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Wed 05 May 2004He ain't heavy, he's...A terrible thing is happening to me. A terrible thing altogether, writes Kilian DoyleI'm getting fat. Not that I have anything particular against fat people. I just don't want to be one.I'm becoming positively Homeric. And, in case all you lovely ladies think I'm turning into a chisel-jawed Greek warrior, I'm sorry to say I mean Homeric in the purely Simpsons sense.