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Saturday 27 March 2010

A Caption Opportunity...




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37 comments:

Ingrid said...

Tapir or not tapir, that is the question.

Zephirine said...

Hi Ingrid! How's the world treating you?

Zephirine said...

Not many pig-lovers out there, obviously.

Meltonian said...

Want some snout, mate?

Meltonian said...

Sorry, this sty has a dress policy. No jeans.

Zephirine said...

Good stuff, Melton! Are you feeling better? I've had a bit of a bronchial virus myself. Spring, eh, gets you every time.

Meltonian said...

Perhaps you should rethink that two legs good thing, Napoleon.

Thanks for the enquiry, Zeph. Yes, on the road to recovery now. My agents have apprehended the person who coughed over me in Tesco. Avoid the Fresh Meat section in the IoW branch for the time being.

Ingrid said...

Hi Zeph, I'm OK, thanks, but very busy. The footy season is coming to the boil so I'm keeping an eye on the lads. They're pretty tense, and reaching for the bottle far too often. They're keeping me well lubricated too. Pigs? yeah, the lot of them.

Pinkerbell said...

He might not have been able to save the front of the house from the wolf and he'd lost one of the three pigs, but it would be nice if someone had noticed his efforts! (thought the non-chalant superhero with a jumper for a cape)

Happy Easter everyone!

Pinkerbell said...

"nonchalant"

What's a hyphen between friends?

mimi said...

Ingrid beat me to the main question, but now it's a thing. Bronzed pigs - do they give smoked bacon? Rind on? Proper part of cooked breakie.

Meltonian said...

Don't turn your back on us, Charles. I know we can find a way to make this work.

Zephirine said...

Excellent, Melton!

Mimi, I think the bacon would be a fine colour, but tough.

munni said...

Ingrid, you tapir, you brought 'er.

Mimi, they taste braised.

mimi said...

Maybe we could have Tapir brushed with Stardust?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ClzqUq9kg

mimi said...

Or this ....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ii8m1jgn_M&feature=related

Zephirine said...

Apologies for the lack of new posts - a combination of bronchitis and work. Normal service will be resumed at some point...

guitou said...

Zeph,
I hope you're feeling better. At last you should stop smocking this medicinal plant they call pakalolo at pseuds...it may give you vision of african pigs for sale.
swine toi bien..

guitou said...

about this caption:
probably a guy willing to show his date what he stands for.

offsideintahiti said...

And "swine-toi bien", gets the award for best bilingual pun of the year. I'm jealous.

mimi said...

Well this is it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_VRXpGhbk&feature=related
How's the world treating you?

Love is tearing me apart.

Zephirine said...
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Zephirine said...

The world's treating me to a virus and not much else at the moment, Mimi.

It's a brilliant pun, isn't it, Offie? It made me laugh lots, but then I coughed.

Thank you for your good wishes, Guitou, je me swine avec beaucoup de cough mixture mais pas de pakalolo.

guitou said...

Cheers Zeph,
Porc toi bien.

mimi said...

Get well soon, dear Zeph.

Hope the volcanic ash cloud doesn't make you cough even more.

Kept wondering today if the grey clouds were normal weather or BBC-generated Icelandic hype.

Still, nice to have a very quiet day with no planes flying. Not that we have a lot, but big exercises at Lossie have been a bit noisy this week.

Meltonian said...

Sorry to hear you're still suffering, Zeph. I find being thumped on the back by an obliging person a good loosener. No shortage of enthusiastic volunteers here, though I think a baseball bat is probably overdoing it.

Zephirine said...

Thanks for the wishes, folks, it's getting better now, but astonishing how much time and energy is taken up just coughing.

Melton, the looks the people on the bus give me when I cough near them would suggest at least baseball bats and possibly knuckledusters.

guitou said...

I am for the Hammam.
A good sweat first then the thumping.
There are also my grandmother's way : Les Ventouses.
Kind of sucking glasses all over your back, if it doesn't kill you , you live for ever after.Just look at me :-)

offsideintahiti said...

Zeph,

have you tried a Gitanes first thing in the morning? I find it clears up the airways very efficiently.

guitou said...

careful Offie Gitane can be dangerous and makes you crazy. Never heard of the G psychose?

guitou said...

careful Offie Gitane can be dangerous and makes you crazy. Never heard of the G psychose?

guitou said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5TCbgKFSoo

Zephirine said...

The only time I ever tried smoking Gitanes I ended up sounding like, if not Louis Armstrong, at least one of his relatives. Quite amazing effect.

Your collective good wishes are producing a result, or maybe it's the volcanic dust, I definitely coughed less today, hooray.

guitou said...

glad you're feeling better Zeph-
This gipsy chose is not exactly la vie en rose.

Meltonian said...

I found Gauloises much harsher than Gitanes. There was also that toxic residue of tobacco shreds which you were picking out of your teeth for hours afterwards. Not quite as lung-wrenching as Capstan Full Strength, but a damned near-run thing.

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