In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Interpretation
This quote humorously expresses the struggles of weight loss and the absurdity of the numbers involved.
Erma Bombeck's quote uses humor to highlight the challenges of managing weight over time. The exaggeration of having lost 789 pounds over two decades serves to poke fun at the relentless nature of dieting and the societal fixation on weight loss, suggesting that if such numbers were tangible, one might as well make them a quirky accessory.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a weight loss support group meeting to lighten the mood.
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.
Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother, and dog. If someone wanted to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he would refuse until he had been formally introduced.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.
And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
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