Some British dermatologists have even started using "tanorexia" to describe people who are addicted to sun beds.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/13/opinion/13fri3.html


This story from last year on the BBC confirms this usage, but it was a new one on my ears:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/real_story/3737025.stm

1,520 googlits for tanorexic
944 googlits for tanorexia

Tanorexic -- looking like Mohandas Gandhi

At least you spelled his name right. [/where's that rolling- my-eyes emoticon when I need it?]

I had to ask Sasha. It was taking Gandhi from a baby.

Nice one TEd, and kudos for using his name not his title, one that is not universally conceded even in India (especially among the Dalits). Now just spell his middle name without assistance, and I'll call you a "great soul".

his title

M. Karamchand G. wasn't too wild about it either – nor would one expect him to be, if all the biographies of him are accurate.

Yes, I looked it up -- there: I said it.