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2004-04-13 - 6:42 p.m.
post-easter pigs
ok, so easter is sort of over unless you are religious. for the rest of us it means that the festival of eating chocolate and feeling sick and generally increasing the obesity statistics is over. if you are too fat it is a good time to stop eating so much and do some exercise - it is my radical new diet plan for the hideously disfigured, clinically obese generation (haha, that has just given me a great idea for a picture for my website - i will make this a link when i have done it). anyway, here is the one thing i learnt over the easter weekend: easter is named after a pagan goddess because it used to be the saxon festival of spring. it is a useful fact to remember for next year when someone tells you that easter is about jesus and things and not eggs and rabbits. throw that back in their faces and then take some of your clothes off and dance around pagan style or something and then give yourself a +1 rating for the day. however, if you end up thinking that full on paganism is good you should probably watch "the wickerman" to get your morals back (it is an awesome film too).
ok, so i also thought that i had realised something about pigs. my little niece was visiting on sunday and she had a toy pig with her but it did not have a tail. when you think of pigs i bet you think about two things - a snout and a curly tail - but this pig was missing a vital component. i thought that this was pretty sad until i suddenly realised that most pigs don't really have curly tails. i thought some of them have a sort of half twist in their tail but they are not properly curly like a spring or anything. so i went off on one saying it is a terrible myth that is perpetuated through childrens books and misguided primary school teachers and that it is a strange and bad thing that some schools in america will not teach evolution but they will teach kids false things about pigs.
however, i then went off and did about one minutes worth of pig research and it turns out that a good healthy domestic pig should have a tightly curled tail. it is a lesson that you should probably keep your mouth shut when you think you have had a revelation because you are probably going to end up looking stupid. still, i am smart enough to know that if i do not say anything then people will probably forget all about it and then when someone finally does realise that i was wrong i can just say that i already know and i was talking about something different. this is not a good lesson to learn though. in most situations it is better to admit that you made a mistake straight away because then it will be forgotten more quickly than if you try to cover it up.
see you next time,
paul.
(from www.pixelbee.co.uk)
p.s. evolution is the truth.
p.p.s. pigs are actually very very clean animals. pigs being dirty is a two thousand year old myth.
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