A Conversation for Meat Loaf - the Singer
"All the stories about the nickname originate from his build and girth."
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Dec 18, 2002
The story I heard was that, in his high school years, he perfected the trick of having his friends roll one wheel of an (unladen) Volkswagen over his head ( 
) - anj onlooker shouted he was going to turn his brains to meat loaf. 
"All the stories about the nickname originate from his build and girth."
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 18, 2002
(anj = an 
- it's cold, and I'm typing with gloves on... 
)
"All the stories about the nickname originate from his build and girth."
egon Posted Dec 19, 2002
Hmm, never heard that one before.
"All the stories about the nickname originate from his build and girth."
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Dec 19, 2002
I think I heard it on a chat show about 20 years ago, possibly the Russel Harty show... 
"All the stories about the nickname originate from his build and girth."
egon Posted May 15, 2003
Never believe anything you hear on the Russell Harty show...
"All the stories about the nickname originate from his build and girth."
jonas_jaeger Posted Aug 10, 2005
in the song "Tear me Down" from the "Couldn't have said it Better"-ablum they say that his farther called him Meat Loaf, but on some Meat-webside it says "he was called Meat Loaf by his footballcoach"
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"All the stories about the nickname originate from his build and girth."
- 1: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Dec 18, 2002)
- 2: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Dec 18, 2002)
- 3: egon (Dec 19, 2002)
- 4: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Dec 19, 2002)
- 5: egon (May 15, 2003)
- 6: jonas_jaeger (Aug 10, 2005)
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