PETA activist's nightmare

[Kiwon]

I'm joking, OPF: So this was the path that led you to a career in education? You knew the manure business wasn't the future for you?

Sounds like practical life lessons. Lesson 1 - Everyone should shovel some crap when they're young. It makes you appreciate every good thing that happens to you after that point and helps you to identify metaphorical crap when you are exposed to it in the future.

[swede]

BallHawk wrote:

Holy Crap!

Yes, that hog produced a lot of fertilizer in its lifetime.

Both of my grandfathers were farmers, so as a boy, I had introductions to shovelling animal manure. Pig manure had no respect for names:

cows produced "Cowpies."

horses produced "Hose apples."

sheep produced "Sheep dip."

pigs simply produced "Pig shit."

I didn't mind shovelling the cow, horse, or sheep manure. The pig droppings were simply disgusting. Never again!

Having worked on my uncle's pig farm for many a year I can concur regarding both the fecal nomenclature and the aroma. My uncle was president of the church council, never drank or gambled, and never swore other than announcing his intentions to shovel pig shit.

As for the smell, every pig barn in Minnesota erected by intelligent farmers was located due east of the farmhouse in order to take advantage of the prevailing westerly winds' ability to disperse some of the stench, though when city folk happened to comment upon the unfortunate reek my uncle would observe dryly that it smelled like money to him.

There was a worse smell that I encountered on the farm. One of the grain bins developed a slight leak and about a cubic yard of corn had rotted into a carmelized brown mess. Something about the anaerobic decomposition created a smell that made my head snap back. Think of ammonia and vomit with the volume turned up.

[packinpatland]

Talk about taking a 'down turn', we are now talking about pig shit????

[packinpatland]

Disregard anything I post from this point on, too much vino.

[MJZiggy]

Better than discussing PETA???

[swede]

"Da Yoopers" have a hysterical comic bit on one of their CD's in which a "Yooper" farmer calls a local hick radio station's morning talk show and proclaims that he has "pig shit" for sale. The alarmed radio host points out that you can't say "shit" on the air. The apologetic farmer then more carefully points out that he has "cow manure, sheep manure, and pig manure, and all kinds of shit for sale."

Pig shit is funny everywhere except on your shoes.

[Kiwon]

I feel vindicated!!!! Did I not suggest that the photo had been photo-shopped early on???
I knew it.

Yhello? Did you go to the website and look at the pictures? Seeing the other photos helps to put the size of the animal in a better perspective. There's no photo-shopping going on.

The carcass hanging there is nowhere near as large as the one the kid is posing behind. Or the one being fork-lifted.

I won't argue with you but it's all the same. After I saw the other photos, I had the same impression as you. The animal looked smaller. I think the reason the first shot, the popular one, makes the animal look bigger is because the father is squatting down on the ground when he took it. He put himself nearer to ground level so the animal looks closer and bigger. He's trying to fill the whole view frame.

The other shot of the group squatting at the rear of the animal has the photographer standing and its shows that the animal is in the same position as the first shot. It's the same scene but from a different angle. The 1,000 pound subject didn't move, the photographer did and changed the look of the picture.

So one close-up picture made it look really big and the others shot from more of a distance made it look smaller.

There's no reason for these folks to set up a website and publish a hoax. If they were going to distort one photo then they would have distorted them all. If someone's trying to disceive others this isn't the way they would go about it.

[the_idle_threat]

A few years back, I drove down to Cedar Rapids, Iowa through pig farm country on a hot summer day. I was driving an old car---it was the first car I ever owned. Although it was very nice when I got it as used cars go, it was limping along by this time. Among other things, the AC was no longer working.

The smell of warm pig shit was on the wind and in the air on that hot day as I traveled through this area with the windows down. It was during this trip that I decided I needed a new car. Later, I went and leased a brand new car that had AC.

[packinpatland]

A few years back, I drove down to Cedar Rapids, Iowa through pig farm country on a hot summer day. I was driving an old car---it was the first car I ever owned. Although it was very nice when I got it as used cars go, it was limping along by this time. Among other things, the AC was no longer working.

The smell of warm pig shit was on the wind and in the air on that hot day as I traveled through this area with the windows down. It was during this trip that I decided I needed a new car. Later, I went and leased a brand new car that had AC.

Pig shit will do that to you.

And Swede............don't go making fun of those Yoopers..............I used to be one.........................for a short, relatively speaking, forgetable time in my youth.