Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
March 3, 2011 at 2:40pm
Courtesy of Jonathan Bean of the Beacon, here are three websites to ruin your day completely:
I know you'll be feeling ill after perusing those links, so here's something to cheer you up:
Doesn't that make you feel better? Just focus on the piglet until the wooziness goes away.
Thanks to the anonymous tipster who sent me the photo.
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Dec '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
Claire!
Jan '11
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
Frankly, the picture of the pig just doesn't do anything for me.
May '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
Yes, bacon makes everything better.
May '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
Since I grew up on a hog farm, the sight of a piglet recalls some of my most disturbing memories. . . like injecting their rumps with iron supplement while their high-pitched squeals and their mother's low, menacing barks rang in my ears. . .or the time a mother sow charged me and I only escaped because our dog (a border collie, naturally) charged her right back, and left her oozing blood from the mouth. . .or the morning we spent neutering the males, with me holding them still while my dad performed the surgery, and then we went into the farmhouse for lunch, with the smell of pigs ground into our hands, and my mom served us pork chops. . .yes, I've had enough piglets for one lifetime. Let's talk something more pleasant, shall we? Politics, anyone?
May '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
Fredösphere - That's the problem with modern man. I used to ask my children when they were very young where different kinds of meat came from. Without fail they would say it all came from the same place - the grocery store.
That is why in English we have different words for the meet vs the word for the animal. We say we are having beef, not cow or mutton, not lamb.
Now forget pigs in boots and think of pigs in a blanket!
Dec '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
I know a guy who is retired now, but in his working life he ran one of the largest hog slaughtering and processing plants in the country. His house is filled with cute representations of pigs: ceramic pigs; stuffed pigs; paintings of pigs; photographs of pigs etc.
He says that he hopes that pigs do not have a say in who goes to heaven, because if they do he does not have a chance.
Dec '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
EJHill: Fredösphere - That's the problem with modern man. I used to ask my children when they were very young where different kinds of meat came from. Without fail they would say it all came from the same place - the grocery store.
That is why in English we have different words for the meet vs the word for the animal. We say we are having beef, not cow or mutton, not lamb.
Now forget pigs in boots and think of pigs in a blanket! · Mar 3 at 7:08am
So how is it that we also eat chicken, turkey and fish. Is it just the furry (cute?) ones that we need to rename?
May '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
Claire Berlinski, Ed.: Courtesy of Jonathan Bean of the Beacon, here are three websites to ruin your day completely:
In the top right corner, that clock can be set to show the debts of previous years. Eleven years ago, the debt was already three times federal revenue.
I'm reminded that Obama's radicalism, as bad as it is, woke many of us up to old problems.
Dec '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
Claire, be careful: you don't want people using the piglet photo as evidence that you're a crypto-Islamophobe. Just ask those evil magazine publishers in Indonesia who used piggy banks in an illustration for a story on police corruption.
Jul '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
That pig picture isn't gonna make you the belle of the Istanbul ball.
May '10
Re: Three Ill-Making Websites and an Adorable Piggie-in-Boots Bonus
It's our bastardized English language. Cow, lamb and pig are perfectly good Anglo-Saxon words but the the words for the food come elsewhere.
Pork (Porcus) is of Latin origin while beef (boeuf) and mutton (mouton) come from the French.
Chicken and fish are Old English in origin and Turkey was just a stupid mistake!