The Skinny on Sex

I've always said that all the plump ones had to come from somewhere.

Overweight and obese women have more sex than skinny types, a new study suggests.

The research, announced today, is based on data on more than 7,000 women collected in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. The new analysis looked at the relationship between body mass index and sexual orientation, age of first intercourse, number of partners and frequency of intercourse.

The results seem to contradict stereotypes that overweight and obese women have less sex. If anything, the researchers said, the opposite seems to be true.

We are not Worthy! We are not Worthy!

Now that's a burger!

Denny Beer Barrel Pub has upgraded their regular menu burgers since the last time I wrote about them. This still isn't as big as their Main Event Charity Burger, though. That one was 80 pounds of meat.

CLEARFIELD, Pa. - It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds.


The mountain of beef is the product of Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Clearfield.

Sciullo, 21, of Uniontown, said he was surprised he finished the sandwich Monday. "About three hours into it, things got tough," he said.

When asked what possessed him to eat a burger that big, Sciullo said: "I wanted to see if I could."

The burger included a bun, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, mild banana peppers and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and relish, pub owner Dennis Liegey said.

For completing the challenge in the under-five-hour time limit, Sciullo won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate "and a burger hangover, as I call it," Liegey said.

Well, I should think so.

Don't believe it exists? Go here.

Apple Season

It is apple season here, so we took advantage of the holiday today to drive up to Charlottesville to the Carter Mountain Orchard. They have "pick your own", but I'll leave that to the families and those who want them 'just so'. Besides, per picked is only 10 cents a pound more, and that hill was steep.

While we were there we also did some wine tasting and picked up a bottle of Reisling and a bottle of Port. Thank goodness they had apple cider doughnuts up there, because we needed it when we got out of the tasting room. We don't usually 'sample' at that time of the day.

Storm footage

We had quite a good storm back on 9/25, though it wasn't "tropical". A few seconds of footage follow. Compare to Tropical Storm Hanna a few weeks before. I took the earlier footage from the area I show being underwater here.

The Dogs Don't Forget

After 14 months they just say "where were you?"

This Might Explain Some Things

The British commander in Afghanistan doesn't think the war there can be won.

"We're not going to win this war. It's about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan army."

He went on: "If the Taliban were prepared to sit on the other side of the table and talk about a political settlement, then that's precisely the sort of progress that concludes insurgencies like this. That shouldn't make people uncomfortable."

Well, he may be right, or he may be wrong. But attitudes like that certainly go a long way to explaining why, 232 years later, there are US troops permanently based in the UK, and not the other way around. That "negotiating with the insurgency" thing didn't turn out that well for them.