Buried treasure?

[Maus_Magill]

@Toucanna

Psssst…read the link’s url.

This is what I get for browsing on my iPod.

Where’s the pig?

[lieu]

Sets down War and Peace

Well, that was a good read.

[Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension]

Completes scale model of house in Australia, complete with tiny pig, deadly serpents and corpse in basement

Have we got the pig yet?

[BMalion]

Sooooooieeeee!

[Zebra]

Completes scale model of Australia, complete with tiny house, tiny pig, deadly serpents and corpse in basement

Have we got the pig yet?

[Surly_Chick]

I’m thinking that by now Cicero very much regrets telling us about said pig…

[omni-not]

Pig in da house??

or still under it?

[Sarabellum]

Go get that pig!! RIGHT NOW!! I mean it!

[Zsofia]

@Dung_Beetle

Just to be clear, my offer to retrieve the pig in return for a trip to Australia was conditional on the pig being under the house.

Mine ain’t! I got a nose clip and some rubber gloves and I’ve always wanted to go to Australia.

[Zsofia]

@jackdavinci

Let’s hope it’s not the Interstellar Pig!

Wait, somebody else read that as a kid?

[davidm]

So… what was in the pig? Are you having trouble breaking it open after fetching it? (You’ve fetched it by now, right?)

[Bam_Boo_Gut]

http://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/whopper-of-a-truffle-on-the-menu-at-burswood/story-e6frg3pu-1226089123345?from=public_rss

I think he’s started cashing in already.

[Sierra_Indigo]

@Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension

Completes scale model of house in Australia, complete with tiny pig, deadly serpents and corpse in basement

Have we got the pig yet?

Very few houses in this country have basements. The pig and corpse are in the crawl space.

[jackdavinci]

@Zsofia

Wait, somebody else read that as a kid?

I read it as a teenager, and I’ve read most of the authors other stuff as an adult I still keep hoping they’ll make the boardgame

[Cicero]

Well, you guys shamed me into it. I rugged up like the Michelin man and went to the opening today.

There were two cement slabs covering it and they were damn heavier than I thought.

There were also two mummified mice to look at me as soon as I opened it. I disposed of them.

And there was the pig- about six feet into the cavity. I managed to get it out.

I knew immediately it was empty. It was so light.

I would add that it was no where near the kitchen so I have no idea why he thought that.

It seems the mystery will remain as to how it ever got under there.

[Dung_Beetle]

Maybe there’s another pig under the kitchen?

[davidm]

This is just his way of getting out of it. “I got it and it was empty.” Suuurrrre you did. :dubious:

[Cicero]

@Dung_Beetle

Maybe there’s another pig under the kitchen?

Oh thanks. That will forever haunt me. :mad:

[Cicero]

@davidm

This is just his way of getting out of it. “I got it and it was empty.” Suuurrrre you did. :dubious:

Actually, I did think of saying that so I could weasel my way of getting out of under the house.

However, I am about to post pictures of the pig on Google +.
One thing I did think of- say it had about $20,000 something like that- what on earth would you do? Report it to the police?

[penultima_thule]

@Cicero

I knew immediately it was empty. It was so light.

Well he would say that, wouldn’t he.

Version 2.

@Cicero

At the urgings of SDMB colleagues and despite my personal misgivings I have collected the piggybank without undue difficulty or inconvenience. The extraction was performed expeditiously and at no stage was I in any risk of harm. Inside the ceramic pig was a diamond ring, several gold bands and a substantial sum of small denomination and unmarked notes, but no evidence as to whom it may have previously belonged.

I have resolved to share my windfall gains with those who encouraged me.

Please send me BSB and bank account details so that I can lodge your share electronically.

Well done cobber