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 |  |  | #5258 |  | Every time I lose weight, it finds me again! 
 |  |  |  | #5259 |  | Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening. -- Alexander Woollcott
 
 |  |  |  | #5260 |  | Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
 -- Ingmar Bergman
 
 |  |  |  | #5261 |  | Fat Liberation: because a waist is a terrible thing to mind. 
 |  |  |  | #5262 |  | Fat people of the world unite, we've got nothing to lose! 
 |  |  |  | #5263 |  | Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. -- Walt Kelly, "Potluck Pogo"
 
 |  |  |  | #5264 |  | For those of you who have been unfortunate enough to never have tasted the 'Great Chieftain O' the Pudden Race' (i.e. haggis) here is an easy to follow
 recipe which results in a dish remarkably similar to the above mentioned
 protected species.
 Ingredients:
 1 Sheep's Pluck (heart, lungs, liver) and bag
 2 teacupsful toasted oatmeal
 1 teaspoonful salt
 8 oz. shredded suet
 2 small onions
 1/2 teaspoonful black pepper
 
 Scrape and clean bag in cold, then warm, water.  Soak in salt water
 overnight.  Wash pluck, then boil for 2 hours with windpipe draining over
 the side of pot.  Retain 1 pint of stock.  Cut off windpipe, remove surplus
 gristle, chop or mince heart and lungs, and grate best part of liver (about
 half only).  Parboil and chop onions, mix all together with oatmeal, suet,
 salt, pepper and stock to moisten.  Pack the mixture into bag, allowing for
 swelling.  Boil for three hours, pricking regularly all over.  If bag not
 available, steam in greased basin covered by greaseproof paper and cloth for
 four to five hours.
 
 |  |  |  | #5265 |  | Fortune's Contribution of the Month to the Animal Rights Debate: 
 I'll stay out of animals' way if they'll stay out of mine.
 "Hey you, get off my plate"
 -- Roger Midnight
 
 |  |  |  | #5266 |  | Fortune's diet truths: 1:  Forget what the cookbooks say, plain yogurt tastes nothing like sour cream.
 2:  Any recipe calling for soybeans tastes like mud.
 3:  Carob is not an acceptable substitute for chocolate.  In fact, carob is not
 an acceptable substitute for anything, except, perhaps, brown shoe polish.
 4:  There is no such thing as a "fun salad."  So let's stop pretending and see
 salads for what they are:  God's punishment for being fat.
 5:  Fruit salad without maraschino cherries and marshmallows is about as
 appealing as tepid beer.
 6:  A world lacking gravy is a tragic place!
 7:  You should immediately pass up any recipes entitled "luscious and
 low-cal."  Also skip dishes featuring "lively liver."  They aren't and
 it isn't.
 8:  Wearing a blindfold often makes many diet foods more palatable.
 9:  Fresh fruit is not dessert.  CAKE is dessert!
 10: Okra tastes slightly worse than its name implies.
 11: A plain baked potato isn't worth the effort involved in chewing and
 swallowing.
 
 |  |  |  | #5267 |  | God must have loved calories, she made so many of them. 
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