The tummy dummy may just as well lose himself in his own fat. But people with lumpy edges are always at their wits end over the battle of the bulge. Austerity, they say, could be the best way to fight obesity, but that certainly didn’t lend Socrates the looks of a Greek god. A good run up the field a day might help keep the flab at bay.
But Miss Bouncicle who did, in fact, try every possible way to shed the tyres off her, found no consolation in the fact that her belly walked into every other room before her. “Oh Doctor!” she cried, “can I ever dive into the swimming pool without flooding out the gymnasium?” Her doctor suggested: “You had better go and see the plumber about that.”
The swimming club decided, however, that it had nothing to do with the plumbing. They realised that prevention was better than cure and simply prevented Miss Bouncicle!
For those desperate to get in slimming order, Mark Twain’s unsavory prescription could not exactly sound like peaches and cream: “The best way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want to eat, drink what you don’t like to drink and do what you’d rather not.”
But if that too fails, don’t worry be happy. Remember, there’s one place that the belly is always belcome – the sumo wrestling club.
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