The article says: "...they say his meals were not so big as to account for his enormous size."

Can anyone explain to me how what one eats can't account for their size? Calories eaten in food minus calories consumed in exercise equals weight gained or lost.

One doesn't simply gain weight without having put something into their mouth. Even if you've got a tumor or something, it requires nourishment to grow.

I've been to Missouri, and I expect nothing less than the glorification of obesity.

Caradoc: The article says: "...they say his meals were not so big as to account for his enormous size."

Can anyone explain to me how what one eats can't account for their size? Calories eaten in food minus calories consumed in exercise equals weight gained or lost.

One doesn't simply gain weight without having put something into their mouth. Even if you've got a tumor or something, it requires nourishment to grow.

Unless you have Cushing's Syndrome. Link (new window)

If his pituitary gland was messed up, his metabolism could go into starvation mode with a normal food intake. I think.

Moral of the story: vaccinate your kids against measles. That's what killed him, getting measles in his 30s.

Wake up America! Where our blubber once reigned supreme, today a Mexican(!) holds the title of World's Fattest Man. Show your pride--eat more bacon. http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1371799.jpg

Is this the monument?

video report, including many pics

Caradoc: The article says: "...they say his meals were not so big as to account for his enormous size."

Can anyone explain to me how what one eats can't account for their size? Calories eaten in food minus calories consumed in exercise equals weight gained or lost.

One doesn't simply gain weight without having put something into their mouth. Even if you've got a tumor or something, it requires nourishment to grow.

Thyroid problem or elephantitus

Do not judge me... until you have tried my way of life for yourselves.

Megain: video report, including many pics

Carnies ate my dog.

From the article:

"Still, by age 13 he had reached an astounding 546 pounds. At school, he sat on a special bench braced with two-by-fours and wire. But the walk became risky. One day, he stumbled and rolled into a ditch."


Fat man stuck in a ditch... Always a classic.

FTFA: "May we not only remember he was the world's largest man from the small community of Fishhook, but also an average man with an enormous heart for people."

People, delicious people

first paragraph:

"An infant case of whooping cough shook his pituitary gland, triggering his girth to explode"

Read the farking article

RoxtarRyan: I've been to Missouri, and I expect nothing less than the glorification of obesity.

Just as soon as I wedge myself out of this chair, you and I are gonna tussle.

HaHaHaHa....Missouri is a cheap flyover shiathole that no one would want to visit.

Wait, what???

"In the summer, there'll be somebody stopping by to look at it every day," says Jerry Dougherty, who owns Fishhook Market.

Ooooooo.

I'm embarassed to call this my home state.

/show me... the fatty?

jepah

There are many reasons to eat: hunger, boredom, wanting to be the world's fattest man...

I watched the newsreel on YouTube, and then got distracted by the fatties in "related videos."

USA... USA... USA... USA...

ParagonComplex:
Thyroid problem or elephantitus

Those things don't allow your body to violate the energy mass laws of physics. 1000 pounds of lard still requires a higher than normal amount of food to produce.

I'll be in the deep, cold ground before I recognize Missourah!

I think that they're forgetting the first rule of making statues of fat people: the ratio of dollars for the monuments to pounds of fat person is 1:1.

FTFA



Looks like they are working to beat that worlds fattest man record.

Ebenator: LadyHawke911:

...Unless you have Cushing's Syndrome...

I don't think Peter Cushing had Cushing's syndrome.

I used to work with a guy that had it, he weighed like 400 lbs and was short(so it would be about like someone my height weighing 500).

He was on a diet all the time is the only reason he didn't weight like double what he did.

Robert Earl's hold on Fishhook - a town 20 miles east of Hannibal, Mo.
What's 20 EAST of Hannibal? Illinois.
Hannibal to Fishhook (new window)


//subby fails at simple geography

Bullseye_blam: I'm embarassed to call this my home state.

/show me... the fatty?

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Should be more embarrassed that you don't have a working geography of your home state.

1,069 LBS.

the statue or the guy?

I think Twain's works would have been pretty shiatty set 20 miles west of the river, but I'm just some mental midget from Missouri So what do I know.

Holy crap (link goes to a newsreel of this guy in action)

Looks like you TSU kids in Kirksville will finally have a tourist trap of your own (same goes to the college kids in Hannibal and Quincy)

ajl_mo when subby is done visiting the sites from the Momo sightings of the early 1970's perhaps he'll apologize to Fishhook residents personally;
Link (new window)

Ebenator the real Dr. Cushing was a good friend/colleague of Nancy Reagan's stepfather (she personally lobbied for his stamp)when it came to discoverying diseases & procedures he was very, very prolific;
Link (new window)

RobbieFal: Holy crap (link goes to a newsreel of this guy in action)

Looks like you TSU kids in Kirksville will finally have a tourist trap of your own (same goes to the college kids in Hannibal and Quincy)

I like how instead of saying his waistline, they say "his equator".

Why didnt this disgusting fatty lay off the mcdonalds and exercise more?

FlyingJ: ajl_mo when subby is done visiting the sites from the Momo sightings of the early 1970's perhaps he'll apologize to Fishhook residents personally

That's not a monster, it's my cousin Amos. If he comes stalking around, just throw him a sausage and he's good for the night.

You know you've made it when you weigh as much a 28 Ethiopians.

thread useless without pictures of fattie.

FlyingJ: ajl_mo when subby is done visiting the sites from the Momo sightings of the early 1970's perhaps he'll apologize to Fishhook residents personally;
Link (new window)
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Momo rocks...

I had my two boys (6 and 8 at the time) totally convinced Momo was hanging out at our house at night one summer. The younger one SWORE he saw it one night looking in the window. The made friends with it by leaving food. Momo brought cool rocks and toys he found in backyard.

Faking out little kids with giant sweet harmless lies...good times.

ajl_mo: Robert Earl's hold on Fishhook - a town 20 miles east of Hannibal, Mo.
What's 20 EAST of Hannibal? Illinois.
Hannibal to Fishhook (new window)


//subby fails at simple geography

Yeah, no kidding. But then again pretty much half of Illnois east of Hannibal is boring as hell.


/Hannibal native.

ajl_mo:
//subby fails at simple geography

Easy on the subby, bro. While in MO, I was asked by some lady "Con-NAY-tikut.... ain't that where all them lighthouses are?"

I asked her if she's ever left the state, and she said she hasn't. She was in her 50's.

/this is the same state, that IIRC, has the museum with dinos and humans living together

ajl_mo: Robert Earl's hold on Fishhook - a town 20 miles east of Hannibal, Mo.
What's 20 EAST of Hannibal? Illinois.
Hannibal to Fishhook (new window)


//subby fails at simple geography

I was about to say I'm pretty darn sure Hannibal is right on the river.

/relieved it wasnt my dumbass state doing this

RoxtarRyan: ajl_mo:
//subby fails at simple geography

Easy on the subby, bro. While in MO, I was asked by some lady "Con-NAY-tikut.... ain't that where all them lighthouses are?"

I asked her if she's ever left the state, and she said she hasn't. She was in her 50's.

/this is the same state, that IIRC, has the museum with dinos and humans living together

That'd be the Ohio/Kentucky border. Though, Cleveland, Akron, and Columbus aside, your observations fully apply to Ohio. (For MO, I'd toss in STL.)

Southpaw018: RoxtarRyan: ajl_mo:
//subby fails at simple geography

Easy on the subby, bro. While in MO, I was asked by some lady "Con-NAY-tikut.... ain't that where all them lighthouses are?"

I asked her if she's ever left the state, and she said she hasn't. She was in her 50's.

/this is the same state, that IIRC, has the museum with dinos and humans living together

That'd be the Ohio/Kentucky border. Though, Cleveland, Akron, and Columbus aside, your observations fully apply to Ohio. (For MO, I'd toss in STL.)

Regardless, I knew I was in trouble the second I discovered that I was 80 miles from the closest Starbucks.

BlorfMaster
Why didnt this disgusting fatty lay off the mcdonalds and exercise more?

I assume you're trolling but if not, RTFA. Poor guy had a medical condition that made him blow up. He did chores and walked to school as any farm kid would back in those days, but he kept on getting fatter anyway. So he made a buck off it before he died.