how did we get the saying, you've made a pigs ear of that.?
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suggesting that some improvement projects of different kinds are doomed to failure.Some years ago, a group of scientists who had more money than brains set out to convert the proteins and chemicals in a sows ear into a silky purse. They spent a great deal and were educated to the truth of this expression
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[Q] “All my life I have heard the phrase a pig in a poke. Do you know where this phrase originated?”\n[A] Though the current version in full is “Don’t buy a pig in a poke”, don’t buy or accept something without first checking or assessing it, it’s first recorded in London around 1530 in a form intended to be good advice to honourable traders: “When ye proffer the pigge open the poke”, but its best known early appearance is in John Heywood’s A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the proverbes in the Englishe tongue of 1546 (a title usually and with good reason abbreviated to Proverbs), where it appears in the form “Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke”. About 1555, Heywood included it in his other famous compilation work, Epigrammes, in the almost modern form “I will never bye the pig in the poke”.\nMany Americans know a poke as a small bag or sack, which it was also in Heywood’s day (a usage that has survived in Scotland). A poke, for example, was a suitable container into which to stuff a piglet for sale in the local market.\nThe proverb encapsulates that wise advice to purchasers of goods, caveat emptor, let the buyer beware—always inspect the goods before you pay for them. Make the seller open his poke and show you the pig within.\nIncidentally, the proverb has its direct counterparts in other languages, as in the Swedish Köp inte grisen i säcken! However, in other languages it refers to cats, as in French: Acheter chat en poche (“To buy a cat in a pouch”), and German: Die Katze im Sack kaufen (“To buy a cat in a sack”). Why the expressions in these languages refer to cats and not pigs supports a link with another expression, to let the cat out of the bag.
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Hmmm...someone said pigs have orgasms that last for 30 minutes.  That is awfully tempting...
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The phrase is usually "as likely as flying pigs" or "pigs might fly".  It is used basically to express disbelief at the possibility of a particular event ever occurring.  "oh yea, and pigs might fly."
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We would say "pinch, poke..you owe me a coke"\nI imagine it originated in some play ground somewhere....obviously after coke originated
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Ya, beacause somewat, the ear is connected to the mouth.
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First we put on the headphones - state of the art, real expensive kind that appeal to capitalists - and we play 24/7 Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, and Laura Ingraham for 30 days total. Of course we would feed you, Perfessor (nothing organic - blech!), only the finest genetically engineered beef, whilst sipping milk from the cows of the same herd. Did I mention you have to wear an Atlanta Braves jersey? Chipper Jones? Did I just hear you say uncle... Perfessor??
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Only something a pig-headed man would say....
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Try this translator.\nhttp://www.snowcrest.net/donnelly/piglatin.html
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Wasnt that on the Muppets show? I'm takeing a guess here.
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es yea.in pig latin you take the first sound of a word " y ", delete it, then add it to the end with an aaaa sound "yaaa"=== "es + yaaa = yes" "inkthay = think" "oneymay=money"\n\nooday ouyay derstandunay atwhay iay eanmay.
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Nobody actually knows where that phrase comes from.  There is an urban legend about where it came from that can be found here: http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.htm
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I think the second time around the man should pull his waist line out for the donkey to actually see. How could the donkey see if the man was whispering in his ear? I know it could be implied it was done afterwards but the joke would run smoother if it were rewritten. Still not a bad joke. It's been a while since I've heard it.
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No one knows where it really comes from.  Many people have hypotheses, but nothing definitive & irrefutable.  I have heard it myself & don't care to ever again.  It was creepy.
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you got that off a button. It's true tho. One wonders how the word originated...
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1. I don't know, but here's a pic of a pig sitting on a wicker chair. It's good for a laugh, as well as proof that I did try to help you!\nhttp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cityglass/stuff/piggy.htm\n\n2. Also, the first pig to fly, did so in a wicker basket. Not many people know that!\nhttp://gking.harvard.edu/whatif/\n\n3. At the White Pig Bed and Breakfast, in Virginia, you can "sip lemonade on one of the wicker rockers under the porch". I'm on a roll now!\nhttp://www.thewhitepig.com/bb.html\n\n4. Apparently, a contoured foam bed is preferable to a stuffed pillow inside a rattan or wicker frame for a pet pig .... And there's more!\nhttp://www.potbellypigpets.com/living.html\n\n5. This wicker basket with a piglet stirring a barrel of good luck makes a unique pig gift or unusual pig favor, apparently.\nhttp://www.goodluckcreations.com/pig137q.html\n\n6. This too: a pig couple adoring each other in wicker basket - tasteful!\nhttp://www.goodluckcreations.com/gl572c.html\n\n7. It seems that Wicker Pig is a 5 piece folk rock band, based in Seattle.\nhttp://www.bizwiz.com/ezcommerce/wickerpig.htm\n\n8. What a coincidence - someone is looking for its slang definition!\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061113120746AAaFi8f\n\n9. Er... why was I doing this?
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"STELLLLLAAAAAAAAAA!!" yelled my ol' pop. It was his first day without them mangy chin whiskers an' he wanted my dear ma to see. Ordinarily, I wouldnt mind, but today was a different day. My dear ol' cow, Bessie, had died in the early morn. It was about the same time that Mama's old sow had that record litter of pigs. Life and death, it says it all in the bible. My pa doesn't know it, but I found out that he killed my Bessie. I saw his axe in the barn when I went to clean out the man-yure. His girlfriend that he's cheating on ma with wanted to do it, but now HE's a gentleman and he did the yeller-bellied deed himself. I told my ma and she told me to go up to pa and talk about it. "Well ... if you say so," I said. So now I'm walkin' up to my dear ol' pa without them mangy chin whiskers. Ordinarily, I wouldnt mind. But today was a different day.