On the lighter side.....

[Bc'z]

Sounds like a $100 site category.
The 260 club!!

Here's the comedy in all this.
The thread is the lighter side....
And we're over 250#!!!

 

[KMart]

The other day, I read about an “avid jogger” dropping dead of a heart attack. When the Good Lord wants me, I’ll go with a smile on my face!

James Fuller Fixx, AKA Jim Fixx, was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book The Complete Book of Running. He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution by popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age; his genetic predisposition for heart problems and other previous lifestyle factors may have caused his heart attack.

It may have been running that caused it, too.
Maybe it was just poetic justice.

 

[Papa Charlie]

Here's the comedy in all this.
The thread is the lighter side....
And we're over 250#!!!

Well it is lighter than 300#s

 

[joshb]

Speaking of.......
I visited relatives in Dallas quite a few times over the years. They float in the “high society” levels. The numbers of gorgeous women I saw was astounding!
I had hopes about enjoying the same scenery in Kerrville. Not so much! Most of these girls are “healthy country girls”. They run in the 200-300 pound range! My wife loves it! At 138, she’s considered skinny!

 

[joshb]

James Fuller Fixx, AKA Jim Fixx, was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book The Complete Book of Running. He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution by popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age; his genetic predisposition for heart problems and other previous lifestyle factors may have caused his heart attack.

It may have been running that caused it, too.
Maybe it was just poetic justice.

I thought Forrest Gump popularized running?

 

[sdean]

Speaking of.......
I visited relatives in Dallas quite a few times over the years. They float in the “high society” levels. The numbers of gorgeous women I saw was astounding!
I had hopes about enjoying the same scenery in Kerrville. Not so much! Most of these girls are “healthy country girls”. They run in the 200-300 pound range! My wife loves it! At 138, she’s considered skinny!

Same here. Mines 5’6 and 135. And always trying to lose weight. I guess we’ll have to make a pass through Kerrville.

 

[KMart]

I thought Forrest Gump popularized running?

Forrest certainly made more money with the movie than Fixx did with the book.

 

[MikeT49]

I was walking back from the dry dock to the office talking with Mel. Mel is a Naval reserve full bird Captain. Reserved, soft spoken. Wouldn't say chit if he had a mouthful. Divorce came up. Mel quips: "If they didn't have a freaking reproductive receptacle (he actually used the "C" word), there'd be a bounty on the MoFos." Took me by surprise shall we say.

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

A little Lyle Lovett might be appropriate at this moment

Always a good time for Lyle. Any particular tune you were thinking of?

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

I was walking back from the dry dock to the office talking with Mel. Mel is a Naval reserve full bird Captain. Reserved, soft spoken. Wouldn't say chit if he had a mouthful. Divorce came up. Mel quips: "If they didn't have a freaking reproductive receptacle (he actually used the "C" word), there'd be a bounty on the MoFos." Took me by surprise shall we say.

What the heck is a full bird Captain?

 

[sidecutter]

A full-bird colonel is one rank below a one-star general, or brigadier general, and one rank above a lieutenant colonel thats what they call them in the army in the navy they call them captains because they captain a ship

 

[KMart]

What the heck is a full bird Captain?

This on his collar

 

[riflewoman]

Still a valid question... by definition a Navy and Coast Guard Captains are allways “full bird”. It’s the other services with their “light Colonel” that need the “full bird” descriptor....

 

[hoz53]

I thought Forrest Gump popularized running?

Hey allright Fritos are my Fave. Hard to chew em now cause i lost a few teeth. Anyway I think at our age you got the right idea about food. We should enjoy it. Ive been doing that for awhile though- I think Im about 205 so youre doing great at 195.

PS. i may be headed to the store for the fritos

 

[riflewoman]

Funny story, in another forum long ago and far far away, an army (Warrant Officer 3, IIRC) mentioned that his wife was a “Bird” Colonel. This prompted one English forum member to say “of course she’s a “bird” Colonel...at which time it was pile on the Brit for not understanding the diff...

 

[hoz53]

this sure hits home with me. I got a model 29 to

 

[hoz53]

A little Lyle Lovett might be appropriate at this moment

well I dont know how to take this. Lack of Experience I guess

 

[MikeT49]

When I was a blue guy in the Navy, that's what we called em. Actually not totally true we had other more colorful terminology.

 

[USMCDOC]

Umm...no!

 

[USMCDOC]