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Porker may have been world's biggest
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Posted on 02/23/2004 11:08:06 AM PST by maui_hawaii
BEIJING - Chinese officials figure a 1,980-pound pig that died from lack of exercise has a shot at being named the biggest pig ever. And they plan to apply for a listing in the Guinness Book of Records, the government's news agency said Monday.
The pig, which was 8 feet 3 inches long, is already the heaviest ever reported in China, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The beast had a girth of 7 feet, 3 inches and its tusks were 5 3/4 inches long when it died Feb. 5, the agency said. It cited the pig's keeper, Xu Changjin, a farmer in the northeastern province of Liaoning.
The pig lived to be 5 years old - considered long in China, where most pigs are slaughtered by age 3 - and was kept in a "nicely built sty," the report said.
But, "it had grown too big to move around," said Liu Mingyu, a professor at Liaoning University, who said it died from lack of exercise.
China's previous heaviest pig weighed in at 1,540 pounds, Liu said, in Xinhua's report.
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To: mhking
Just Damn!
To: maui_hawaii
Jerry Nadler's obituary?
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posted on
02/23/2004 11:09:59 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: maui_hawaii
yum! all them sausages! all that Ham! all that pork roast!! makes me mouth water just thinking of it!!
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posted on
02/23/2004 11:10:32 AM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
To: Blood of Tyrants
Who is Jerry Nadler?
To: Blood of Tyrants
Wow he's the first person I thought of *LOL*
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posted on
02/23/2004 11:10:47 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: camle
You could definately get some pork chops off of that monster...
To: maui_hawaii
But, "it had grown too big to move around," said Liu Mingyu, a professor at Liaoning University, who said it died from lack of exercise.
I have to get out of this cubicle and get to the gym.
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posted on
02/23/2004 11:12:00 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: maui_hawaii
I thought this was gonna be about Rosie...
To: maui_hawaii
We now have a mascot for Congress.
To: JeeperFreeper
OUCH!
Someone should stuff the thing and put it in the capital building...
To: dead
Good idea. Go to Subway too.
To: maui_hawaii
A visiting American congressman said Sunday that had any other country in the world faced the onslaught of Palestinian suicide bombings that have rocked Israel over the last three years they would be "carpet bombing" the Palestinian territories.
"If any country in the world would be attacked the way Israel is they would be carpet-bombing the Palestinian territories," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (Dem.-NY) Nadler said. "If this was America that was attacked we would be using B-52 bombers."
The New York Congressman, who visited the site of Sunday's Jerusalem bombing, blasted those who condemned Israel's construction of a security barrier, which zigzgas in and around the West Bank, and is meant to prevent suicide bombers from entering the country.
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posted on
02/23/2004 11:14:59 AM PST
by
Chris Talk
(What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
To: maui_hawaii
Chinese officials figure a 1,980-pound pig that died from lack of exercise has a shot at being named the biggest pig ever.<P. Oh Oh! And Hillary thought she had the title hands down!
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posted on
02/23/2004 11:15:25 AM PST
by
SAMWolf
(Except for rallies, Kerry stays away from Kennedy as if his wife depended on it)
To: maui_hawaii
That sure is one big pig.
To: maui_hawaii
Short answer: fatass liberal NY congressman.
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posted on
02/23/2004 11:17:29 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: maui_hawaii
Some Pig!
To: maui_hawaii
Ought to be a mascot for our congress
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posted on
02/23/2004 11:24:11 AM PST
by
uncbob
To: maui_hawaii
The world's biggest porkers all inhabit the halls of the US Senate.
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posted on
02/23/2004 11:25:30 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
("What do I know? I'm just the President." - George W. Bush, Superbowl XXXVIII pregame statement)
To: Blood of Tyrants
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