Porkulus: The typical RAT solution to any problem that comes up:
Posted on 02/12/2009 11:18:42 AM PST by whereisreagan?
This may sound like a stupid question, I know that in full. I had to laugh a bit about the word 'Porculus' and have more than a hunch by now what it refers to. But can you kind folks enlighten me a bit more (its history, for instance, and why of all animals the swine has been chosen)?
I know, I know, I could have chosen Google etc. etc.
I simply thought it better to ask it right here.
Porkulus: The typical RAT solution to any problem that comes up:
Naw, he wouldn’t be looking for Reagan. He’d be looking for Lincoln and Kennedy.
Pontius Pilate: So, yaw fatha was a Woman? Who was he?
Brian: He was a Centurion, in the Jerusalem Garrisons.
Pontius Pilate: Weally? What was his name?
Brian: ‘Naughtius Maximus’.
[the Centurion laughs]
Pontius Pilate: Centuwion, do we have anyone of that name in the gawwison?
Centurion: Well, no, sir.
Pontius Pilate: Well, you sound vewy sure. Have you checked?
Centurion: Well, no, sir. Umm, I think it’s a joke, sir... like, uh, ‘Sillius Soddus’ or... ‘Biggus Dickus’, sir.
Pontius Pilate: [guard chuckles] What’s so funny about “Biggus Dickus? “
Centurion: Well, it’s a joke name, sir.
Pontius Pilate: I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called ‘Biggus Dickus’.
[guard chuckles]
Pontius Pilate: Silence! What is all this insolence? You will find yourself in gladiator school vewy quickly with wotten behaviour like that.
Brian: Can I go now, sir?
[slap]
Brian: Aaah! Eh.
Pontius Pilate: Wait till Biggus Dickus hears of this!
[guard chuckles]
Pontius Pilate: Wight! Take him away!
Centurion: Oh, sir, he - he only...
Pontius Pilate: No, no. I want him fighting wabid, wild animals within a week.
Centurion: Yes, sir. Come on, you.
[takes the guard away as continues laughing histerically]
Pontius Pilate: I will not have my fwiends widiculed by the common soldiewy. - - Anybody else feel like a little... giggle... when I mention my fwiend... Biggus...
[another guard chuckles]
Pontius Pilate: ... Dickus?
[more chuckling]
Pontius Pilate: What about you? Do you find it... wisible... when I say the name... ‘Biggus’...
[chuckle]
Pontius Pilate: ... Dickus?
[both guards chuckle]
Pontius Pilate: He has a wife, you know. You know what she’s called? She’s called... ‘Incontinentia’... Incontinentia Buttocks
Pontius Pilate: [Guards are laughing] Stop! What is all this?
Pontius Pilate: [Laughing continues] I’ve had enough of this wowdy webel sniggewing behaviour. Silence! Call yourselves Pwaetowian guards? You’re not - Seize him! Seize him! Blow your noses and seize him!
HERE IS REAGAN.
He’s a Euro-weenie to boot.
It is a word of the sort that Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty explained as a “portmanteau word”, two or more words packed into one: in this case ‘pork’ (as in ‘pork barrel politics’) and ‘stimulus’.
Who elects these people.....Others in my office immediately recognized him and ZERO POSITIVE anything to say about him.
BTW, if you are a liberal or ACORN or Henrietta Hughes, porkulus is porkalicious!
Gosh I love that movie! Thanks for the smiles!
Eleanor was too busy visiting with Amelia.
PORKULUS MAXIMUS is the name of the Democrat spending bill.
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I’M BLIND!
He was flogging the hog?
Thanks very much, folks. Makes eminent sense now. I recall British comedian Ronnie Corbett (the bespectacled little one) once using the moniker ‘Porcus The Pig’ in a sketch, as a very derogatory, derisive description of someone.
So: pigs don’t seem to be well known for their positive namechecks... poor animals!
Sorry for replying late and tks for your kind words. I wrote a little about myself on the ‘about’ page but more will come.
In the meantime I fully understand the term Porculus, and it is pretty funny too. I can’t really judge the situation in the U.S. from my European standpoint, but there are parallels. Euro governments have handed out hundreds of billions to failing banks, just to keep them alive. Taxpayers are left behind, wondering what is all means. In fact, they have to shell out their hard earned cash to make up for evident failures of the bankers on the upper floors. These guys have a very bad rep by now, but there’s no real responsibility or punishment, let alone a payback of their horrific bonuses that they extorted from the countries.
Luckily enough the links with the U.S. mortgage problems are getting weaker and weaker; bankers tried to put the blame for their ill-gotten gains and greed on that one. It no longer works. They are to blame themselves.
It has never been seen before. Govts falling into huge debts, balance figures nosediving, and so on.
So we got our own porculus plans being realised now.
Not good. Not good at all.
My first attempt at thanking all of you failed, don’t know why. So: thanks to all for a hearwarming and sometimes very funny thread. May sound judgment prevail in the end, and no tax money be squandered any more on the failures of a few on the top floors.
Thanks for the update. Now I understand where you’re coming from with your original post due to your European view of this all.
In fact, the broken economy is actually due to Congress FORCING the banks to make loans to people that couldn’t afford them. Now the same people that forced the banks into this situation are blaming them. NOW THAT IS NOT GOOD AT ALL!
Welcome to Free Republic.
When, actually, did Congress force the banks to hand out those mortgages to those with too little income? I wonder which presidents were in charge... might one of these be Jimmy C.?
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