17th February 2004, 7:56 PM
People can be disgustingly thin too, and perhaps you haven't experienced near death due to high metabolism any time in your life. Not exactly an easy thing to live with... Well, once you get used to eating a lot all the time every day, you can see the plus sides to it, except that you HAVE to eat all the time if you don't want to feel light headed.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)