I sincerely hope that you are not insinuating that my high fibre vegan diet of fruits, vegetables (including up to 4 pounds of potatoes a day), whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds explains the texture of my posts.
What would explain the texture of your posts is a recent photo.
a recent photo of what? 
You were responding originally to a photo of the undisputed one. Naturally, in all fairness, the photo in question would be a recent personal photo of you. Then we could see if you walk your talk, pound for potato.
as someone who sometimes prides myself on the tangential nature of some of my better posts,
I do admit to not following the meaning of your post Doug.
Why would a photo prove whether I ate up to 4 pounds of potatoes daily?
I was wonderin’ if ya still had hair. The other two ain’t doin’ well. 
Perhaps it could be a picture of your potatoes.
If you’re talking to me, my hair is not growing as lustrously as it used to but it is still long enough to cover my ears well for I would not like to allow the people to see the elfin hairs growing from my earlobes!
It’s really good to see you, Jessie 
Oh, I eat lots of brown rice. Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, although more of the former than the latter. I eat relatively little red meat. Very little beef. A little pork maybe twice a week. I avoid deserts. So, why am I still fat? Easy, I eat too much food and get too little exercise. But, that’s another thread. Or no thread at all, actually.
Hard to fight nature. Middle-age people, unless starving, get fat, all over the world, except Tibetans, mebbe. We fight it so hard and I sometimes truly wonder why bother. So we’ll live longer to find out all the cool stuff that happens to our bodies when we get even OLDER!
Strange, I would say quite the opposite. Driving instead of walking, sitting at a desk from 9-5, food that is out of season or unrecognizable, sterile environments that are a constant temperature, etc. Modern life is spreading and not what I would call natural.
Okay, then, smartie. Hard to fight the natural consequences of the way of living we have evolved, or devolved, to. I know. I sit at a computer for 8 hrs a day, then spend at least some of what is left of the day trying to make up for the lack of exercise.
I’ll have you know that I have a very svelte mouse finger.
Jessie (and Dale), what an awesome story! Seeing this thread takes me back, er, quite a few years. Glad to see you are doing well.
Good call, nasty hot places they are. 
With scorpions.
Scorpions are very neat, plus low in satuated fats. What I really dislike about deserts is of course absolutely nothing. But I am always happy when others find them inhospitable, fact is there are so many toxic, bitting, stinging things in deserts I’m surprised more people don’t avoid them. Horrible places really, my best advice avoid them at all costs! That goes for Mt. Desert too!