TOLEDO, GET SLIM WITH…THIS GUY.
The city of Toledo, Ohio-which isn’t even in the top 25 fattest American cities–has decided it needs a “Get Fit, Toledo!” campaign to encourage citizens to shape up and get sexy. (How is Detroit number one? Are the survivors getting fat on the bodies of the victims? Or is everyone just so frightened they refuse to go outside and subsist on a steady diet of order-in cheese steaks?)
Consider a few of the Toledo natives you know and love: which one would be the logical choice for a fitness campaign for the City of Rockets?

A. International superstar/beard Katie Holmes

B. Silky smooth songstress and guaranteed poon tunes maker Anita Baker

C. Professional bastard and member of the EDSBS pantheon, P.J. O’Rourke

D. Tom Amstutz
If you answered anything but D, you’re sane–and obviously not fit for office in Toledo, since the generously proportioned Tom Amstutz has been made the spokesman for the “Get Fit, Toledo!” campaign. We could be wrong here, since Toledo might be employing a novel strategy for encouraging its citizens to eat well and exercise, like carrying Amstutz to the office in a sedan chair in a work detail, or perhaps hunting down other Toledoans by knife and bow to offer as sacrifices for the insatiable Rockets coach.
(HT: Devil Grad)









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matt says:
as an ex-detroiter, i gotta say – no way anita baker should be connected with any other city…and we don’t have much of a thing for cheese steak sandwiches. coney dogs, yeah, but not cheese steak.
you got the ‘bodies of the victims’ part right, though.
January 24th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
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Evan says:
I love how the mayor follows up the “Get Fit, Toledo” plan by referring to jobs as the “bread and butter” issue. It seems to me that bread and butter may have caused this problem in the first place
January 24th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
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Ian says:
Virginia Beach, #3 fittest city in America? Did they restrict their survey to the Vick household?
January 24th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
All that climbing of Mt. Trashmore, we guess. Could be vigorous dancing to the Neptunes, too.
January 24th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
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bitterhorn says:
“Carty Finkbeiner”? OMG that can’t possibly be the guy’s real name, can it? That explains making Amstutz the Get Fit spokeslard. He should have asked if those were Tom’s real manboobs.
January 24th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
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Whohah says:
Latest “fat stats” to be found here:
http://www.mensfitness.com/rankings/358?page=2
January 24th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
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bitterhorn says:
WOOHOOO! We’re #5! We’re #5! In your FACE, Memphis!
Umm, I’d like to wear Katie Holmes like a hat.
January 24th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
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Doreblogger says:
Perhaps the good folks of Toledo can be encouraged to burn calories through more frequent and intense race rioting…
January 24th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
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Brian Toledo says:
Long time reader, first time commenter.
I’m from Toledo and can attest to Carty Finkbeiner being an actual mayor. He was Toledo’s mayor in the 90s and got famous for suggesting moving all of the deaf people out to the cornfields surrounding Toledo Express Airport (so true). Now he’s mayor … again and Lord only knows the shennanigans he has up his sleeve.
January 24th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
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skeetskeet says:
Apparently Amstutz is going to sponsor the event by allowing Toledoans to support his “journey to fitness.” For this to be anything other than a huge flop, apparently they’re going to kidnap Amstutz a couple of days a week and have him run in a giant hamster wheel suspended over the middle of town, while dominatrices flog him and make him keep up the workout for half a day or so.
I know that sounds racy, but it’s better to scar the children irreparably than allow them to sink into despair when their hero the Amstutz falls off the wagon after a month and a half and gets his half-naked and HoHo-encrusted ass dragged in for loitering, public obscenity, and mayhem.
January 24th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
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RowdyRoddyPiper says:
Relocating deaf people seems like it should be very low on the list of priorities of any mayor. Does Toledo really have so few problems?
January 24th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
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Brian @ mgoblog says:
Maybe they just have an assload of deaf people.
January 25th, 2006 at 12:55 am
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YMB says:
Orson – Men’s Fitness Online? Nice.
January 25th, 2006 at 9:31 am
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DevilGrad says:
Fuck. Two years of therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder — down the drain.
January 25th, 2006 at 10:33 am
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T. Kyle King says:
I’m with Bitterhorn on that whole Katie Holmes thing . . . although I might not have expressed the sentiment quiet as (ahem) colorfully as he did.
What made this piece art, though, was the P.J. O’Rourke reference.
I’m a big fan of P.J.’s work. When I was teaching economics at Meadowcreek High School in Gwinnett County in 1993, I made my students read excerpts from his book “Parliament of Whores.” Ah, good times.
January 25th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
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[...] The Amstutz weight loss could be contributed to his participation in the Get Fit Toledo program where he serves as a spokesperson. [...]
September 13th, 2007 at 8:25 am