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.
Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex.
I don't see the point of doing comedy unless it comes from pain.
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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