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13 Stitches

The title song is about bands that Fat Mike had seen and what he thought about them; the bands referenced in this song are (in particular order) Descendents, Alleycats, D.O.A., Millions Of Dead Cops, Ill Repute, and DRI.

Adventist Mission

George R. Knight, The Fat Lady and the Kingdom (Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press, 1995)

Alginic acid

In March, 2010 researchers at Newcastle University announced that dietary alginates can reduce human fat uptake by more than 75%.

Anna and the King of Siam

Anna and the King, a 1999 film starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat

Banner Pilot

Fat Wreck Chords also released a remixed version of the band's first album, Resignation Day in 2010.

Big Gus, What's the Fuss?

Big Gus, What's the Fuss? (also known as Ha-Balash Ha'Amitz Shvartz and Fat Spy) was a 1973 Israeli comedy film directed by Ami Artzi and American director Lloyd Kaufman, the president of Troma Entertainment.

Bite the cartridge

One of the alleged causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 were rumours that the grease on these cartridges designed to keep them dry was, variously, pork or beef fat (pork being abhorrent to Muslims, cows being sacred to Hindus), thus their refusal to bite them.

Chadian coup of 1975

This distrust came in part from the Chadian Armed Forces (FAT) incapacity to deal with the rebellion that was inflaming the Muslim north from when the rebel insurgent group FROLINAT had been formed in 1966.

Cheung Po Chun

Chung Ho Yin and Lee Chun Fat was the first and second choice.

Confederation of Mexican Workers

In the 1990s it faced growing challenges to its power from the National Union of Workers (UNT), a federation of independent unions established in November 1997; the Authentic Labor Front (FAT), a union within the UNT, managed to win representation rights within the restrictive procedures provided under Mexican law.

CTBP2

Accordingly, CtBPs have been found to be important in fat biology, binding to key proteins such as PRDM16, NRIP, and FOG2.

Essie Honiball

The high fruit, low fat and all raw diet, which Honiball promotes has been referred to in the writings of health authors including Anne Osborne, Brian R. Clement Ph.D, Dr. Douglas Graham, and Viktoras Kulvinskas.

FAT bastard

The wine is reported to have started off as an experiment, and when Thierry Boudinaud tasted the wine he proclaimed "now that is what you call a fat bastard".

Fat Man After Dark

Whenever discussing New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, the Fat Man asked callers to refer to him as "Fredo", the dim-witted and less talented brother of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, a reference to Eli's more successful brother, Peyton.

Făt-Frumos

He appears as a character in stories and poems by famous writers, such as Mihai Eminescu, Tudor Arghezi, or Nichita Stănescu.

Fat-tailed distribution

In The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing, political scientists Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat propose to apply the fat tail concept to geopolitics.

Fuck-me shoes

Greer used the term in referring to British journalist Suzanne Moore's alleged "hair bird's-nested all over the place, fuck-me shoes and three fat inches of cleavage".

Fucoxanthin

Some metabolic and nutritional studies carried out on rats and mice at Hokkaido University indicate that fucoxanthin promotes fat burning within fat cells in white adipose tissue by increasing the expression of thermogenin.

Hero of the Rails

When Thomas explains Hiro's situation to the Fat Controller, he reassures Thomas that he would never have scrapped the "Master of the Railway", and the following day, Thomas and Percy bring him to the Steamworks.

Spencer apologizes to the two engines, saying they are "both fine engines and fine friends." Hiro misses his home island, so the Fat Controller arranges for Hiro to return home.

Joanie Greggains

Greggains, Joanie, Ann Louise Gittleman, The Fat Flush Plan, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2003, ISBN 0-07-143547-6

Kouprasith Abhay

General Kouprasith Abhay, also known by his nickname 'Fat K', was a Laotian military and political figure from the Vietnam War, also designated the Second Indochina War.

Ladi6

It was co-produced by Parks and Sebastian Weiss (a.k.a. DJ Sepalot) of the German hip hop group Blumentopf and features Myele Manzanza of Electric Wire Hustle, Toby Laing of Fat Freddy's Drop and German singer Esther Adams.

Little Archie

Fangs Fogarty: A fat, snaggle-toothed bully who tormented Archie, Jughead and Reggie in their younger years.

Mac Minister

Mac Minister was profiled on an episode of America's Most Wanted, allegedly responsible for the murder of Anthony "Fat-Tone" Watkins in Las Vegas, Nevada, in retaliation for the murder of Bay Area hip-hop legend Mac Dre.

Milkis

Milkis launched in 1989 with a huge marketing campaign, notably with the appearance of Hong Kong movie star Chow Yun-fat in its TV commercials.

Mitch Morgan

The Mitch Morgan is a popular beverage at the Oak the New Fat Alley Barbecue in Telluride, Colorado, where the drink originated.

Obesity in France

Mireille Guiliano wrote the book French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure which explains why French women eating in the traditional way are less inclined to be obese than their American counterparts and shares French women’s secrets to staying slim while eating well.

Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men

Protagonist Dan Starkey is tasked with writing a book about "Bobby Fat Boy McMaster", the current heavyweight champion of Ireland, in his upcoming championship fight with Mike Tyson on St. Patrick's Day.

Perivale tube station

The station also featured in the BBC TV show The Fast Show during a "Fat Sweaty Coppers" sketch, during which the two policemen give chase to a criminal, and after briefly getting stuck in the barriers, "commandeer" a vehicle which turns out to be a fast food van, which they simply open up to order food.

Social problems in Chinatown

Such social problems have been the subject for several Hollywood police films such as The Corruptor (set in New York City's Chinatown but filmed in Toronto's), starring Hong Kong star Chow Yun-fat, and Year of the Dragon with Mickey Rourke.

South Beach Diet

The South Beach Diet is a diet plan designed by cardiologist Arthur Agatston and dietician Marie Almon as an alternative to low-fat approaches such as the Ornish Diet and the Pritikin Diet advocated by the American Heart Association in the 1980s.

Sugar Busters!

The original Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat was self-published by the authors in 1995 and became a local hit in their hometown of New Orleans, after which Ballantine Books republished the book nationally.

Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains

In an interview with amazon.co.uk she reveals she began writing about a fat man doing yoga in the desert whilst studying on the UEA Creative Writing Course and then spent time herself living in the Arizona desert near Tucson.

The First Fat Truckers Album Is for Sale

The First Fat Truckers Album is for Sale is an album by Fat Truckers.

The First Turn-On!

While on a nature walk with ditzy hippie camp counselor Michelle Farmer (Georgia Harrell), Four students, Mitch The Self-Proclaimed 'Stud' (Michael Sanville), his girlfriend Annie (Heidi Miller), fat kid Henry (Googy Gress), and Danny The Nerd (John Flood) break off from the rest of the group to indulge in some cannabis.

The God of Cookery

The scene in which Stephen Chow declares, "I don't mean to show other I'm capable. I just want to tell others that I can get back what I have lost." is a homage to Chow Yun-fat and A Better Tomorrow.

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

There is another variant on the story, recorded by Syntipas (Perry Index 58) and appearing in Roger L'Estrange's 1692 telling as "A Woman and a Fat Hen" (Fable 87): A good Woman had a Hen that laid her every day an Egg. Now she fansy’d to her self, that upon a larger Allowance of Corn, this Hen might be brought in time to lay twice a day. She try’d the Experiment; but the Hen grew fat upon’t, and gave quite over laying.

The Obsidian Conspiracy

Jeff Loomis has also stated in a recent interview that Peter Wichers had a major part in the songwriting, encouraging Loomis to "cut out the fat, and make the songs catchier and hookier", thus creating a simplistic and stripped down sound that differs from the original 7-8 minute complex tracks which Loomis originally wanted to record.

Think Fast!

The "uncles" were enormously fat men who would be snacking on bowls of random food items which included popcorn, tortilla chips, candy and Pepto-Bismol.

Tommy Chang

Some of the noteworthy accomplishments of this team include having worked with Steven Seagal, Chow Yun-fat, David Carradine,Seth Rogan,James Franco, Charlie Hunnam, Vin Diesel, and Jackie Chan.

Underage Thinking

The audio portion of the re-release is available on iTunes and Napster along with the exclusive bonus track "Amazingly Fat Cows", one of the first songs Teddy recorded.

Vegelate

In some nations, including Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom, some popular chocolate products contain a proportion of vegetable fat (normally up to 5%).

Vegetarian nutrition

Doctors Dean Ornish, T. Colin Campbell, John A. McDougall, Caldwell Esselstyn and Neal D. Barnard claim that high animal fat and protein diets, such as the standard American diet, are detrimental to health.

Venus Anadyomene

Such a highly conventionalized theme, with undertones of eroticism justified by its mythological context, was ripe for modernist deconstruction; in 1870 Arthur Rimbaud evoked the image of a portly Clara Venus ("famous Venus") with all-too-human blemishes (déficits) in a sardonic poem that introduced cellulite to high literature: La graisse sous la peau paraît en feuilles plates (the fat under the skin appears in slabs).

Wild Cherries

Reduced to a quartet, they made three more crude recordings at a rehearsal at the Fat Black Pussycat, including a cover of John D. Loudermilk's "Tobacco Road".

Yung Shue Ha

The most famous former resident of Yung Shue Ha and Tung O is actor Chow Yun-fat.

Zeisters

The film was referenced in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, Attack of the Giant Leeches: when a rather portly character in the film brandishes a rifle, one of the robots muses “Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid!: a Troma presentation.”


see also

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead won the Turning Point Award and shared the Audience Choice Award – Documentary Film at the 2010 Sonoma International Film Festival.