fair, fat, and forty (Was:catchphrases not in Whiting, part 3

[Lynne Murphy]

 "Fair, fat, and forty" reminds me of the 4 F's of the typical gall
stone patient:  fat, female, fertile, and forty.

Lynne, who's only a couple of those F's, but nevertheless had gall
stones

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M. Lynne Murphy, Assistant Professor in Linguistics
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