Fatties in the Steno Pool

If you do a straight-line extrapolation of the weight gain year by year, you’d find that the 120 lb. secretary of 1958 now not only weighs 285 lb. but she is also dead!

Since I frequently climb on Cecil - a horrifying thought if taken too literally - for his poor columns, I am honor-bound to praise him for the good ones, like this week’s When secretaries switched from manual typewriters to electrics, did they gain 20 pounds?

Finding the article couldn’t have been easy, even with modern database search tools. And then pursuing the hunt into Italian territory. Very impressive. Your numbers didn’t even contradict one another as so often happens.

A good job. No bad jokes or strained puns either, although whether that’s a good thing or bad is left to the student as an exercise.