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(03-08-2014, 07:24 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Where I come from, it's always dangerous to mess with pigs. Actually we do call 'em hogs. "Pig" is more of an epithet for any messy vulgar uncouth creature.
(03-08-2014, 10:11 PM)Tripod_imp Wrote: We are just grain farmers and have been for many, many years. However, we used to raise cattle and hogs. Hogs are by far my favorite farm animal. Smart, clean, personable. But, yes, they can be extremely dangerous, especially a mother with babies...
Apologies to the OP. This may be the most derailed thread in the history of this forum!! This forum was derailed the day after it was launched. 
That was us, too, hogs, cattle, grains...and hogs are way smarter than cattle. We had a pet "pig", smarter'n any dawg we ever had. She made some real good bacon and side pork when she got big enough, too.
Almost felt like cannibalism but not quite.
(When it's a farm animal, its' "hog" but when it's a pet, it's "pig").
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(03-09-2014, 02:37 AM)Red Mist_imp Wrote: (03-08-2014, 07:24 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Where I come from, it's always dangerous to mess with pigs. Actually we do call 'em hogs. "Pig" is more of an epithet for any messy vulgar uncouth creature.
(03-08-2014, 10:11 PM)Tripod_imp Wrote: We are just grain farmers and have been for many, many years. However, we used to raise cattle and hogs. Hogs are by far my favorite farm animal. Smart, clean, personable. But, yes, they can be extremely dangerous, especially a mother with babies...
Apologies to the OP. This may be the most derailed thread in the history of this forum!! This forum was derailed the day after it was launched.
That was us, too, hogs, cattle, grains...and hogs are way smarter than cattle. We had a pet "pig", smarter'n any dawg we ever had. She made some real good bacon and side pork when she got big enough, too.
Almost felt like cannibalism but not quite.
(When it's a farm animal, its' "hog" but when it's a pet, it's "pig"). Actually we do call 'em hogs. "Pig" is more of an epithet for any messy vulgar uncouth creature. I should've used an emoticon or something that indicated I was making a bad joke. "Pig" has a variety of meanings in Australia, including "messy vulgar uncouth creature." Some messy, vulgar, uncouth creatures (pigs) refer to those worthy ladies and gentlemen charged with enforcing the law as "pigs". Hence my statement that it's dangerous to mess with 'em.
As the thread is completely off the rails, I might as well pursue a linguistic curiosity: some motorcycling ladies and gentlemen ride "hogs". Presumably, when they offend against the law, they are pursued by "pigs", some caged, some not. One side or the other is probably being cheered on by other "pigs" who neither ride hogs nor enforce laws.
Meanwhile other pigs and hogs go quietly about their contemplative business eating and producing ethanol until age or some other factor catches up with them and they are killed, processed and devoured, sometimes by pigs of the first-mentioned variety.
Is there something circular about all this?
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(03-09-2014, 02:01 AM)CA200_imp Wrote: Up here at times in the Milwaukee area because of air pollution they make them sell oxygenated fuel so when you add that to Ethanol
it does some pretty bad things that sit with fuel in them.
Just an FYI, the ethanol is what makes the fuel "oxygenated". Years ago oxygenated fuels used to be gas mixed with 10% of an ether compound (MTBE) or ethanol. Since MTBE was banned a decade or so ago, the only oxygenate used is ethanol.
We have the same EPA oxygenate requirement here in Phoenix for the winter months, so the only thing available is E10.
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(03-09-2014, 09:12 AM)Lord Popgun_imp Wrote: Was his name Arnold? Yes, in fact her name was Arnold. Green Acres and all that.
(03-09-2014, 10:33 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: (03-09-2014, 02:37 AM)Red Mist_imp Wrote: (03-08-2014, 07:24 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Where I come from, it's always dangerous to mess with pigs. Actually we do call 'em hogs. "Pig" is more of an epithet for any messy vulgar uncouth creature.
(03-08-2014, 10:11 PM)Tripod_imp Wrote: We are just grain farmers and have been for many, many years. However, we used to raise cattle and hogs. Hogs are by far my favorite farm animal. Smart, clean, personable. But, yes, they can be extremely dangerous, especially a mother with babies...
Apologies to the OP. This may be the most derailed thread in the history of this forum!! This forum was derailed the day after it was launched.
That was us, too, hogs, cattle, grains...and hogs are way smarter than cattle. We had a pet "pig", smarter'n any dawg we ever had. She made some real good bacon and side pork when she got big enough, too.
Almost felt like cannibalism but not quite.
(When it's a farm animal, its' "hog" but when it's a pet, it's "pig"). Actually we do call 'em hogs. "Pig" is more of an epithet for any messy vulgar uncouth creature. I should've used an emoticon or something that indicated I was making a bad joke. "Pig" has a variety of meanings in Australia, including "messy vulgar uncouth creature." Some messy, vulgar, uncouth creatures (pigs) refer to those worthy ladies and gentlemen charged with enforcing the law as "pigs". Hence my statement that it's dangerous to mess with 'em.
As the thread is completely off the rails, I might as well pursue a linguistic curiosity: some motorcycling ladies and gentlemen ride "hogs". Presumably, when they offend against the law, they are pursued by "pigs", some caged, some not. One side or the other is probably being cheered on by other "pigs" who neither ride hogs nor enforce laws.
Meanwhile other pigs and hogs go quietly about their contemplative business eating and producing ethanol until age or some other factor catches up with them and they are killed, processed and devoured, sometimes by pigs of the first-mentioned variety.
Is there something circular about all this? Actually we do call 'em hogs. "Pig" is more of an epithet for any messy vulgar uncouth creature. I should've used an emoticon or something that indicated I was making a bad joke. "Pig" has a variety of meanings in Australia, including "messy vulgar uncouth creature."
Is there something circular about all this? I was thinking more along the lines of the usage in "Swinging On a Star" (Bing Crosby).
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(03-09-2014, 02:59 PM)Red Mist_imp Wrote: (03-09-2014, 09:12 AM)Lord Popgun_imp Wrote: Was his name Arnold? Yes, in fact her name was Arnold. Green Acres and all that.
(03-09-2014, 10:33 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: (03-09-2014, 02:37 AM)Red Mist_imp Wrote: (03-08-2014, 07:24 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Where I come from, it's always dangerous to mess with pigs. Actually we do call 'em hogs. "Pig" is more of an epithet for any messy vulgar uncouth creature.
(03-08-2014, 10:11 PM)Tripod_imp Wrote: We are just grain farmers and have been for many, many years. However, we used to raise cattle and hogs. Hogs are by far my favorite farm animal. Smart, clean, personable. But, yes, they can be extremely dangerous, especially a mother with babies...
Apologies to the OP. This may be the most derailed thread in the history of this forum!! This forum was derailed the day after it was launched.
That was us, too, hogs, cattle, grains...and hogs are way smarter than cattle. We had a pet "pig", smarter'n any dawg we ever had. She made some real good bacon and side pork when she got big enough, too.
Almost felt like cannibalism but not quite.
(When it's a farm animal, its' "hog" but when it's a pet, it's "pig"). Actually we do call 'em hogs. "Pig" is more of an epithet for any messy vulgar uncouth creature. I should've used an emoticon or something that indicated I was making a bad joke. "Pig" has a variety of meanings in Australia, including "messy vulgar uncouth creature." Some messy, vulgar, uncouth creatures (pigs) refer to those worthy ladies and gentlemen charged with enforcing the law as "pigs". Hence my statement that it's dangerous to mess with 'em.
As the thread is completely off the rails, I might as well pursue a linguistic curiosity: some motorcycling ladies and gentlemen ride "hogs". Presumably, when they offend against the law, they are pursued by "pigs", some caged, some not. One side or the other is probably being cheered on by other "pigs" who neither ride hogs nor enforce laws.
Meanwhile other pigs and hogs go quietly about their contemplative business eating and producing ethanol until age or some other factor catches up with them and they are killed, processed and devoured, sometimes by pigs of the first-mentioned variety.
Is there something circular about all this? Actually we do call 'em hogs. "Pig" is more of an epithet for any messy vulgar uncouth creature. I should've used an emoticon or something that indicated I was making a bad joke. "Pig" has a variety of meanings in Australia, including "messy vulgar uncouth creature."
Is there something circular about all this? I was thinking more along the lines of the usage in "Swinging On a Star" (Bing Crosby).
Thanks for the pointer to Breckenridge Elkins. I'm looking forward to reading him.
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