast, waffles, cake, and a quart of soda, and end it with a whole pizza with the works for a bedtime snack. Mother and son tried every new diet that came along, "but after a few days, we'd reward ourselves with a chocolate cake. Then we'd call for a pizza and that would be it." When the two were evicted from their Wesley Hills home in 1988, Michael had to be moved by forklift. After his exposure in the press, dozens of hospitals and diet promoters vied to get him in a weight-loss program, but Michael was determined to get thin on his own. He appeared in three different tabloids in one week when he publicly vowed to lose enough weight to consummate his relationship with 420-lb Brenda Burdle, but the couple grew apart when they both gained weight instead of losing it. After the sudden death of Walter Hudson (below), with whom he had formed a long-distance friendship, Michael developed a pathological fear of eating. He rapidly lost several hundred pounds, taking nourishment only when spoon fed. At about 600 lbs, he literally starved to death.

Walter Hudson (1944? - 1991) of Hempstead, NY (born in Brooklyn, NY); 5 ft 10 in, measured at 1197 lbs (though the industrial scale broke in the process of weighing him). His chest was measured at 106 inches, his waist at 110. Hudson was discovered by the press in 1987, when he became wedged in the door of his bedroom and had to be cut free by rescue workers. An agoraphobic, he'd spent most of the past 27 years in bed. Hudson lived with his family, where his appetite was always indulged, and gave every indication that he was content with both his weight and his situation. "I just ate and enjoyed it," he said. Despite his massive size, Newsday reported that he was extraordinarily healthy: his heart, lungs, and kidneys all functioned normally, while astonished doctors noted that his cholesterol and blood-sugar levels "showed the chemistry of a healthy 21-year-old." Even so, activist-turned-nutritionist Dick Gregory managed to convince Hudson that losing weight was necessary to save his life. Gregory used Hudson to promote his Bahamian Diet, and claimed that his protegé lost at least 200 lbs (sometimes claiming as much as 800 lbs) under his care, but when Hudson refused to perform for the cameras on cue, Gregory summarily abandoned him. Other celebrities and diet promoters also claimed to have helped him lose massive amounts of weight, though Newsday noted that Hudson never seemed to look any thinner. (Gregory threatened to sue his rivals for $50 million.) Hudson himself gave conflicting stories, sometimes claiming to weigh as little as 480 lbs or as much as 1400. He only allowed himself to be weighed once. Hudson died in his sleep after years of intermittent starvation dieting, a few weeks after announcing wedding plans. His body was found to weigh 1125 lbs, and his massive coffin required twelve pallbearers.

Francis John Lang, aka Michael Walker (b. 1934) of Gibsonton, FL (born in Clinton, IA); 6 ft 2 in, believed to have reached a maximum weight of 1187 lbs. Lang had weighed only 150 lbs as a soldier in Korea. He blamed his masssive weight gain on prescription drug abuse, claiming that his narcotic of choice had the side effect of giving him an uncontrollable appetite. Though unable to walk (a handicap that kept more than one fat lady out of the side show), Lang found a unique way of capitalizing on his situation: he had a mobile home built with observation windows, and traveled the country putting himself on display at carnivals and fairs. Lying nearly nude on an oversize circular bed, he preached to the curious about the evils of drugs, using his own body as the moral lesson. His peak weight, claimed for him by Christian Farms of Killeen, TX, in the summer of 1971, was unverified, but Guiness Superlatives found photographic evidence to be reasonably conclusive. In early 1972 Lang was hospitalized in Houston for a suspected heart attack, at which time he was estimated to weigh between 900 and 1000 lbs. His symptoms proved to be caused by an inflamed gallbladder, probably aggravated by his weight loss, and the examining physician declared his heart to be "unusually normal." By 1980, Lang had reportedly reduced to 369 lbs.

Johnny Alee (1853 - 1887) of Carbon (now Carbonton) NC; said to have reached a maximum weight of 1132 lbs. Alee developed a ravenous appetite at the age of ten, and put on pounds so rapidly that by age 15 he could barely support his own weight. Grown men couldn't get their arms around one of Alee's thighs, and he could no longer squeeze through his own front door. Getting from his armchair to the dinner table, with plenty of help, was all the mobility he could manage. He was said to have died after falling through his cabin floor, and his postmortem weight was determined on the coal company scales. Guinness was never able to verify this story.

Robert Earl Hughes (1926 - 1958) of Monticello, MO (buried in Mt. Sterling, IL), 6 ft 1/2 in, weighed 1069 lbs in February, 1958. Hughes began life at a healthy 11 1/2 lbs, and progressed to 203 lbs at 6 years, 378 lbs at 10, 546 lbs at 13, 693 lbs at 18, and 947 at 27. His weight made him a national celebrity: even his custom-made blue jeans made news. At his peak, he claimed a chest girth of 124 inches and a 122-inch waistline. His untimely death was due to kidney failure following a bout with measles: unable to fit through the door of a hospital room, he'd been treated in a truck trailer parked outside. The story that he was buried in a packing case made for a grand piano is untrue. His coffin was built to order, and he was eulogized as a man whose heart was as big as his body. Life magazine called him a relatively light eater.

Mohamed Naaman (b. 1946) of Kenya; 6 ft, a tabloid story says he attained a maximum weight of 1055 lbs, though he managed to reduce to a mere 770 lbs, with an 87 1/2 inch waistline. "I've had to learn to drink tea without milk," he says. Naaman is the father of 21 children by five wives.

Man, name withheld (ca. 1939 - ca. 1986), of New York State; just under 5 ft 7 in, 1050 lbs. His death was due to complications following a massive panniculectomy ("tummy tuck") to remove fat tissue, performed at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY. His peak weight was determined by adding the weight of the tissue removed by the operation (104 lbs) to the patient's postmortem weight of 946 lbs. According to his physicians, he was healthy when he checked in, and his "past [medical] history was unremarkable except for extraordinary weight all his life."

Carol Haffner (1936 - 1995) of Hollywood, FL; 1023 lbs. Haffner had been a regular at the Seminole Tribe Bingo parlor, where the operators bought a special chair to accomodate her girth. But after the death of her husband, depression and advancing weight kept her bedridden, and she spent her last five years in her trailer - leaving only once, with the assistance of a crew of firefighters, during a hurricane evacuation. Friends said she had been on the phone with talk shows and diet promoters, trying to finance a trip to a Boston- based obesity program, but she'd resisted hospitalization for her breathing difficulties, and died of heart failure two weeks after her 59th birthday.

12. 

Mike Parteleno (b. 1958) of Struthers, OH; 6 ft (some sources say 6 ft 3 in), claimed a maximum of 1022 (or 1023) lbs while a spokesman for Dick Gregory's Bahamian Diet. Prior to his association with Gregory, Parteleno claimed to weigh a mere 645 lbs, and was a popular favorite in belly-flop contests.

Mills Darden (1798 - 1857) of North Carolina; 7 ft 6 in, 1020 lbs. Darden was an acromegalic giant. His wife, who bore him three (some sources say five) children before her death in 1837, weighed only 98 lbs.

John Finnerty (b. 1952) of Amity Harbor, NY; 1012 lbs. He surfaced in the media only once, when firemen were called to take him to Brunswisk Hospital Center for treatment of bronchitis. "He was laying on a queen-size mattress, and rolls of fat just hung off both sides," said the local fire chief. "He moved like a big bowl of Jello." Finnerty was taken to the hospital on a flatbed truck, and was said to be responding well to treatment. His subsequent history is unreported.

Jerry Currant (b. 1938) of Los Angeles, CA; 6 ft 2 in, "more than" 1000 lbs. According to the tabloids, Currant was a gourmet chef who kept his weight under 600 lbs until 1983, but then began gaining steadily. Weighed on a meat scale in 1987, he topped 976 lbs, but remained mobile until September of 1988. In 1989 he was diagnosed with colon cancer by a visiting doctor, and transferred to a hospital through a hole cut in his apartment wall. He claimed to have no interest in losing weight.

Sylvanus "Hambone" Smith (1941 - 1997?) of Tifton, GA; 6 ft 2 1/2 in, aprox. 1000 lbs. Smith claimed to have weighed almost 16 lbs at birth, and 275 lbs by age 11. At his peak, he had a 103-in hip girth and 70-in thighs. He worked as a chef until his increasing weight left him confined to bed, then ran a pawnshop out of his home. Smith underwent a stomach-stapling operation in 1981 (at 602 lbs), served as a spokesman for Dick Gregory's Bahamian Diet in 1987 (at 730 lbs), and was attempting yet another drastic weight loss program, sponsored by Geraldo Rivera, at the time of his death. He had also recently married 20-year-old Tammy Humphries, who weighed only 125 lbs. Smith was the father of one son and four daughters by a previous marriage. His children ranged in weight from 312 to 587 lbs at ages 22 to 30.

David Ron High (1953 - 1996) of Brooklyn, NY; 5 ft 10 in, aprox. 1000 lbs. High was touted as Dick Gregory's biggest success story in 1986, when he reduced from 823 lbs to 427 lbs on a year-long fast supplemented by fruits and vegetables. (He lost three inches in height as well, shrinking from a peak of 6 ft 1 in.) High had been fat since childhood, and claimed he used to eat just one meal a day - all day. "The pizza shop loved me," he recalled. "I was a great customer - and they even named a pizza after me. It was the only pizza in the world with spaghetti on it!" A decade after his graduation from Gregory's International Health Institute, a team of city firemen needed a hydraulic lift remove the ailing High from the Brooklyn apartment where he'd spent the last five years. He was taken to the obesity center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, where he died after less than a month on another weight-loss program.

Michael Hebranko (b. 1954) of Brooklyn, NY; 6 ft, "nearly" 1000 lbs. Hebranko weighed an average 8 1/2 lbs at birth, but weighed 350 lbs by the time he was 16. Hebranko says his appetite kept pace with his expanding size: "I had a dozen eggs, a loaf of fried bread and syrup for breakfast - then I really started eating." He first came to public view as a spokesman for diet promoter Richard Simmons in 1989, claiming in infomercials and talk-show appearances that Simmons had helped him to go from 907 lbs to less than 200 lbs. In fact, Hebranko actually lost at least 50 lbs to a panniculectomy, and had additional fat tissue surgically removed from his arms, chest, and legs; he also suffered from severe edema, and had lost a great deal of water weight. In 1996, Hebranko made news again when he was taken to a hospital for treatment of a gangrenous infection. Rescue workers had to remove a bay window to make an opening big enough for his 110- inch waistline, and carried him in a stretcher designed for transporting killer whales. He had been unable to move from a loveseat in his home for the previous ten weeks, during which time he had added as much as 150 pounds to his already 850-pound physique, most of it fluid. Simmons tearfully vowed to slim him down again.

G. Hopkins (late 18th century?) of Wales; 980 lbs. Hopkins was said to have been brought to a London fair in a sturdy cart pulled by four teams of oxen, where an enterprizing promoter displayed him in a stall alongside some prize hogs that were too fat to stand up. The enormous Welshman astonished the paying crowds as much by his appetite as by his unparalleled bulk. After one stupendous meal, though nearly stuffed to bursting, Hopkins tried to grab a tasty morsel that was just out of reach and toppled off his bench. He landed on a nursing sow, killing the poor animal, and flattening her piglets beneath him "like salted herrings." It took fifteen sturdy men to hoist him back onto his seat, and then only with great difficulty, for his stomach was packed so full of food that the skin around his middle was stretched tighter than a drumhead, and no one could get a grip on it. Hopkins' weight (measured on a steelyard built for weighing fully-loaded wagons) is variously reported: this presumably authoritative figure is taken from a 19th-century medical encyclopedia.

Denny Welch (b. 1960) of Hamilton, OH, 980 lbs. Welch achieved notoriety as a frequent guest on the Jerry Springer Show, first in his role as a female impersonator, and later (as his weight climbed to more than 800 lbs) as the fat man in Springer's TV sideshow. In 1996, after Welch had been unable to leave his bed for four weeks, Springer paid to have a contractor remove a wall of Welch's home and transport him to a Cincinnati hospital for weight reduction, recording the entire spectacle for broadcast. Welch lost about 200 pounds, but by the fall of 1997 he had regained it all and had developed heart and respiratory problems along the way, possibly as a result of his treatment with diet pills. In April 1998 he was back in the hospital, suffering from severe edema and congestive heart failure. His mother told the press that he now weighed 980 lbs., and "his body was so swollen, it looked like it was ready to burst."

does anyone else notice the fact that big bang likes to have women walking in their vids?

Abaixo segue a nossa lista de 5 mais carinhosas mães de personagens gays em seriados. Talvez não as mais carinhosas, mas aquelas que se destacaram mais. Você concorda com a lista? Tem algo a dizer? Deixe seu comentário...

Ruth Fisher, Mãe do David (Six Feet Under) - A castradora Ruth Fisher nem sempre criou seus filhos da melhor maneira. Apesar de todas as suas loucuras de mãe, Ruth sempre ouviu seus filhos (pelo menos até onde pode) e conversar com David sobre sua sexualidade foi um dos momentos mais bonitos da personagem e da série... Na maneira Six Feet Under de ser, claro.

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Last night, Whitney Thompson was named the winner of cycle 10 of America's Next Top Model. She was the first "plus-sized" model (meaning she weighs more than 100 pounds) to win the crown since the show began in 2003. It was seen as a monumental step for the modeling industry, according to the show's creator, Tyra Banks.

This got me thinking that it was about time "plus-sized" athletes got the recognition they deserve. The following athletes have managed to succeed in their sports despite weighing nearly as much as an 18-wheeler. In no particular order, here are three of the best "plus-sized" athletes of all time.

Cecil Fielder: Cecil, also known as "Big Daddy" is one of the largest men ever to grace the baseball field. His listed weight on baseballreference.com is 240, but the 6-foot-3 first baseman was pushing 300 by the time he retired in 1998. Fielder excelled despite a penchant for hot dogs, making the All-Star team 3 times and leading the Major Leagues with 51 homeruns and 132 RBI for the Blue Jays in 1991. Fielder is unique in the fact that his girth wasn't a result of getting out of shape in his later years. He was fat when he came into the league and fat when he left it. Oh, I'm sorry, "plus-sized."

P.S.- Cecil's son, Prince, is not afraid of the cheeseburgers either.

Kevin Duckworth: This guy, again under-listed at 275 pounds , made an immediate impact in the league as a true center for the Portland Trailblazers in 1987-88. The 7-footer averaged over 15 points per game for four straight years until the Cinnabons got to him. As his scoring average went down over the next six years, his weight went up, leading to this flattering picture in his final year in the league with the lowly Los Angeles Clippers.

William "The Refrigerator" Perry: One of the most popular "plus-sizers" of all-time, the Fridge embraced his hefty nature from Day One, using his considerable size to become an effective player on both sides of the ball. He was also on the 1985 Superbowl Champion Chicago Bears team who entered into legendary status with the greatest sports-related rap in music history. (Yes, I've been waiting for an excuse to put this video up, the Fridge blesses the mic around 4:42)

Congratulations to Whitney and the three athletes above for opening doors for "plus-sized" people in both the sports and modeling world. Hopefully these two worlds never collide, although it would be interesting to see a spread of Big Daddy, The Duck, and The Fridge in this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. I'll start a petition.

Until next time...

Waddle on!

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ANTM Winner Cycle 10

In mirror's everywhere across this great nation, eight years old little girls, are scrutinizing their thighs and derrieres. When a sensual size eight women inexplicably clinches the title "plus size", what misconstrued message are we sending out, about the fashion industry. 

With her pouty round lips, and soft celestial like bone structure, Whitney Thompson, is well deserving of her season ten title of America's Next Top Model. As 20 -year old student, from Atlantic Park , FL, with her abrasive confidence, Thompson, has managed to wiggle her way into my top two, favorite America's Next Top Model Winners.

So, lets all become agents of change. We should, as society  all become advocates for healthy living, eating right and exercising. As, a former, woman with a modelesque figure, yes child birth changes a lot-- being a size zero, is not a size that everyone can attain. Unless you're born with genetics that enable to obtain these "run-way" physics-- poor lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits are not, by any means, necessary to stretch your bodies defense to it's limits. Love the skin you're in ladies, and you will feel that love reciprocated.

Little eight year olds are consequently making erroneously assumptions, perpetuated by the fashion industry ,that their pre-pubescent frames  are somehow not good enough.

Dipping under in the bottom two positions, on numerous occasions Whitney has managed to climb to the top of the pile of anorexia stricken, emaciated former contestant losers. As fashion pioneers ,lets represent all shapes and  sizes, tones, creeds and cultures.

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Now that I've used it a bit more, some further thoughts: the color of this yarn is lovely and bright, and the yarn is pretty soft and drapey as far as I can tell. The two things I disliked about it were the occasional long, pokey fibers I would have to pull out of the yarn, presumably bits of flax, and its tendency to shed red fuzz as I was knitting with it (mentioned in my last post). It made me feel sneezy, and if I washed my hands after knitting with it for a while, little red fuzz pills would rub off my palms. These skeins seemed less fuzzy than the one I knit before--maybe it's the effect of aging the yarn a bit.

I was undecided before, but I've decided I like it after all and I would use it again, especially since they've added a bunch of new colors that are right up my alley. Of the old ones, only this red and the natural linen color really appealed to me. Maybe Nightfall. But I wasn't crazy about the sherbet colors like coral and turquoise. I love all the new ones, though--Coffee, Glacier, and Kohlrabi are all beautiful.

The Cotlin yarn for these two new FOs and the Bainbridge scarf is all from the same batch. I got it from chemgrrl, who bought too much for her super-adorable Cherry sweater. I was curious about it, so she gave me the skein I made into the Bainbridge scarf, and then she swapped me the sweater quantity, plus some mohair, for some Elann Den-m-nit
I had so she could make a jacket or something for her small niece.

I had it lined up for a lobster for a friend's baby, but I'll have to find a different red yarn for that, because the Cotlin is now all used up!

First up, Rusted Root! (Wow, it's been ages since I've done a proper FO post)

Pattern: Rusted Root, from Zephyr Style, given to me as a Random Act of Kindness by knottygnome
Size made: Small (for 32-35" bust), although my gauge wound up being off and the sweater measured about 34" before blocking when it should have been 32". Not that the pattern tells you this, of course.
Yarn used: Knit Picks Cotlin, Moroccan Red, approximately 4.5 skeins
Needles used: US size 7/4.5 mm Denises for most of the sweater; US size 3/3.25 mm for the ribbing on the sleeves
Date started: May 5, 2008
Date finished: May 11, 2008
Mods: More tedious details about size and yarn usage can be found on the Ravelry page. I started with the neckline ribbing (since you pick up the same number of stitches as you cast on, in the same ratio, without short rows or any such things going on, I see no particular reason to pick up the neckline later) and worked 5 rows instead of 3, using the larger needles instead of going down a size. I did paired M1 increases around the raglan seam lines (lift from back and knit through front loop, k2, lift from front and knit through back loop).

I totally reworked the waist shaping, and then my gauge was off and I was unable to finish my reworked shaping scheme anyway--after I'd worked only 3 sets of hip increases out of my desired 5, the sweater was long enough and I decided to stop.

I also put in Elizabeth Zimmermann’s phoney seams on the sides before starting the ribbing.

I knit the neck and hip ribbing (about 9 rows) on size 7 needles, since I didn’t want them to draw in particularly, then knit the sleeve ribbing for 5 rows on size 3’s (I used k1fb to increase one on each sleeve to make the k2, p1 ribbing pattern work properly).

I used a sewn bindoff for the sleeves to make them stretchy, and a suspended bindoff in rib for the hip (since I hate sewing with that long, long tail over long distances… I really should have used the sewn bindoff at the hip, too; it could definitely be stretchier, but it’s not terrible as is, either.)

Notes:
I hope to have more photos later. It's unblocked and hot off the needles in this photo (so it's all uneven and lumpy, and it's being worn over a clearly unsuitable tunic top instead of a camisole).

The thing is, I committed a Cardinal Sin of knitting with this sweater. I didn't knit or wash my swatch the way I would wash my finished garment--I knit a flat swatch instead of one in the round (hence the aforementioned gauge issues), then hand-washed and laid it flat instead of machine-washing and drying. Then I finished the sweater and threw it in the washer and dryer. We'll see what happens! Hopefully I can still wear the sweater afterwards. It seems silly to have to hand-wash and flat dry what is essentially a t-shirt, so if it's not easy care, I guess I might as well find out now instead of after it's a cherished essential piece in my wardrobe and I accidentally toss it in the hamper. Anyway, I did read up on it beforehand and people have said it tightens up a bit and takes very well to machine washing. Not sure about drying. If it's a disaster, I surely will have notes on it in the near future--it's in the dryer as I type this. Wish me luck!

While I think the finished top is really cute, I did find the pattern kind of weird and annoying to work with at certain points, for a few minor reasons. Believe me, I totally understand the headaches of trying to sort these things out when drafting a pattern, and I don’t think I could do any better (people who live in glass houses shouldn't point fingers at other people's pattern-writing abilities!) but nonetheless, should you be in the market for Zephyr Style patterns and wondering about how they're written, let me tell you what my gripes with this were:

• No schematics in the pattern. This is the biggest annoyance. I couldn’t decide if I should make the XS or the S (since both cover a 32” bust)–seems like the S gives a 32” actual bust size, meaning negative ease if you’re on the larger end of the range. I wasn't sure if the sleeves would actually fit over my biceps (thankfully, they did)--I had an issue with the sleeves being too tight on my Green Gable and had to redo my bind-offs on that top before I could actually wear it. There is also no information about the intended or modeled ease.
• No stitches put on hold/cast on at the underarm. Just a note, not a gripe (yet). I've just seen the put 8%-of-underarm-stitches-on-hold thing in numerous patterns, though I'm not sure what type of functional difference it makes in the fit. I’ll see how it fits when it’s done and washed.
• Asymmetrical waist shaping decreases. OK, actually, there's nothing wrong with this, but I kind of like symmetrical ssk/k2tog shaping on either side of a seam instead of using just k2tog on one side of the seam.
• Very sparse with the stitch counts. I’m pretty sure I got it right, but it would have been very helpful to see a detailed breakdown of stitch counts in the puff sleeve increase/decrease sections in particular so I could easily double-check my work and see if everything was OK. I’m not personally bothered by the lack of information about the increase rounds, as I’m capable of figuring out the number of increases per increase round from looking at the directions, but a beginner might have issues.
• The lace is not charted out, and sl1-k1-psso is written as 3 separate steps (separated by commas) which confuses me since the 3 steps consume 2 stitches and result in 1 stitch. I prefer seeing it written using hyphens/dashes. In any case, I rewrote it using ssk.
• The lace also calls for you to read your knitting on every other round, knitting into the knit stitches and YOs and purling into the purls. I don't mind this, but again, if you're a beginner, it might be easier to have it specified as "Row 10: K7, p2, k6" etc.
• As someone’s notes somewhere on the internet point out (I can't find them now, of course), the poof in the sleeves tends to vanish for many people, probably because of the tiered increases–i.e. XS and S have the same number of increases for the puffed sleeves, meaning the XS sleeves will be puffier than the S in proportion to the rest of the sweater, and the same deal for M/L, XL/XXL. We’ll see how mine come out. I don’t have my heart set on it either way.
• Not a lot of information about the techniques they use. M1 is specified as Make One, but there are at least 4 different actual increases that could mean. The instructions for knitting the sleeves on two circulars are very sparse (they tell you to divide the stitches onto two circulars and knit in the round, but I can see this potentially causing issues for a beginner who wasn't familiar with the technique). No cast-on is specified, even though they specify that you should use the backwards loop cast-on in their FAQ because apparently a lot of people were having issues with their necklines or underarm seams binding because the cast-on wasn't stretchy enough.

It's been ages since I made Green Gable, but I remember having some of the same issues with that top as well.

Anyway--I'm excited about wearing it, so thank you again for the pattern, knottygnome! I desperately hope it fits when it comes out of the dryer.

I had a bit of the yarn left over, about half a skein, so I cast on for a dishcloth.

Pattern: Yvonne's Double Flower Cloth
Yarn used: Knit Picks Cotlin, Moroccan Red, approximately 1 skein
Needles used: A set of 5 US size 8/5 mm bamboo DPNs (sort of annoying--they kept falling out of the stitches. Two circs or magic loop would be easier to deal with)
Date started: May 12, 2008
Date finished: May 13, 2008

Mods: I was trying to use up the half-skein of yarn left over from my Rusted Root--I ran out of yarn at row 31 and had to rummage around to find the other half-skein of yarn left over from the Bainbridge Scarf so I could finish the cloth. I had some left over, so I knit a little garter stitch loop to use for hanging the cloth up to dry (just cast on 3 sts, knit every row for maybe 2 inches, folded it over, picked up stitches from the base of the loop and knit them together with the live stitches) and used the rest of the yarn to single-crochet around the outer border of the washcloth. Also, I used a lighter weight yarn and larger needles than recommended.
Notes: I don't know the last time I spent so little time on a project and wound up with something so pretty and functional! Again, this photo is before washing and drying the cloth, so the knitting isn't terribly even-looking. I think this is a great pattern, though--very easy to follow and fast to knit, with beautiful results.

So, Andrew, iconoclast/workhorse/one of the few sources of entertainment on Top Chef was told to pack his knives tonight. Andrew was great, and would have made an excellent Top Chef. He had a great sense of flavor and it is now one of my dreams to eat at his restaurant, Le Cirque in NYC. Nothing really I can say politically about this, other than it shows a trend towards never going for eccentrics as serious contenders. Go home Lisa!