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July 29, 2004
Meaner Than a Red Hog
Now this is some pig innit? Though I question whether it's really 12 ft. long....maybe some of you with more experience in photography (hint hint Bill) can give a better estimate of its size. One thing's for sure. That's a big ol' red boar.
We have an old saying about few things are meaner than a red hog. Now I don't know how true that is. My maternal grandparents raised hogs when I was a kid, and I don't remember the occasional red ones being any meaner than the others. Though there were a few boars that were so ill-tempered that Granny was the only one who would get in the pen and mess with them. Granny is a tiny, petite lady, what Mike calls a 'bird woman'....like a sparrow. Not even 5 feet tall, and at the time, wouldn't have weighed 90 lbs. soaking wet. But let a couple of big old boars get into a fight, and Granny would sail over the fence and light into the transgressors with her stick. Didn't take Granny long to break up a hog fight, let me tell you.
Granny, you see, was meaner than a red hog herself.
She's the only grandparent I have still surviving, and if I may say so, age and senile dementia haven't improved her temperament any. To put it mildly.
I don't know if even in her prime Granny could've handled this hog.
But it sure would've been something to see her try.
Posted by Rita at July 29, 2004 07:08 AM
Comments
I don't have a clue as to the auhenticity of Granny, but the photo appears to be real....the pixels are uniform....as are the shadows
Posted by: Bill at July 29, 2004 12:20 PM
Mike can verify that she's real. Just ask him.
Posted by: rita at July 29, 2004 06:30 PM
The comments I have are: the guy is standing in a hole that appears to be 1-2 feet deep lower than the surrounding terrain; the hog is hanging in front of him by ar least a couple of feet, making it appear even larger than he is; and, the hog is hanging several feet above the ground level (not where the guy is standing). All that adds up to the porker looking larger than it really is.
I'm not saying it is't a large hog, I'm just saying the way the picture was set up, it looks even larger than it was in real life. One doesn't have to manipulate the picture after it was taken to fool the eye - just taking the picture at certain angles and circumstances will do the same thing.
Posted by: bogie at July 30, 2004 06:32 AM