Victoria Coren Mitchell - Writer, Broadcaster & Poker Player


I Could Do With Dieting Myself

Thursday, 9 October 2008

I was sorry to read that Jose Luis Garza, who weighed 992 lb (just over 70 stone) has died in Mexico, after ambulancemen had to demolish his bedroom wall to take him to hospital. Obituaries of Senor Garza reveal that he was friends with Manuel Uribe, the world’s heaviest man (1235 lbs, or 88 stone), who lived an hour away in Monterrey.
  I’m guessing they communicated mainly by phone.

 

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Ian at 11:18 am on October 9th, 2008

They could have used email but I guess they would need one of these

http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=208

Having become single again and running into someone I hadn’t seen in years at the airport whose first words were “You’ve put weight on” and then hearing the same words at the other end from the person who picked me up I decided to lose some weight from 15 stone to now under 14 (I’m 6’ 3”).

If only I’d had the determination to put on another 60 stone I may have made a new friend…..


Dass at 12:30 pm on October 9th, 2008

My favourite reply to “You’ve put some weight on!” is “Yeah but at least I’ve still got my manners!!”


Andy W at 5:29 pm on October 9th, 2008

I’d like to think that they communicated by stamping on the floor and picking up the vibrations.  Can’t be spending too much money on phone bills, not with the growing pressure on the international cake markets.

Andy W


Richard at 8:26 pm on October 9th, 2008

I’ll have to remember that reply Dass! I will be needing it in a few months when I visit friends and family whom I haven’t seen for 6 years. It can go into my arsenal along with “my hair has alway been very fine like that”


dave at 1:26 pm on October 12th, 2008

In the words of Denis Leary, “That’s the first sign. When you’re calling the construction company before you call the hospital, STOP F**KING EATING!”


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