Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Let's pie her to death!

This is just too crazy not to share it ...
http://www.parascope.com/en/lightlch.htm
The Prana Diet Plan
By D. Trull
[...]
An Australian new age guru known as Jasmuheen advocates a revolutionary
"Breatharian" dietary plan: she believes that people can get all the nutrition
they need simply by absorbing light. She explains that humans have had it
wrong all this time, improperly shoving chunks of solid matter down our
gullets whenever we feel hungry. Silly us.
"The human body was not designed to consume food, but rather light, which I
call prana," says Jasmuheen. "I converted to light nourishment three years
ago, after a gastronomic incident with a mollusc." Sure, we've all felt like
fasting a spell in the wake of a bad seafood experience, but Jasmuheen decided
to go cold turkey on cold turkey, as well as all other known meats, fruits,
vegetables, grains, dairy products and tasty cream-filled snack treat items.
She claims to have subsisted for the past three years on nothing but plenty of
prana and "an occasional nibble at a Hob Nob," which is apparently some kind
of Australian cookie. She will not fess up to drinking so much as a drop of
water. For three years.
Jasmuheen recently passed through Hong Kong on a world tour to promote the
Breatharian lifestyle and her book, "Prana and Immortality." She's certainly
entitled to circle the globe with her message of medically impossible garbage,
assuming that anyone who decides to chow down on prana is permitted to bail
out once dehydration sets in. Still, it must be pointed out that Jasmuheen
openly trivializes the plights of two tragically stricken groups with her
crackpot diet. First, she offers this to the world's hunger victims: "Wouldn't
it be wonderful to go into third world countries and say: 'listen, I know you
guys have only one meal a week, but it doesn't matter, just re-programme.' If
people in poor countries would only stop listening to the mass media, who tell
them they will die without food, then they could learn to live entirely off
liquid light, like I do."
Umm... okay. Gee, Jasmuheen, isn't it a shame that these people aren't getting
enough light as it is? They really should get outside more. And then there's
your other pearl of wisdom: "My message is particularly helpful for teenage
girls who are suffering from anorexia nervosa. The anorexics I've met have
been absolutely ecstatic at the idea of living off liquid light, and are
delighted to hear that Breatharians can give up food and water entirely,
without any ill effects."
Yeah, and you'd be popular with alcoholics if you said they could safely chug
all the Jack Daniel's they could hold, but that wouldn't exactly make you a
hero.
If you ask me, the only possible truth concealed by a global prana conspiracy
would be clandestine midnight Ho-Ho's and Haagen Dazs pig-outs in Jasmuheen's
kitchen. Because if she was right, it goes without saying that McDonald's,
Archer Daniels Midland and those wacky beer companies would have had her
whacked by now.
--
Ciao
Anna

 they need simply by absorbing light
Una teoria davvero illuminante. L'Illuminato Reame ne tripudierà.

they need simply by absorbing light.
funny and worrisome.
an article on the same lunatic argument was published in the insert "Salute"
of La repubblica some months ago: then there were many letters of protest,
and the editorial staff of the newspaper seemed rather puzzled. their line
seems now a little changed - not enough, imho.
p.b.

 seems now a little changed - not enough, imho.
E' tutta farina del tuo sacco o ti ha aiutato Queen Isabel?

 they need simply by absorbing light.
Is it possible that she has green skin, never moves her feet, and leans toward
the sun?
Ciao,
Ron
USA

 the sun?
I think that she has lean feet, never moves her skin and greens the sun.

 light. [snip]
Sounds lot a lot of hot air to me. ;-)
Mind you, with all the food that is 'lite' these days, she should
have no problems getting enough calories. There's even "lite oil"!
This will go well with her being 'light in the head'. :-)
Cheers,
Loki
-- 
 

 not enough, imho. p.b.
In che senso? That the media 'make light' of the story?
Cheers,
Loki

 Sounds lot a lot of hot air to me. ;-)
Scusate, that should read: "Sounds like a load of hot air to me." 
Loki

In che senso? That the media 'make light' of the story?
not exactly: they 'presero le distanze' from the article saying it hasn't
been produced as a serious work. of course, that kind of arguments needs to
keep some ambiguity

In che senso? That the media 'make light' of the story?
not exactly: they 'presero le distanze' from the article saying it hasn't
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not exactly: they 'presero le distanze' from the article 
they "distanced themselves".
-- 
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching
http://web.tiscalinet.it/alfabeto_auschwitz/

they "distanced themselves".
tx.
Does it mean I made no mistake?!
I can't believe it, really.