# Buried treasure? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017 "2011-07-06T11:51:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/181 "2011-07-15T15:15:10Z")
Oh, I would love to have the pink pig. It’d be kind of neat. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/182 "2011-07-15T15:17:06Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Thanks folks. Now I have a really chintzy, cruddy pink pig for the next white elephant exchange. > > Except it is now a cultural icon. Picture! We need a picture. In it’s native habitat! We need a picture of the pig in the crawlspace. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/183 "2011-07-15T15:19:34Z")
No, I wouldn’t ask you to go back in, but I would love a picture of the pig! ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/184 "2011-07-15T16:02:43Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Who wouldn’t want The Pink Pig come their way in the white elephant? I don’t want anything that’s been in an elephant, white, pink or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/185 "2011-07-15T16:19:21Z")
> [@gregorio](#): > > I don’t want anything that’s been in an elephant, white, pink or otherwise. I don’t think it would be pink after passing through an elephant, just sayin…:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/186 "2011-07-15T17:19:13Z")
> [@curious11](#): > > Maybe the pig was a marker for something buried? No, no - the pig was there as a decoy. The real treasure in under one of the two dead mice. If you pull the correct mouse, it sets off a bell and opens a vault filled with gold and jewels and beautiful naked women in suspended animation who wish to share their most intimate favors with whoever rescues them. But don’t pull the mouse on the right - it opens a slide into the nether Regions of Death. So Cicero needs to go in there and pull the other one. It’s got bells on it. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/187 "2011-07-15T23:32:35Z")
Get yourself an RF controlled toy car or truck; put a light on it and put a fiber optic TV cable on it; tie a rope to the RF toy. Send in the toy RF car and have to go to the back side of the piggy bank. Have the toy RF car push the piggy bank back to the access point. It might take a year or two but you’ll have the piggy back out. Open it up and see what it contains. Probably a VERY pissed of deadly snake but so what? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/188 "2011-07-16T15:17:49Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Get yourself an RF controlled toy car or truck; put a light on it and put a fiber optic TV cable on it; tie a rope to the RF toy. Send in the toy RF car and have to go to the back side of the piggy bank. Have the toy RF car push the piggy bank back to the access point. It might take a year or two but you’ll have the piggy back out. Open it up and see what it contains. Probably a VERY pissed of deadly snake but so what? Maybe you should have read the entire thread before posting? We’re beyond that and talking about how he should proceed in digging up that crawlspace to find the pirate treasure. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/189 "2011-07-16T17:24:56Z")
I wonder why the pig was there. It really has the mark of a prankster, don’t you think? I mean, if it had been a Raggedy Ann doll, or anything really that didn’t evoke thoughts of money, we’d all be like “Meh, some poor kid lost their toy when Mom or Dad caught them in the crawl space.” But here’s this little hunk of ceramic that evokes filthy lucre. Not riches mind you, I mean any sane person looks at a child’s piggy bank and thinks of $1.56 in loose change, amIright? But no, we all go straight to a pig stuffed with 1956 McDonnell-Douglas platinum stock certificates. So, either Humans are hopelessly greedy, and this condemns human nature entirely; or, Humans are hopelessly hopeful, and this speaks volumes about why our future is so rosy. :: pondering:: The only thing I’m compeltely sure of, is that Rat Guy is gonna have a chortle the next time he goes down there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/190 "2011-07-16T18:53:59Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > … how he should proceed in digging up that crawlspace to find the pirate treasure. It’s probably better that he just bulldoze the property … ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/191 "2011-07-16T19:22:26Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > It’s probably better that he just bulldoze the property … Or just take off and nuke it from orbit. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/192 "2011-07-16T23:52:04Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Or just take off and nuke it from orbit. Don’t be ridiculous. Diamonds are made of carbon, and would vaporize. . . ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/193 "2011-07-17T02:09:12Z")
What is the best way to restore structural integrity to a house after digging dozens of holes in the crawlspace? Need answer fast. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/194 "2011-07-17T10:33:14Z")
If you want a look, [here](http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2957640390098000304ZVUOZf) is a picture of the liberated pig. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/195 "2011-07-17T11:39:44Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > If you want a look, [here](http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2957640390098000304ZVUOZf) is a picture of the liberated pig. Thank you. Now my life is complete. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/196 "2011-07-17T13:20:23Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > If you want a look, [here](http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2957640390098000304ZVUOZf) is a picture of the liberated pig. Now that … is a thing of beauty. _wipes tear_ Where’s the dugite? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/197 "2011-07-17T15:22:21Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > If you want a look, [here](http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2957640390098000304ZVUOZf) is a picture of the liberated pig. &%\*!)(!# corporate [EMAIL="&#\*@^%"]&#\*@^%\* firewall #&T^!@& !&%\*\*#! ! ! ! ! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/198 "2011-07-17T23:00:34Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > If you want a look, [here](http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2957640390098000304ZVUOZf) is a picture of the liberated pig. Is it just me or doesn’t that pig have a self-satisfied look of “I know where the money is REALLY hidden”? 200 posts and we are just beginning to scratch the surface of a much bigger, and more lucrative story. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/199 "2011-07-18T01:23:52Z")
Looks like a couple of pieces are missing off its flank, that’ll be why it hasn’t activated yet. **Cicero** - you’ve got to get back under there mate and search for the missing pieces to complete the pig. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/200 "2011-07-18T04:36:15Z")
I know! It only _looks_ like the pig is made of plastic. It’s actually something rare and precious. Such a clever disguise: the pig is not made to _hold_ treasure, it _is_ the treasure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017.md?page=11)