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To: Ilaine who wrote (22053)4/17/1999 7:41:00 AM
From: Ish  Respond to of 71178
 
<<I don't know which previous generations you are referring to, every one of the old-timers I can think of was pretty soft around the middle. >>

I was talking about my father's generation. I grew up around a lot of farmers when farming wasn't as mechanized. Big guys with hands that looked like baseball gloves. Guys that would burn 8,000 calories a day doing chores. Their wives were pretty tough too.