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> From: George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Teaching pigs to sing To: "Goa's premiere
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> Tomorrow's report will be on pigs who fly.
I can hardly wait. Maybe George should file a daily report on pigs of
all varieties.
I was once asked in an interview, "From where did P.G. Wodehouse get the
title 'Pigs Have Wings' for one of his novels?" I looked blank, and the
interviewer decided that I was bs-ing him when I said I was a PGW fan. I
didn't get the job.
Some research (these were the days before internet, which has made this
very easy, where do you think Cecil gets his instant wisdom and Heinlein
quotes from?) :-) led me to Carroll's "Walrus and the Carpenter" which
has a verse which goes:
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing-wax --
Of cabbages -- and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
And whether pigs have wings."
--
Question everything -- Karl Marx
