I have a very fuzzy, vague memory of The Beatles when they happened. I wasn't even four years old when Ed Sullivan presented them to America in 1964. I do remember some of their later songs at the time of their initial release.

When I was 15, I discovered them for all intents and purposes for the first time. It began with a stack of dusty albums from my aunt Mary's attic. Even though the Beatles had split up just five years earlier, and the Sullivan debut was merely a decade gone by, it seemed as though I had found a treasure that was as ancient as King Tut's Tomb.

This sparked in me an obsession that lasted well into my 20's, and even though the fanaticism has waned somewhat, in many ways continues to this very day.

I discovered the fab four for a second time in the early 90's when their music was finally released on CD. The clarity of the sound coming out of the CD player, compared to the scratchy noise from well worn vinyl made it seem like I was listening to their music for the first time.

The other day, I finally joined the 21st Century and got all of their albums downladed onto the ipod my kids got me for Christmas. I had unearthed the Holy Grail for the third time in my life.

And for the third time, I have come to the same conclusion -- The Beatles were pretty good. Actually more than just pretty good. In my opinion, the only one that really counts, they are better at what they did than anybody else in history was at whatever it was they did. Get it?

The distance between The Beatles and the #2 musical act, who ever that might be (as if it really matters) is greater than that between, say, the best baseball player and #2 in that sport. Or between Albert Einstein and the #2 physicist, ect, etc, ad infinitum.

When it comes to music, The Beatles have lapped the fields so many times, it's not even a contest anymore.

And that, my friend, is pretty good.

'til next time


PHAT FAT FACT: Consuming more calories than you burn leads to being overweight and, eventually, obesity. The body stores unused calories as fat. Obesity can be the result of:

- Eating more food than the body can use

- Drinking too much alcohol

- Not getting enough exercise

PHATTER FAT FACT: Phil and Denny aren't taking any chances. They do all three, just to be safe.

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.

DotDot.Fat

Why the past? I mean basically this whole Two Fat Guys thing is based on stuff that's already happened. Now that you know that there are really three of us thinking up this crap, you might as well know also that none of us particularly likes what is happening these days, and we're all scared to death of the future. So what does that leave?

The past.

A lot of neat stuff happened in the past. In fact, just about every great event that has ever taken place happened in the past. Just kidding.

But really, when you think about it, especially in the realm twofatguyswithnothingtodo.com occupies (sports, music, movies), there isn't a lot going on these days that is really any good.

Most of the movies coming out these days suck. Sports has become less and less about the games and more and more about the money. And don't even get me started about what passes for music anymore.

Here's what I mean in a nutshell:

SPORTS: Walter Payton vs. Terrell Owens?

MOVIES: The Godfather vs. I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry?

TV: The Andy Griffith Show vs. The Bachelor?

MUSIC: The Beatles vs. The Jonas Brothers?

Need I go on? Because I can go on all night if I need to.

Actually, I can't. See, as soon as I finish downloading The Dave Clark Five's greatest hits on my ipod, I've got all 113 episodes of Gilligan's Island TiVo'ed and ready to watch.

Til next time...
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PHAT FAT FACT: In Biblical times a "talent" was a weight measure equal to 75 pounds.

PHATTER FAT FACT: Between Phil and Denny, 550 pounds is pretty much equal to no talent.