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Article #20397Re: Slim Photo
From: Victor Eijkhout
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <3st7df$na3@Twain.MO.NET> drwells@Walden.MO.NET (Donald Wells) writes: > Has anyone heard of a California company known called "Slim Photo"? They > process a photograph to show how a person would look if they were slimmer. Reminds me. A while back I was shopping for clothes. Now, my body shape is rather rectangular (I fit 160 lb in 6'3''), and I looked at myself in the mirror in the story, and thought "God, I look awful today". Later I realised that the mirror was probably curved to make people look a bit more slender. Didn't have the right effect on me ... -- Victor Eijkhout 405 Hilgard Ave ............................... In another infamous incident, Department of Mathematics, UCLA ............... a [Los Angeles] Times editor Los Angeles CA 90024 .................... changed "69-car pileup" to "70-car phone: +1 310 825 2173 / 9036 ............. pileup" to avoid "titillating or home: +1 310 209 0068 ..................... offending readers." [Chip Rowe] http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,cc59a81c1b2f28c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public From: eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu (Victor Eijkhout) Subject: Re: Slim Photo Date: 1995/06/30 Message-ID: <EIJKHOUT.95Jun30165130@jacobi.math.ucla.edu> X-Deja-AN: 105478038 references: <3st7df$na3@Twain.MO.NET> organization: University of California, Los Angeles newsgroups: ca.general