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Show gg That'Saal farms. Oh, they dont go by that name - they have glamorous titles, like Uncle Slims Exercise Ranch, or Fast Freddies Fitness Retreat. But they all mean just one thing. A place where the obese can go for help. But do the terminally thin have places like that? They have to suffer through life listening to beanpole jokes from the healthy and robust. They just don't get no respect. Every day, Americans are bombarded with advertisements from this diet company and that diet com- pany. From exercise programs. From health spas. Large people are protected from society. We're all taught at a very young age that we dont stare at, or make comments about, two groups of people: the handicapped and the corpulent. All promising one thing just - a trimmer, slimmer you. Well, Im here be-in- g thin isn't all its Thursday, June 28, 1984 by Mark Saal If Rodney Dangerfield thinks he gets no respect now, he's lucky he doesnt look like me. to tell you, WEST VAllEY VIEW crack- still carry the scar from a can green beans to prove it. When I was 8 years old, my mother took me grocery shopping, and I made the mistake of pointing out a hulking object near the checkout stand. Look ma, I bellowed, that ladys as big as an eleph No sooner had I turned to look at my mother than she caught me upside the head with the Jolly Green Giants veggies. Ho! Ho! ed up to be. If white is right and black is beautiful, then fats where its at and thin is sin. For too long, skinny people have been treated like social outcasts, the proverbial leper, while the overfed are the very hub of society. Look at the facts. How many places for the porcine are floating around in the Rockies alone? Look in any fashion magazine, and youll find plenty of advertisements for these fat I of Yes, you don't make light about the abundance of a person's flesh. But its perfectly acceptable to ridicule the slight of build, right? It smacks of a double standard to me. Im a perfect case in point on this issue. Being one possessed of the physique of a No. 2 pencil, Ive grown tired of all the skinny remarks. Whats worse, I started believing them after a time. I began carrying rocks in my pockets because people kept telling me if a stiff wind ever came up, Id blow away. I even told my friends I had a rare allergic reaction to chlorine when they asked me to go swimming - all because I was afraid to take off my shirt and expose my biceps, triceps and any other ceps I might possess ( or not possess) . I even spent one summer saving up to buy some of that muscle-growin- g powdered drink mix. It was expensive, but visions of sprouting mountainous mounds of muscles clouded my powers of reasoning. -- Ive tried it all, gang. Weights, special diets, pills, exercise and anything else that sounded semi-san- e have Ho! SCOUTS - (From Page 6B, Col. 6) 4015 West. Items being offered at good prices will include furniture, clothing, toys, books knick-knack- s and wheat suitable for home storage programs, said scoutmaster Jim Dawes. The seventeen boys registered with the troop have held several including pizza sales and talent auction, he said. fund-raiser- been utilized in my search for a thicker body. I even considered sending away for those inflatable muscles advertised in comic books. Heck, those ads had me pegged. I was tired of having the bully kick sand in my face and take away my girlfriend - even if we did live 700 miles from the nearest beach and even if I couldnt get a date to save my life. No respect. I have since accepted my lot in life, but I cant understand this latest preoccupation people have for ending up like me. Whoever You can coined the phrase, never be too rich, or too thin, must have been in one of his less lucid states of mind at the time. Hes obviously never had to carry rocks around in his pockets. The support groups for the -- plump are pleasingly in- numerable, yet of the skinny, Let them eat society says, cake. Weight Watchers, yes, but what about some form of Sneakers Watchers? Its a fact: thin people often have the shoes taken right off their feet because the average person doesnt think anybodys using them at the time. was sitting in the library once, kids walked by and one pointed beneath me and exclaimed, Hey, somebody left their tell shoes under that table." you, the lean get no respect. Im tired of it all. Tired of the I two I- - jokes. Tired of my wristwatch sliding off everytime I drop my arm. But most of all, Im tired of not being able to own a pet. When I was just a little tyke, there was nothing I wanted more than a dog of my very own. I begged, I pled, I even held my breath until I turned blue. You know how little kids can be when they want a pet. Theyll promise anything, and sure enough, I did. Ill feed him, Ill love him, Ill even clean up after him, I lied. Ill keep my room spotless, Ill take out the trash, Ill paint the house, Ill add on a rec room, Ill be your slave for life. Finally, my parents gave in. But we had to get rid of the after only one week. As skinny as I was, the durned canine kept burying me out in the backyard. dog The troop is planning its first camping trip to Camp Bear Lake next month. Camp F II will be held in this central Utah town July 27, 28 and 29. The town park has been reserved for the event, providing camping CCC space Group Reunion Set July 27-2- 9 FERRON. The annual reunion of CCC Company 959 members of and sanitary facilities. Members from other camps around Utah have been invited to participate. A dinner will be held at 1 p.m. on July 28 at a cost of $10 per person. Reservations must be made by Sunday, through Clint B. Kartchner, 537 LaSalle Dr., Murray, 84107, 266-855- Mom was furious. It took her a week to get the dirt out of my teeth. No respect, not even from mans best friend. Despite these hardships heaped upon those of us who lack suffi- cient mass, people are giving their eyeteeth for a chance to become like us. I come from a family with three sisters in it, so Ive lived through every diet imaginable. Losing weight through exercise is in, too, which means fitness everything from equipment flashy jogging outfits to shiny chrome gym sets - is selling out everywhere. Advertisers claim that this gear is necessary to drop those pounds properly, and I believe them. After spending $400 for a pair of jogging shoes, who could afford to eat? 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