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Last Updated: Nov 14, 2008 - 12:49:26 PM |
Hello and welcome back to the wonderful of Dogpound, where eating can make you famous.
I suspect everyone is pretty much aware of Jared Fogle. He is the current spokesperson for Subway. At one point in his life he weighed 425 pounds, and then he started on his famous “Subway diet,” and 245 pounds later his face can be seen on TV and in every Subway store across the nation.
The reason for this introduction is that I came across this article where a man claims to have eaten 23,000 Big Macs. That’s right: two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun, Big Mac.
Don Gorske, a 54-year-old resident of Fond Du Lac, Wis., says he started on May 17, 1972, and for the past 36 years, he has eaten at least one Big Mac a day, sometimes more, and he has the receipts to prove it. He has missed only one day, and that was the day his mother died to respect her request. He says he is in love with the burgers and they are the highlight of his day. So, based on that statement we can kind of get the picture that his life is, well, limited – limited to going to McDonald’s.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” Dorothy Thompson
LANDING
A flight instructor was sent out to help a trainee who had radioed that he was about to make a forced landing a few miles from the base. The instructor spotted the plane standing in a field small enough to present a real challenge to his professional reputation.
With determination, full flaps, and engine just above the stall, he maneuvered into the field. Climbing out, he shouted angrily to the trainee, “Just how did you manage to get into such a small field?”
“I landed in the big field over there,” the trainee explained, “but in order to leave room for you, I had the farmer tow me here.”
TRAINING
During training exercises, the lieutenant who was driving down a muddy back road encountered another jeep stuck in the mud with a red-faced colonel at the wheel.
“Your jeep stuck, sir?” asked the lieutenant as he pulled alongside.
“Nope,” replied the colonel, coming over and handing him the keys. “Yours is.”
Well, that is that for now. As always be good, play safe, and remember to live without fear.
JR and Max
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