# Now THAT'S a waistline!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 24, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344 "2002-04-24T14:06:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/41 "2002-04-25T04:37:01Z")
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> Just to give you an idea of what is this girl’s ultimate goal,I give you the world record holderEthel Granger whose only apparent claim to fame is that she had a 13" waist.
13 inches? Christ, my fist is 13.5. That’s just scary.
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### Author:  [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/42 "2002-04-25T04:45:23Z")
Her waist is half the measure of my hips, that’s insane!
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/43 "2002-04-25T04:53:38Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \*
> \*\*I’ll bet if she takes off the corset, she’ll fold in half!
> This is seriously, seriously disturbing. It doesn’t even look GOOD. She looks all lumpy and it makes her look like a tube sock filled with gel that was tied in the middle.
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> And no, “proper” corset training and wearing shouldn’t hurt. This, however, isn’t exactly what I’d call “proper”… The foot benders-did anyone else think of Chinese Foot Binding?\*\*
I showed this link to a few of my online friends, and most of what they had to say was along the lines of: “Gaaaaah! Where the hell does she store her internal organs??” One of them even said that the girl looked like a tree that was about to go “timber…!” You know, when beavers chew tree trunks to get them to fall down… I definirely agree!
And yes, I thought of Chinese foot binding too, **Guin** … eeee!
The site said she wore the corset **at least** 23 hours a day, only taking it off for bathing and such. Says she loosened it a little during the night, but not by much… I hate to think what that would do to her internal organs and such… major, major damage!
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### Author:  [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/44 "2002-04-25T06:10:51Z")
Oh. my. good. god.
When y’all are done with that industrial strength eyewash just toss some in my direction, okay?
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2002, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/45 "2002-04-25T06:28:13Z")
Hmm. Disturbing.
I like an hourglass figure. Her figure makes her look like she was built out of legos.
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> did you see those Pony Boots (“no heels, just hooves”) that she had a link to? FREAKY!!!
Yeah, what kind of freak pays $500 for shoes that, essentially, make them stand on their tip-toes? I can do that with my bare feet.
😃
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### Author:  [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2002, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/46 "2002-04-25T06:35:06Z")
Two words: Fashion **Victim**
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### Author:  [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2002, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/47 "2002-04-25T07:13:32Z")
I don’t think she’s taken it far enough.
If she could get her waist down to zero, then she could separate her top half from her bottom half. Like when the Enterprise separates the saucer from engineering. That’d be cool!
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/48 "2002-04-25T07:39:44Z")
Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase “hourglass figure”.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/49 "2002-04-26T01:11:43Z")
You know, it may not bother her right now, but years from now, she’s going to have some serious health problems. Maybe not from the corset-but from those boots. Wearing them all the time except in the shower, she’s going to have horrible back problems.
And the corset isn’t going to help.
In fact, I predict she’ll be a hunch back by the time she’s thirty.
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### Author:  [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/50 "2002-04-26T04:18:04Z")
Holy shit! :eek:
That **cannot** be healthy. How can she process food with all her digestive organs smashed like that? What is the life expectancy of someone who does this?
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### Author:  [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/51 "2002-04-26T05:06:51Z")
I got to thinking that a better title for this thread (Sorry **scott evil** ) would be:
What a waistcase!
or maybe…
Waisting Away Again in Margaritaville.
or
GAWD she’s waisted!
or
Waist naught, want not!
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/52 "2002-04-26T07:32:08Z")
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> \*Originally posted by BooBoo316 \*
> That **cannot** be healthy. How can she process food with all her digestive organs smashed like that? What is the life expectancy of someone who does this?
Don’t know about the life expectancy, but on the site she says that she doesn’t eat big meals; she snacks a lot.
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### Author:  [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/53 "2002-04-26T07:38:13Z")
Lordy, that is just wrong! Brainrinse on Aisle 3!:eek: :wally
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### Author:  [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2002, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/54 "2002-04-26T08:02:18Z")
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> \*Originally posted by iampunha \*
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> Don’t know about the life expectancy, but on the site she says that she doesn’t eat big meals; she snacks a lot. \*\*
Thanks. I didn’t dig very far into that site due to being kinda creeped-out by the whole thing, but I was curious if she had much difficulty with food due to compacting her organs like that.
If she stopped doing it, would she “go back to normal” or is this kind of modification permanent?
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### Author:  [@Mesopotamis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesopotamis)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/55 "2002-04-26T13:16:08Z")
"
LISABelts ®!
Serious Tightlace Training requires that your waist be compressed twenty-three hours a day. So, during exercise periods and sleep periods (if not corsetted), you must wear something that will keep your organs properly in place, or all your endeavors will be to no avail.
"
Blah :eek:
Sick.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/56 "2002-05-01T05:26:00Z")
What Saran Wrap photos? I looked at the site and didn’t see any.
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### Author:  [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/57 "2002-05-01T05:33:24Z")
Trust me, you’re better off that way…
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### Author:  [@maco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maco)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-a-waistline/105344/58 "2002-05-01T08:01:47Z")
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> \*Originally posted by scott evil \*
> \*\*Some things I [just don’t get](http://www.staylace.com/pinups/spook/).
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> I mean, really.
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> - s.e. \*\*
Uggh As soon as I saw the title of the thread I knew exactly who this person was going to be. Sad.
Kim
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