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Gargantuan pig battles Big Bill for world record (It's not what you think)
Ananova ^
| Friday 27th February 2004
Posted on 02/27/2004 4:13:05 PM PST by presidio9
Chinese scientists are appealing to the Guinness Book of Records to recognise a 900 kilo pig which died earlier this month as the biggest ever porker.
The pig was 2.5 metres long, had a waistline of 2.23 metres and a tusk of 14.4cms long when it died on February 5, aged five, said its keeper, Xu Changjin, a farmer of Wafangdian city.
Xu said that he had kept his pig in a nicely built sty and fed it quality fodder all its life.
Professor Liu Mingyu, a life scientist with prestigious Liaoning University, says that the pig had died from lack of exercise. "It had grown too big to move around," he explained.
Prof Liu has had the pig stuffed and made into a specimen for the Liaoning Provincial Agricultural Museum. He says the museum is applying for the pig to be listed by Guinness.
But a spokesman for Guinness says the 900 kilo pig may not beat a Poland-China hog called Big Bill, from Tennessee, US, which died in 1933.
Big Bill was measured at 1.52 metres tall and 2.47 metres long. However, there is no record of Big Bill's weight or waistline.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bigbill
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posted on
02/27/2004 4:13:06 PM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Oh my, that thing is really ugly.
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posted on
02/27/2004 4:14:33 PM PST
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: texasflower
Yes, I am referring to the one on the right.
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posted on
02/27/2004 4:15:16 PM PST
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: farmfriend
BTW, what is the point of a Chinese farmer keeping a pig until it died of old age? Stud? Do they drink pig milk in China?
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posted on
02/27/2004 4:16:09 PM PST
by
presidio9
(FREE MARTHA)
To: texasflower
The pig ain't that pretty, either.
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posted on
02/27/2004 4:16:10 PM PST
by
Thom Pain
To: presidio9
I thought this was going to be about Moninca and William J. Clintoon...
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posted on
02/27/2004 4:17:09 PM PST
by
CommandoFrank
(If GW is the terrorist's worst nightmare, Kerry is their wet dream...)
To: presidio9
The photo was taken with a wide angle lens. The sow's ear is not actually the same size as the woman's sweater.
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posted on
02/27/2004 4:39:14 PM PST
by
coloradan
(Hence, etc.)
To: presidio9
Are you certain that's not Rosie O'Donuts!?
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posted on
02/27/2004 8:22:00 PM PST
by
Chu Gary
(USN Intel guy 1967 - 1970)
To: presidio9; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
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posted on
02/27/2004 9:02:43 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: farmfriend
BTT!!!!!!
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posted on
02/28/2004 3:04:03 AM PST
by
E.G.C.
To: presidio9; hellinahandcart; NYC GOP Chick
Here it was i thought you were talking about Her Heinous slinging yet another ashtray at His Slickness.
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posted on
02/28/2004 5:10:34 AM PST
by
sauropod
(I intend to have Red Kerry choke on his past.)
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