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To: BubbaFred who wrote (38268)	9/15/2003 3:46:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Bubba, "portly" is for pleasantly cherubic figures, not for dirty great fat pigs wallowing around like walrus. "Obese" is a polite word for gross fatness. "Walrusi" has rudeness about it. Well-covered, paunchy, plump, stout, are other descriptions for the somewhat fat. Here's a thesaurus on obese [but I think some of those expressions are more for the slightly fat rather than the extremes which would make a tallow ester alternative fuels producer drool] thesaurus.reference.com I say call a spade a spade, or maybe a shovel, but not a teaspoon. Mqurice