DON QUIXOTE VS. CITY HALL When an American gets mad, he says "where's my Gun". When a Canadian gets pissed off he says "Where is my pen, I'm going to send a letter to the EDITOR". When the EDITOR won't publish his letter he sets up his own BLOG page.
When I received enough support to get a Council Seat the dogma of the establishment became : "Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in." (Only time will tell !)
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
"When Pigs Fly" says Coldstream and Area B
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I'd like to know the 'Why?' of 'when pigs fly'. Investigative reporting, anyone?
From Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_pigs_fly
A flying pig is a symbol of an impossible event coming to pass. The popular saying "[it will happen] when pigs fly" (or when pigs have wings) is traditionally used to mean that the specified event will never occur.
Although there are several opinions about the origin of the saying, in Cincinnati, the story is that when the hogs were delivered from one side of the river to the slaughter house on the other side, they were loaded on flat top barges. As they stood on the barges and moved across the river, the early morning fog would often rise off the water and cover the barge bottom. The only thing that could be seen were the pigs "floating" above the water. This gave the appearance, according to the locals, that the pigs were "flying" across the river. This is the reason that so many "flying pig" items can be found in the airport and in other gift shops around Cincinnati.
Thanks for investigating flying pigs; however, I should have clarified. I meant to ask why are the residents of Coldstream so against amalgamation ('when pigs fly') while Vernon residents tend to favour it?
3 comments:
I'd like to know the 'Why?' of 'when pigs fly'. Investigative reporting, anyone?
From Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_pigs_fly
A flying pig is a symbol of an impossible event coming to pass. The popular saying "[it will happen] when pigs fly" (or when pigs have wings) is traditionally used to mean that the specified event will never occur.
Although there are several opinions about the origin of the saying, in Cincinnati, the story is that when the hogs were delivered from one side of the river to the slaughter house on the other side, they were loaded on flat top barges. As they stood on the barges and moved across the river, the early morning fog would often rise off the water and cover the barge bottom. The only thing that could be seen were the pigs "floating" above the water. This gave the appearance, according to the locals, that the pigs were "flying" across the river. This is the reason that so many "flying pig" items can be found in the airport and in other gift shops around Cincinnati.
Thanks for investigating flying pigs; however, I should have clarified. I meant to ask why are the residents of Coldstream so against amalgamation ('when pigs fly') while Vernon residents tend to favour it?
Surmises, hypotheses, theories, anyone?
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