12th Mar 2012 Trivia About Pigs, Hogs & Swine

• Scientists believe that pigs are one of the most intelligent animals, ranking close behind apes and dolphins
• China has the world's largest population of domestic pigs
• The average sow gives birth to 8 to 12 pigs at a time
• An average pig eats five pounds of feed each day, or a ton of food every year
• A pig's squeal can be as loud as 115 decibels, 3 decibels higher than the sound of a supersonic airliner
• An average American consumes 51 lbs of pork each year
• Pigs do not have sweat glands and pale pigs risk sunburn, hence they roll in mud to keep themselves cool
• A number of pigs together is called a herd
• A piece of lead used in a ship's ballast is called a hog
• One of the smaller moulds used for casting iron is called a hog
• A curling rock that is not thrown far enough to get over the hog line, is called a hog
• A pig raised for meat is called a hog
• A broom for scraping the underside of a ship is called a hog
• A large railway locomotive is called a hog
• A Harley Davidson motorcycle is called a hog
• In the UK, a sixpenny coin was called a hog
• Pork is the world's most widely-eaten meat
• In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people
• There are approximately 840 million hogs on farms throughout the world
• On average, pigs live for about 15 years
• The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs [1157.4 kg] owned by Burford Butler of Jackson, Tennessee, USA in the year 1933
• Here is the feisty starlet girlfriend of Kermit the Frog from the Muppets - Miss Piggy
• I think we should leave out the word swine. It's usually used derogatorily often meaning a mean & contemptible person.

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A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said,

 

"I'm so sorry, your Duck, Cuddles, has passed away."

The distressed owner wailed, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I am sure. The duck is dead," he replied.

"How can you be so sure?" she protested. "I mean, you haven't done any testing on him or anything! . He might just be in a coma or something."

 

The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room, and returned a few moments later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head. The vet patted the dog and took it out, and returned a few moments later with a cat.

 

The cat jumped up on the table and also sniffed delicately at the bird from head to foot. Then the cat sat back on it's haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.

 

The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck."

 

Then the vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman. The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill.

"£150!" she cried, "£150 just to tell me my duck is dead!! "

 

The vet shrugged. "I'm sorry. If you'd taken my word for it, the bill would have been £20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now £150."

 

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12th Mar 2012 If College Students Wrote The Bible ...

The Bible was written centuries ago by the Apostles. But what if it was written by college students of today? Most likely it would be a lot different. Here's what it might look like if College Students Wrote the Bible:

 

** The 'Blood of Christ' would be switched from red wine to beer in a keg.

 

** The Last Supper would have cold leftovers for the next morning.

 

** The Ten Commandments would be only five, double-spaced, and written in large font.

 

** A New edition would be written every two years in order to limit reselling.

 

** The Forbidden Fruit would have been eaten not because it was forbidden but because it wasn't dorm food.

 

** Paul's Letter to the Romans would be Paul's E-Mail addressed to abuse@romans.gov.

 

** The reason Cain killed Abel would be because they were roommates.

 

** The place where the end of the world occurs would be Finals, not Armageddon.

 

** Instead of mules, the preferred mode of transportation would be mountain bikes.

 

** The reason why Moses and his followers walked in the desert for 40 years would be because they didn't want to ask directions and look like Freshmen.

 

** The Tower of Babel would be blamed for the Foreign Language requirement.

 

** Instead of God creating the world in six days and resting on the seventh, He would have put it off until the night before it was due and then pulled an all-nighter.

 

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