FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 24, 2017

“I’ve never seen him get that mad!”

“He wasn’t mad. He just stood on it after the buffet.”

when was the last time Jim Davis drew his cat pulverizing a bathroom scale?

What amuses me is that Roger is kind of a scrawny guy. Okay, maybe not scrawny but hardly obese.

There appears to be some sort of disease amongst cartoonists that makes them do strips in which very slender people complain of being fat. This strip and Pre-Teena are notorious for it. Teena and her sister regularly taunt their mother, who appears not to have a ounce of fat, implying that she needs to lose weight.

I avoid the scales bad enough at doctor’s office.

In the U.S. Military members are required to maintain a weight standard based on the BS-BMI (yes, the BS means what you think it does). I tried to convince the First Sergeant that instead of taking the time to weigh each member of the unit individually, that we put the whole unit on the truck scale and divide by the number of people.

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He didn’t buy it.

Muscle weighs more than fat and carries more than its own weight. So sheer weight isn’t totally logical.

As a kid, I never got on a scale, except in the doctor’s office.

“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his tax return; it’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”—Arthur C. Clarke

Jason is 10 and not shy about his mom seeing him in his underwear.

I have never owned a bathroom scale, haven’t had one in my home since I was a kid living with my parents.

Some people can be nude and not mind. Naturists they are called now.