Scribbleboy: Something very sick and wrong about having weekly photoshoots with a piggy bank (this week Piggles got on the bed and modelled a red ribbon)
blankbadge: @Scribbleboy I get the feeling that you don’t find something being sick and wrong to be a bad thing.
Scribbleboy: @blankbadge Not sure I can respond without incriminating myself (realise I have missed some close ups of dainty feet shall take more pics)
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While Mr Piggles descended into alcoholism this website stood by and watched took pictures. I thought that my lack of swearing and the subsequent dip in Piggles’ funds was the cause of his heavy drinking but Sarah had a different opinion.
Mr. Piggles has extremely girly eyes maybe he’s turned to drink because you insist he’s a he when in fact he may be a she?
This was valid point, Mr Piggles could in fact be Mrs Piggles (Miss? Ms?) It had never come up in conversation but then again Piggles isn’t much of a talker.
And so the investigative journalism began. Baines has always been close to Piggles so I asked her first. Her answer was delightfully gender neutral (by which I mean useless), she said, “I’ve never really thought about it.”
Then I consulted Google, he knows everything. Alas, “determining the sex of my piggy bank” yielded no meaningful results.
My only option was to conduct a thorough medical examination, something I had previously hoped to avoid in an effort to spare Piggles’ blushes (the following pictures, while tasteful, are probably NSFW).
This was our first tip off that he may be a she, his delightfully girlish eyes. The first time I met Piggles I wrote that “he stared up at Scribble with the most beautiful pair of eyes Scribs had ever seen” so really I should have noticed this sooner. I share a room with him (her?) and not once have I seen my farmyard friend resort to eyelash curlers or mascara, these naturally curly eyelashes are little help on our quest for truth.
Verdict: Inconclusive.
If we look again we notice that Piggles is modelling a red bow in his hair, strange behaviour, especially for someone without hair but hardly conclusive proof that he is a girl (especially as the ribbon he used has been stolen from my collection). This ribbon is clearly an indication that Piggles is trying to tell us something, but what?
Verdict: Attention seeking.
Pink, you have to admit, is a bit of a girly colour. Gingell is of the opinion that having a pink booty does not conclusively prove your sex. I would have to question the opinion of someone who has made precisely zero posts on piggy banks.
Verdict: The academic community will decide.
People never pay me normal compliments, a perfect example of this would be “You have nice feet… if you were a girl you could wear pretty shoes.” This makes it hard for me to draw anything from Piggles’ dainty cloven hooves. The tattoos however are far more promising. One of them, Piggles has never shown me his tats before, reads “Sëmk design.” Sëmk have a website here and as far as I can tell they specialise in breeding a variety of animals which they then ship around the world. I will be contacting them later in the week to see if they can help sex the pig.
Verdict: Promising.
In other news, I haven’t sworn once this week (sorry Lupus UK).
[This was meant to be posted on Sunday but I was busy watching Yes We Can! The Lost Art of Oratory, a documentary that Clara recommended. It pulls no punches but it's an interesting programme that uses Obama as a springboard to take a look back at great speech makers throughout history.
Soundbites of Obama's inaugural address are still moving three months on and this documentary is further encouragement for me to listen to Obama's weekly address (instead of just bookmarking it), get back into The West Wing (and watch it chronologically instead of just watching random episodes on More4 when I have trouble sleeping) and read books (instead of just using them to fill shelves).
My favourite scene is when Yentob uses a megaphone to broadcast the words of Cromwell to the Houses of Parliament and Brian Haw is on hand to provide pointers. It is crazy to think that this man has been outside the Houses of Parliament for over seven years, outstaying Blair, to protest a war that the majority of the country was already against before we had even gone into Iraq.]
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