# Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Let's do it again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 23, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193 "2019-10-23T21:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 90
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1781 "2020-01-22T19:14:30Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Are pet rocks mammals? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Was the animal a deer? > Cattle? > Antelope? > Giraffe? (that would be wrong on so many levels) > Camel? > Hippo? > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Can you tell us the kind of animal or is it important we keep guessing every mammal we know? **Rocks do not die**. Animal (see above) was a pig.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1782 "2020-01-22T20:44:38Z")
So what do you call a pig with no legs? A groundhog. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1783 "2020-01-22T20:54:41Z")
So, a person named P.D. traveled around showing off his dead legless pet pig? This dead legless pig is currently available to view streaming on the internet, where you can see folks take selfies with it? Was this pig in Ripley’s because P.D. traveled around with it after it died and had its legs cut off? Would the pig have been notable if its post demise activities were more… ordinary? Was the pig part of a traveling curiosity show? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1784 "2020-01-22T21:25:21Z")
Was the pig in sausage or hot dog form? Was it in any cooked or prepared-for-food form? I’m thinking of the Oscar Meyer Wiener-mobile or something similar. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1785 "2020-01-22T23:18:16Z")
Was its hide made into something, or is it essentially still a legless pig in form? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1786 "2020-01-23T02:16:57Z")
**reply to Cheesesteak** : So, a person named P.D. traveled around showing off his dead legless pet pig? **Yes** This dead legless pig is currently available to view streaming on the internet, where you can see folks take selfies with it? **Yes** Was this pig in Ripley’s because P.D. traveled around with it after it died and had its legs cut off? **No** Would the pig have been notable if its post demise activities were more… ordinary? **No.** Was the pig part of a traveling curiosity show? **No** ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1787 "2020-01-23T02:21:58Z")
**reply to Mahaloth** : Was the pig in sausage or hot dog form? **No** Was it in any cooked or prepared-for-food form? **Yes** I’m thinking of the Oscar Meyer Wiener-mobile or something similar. **No to Weiner-mobile, and I don’t know what qualifies as “something similar”. It does not seem similar to me.** ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1788 "2020-01-23T02:35:03Z")
Bacon? Ham? Pork Chops? Whole pig on a spigot(or with an apple in its mouth)? A football(made from pig skin)? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1789 "2020-01-23T02:36:56Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > Was its hide made into something, or is it essentially still a legless pig in form? \*\*No to hide. Don’t know about the hide. “Legless pig” is not the first thing I would say to describe the pet, though if a child saw P. D. parading the pet around with its collar and chain who knows what the child might say. Another interesting hint: While touring with the pet P. D. supposedly had the pet insured for $5000 which, according to one article I read about this unique situation, equates to $77,000(!) in today’s dollar.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1790 "2020-01-23T02:45:09Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Bacon? > > Ham? > > Pork Chops? > > Whole pig on a spigot(or with an apple in its mouth)? > > A football(made from pig skin)? \*\*Yes to ham. No to anything else. Note: P. D. was not crazy and indeed many people were, and some I guess still are, interested in his unique pet ham. It played a small part in helping P. D. become rich. It being a pet ham is _not_ why Ripley’s covered in 1929, 1932, and again in 2003.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1791 "2020-01-23T02:58:54Z")
Was the ham shaped in a way that was different to other hams? Did it go mouldy? Was it preserved in some way to prevent this? Was it coated in something to prevent this? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1792 "2020-01-23T03:02:04Z")
**reply to Aspidistra** : Was the ham shaped in a way that was different to other hams? **No** Did it go mouldy? **No** Was it preserved in some way to prevent this? **Yes** Was it coated in something to prevent this? **Not sure**. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1793 "2020-01-23T03:07:08Z")
was the thing that made PD’s pig/ham exceptional: - something the pig was born with? - something about the pig before it died? - something about the pig after it was made into a ham? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1794 "2020-01-23T03:36:50Z")
**reply to Aspidistra** : was the thing that made PD’s pig/ham exceptional: - something the pig was born with? **No** - something about the pig before it died? **No** - something about the pig after it was made into a ham? **Yes**. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1795 "2020-01-23T05:28:18Z")
I’m gonna take a guess here: The ham was preserved using a brand new technique and PD took it around as a “pet” to show how well it worked. He then made a fortune selling the new kind of ham. It was preserved so well that it’s still around today. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1796 "2020-01-23T05:52:48Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > I’m gonna take a guess here: The ham was preserved using a brand new technique and PD took it around as a “pet” to show how well it worked. He then made a fortune selling the new kind of ham. It was preserved so well that it’s still around today. You got it! And this 118 year-old ham **is still edible**!! Believe it or not. Here is the [Ham Cam](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.historicisleofwight.com/&ved=2ahUKEwj9pYHo_5jnAhVrUN8KHQSxANUQFjACegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw1q83S7Qy0ZIEHECliydawD). The ham in the middle on the right is P. D. Gwaltney’s “pet” (his term, not mine). It’s best to watch during the day when visitors are there to react to the ancient pork. The light are also on during operating hours, which certainly helps in ham viewing and appreciation. The Isle of Wight Museum in Virginia also houses the world’s oldest peanut and the world’s largest ham. [Story here](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-oldest-edible-ham&ved=2ahUKEwjk9-j4gJnnAhUST98KHWFNB0gQFjAFegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw2S4kWO9mi3WGOlALkrBFNO) or [here](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rare.us/rare-life/food-and-drink/worlds-oldest-ham/&ved=2ahUKEwjk9-j4gJnnAhUST98KHWFNB0gQFjAGegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw3QJ-Sf_TrpTNWNPc0uc0Qc) or in lots more places if you do a search on the world’s oldest edible ham. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1797 "2020-01-23T08:39:04Z")
So, on a completely different tangent, TIL that the US has its very own Isle of Wight and I’m now consumed with curiosity about what made this totally landlocked piece of ground look ‘islandish’ to somebody… ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1798 "2020-01-23T09:29:58Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > So, on a completely different tangent, TIL that the US has its very own Isle of Wight and I’m now consumed with curiosity about what made this totally landlocked piece of ground look ‘islandish’ to somebody… Were the first settlers from the British Isles? Or is it not a puzzle? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1799 "2020-01-23T11:13:56Z")
It’s not a puzzle!! I was just looking at that cam for about ten minutes thinking to myself that I know it’s morning in the UK so how come’s it all so dark?..before I figured it out ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1800 "2020-01-23T11:19:27Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > It’s not a puzzle!! I was just looking at that cam for about ten minutes thinking to myself that I know it’s morning in the UK so how come’s it all so dark?..before I figured it out Ah, gotcha. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=91)