"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked." - Peter de Vries

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fbt shorts - sgForums.com

A: Wat the heck is a "fbt shorts"?

B: Ha ha ha... I was thinking Fat Bottoms & Thighs...

C: Men;s Fbt shorts also easier to run. My timing improved like 40 secs

D: cant understand whats the fetish behind fbt shorts...must be something thats also "uniquely singaporean".

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Foxtrot on Christmas letters

Roger: What are you working on?

Andy: I'm trying to write a Christmas letter. You know, one of those preprinted things you send out with the Christmas cards that talks about all the things your family has done in the past year. All the exciting trips... All the notable achievements.

Roger: Good thing you took that fiction course in college.

Andy: It's been a while, though.

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This is quite sad:

THIS WEEK'S HONORARY UNSUBSCRIBE goes to Allen Carr. "I've achieved some marvelous things in my life," Carr said in the introduction of his book, "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking". "By far the greatest was to escape from the slavery of nicotine addiction." Carr was an accountant in London, England, but was totally addicted to cigarettes: he smoked five packs a day. He tried to quit but couldn't -- until 1983, he said, when he developed his "Easyway" method, which he claims has a greater than 50 percent success rate after one year, far higher than typical programs. In addition to quitting smoking, he quit his accounting job and went full-time into helping others quit. No one would publish his book on the topic, so he published it himself -- and it sold 7 million copies. He was aghast at government-run smoking cessation programs that used fear tactics and, worse, didn't work as well as his program: "Can you imagine if there were ten different ways of treating appendicitis?" he wrote. "Nine of them cured 10 percent of the patients, which means that they killed 90 percent of them, and the tenth way cured 95 percent. Imagine that knowledge of the tenth way had been available for 14 years, but the vast majority of the medical establishment was still recommending the other nine." Carr hadn't smoked for 23 years but allowed patients in his clinic to smoke, exposing him to smoke nearly every day. He ended up with lung cancer, but said it was a "reasonable price to pay" for helping millions to quit. Still, the British government still won't even try his method in NHS clinics. Carr died from his cancer on November 29. He was 72.