continuity eror, eating disorders are cross-cultural.
Not really. Sharp rise in eating disorders in Fiji following introduction of television. Granted, that study is about the influence of television in general and not food-obsession/diets specifically, but it’s all a rich tapestry.
Doesn’t the fact that 3% of girls were doing it before television indicate that it IS cross-cultural?
Mine is that J. Edgar Hoover ordered JFK’s assassination because he couldn’t stand one more term under a President who was Catholic, sexually promiscuous, unafraid of the Soviet Union, and whose brother was Attorney General.
I also believe that conservatives capitalize random words way, way more often than liberals.
Well, like I said, there could be a genetic link to eating problems in a very few cases (Praeder-Willi syndrome, self-starvation induced by autism or depression) but it’s nothing like the epidemic we have in the industrialized world. Isn’t there a big difference between 3% and 35% (roughly the percentage of Americans who are obese and/or have an eating disorder… as far as I’m concerned obesity and anorexia/bulimia are two sides of the same obsessive-compulsive coin)? If it was cross-cultural, wouldn’t the numbers be a little closer?
IANANutritionist, though.
I think that those who diet commit an antisocial behavior to wit: When someone “loses weight” it is in fact never “lost” but becomes airbourne and is sucked in by the next passerby. These little floating fat cells are drawn to sweet-shops and delicatessens from nearby workout room/gyms as demonstrated by many peoples ability to gain weight by simply walking past a doughnut shop. The very scent of pastries is loaded with these fat-cells. When that certain little skinny woman in the office loses a few more pounds, just watch. They will afix themselves to some innocent person in a nearby cubicle. And those who say “Oh, I can eat anything I want and never gain a pound” are simply carriers! I say, stop dieting and working out for the good of humanity!!! It’s the right thing to do!
Okay, how about this? I think that you haven’t made it in Hollywood/the entertainment industry until:
As a guy, you’ve been accused of being gay, and
As a chick, you’ve been accused of having costmetic surgery/breast enhancement/liposuction and/or have a legimate eating disorder.
Note that the above doesn’t guarantee success, only that a lack thereof still means you’re up-and-coming, not an A-lister.
Stranger
This is interesting. I like that idea.
Here’s a couple of mine:
That the government has actually created a car to run on water (or some other alternate cheap source) but will never tell us about it.
That time continuously starts and stops, but there’s no way of knowing because when time is stopped, well…it’s stopped. Not like you would know anyway.
That Wal-Mart plays a huge role in the obesity epidemic. They give those motorized carts to fat people, so they can roll around the store in style while loading up on donuts and twinkies, thus the cycle continues. Yes I know some people have limited mobility and need to use the carts but I work at Wal-Mart and the percentage of people that use the carts is just staggering.
The more unsubstantiated a theory is, the greater the chance that someone will think you actually believe it.
The more you use Chap-Stick, the more you need it.
The more you use anything, the more you need it. 
Chronic back pain, for which no one has yet come up with a diagnosis nor a cure, is caused by a virus, whose effects can last months or years but which remains unaffected by lying on heating pads, sitting in different positions, taking muscle relaxants, sleeping hard beds, etc.
I’m pretty sure Lincoln has no descendants. Most of his sons died in childhood. Only Robert Lincoln reached adulthood, and I don’t think he ever had any children.
Good info from an authoratative source, backing this up.
http://www.nps.gov/libo/lincolns_descendents3.htm
It’s my firm belief that in addition to cramps and bloating, clumsiness/lack of physical coordination is a symptom experienced by some women during menstruation. It boggles my mind how clumsy I get during my period. My scientific self-study here involves my good china – I know how many pieces I’ve broken because I smack myself every time I pay to replace a piece (plus there’s a credit card record), and every single one was during menstruation. I had to truncate the study, however, when it became too costly, and now I don’t handle the good china at that time. It’s also my impression that I’m less coordinated in general – tripping over my own feet, banging my shin on the coffee table, that sort of thing – but since that doesn’t cost me money, I don’t have a paper trail on that aspect.
When I’ve mentioned this to other women, some knew what I was talking about right away. A guy once told me that I simply had a selective memory about when I dropped things … yeah, and it used to be a “fact” that cramps were all in my head, too.
I also think that Billy Bob Thornton is the devil, but I don’t have a study to back that up (yet, I’m working on it).
I’ve pondered starting up a great debate about this, but I have nothing to contribute nor any place to start looking for cites beyond this:
Humans became agriculturalists to make beer rather than bread.
I first heard about this from an archaeology prof at a seminar I ultimately didn’t take, but it’s a damned interesting proposition. Think about it: it’s easy to find that a particular kind of seed needs to be kept dry or it will spoil, but if it does, it’ll give you a buzz. It’s a lot easier than figuring out that you can grind it up, mix it with water and bake it into a cracker or something like that. It seems to me that the former is a much more likely accidental discovery.
We Do not!
That hurts my theory how, exactly?
Anyway, Robert Lincoln did have children, but his last decendant, Robert Beckwith (Lincoln’s great-grandson) died childless in 1985. (Nope, never heard of him otherwise, either. Again, I don’t think that hurts my “theory” much. 
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Funny, That Was Funny!
I believe something along that vein too. Ideas and inspirations are like ‘particles’ or ‘ray of particles’. If you are at the right place at the right time they pentrate your brain and you thought of them.
Of course, I wound’t bet money on this theory.