Or anyone who has attended a gelding or met a hairy sow in the pasture with a bunch of piglets. That fence was far, too far away.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 11:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: from the casey reports > TOLES There is No Rest of the Trick Well, times is hard and feed scarce so I figgered to save some money. I give my horse half a pound less feed every day. It was working out real good and feed bills was way down at the end of the month. And then the SOB up an' *died* on me. Dang. He never done *that* before. Or something very like that. It's recently occurred to me that most of the barnyard metaphors that have served as wisdom for centuries have vanished from the language. Anyone who has tried to um.... give direction to a pig understands "pigheaded" in a very heartfelt way. Most folks today (in the "developed" world, anyhow) have never actually *seen* a live pig and most of those who have, viewed piglets in a petting zoo or overheated sows lounging torpidly in a pen at a fairground. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
