Special Two-for-One Purchase: Alli, the Weight Loss Drug and a Year's Supply of Oops! I Crapped My Pants

You know how every once in a while you read a story and just can hardly keep going? How you just want to cover your eyes and pretend it's not really there? That's how I felt this morning when I was reading The Philadelphia Inquirer and stumbled across a story titled, "When a New Diet Drug Elicits Potty Humor." Here's the lede:

How badly do you want to be skinny? Is it worth soiling your underwear?

The story goes into the toilet after that.

I mean, if you want to lose weight, either eat less or exercise more. It's pretty simple. I can't imagine taking the Alli diet pill and only losing "an average of 6.3 pounds over one year" while risking the very real chance of becoming a 2-year-old in diapers. I don't think so. You can read here about the disgusting side effects, which happen to HALF the patients who use Alli.

But the drug did make me think of one of the funniest scatological pieces ever on Saturday Night Live: Oops! I Crapped My Pants!