is it me
or do people tend not to be very fond of farm animals beyond "mmm, tasty meat"?
Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Comments
Also I think sheep are adorable, if that counts. They also produce wool which makes for wonderful warm yarn to knit pretty things with.
idk if i'm imagining it, but sometimes it seems like our culture treats farm animals as just dumb beasts regardless of actual intelligence (in reality, chickens are not all that smart, cows are smarter, and pigs are smarter than dogs).
He did have a weird name, it is true... i remember when i was camping with the Cub Scouts someone got hold of my copy of The School Mouse (or maybe it was Daggie Dogfoot? But i think it was The School Mouse) and thought the author's name was hilarious... the kid in question was the most popular one there because he was kind of daring and also he won at sports and fights, and he liked to pick on me.
He made up a song about Dick King Smith and how he was the king of the dicks and got the whole tent (6 boys) laughing at it, and laughing at me because i read books by King Penis-licker-with-dick-in-his-name-who-wore-a-dick-instead-of-a-crown himself. i was a quiet Christian child with very bad social skills and no friends, who took everything 100% seriously and personally, and i was absolutely mortified. The memory still stings.
He did have a weird name.
He wrote a semi-sequel to The Sheep-Pig which was called Ace. The protagonist was Babe's great-grandson, and learned to understand human speech. That was one of my favourites.
Sadly, we never got a film of that one. Instead we got Babe: Pig in the City, which was awful.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i remember there was a troper who was really into that... Cliche, iirc?
Dick King Smith does sound kind of like a stripper name.
I remember enjoying that, back whenever it was.
Perhaps by capturing him using a series of elaborate traps that don't work correctly in an unforeseen way.
sheep are cool too I guess
Pynchon likes pigs.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead