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<blockquote data-quote="papastebu" data-source="post: 3202058" data-attributes="member: 40894">Phi-lo-so-fickleA reporter is sent to interview a local farmer for a human-interest piece about his prize-winning pig. He gets to the farm and sees the hugest hog he could possibly have imagined standing there next to the farmer, happy as, well happy as a pig in the sunshine.&nbsp;&quot;Good Lord,&quot; cries the reporter in amazement. &quot;How did that pig get so big?&quot;&nbsp;&quot;Well,&quot; replies the farmer, &quot;it has a lot to do with what we feed him. He eats nothing but acorns, and it's made him the largest hog in the world.&quot;&nbsp;&quot;I can't see how you could get enough to feed such an animal,&quot; says the reporter, &quot;especially now that he's gotten so huge.&quot;&nbsp;With a twinkle in his eye, the farmer says, &quot;I'll just show you.&quot; The farmer then proceeds to get a block-and-tackle assembly set up beneath a nearby oak tree, with the giant hog as the object of his efforts, and lifts the massive creature into the middle branches of the tree, with, of course the assistance of a number of hired hands, his two sons, and for awhile, his own aging wife. All of this took them about an hour, and then the pig began to happily munch from the branches of the tree around him.&nbsp;&quot;Of course,&quot; says the farmer, &quot;we'll have to move him again in about 45 minutes.&quot;&nbsp;The reporter replies, &quot;Isn't that a lot of time to spend on one animal's amazing growth?&quot;&nbsp;The farmer squints up at the pig, scratches his head through his hat, and says at last, &quot;Well, yeah. It is at that.&nbsp;&quot;But what's time to a pig?&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="papastebu, post: 3202058, member: 40894"] [b]Phi-lo-so-fickle[/b] A reporter is sent to interview a local farmer for a human-interest piece about his prize-winning pig. He gets to the farm and sees the hugest hog he could possibly have imagined standing there next to the farmer, happy as, well happy as a pig in the sunshine. "Good Lord," cries the reporter in amazement. "How did that pig get so big?" "Well," replies the farmer, "it has a lot to do with what we feed him. He eats nothing but acorns, and it's made him the largest hog in the world." "I can't see how you could get enough to feed such an animal," says the reporter, "especially now that he's gotten so huge." With a twinkle in his eye, the farmer says, "I'll just show you." The farmer then proceeds to get a block-and-tackle assembly set up beneath a nearby oak tree, with the giant hog as the object of his efforts, and lifts the massive creature into the middle branches of the tree, with, of course the assistance of a number of hired hands, his two sons, and for awhile, his own aging wife. All of this took them about an hour, and then the pig began to happily munch from the branches of the tree around him. "Of course," says the farmer, "we'll have to move him again in about 45 minutes." The reporter replies, "Isn't that a lot of time to spend on one animal's amazing growth?" The farmer squints up at the pig, scratches his head through his hat, and says at last, "Well, yeah. It is at that. "But what's time to a pig?" ;) [/QUOTE]

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