Just for you, I'll reiterate.... :)
I was a real lumbering fat bastard once (6' 3" and more than 17 stone - aged only 18) long before I met Lorraine - but eventually I trimmed meself down to a more respectable girth and weight - 13 stone, and "By Eck My Neck" came about cos I used to always sprain my neck muscles when trying to get myself out of bed cos of my enormous weight. "By Eck" - cos it's a Lancashire thing - and I still lived in Bolton back then......
There you go. And that's the truth! and no, I'm not drinking anymore....
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