The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 01, 2024

I never knew about “Fit as a fiddle” as a kid. Not that it mattered as I was too busy playing video games rather than playing with others.

1978: I was 180 cm height and 70 kg weight. 2024: my back arched, and I am 93 kg, after weighing 107 kg.

Fit as a cello?

I got to the gym every weekday (40 miles RT) I was never as fit as these guys! I held my own

That’s not the shape you want, anyway, though. It’s fine for girls, but not boys.

Brutus, is “Fit as a kazoo” all that bad?

Give Brutus points for honesty.

I’m not surprised, that was one fit fiddle!

speak for your self, john smith

Brutus, remember “’What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been”.

Brutus needs to fiddle around with a treadmill…

I’m a 71 year old cancer survivor. I’m in much better health today than I was 20 years ago (25 pounds lighter for one thing).

I used to play the fiddle and some times it gave me fits

Relax Brutus. None of us are what we used to be and besides athletics was never your forte.

With you on that one. Best shape I was ever in was after basic trading in 1972. Been slowly downhill since. You fight it for a while but after a while it’s “I’ll take seconds please”.

Brutis is as fit as a bass fiddle!

I’m still in shape. Round is a shape, right.

Groan…… I’ll just see myself out.

Though I feel like the body looser, now, I was once fit as a fiddle. I played soccer, lifted weights, jogged for good health and keeping up with the younger refs, and I reffed the soccer game for 30 years. Now I tune in to a TV soccer game to watch the refs. Boy they make bad calls. Now, I’ve got bad knees made worse by other problems, but there’s always hope. So, I keep plugging on, adjust to the present environment. It is what it is. So I live with it. And preach on. My mouth and vocal cords still work just fine.

If the feet hit the floor in the morning without being followed by a loud thud, it’s a good day!

at least you were young… :}

Brutus, I’ve seen some might fat fiddles. So big they had to sit on the floor to be played.You’re not fat just portly. Just don’t list to far to port. And a ship is said to be “trimming” when she tips forward or backward. So tell people you’re moving toward Starboard slowly.

I was a skinny kid. Now I’m just husky.

Never understood “fit as a fiddle”. Anyone care to enlighten me?

Yep…come to think about it……….

Fiddles are overrated! Having said that… Getting ready to have some blood work done. Hope my numbers are “Fit as Fiddles!”

Oh don’t say that Brutis, after all the Bass is known as a BASS FIDDLE!

Well, maybe as fit as a bass fiddle, Brutus. LOL and JK. Enjoy your coffee, sir.

Things change Brutus .

It’s hard to believe that Gladys’ cooking hasn’t kept you in better shape

No time like the present to start getting healthier at least. Maybe you can work yourself up to be a bass fiddle……

on the upside, you can probably still wear your clothes from 20 years ago

Darn. Started reading my comics too late and everyone beat me to the bass fiddle gag. : (. But once again Brutus shows his remarkable self awareness. It’s never too late to start getting healthier Brutus. Health benefits increase and all cause mortality decreases with as little as 15 minutes of walking a day.

Come to think of it, my fiddle creaks a bit and is in need of a reset as well.

I’m leaving the stringed instruments out all together, and say I’m as fit as a kettle drum.

i smoked and drank way too much in my younger days and would often take smoke breaks while skiing, hiking, or biking, which i suspect negated the benefits of the exercise (☺). i don’t need smoke breaks anymore and i don’t get out of breath at the merest exertion, either…

I’ve never been fit as a fiddle. I’m very easy-going, and fiddles are too tightly strung.