Do You Know How to Catch Wild Pigs?

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Do you know, how to catch wild pigs?

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof. noticed one young man (an exchange student) who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged
in his back. He had been shot while fighting
communists in his native country who were trying to
overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, "Do you know
how to catch wild pigs?"

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept
their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of
programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms-
just a little at a time.

One should always remember "There is no such thing
as a free Lunch!" Also, "You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself."

Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government "help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

Abbott, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:30 (seventeen years ago)

Reason I stole Ethan's bit was to share a prof's story on IRONY:

"My friend and I graduated college at the same time in the late '60s. I went onto grad school and so did he, but it's a sink or swim environment and he decided it was not where he should be. Shortly thereafter he got drafted by the military to fight in Vietnam. We fell out of contact, and a year or so later I heard that he'd been killed. They tied a bag of rats around his head and they gnawed him until he died: I don't know if he died of bleeding, or starving, or an infection.

That's an example of irony: a kid goes to fight for his country and is forced to have his face eaten by rats."

To which a student replied:

"Oh my GOD, I know! It's like this one time when we had mice in our garage – we had to kill them because they were eating our stuff, but I felt so bad having to kill them!"

A much more realistic teacher-student discussion of war.

Abbott, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.amtelectronics.com/products/product_pages/black%20images/CommunistPig.jpg

en i see kay, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago)

also WTF college students

en i see kay, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago)

Haha – Commies are literally...figurative...pigs!

Abbott, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago)

Argument by apocrypha. Something tells me that no society on earth ever used this method to catch wild pigs. Too elaborate. Too expensive. Much, much too time-consuming. And there's no real guarantee of success. Better to just put out the corn once, then hide in a blind and shoot the fuckers.

Aimless, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

Agreed. Imagine a "wild" pig looking on as you take a good half hour or so to erect the fence. Also, the fence would have to be strong to keep wild pigs from battering their way out - meaning too much expense for good wood vs the value of their meat.

paulhw, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 398 for "how to catch wild pigs" "chemistry professor" "large college" "suitable place" fence corn. (0.30 seconds)

This bogus stuff multiplies like fleas. It probably went the email rounds, too.

Aimless, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

Yeash, I got it off the right-wind forward blog and was like 'this is nowhere near having yr head eaten by rats,' and Aimless & paul hell of OTM.

Abbott, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

i love this, iberian black pigs that are allowed to roam around villages in spain....before being slaughtered, but at least at they produce the greatest ham in the world

http://i.imgur.com/kBenq.jpg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2012/dec/19/jamon-iberico-field-plate-in-pictures

Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago)


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