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When the Chips Are Down

A model enjoyed eating french fries they began adding bulk to her thighs As each chip passed her lips Weight soon piled on her hips Once skinny, she became a plus size (In the UK fries are also known as chips) 8/5/18
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Date: 8/7/2018 5:55:00 AM
Authentic, vibrant and honest poem here! Love it. -JWE
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Jan Allison
Date: 8/7/2018 7:18:00 AM
Thanks David:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/7/2018 2:52:00 AM
I love the positivity of this!
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Jan Allison
Date: 8/7/2018 5:14:00 AM
Great comment Caren!!:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/7/2018 12:53:00 AM
You have her number? LOL Loved this.
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Date: 8/7/2018 5:13:00 AM
I'll look it up for you lol:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/6/2018 9:03:00 PM
G'day Jan … you just can't beat a feed of about ten pound of potato chips and finish them off with a potato cake - number one tucker - Lindsay
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Date: 8/7/2018 5:13:00 AM
LOL Lindsay:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/6/2018 2:59:00 PM
Chip (potato chips and french fries) were my demise as a youth, Jan. I babysat for a woman the summer of my 14th year. She always had lots of chips and stuff for me to eat. I put on ten pounds in that one summer and it was all downhill from there. I still cannot resist them but I just try to avoid buying them, though Joe loves them too!! Good poem.
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Date: 8/6/2018 3:08:00 PM
Thanks Andrea:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/6/2018 6:39:00 AM
Mmm chips , I do love them lots of salt and vinegar, lucky I exercise so my thighs are ok. Tom
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Date: 8/6/2018 11:45:00 AM
No salt for me but vinegar and tom sauce!:-) hugs jan xx
Date: 8/6/2018 5:45:00 AM
At least she keeps on working.....
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Date: 8/6/2018 11:37:00 AM
That's a positive way to look at it John!:-) hugs jan x
Date: 8/5/2018 8:59:00 PM
As the great John Beluchi might have opined: Hamburger, hamburger, hamburger, chips, chips, chips … Oy!! Jan, you are a limerick lollapalooza (whatever that means) ~ GW
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Date: 8/6/2018 11:36:00 AM
Thanks GW:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/5/2018 6:37:00 PM
I have written on my hand before Jan...I had to giggle at what you wrote below. My mindset changes when I am in Europe, I think the same goes for Australia. I remember they are called chips there. This poem is cute. Wish we could eat anything we like without gaining weight! : )
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Date: 8/6/2018 11:34:00 AM
we have had oven chips at home last week but before that its over a year since I cooked them and we rarely have them unless we go for a meal and then it is only as a treat:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/5/2018 3:49:00 PM
Lol! Jan, I'm with Richard I wasn't expecting that at all. She needs to put down the chips:-) Alexis
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Date: 8/6/2018 11:33:00 AM
Definitely Alexis!:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/5/2018 3:34:00 PM
Clever, clever girl (but one need not be British to know "Fish & Chips")! As for the model, nothing quite like adding salt to one's own wounds! Aloha! Rico
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Date: 8/6/2018 11:32:00 AM
We have fish and chips as a treat:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/5/2018 2:22:00 PM
Cute limerick! And calling french fries chips is just wrong!!
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Date: 8/6/2018 11:32:00 AM
Calling crisps 'chips' is equally wrong lol:-) hugs jan xx
Date: 8/5/2018 10:03:00 AM
Ha ha, not what I was expecting!
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Date: 8/5/2018 12:40:00 PM
I was travelling in the car with hubby and got this silly idea and had to write the poem on a paper napkin as I'd not got my notebook with me lol:-) hugs jan xx
Date: 8/5/2018 9:58:00 AM
LOL, good one - knew I could visit your page & have a chuckle x
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Date: 8/5/2018 12:39:00 PM
Thanks Jack:-) hugs Jan xx
Date: 8/5/2018 9:25:00 AM
Cute, Jan. Gives me an idea for a sideline job.
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Date: 8/5/2018 12:39:00 PM
lol Line:-) hugs Jan xx
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