Nothing Exceeds Like Excess!

It was considered bad form to ask Eddie"Bozo" Miller to pass anything.
He couldn't.
He was too busy breaking records as the "world's greatest trencherman". At least that's what the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records called him.




Eddie Miller pigging down in Oakland






Eddie Miller picked-up the check and exited the planet on January 7 shortly after a rather small, for him, lunch of a French Dip sandwich. "They're going to stuff me," he told a reporter with the Oakland Tribune who asked about any plans he may have had for his funeral.

Mr. Miller was 89 years old and had consumed in his lifetime quantities of food and drink that had won many mentions in the Guinness book.
For example: He once won a contest in Idaho Falls, Idaho by eating 30 pounds of elk and moose meatloaf. On a bet, he chugged a whole bottle of gin. In a single sitting, he downed 27 two-pound pullets of chicken and 324 raviolis. He often ate as many as 11 meals a day for a total of roughly 25,000 calories. Lunch was more times than not preceded by a dozen martinis.
The guy was a bottomless pit.

George Shea, the chairman of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, says that the organization will have a moment of silence to honor Eddie at its Nathan' Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island this July 4.

For years Eddie had been one of Oakland's most prominent men about town. He kept boxes of perfume and pearls in his car as "gifts for the ladies". His car was a bright yellow Cadillac. I'm guessing it had overload springs.