Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
Noteworthy examples of similarities between pigs and people, popular culture or what might be considered unrelated subjects.
Here on Wall Street, the Darwinian struggle to hold on to one’s tender loins requires energy and stamina. After a grueling day of hogging the market – a mean feat with cloven appendages – I need to relax with an ice-cold glass of milk.
Laa-Laa’s Pigtail: note the dramatic resemblance of the top of her head to a pig’s butt. The Teletubbies seem to be more than your average playfully self-sufficient, technological babies.
There is strong evidence for these two being Lost Littermates. Aside from the obvious physical similarities, both are cute, have voracious appetites and regularly accost strangers, demanding choice morsels of food, each in their native tongue.
You might think these two could be Lost Littermates, but sorry folks, this one’s bogus. That’s a fine example of a Hampshire boar, right, while the Belted Galloway, left, is definitely of the bovine persuasion, not “a really big pig” as some of our younger visitors have suggested. Curiously, many registered breeders of Galloways credited … Read more