DotDot.Fat

Hi! Last week, one of our devoted readers commented on our seldom-used Message Board that NTD’s dotdot.fat blog appeared to have been thrown together at the last minute and was basically a waste of time. I have had almost a whole week to think about this, and now I’ve got something to say about both of these accusations.

1) It most certainly was not written at the very last minute. The new stuff each week gets posted around 9:00 PM Friday night. That particular blog was completed & proof-read several minutes before 9:00. The very thought that NTD would display such blatant unprofessionalism is galling to say the least.

2) A waste of time? Of course it was a waste of time. That’s the point of twofatguyswithnothingtodo.com. As a matter of fact, isn’t that the point of most every website? Isn’t that the point of the internet, period? Heck, for that matter, isn’t that the point of life itself?

OK, maybe life itself is a shade more substantive than “a waste of time”, but you get the drift. It all kinda goes back to the point I was trying to make a couple of weeks ago (back when I used to get my blogs done really early, like by 8:30) when I told you all to not take every little thing like the very survival of the human race hung in the balance.

There’s a very good reason this junk is called trivia: It’s trivial. I read somewhere once that in order for a body to be good at something, two conditions must co-exist:



You have to be smart enough to understand it; and

You have to be dumb enough to believe it really matters

Understand?

Till next time

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PHAT FAT FACT: There are two accepted methods for measuring body fat –

1) Skin Fold Thickness Measurement; and 2) Biometrical Impedance Analysis

PHATTER FAT FACT: Phil and Denny both prefer the first method. You can use the Skin Fold Thickness Measurement without getting up from the table.

BONUS PHATNESS: An imaginary $500, plus the right to name next week’s song of the week to the first reply on the message board that identifies the title of an (obscure) early Beatles song in the text of this blog.