Once Upon a Time in Big Mac Land . . . . 0
There was once a radio mystery series called The Fat Man, loosely based on Sidney Greenstreet’s character in The Maltese Falcon (“loosely” in the sense that the Sidney Greenstreet character was called “the fat man”).
The stories opened with the Fat Man’s going into a drugstore and weighing himself on the penny scale (remember pennies?). The announcer intoned,
Weight, two hundred and thirty-nine pounds. Fortune: Danger.
Back in those days, 239 pounds was considered fat. Today, it appears to be the new normal.
