New term of the day ...

I heard it in an ad on Spike TV, for a televised turkey eating contest.

The term is "gastric athlete." This apparently is the new term for those assheads who've decided that dignity is not for them, so they "professionally" (my quotes) eat as a means of competition. And last time I checked, there's nothing athletic about eating a bunch of shit; in fact, these two are polar opposites. A person eating in a contest is as much an athlete as a NASCAR driver.

Competitive eating is a weird animal to me. If you eat competitively, does eating then lose its enjoyment? This is a similar question that I have about gynecologists, although not the eating part ... except, yeah, kinda.