h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i told you it was a good article!!!! congratulations
monsy

Thanks, Monsy......."I'm 'bout as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine"!

NM

ermmm...that is a good thing, right? i think that is a good thing but ermmmm....i'm not sure, i mean "a dead pig"? just how happy is a pig to be dead?????
monsy

Damn Yankee!......I have to explain.....he's not happy to be dead, just happy to be in the sunshine!!!

And yes, it's considered a good thing!

NM

but if the pig is dead then how does he know he is in the sunshine??
monsy

Well....it has more to do with the look on his face than any real knowledge of his feelings!

NM

the look on his face!!?? now i am really starting to worry about you
monsy

And there is the point.......the look on his face is pure and true......"No worries, mate!"

NM

*laughs*

Uhm.. Is this a family conversation or can anyone butt in?

come on in we are always happy to have visitors
it just so happens that at times we find ourselves all alone and this is bad because we tend to ramble on and get all mushy
good thing you showed up before something likethat happened....goodness, might have someone thinking we actually liked each other or something LOL!!!
monsy

btw.....now that you are here maybe you can explain to me about dead pigs and there state of happiness....
monsy

'Nonnie.....help me out here. What I have is a "Military Brat" who doesn't understand farm life!

She understands city life and foreign countries very well......but has no knowledge of "country life"!

NM

no understanding of country life??....what's there to understand???
if you are "country" then you fill your home with tacky ducks dressed in plaid, use as much dusty blue as possible for the interior walls carpet and such and if you fancy yourself "upperclass country" you then proceed to decorate your kitchen in that awful cow pattern that seems to of grown so popular
monsy

EEERRRMMM....UUUHHH.........No comment!LOL

NM

I thought it was powder-blue ducks.

And as for dead pigs... Uhm... Pass.

'Nonnie

Don't mean to interupt but I have one question. I am a city boy so that is why I ask this. I thought pigs don't like the sun, dead or alive. Isn't MUD a pigs best friend besides the butcher?

AHHA! See, I am not alone in not understanding dead pigs being happy in sunshine and just how you would know they were happy to be in the sun because they were dead. Dead things, normally, don't have any emotions and as for that look on his face...well, we don't even want to go there
Ok, smarty pants! Go on, explain LOL!!
Monsy

Well, the idea that pigs like mud is false. Actually pigs are very clean animals...and prefer to stay that way.

They also have a great love for sunning themselves. The problem is, pigs have very tender skin that is easily subject to sunburn. They use the mudpack as a sunscreen so they can enjoy "the rays" without skin damage.

Thats' why their mudhole is referred to as a "hog waller"(hog wollow" for any Yankee out there!) They don't stay in the mud, they just wallow around in it for a minute then get out and lay in the sun.

So, you see, a pig is happiest when lieing in the sun....why being dead would help, I'm not really sure. Perhaps its' because it could eternally lie in the sun and never have to get in the mud again!?

NM