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Vocabulary

Discussion of the verbal and literary utility of pigs – swearing, simile, metaphor and other literary devices in which pigs are used in a non-literal way to achieve an effect beyond the range of ordinary language.

Hog Haute Couture for After the Snoutbreak

6th December, 201514th June, 2009
Hog Haute Couture for After the Snoutbreak

Subvert your fear of the H1N1 Snoutbreak. Clothe yourself in fashionable armor that announces your indifference. Socio-industrial collapse? Baaah!

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DEDICATED... to the millions of porkers who've gone to their final resting sites inside us, and to the ghosts of still billions more pigs who've long since passed away down the throat of time. I'd like to call them all by name, but the list is long and I cannot remember.

William Hedgepeth in The Hog Book, (1978).

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