# So Pigs CAN Fly! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817 "2000-10-29T15:34:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/61 "2000-11-06T04:32:13Z")
(I told you my verse was bad!) ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/62 "2000-11-06T05:25:21Z")
Steve, you are so darling and amazingly adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/63 "2000-11-06T06:16:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > > “O mistress mine! > where are you roaming? > O! stay and hear; > your true love’s coming, > That can sing both high and low. > Trip no further, pretty sweeting; > Journeys end in lovers meeting, > Every wise man’s son doth know.” > –Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene iii Well, NOW I feel better! > [@](#): > > “confess yourself freely to her; > importune her; > she’ll help to put you > in your place again. > She is of so free, so kind, so apt, > so blessed a disposition, > that she holds it a vice in her goodness > not to do more than she is requested.” > –Othello, Act 2, Scene iii 😉 Or 😕 Wait a minute! ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/64 "2000-11-06T10:03:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mrblue92 \* > \*\*Alas, fair lady, for tho’ thy favor rests on another, the love that bindeth me to thee shall not fade, tho’ the mountains crumble and the sun a blackened cinder be. \*\* You would try to steal the fair Kathryn from me? “Swounds, show me what thou’lt do: Woo’t weep? woo’t fight? woo’t fast? woo’t tear thyself? Woo’t drink up eisel? eat a crocodile? I’ll do’t. Dost thou come here to whine?” –Hamlet, Act 5, Scene ii > [@](#): > > \*\*Oh, what fickle fate hast brought me! Dost thou not see, sweetest Rosebud, why thy petals I do so long to smell? For tho’ my love for Kate goes unrequited, my love for you still awaits the embrace of thy kind eyes and the gentle words of thy velvet lips. > > Tho’ my mind sayeth such love is but folly, my heart canst not resist; it doth beat in fervent anticipation of thy heavenly reply. What sayest thou, O dearest one? Shall this heart be but another thrown amongst hungry wolves, or shall it be thy throne, thy mansion, wherest thou wilt dwell in finest estate? \*\* “I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers” –King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, Scene i > [@](#): > > \*\*So seems this thread thy pleasure doth it make, > To fade anon, tho’ Shakespeare should I fake. > Yet parting thee I find a bitter pill, > And wish to stay, if so be it thy will, > To tarry on, this conversation fair. > Reply, in kindness, m’ angels of the air, > That we might woo, and in this wooing start, > A friendship fine, that groweth in thy heart. > > ('las, this sonnet I shall not make complete, > For rhyme and meter clearly is not meet. > And t’would be poor this form for me to stretch, > These silly lines, that maketh thee to retch.) \*\* “I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn’d, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry: ’Tis like the forc’d gait of a shuffling nag.” –King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, Scene i ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/65 "2000-11-06T10:05:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mrblue92 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > I’m kidding with this post–I think mr. blue92’s doing a really good job. > > Though thou wouldst sayeth these words are in jest, thy tainted barbs’ poison drips from my wounds, and thy true nature revealeth itself. For tho’ thy scorn be dismissed as hollow, my injured soul hath been torn asunder by these flaming arrows, these wretched swords, these cursed words. > \*\* "How much, methinks, I could despise this man, But that I am bound in charity against it! –King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene ii [sub]You know, I actually meant that “I was kidding when I was slamming mr. blue in the quoted post”, and in reality, I thought he was doing a really good job. _sigh_[/sub] \*\* > [@](#): > > Retract thy contempt, as I shall mine for thee, that such contemptous thoughts be cast aside, and as in peace brothers will stride, so shall we, thus denying the evil that wrests men’s hearts. \*\* “Sir, in this audience, Let my disclaiming from a purpos’d evil Free me so far in your most generous thoughts, That I have shot mine arrow o’er the house, And hurt my brother.” –Hamlet, Act 5, Scene ii ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/66 "2000-11-06T10:35:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > **Dan, adored one, a stuffed monkey lobbed across the room for that one. Followed by laughter and a true smile.** “You, O you! So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature’s best.” –The Tempest, Act 3, Scene i \*\* > [@](#): > > Steve: > _swoon_ > > _picks herself off the floor before DRY sees_ > > _brushes dust off her clothes_ > > \ cursed blackmail > \*\* [sub]_grumble_[/sub] “But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.” –The Rape of Lucrece \*\* > [@](#): > > DRY, dear, now be nice and make up, please? > \*\* “I am vanquished; these haughty words of hers Have batter’d me like roaring cannon-shot, And made me almost yield upon my knees.” –King Henry VI, Part 1, Act 3, Scene iii \*\* > [@](#): > > Well, we can all see who won my heart… > \*\* “Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down: come, quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.” –King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, Scene i > [@](#): > > \*\* > _notices DRY in the corner_ > BUT I _LOVE_ DRY BEST YES I DO! > > (Dan really is a dear friend. Whatever I tease. I just can’t let him get away with everything.) > \*\* “kiss me, Kate, we will be married o’ Sunday” –The Taming of the Shrew :D, Act 2, Scene i ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/67 "2000-11-06T17:54:55Z")
> [@](#): > > “I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew > Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers” T’would thou rather speakest only words from another man’s lips? 😃 > [@](#): > > You would try to steal the fair Kathryn from me? If she 'twere thine to steal, dear sir. Yet lady’s heart 'tis free as gentle bird, and mocks thy shackles that would bind her. > [@](#): > > cursed blackmail The choice, dear Kate, doth be thy heart’s alone; mayst thou never see such earthly cares hinder thy true love, or should thee fill thy arms for hate’s sake? Yet still I know thy heart doth not be filled with me… Wherefore art thou, Rosebud? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/68 "2000-11-06T22:14:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Shall this heart be but another thrown amongst hungry wolves, or shall it be thy throne, thy mansion, wherest thou wilt dwell in finest estate? And no response… Sooo… Door #1, eh? “Hey, that’s my aorta, ya lousy mongrel!” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/69 "2000-11-06T23:19:12Z")
Hey, how did we get from flying pigs to Shakespeare? Not that I’m complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/70 "2000-11-06T23:51:23Z")
Ahem… If flying pigs we have offended Think but this and all is mended We celebrate thy lofty snouts You rise above most barnyard louts And with this SD poetry slam, we– Hey, who could go for some wing-ed ham? ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/71 "2000-11-07T04:48:07Z")
Rosebud! This is serious! \ Serious I tell you! LOL!!! DRY, you’ll lay your head where? 😛 And I’m busy Sunday, engineering and work. But we can still flirt outrageously through e-mail. mrblue understands. In response I have only my fervent promise to live as my own self “One light, one mind, flashing in the dark” and delight in the rest of you! Pass the bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/72 "2000-11-07T04:54:35Z")
so just what good does it do to flash in the dark? nobody can see you then anyway - now if you want to come flash here in the light where I can see you… 😉 t’is sooth sir; in this place they live high on the hog 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/73 "2000-11-07T04:59:30Z")
Well if you crush some special crystals they flash in the dark. I forgot what the phenomena is called though. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/74 "2000-11-07T05:06:42Z")
Wintergreen Lifesavers! ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/75 "2000-11-07T05:30:49Z")
Yes! They do it. But there is a real live scientific name for it… ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/76 "2000-11-07T06:35:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > \*\*Well if you crush some special crystals they flash in the dark. I forgot what the phenomena is called though. > \*\* “mr blue92’s cyanotic spheroids” 😛 😛 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/77 "2000-11-07T06:40:24Z")
Dan! Be nice! Bad Dan! No cookie! ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/78 "2000-11-07T07:35:16Z")
Bad? Dan’s BAD? [sub]Why does no one ever TELL me these things?[/sub] I must confess, I have always had a soft spot in my heart for those “bad” boys! [vamp voice] So, **DRY,** I just happen to have a spare ticket for the upcoming Sonics/Lakers game, do you happen to be free that night? I’ll give you a cookie!! [/vamp voice] 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/79 "2000-11-07T08:06:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scotticher \* > \*\*I must confess, I have always had a soft spot in my heart for those “bad” boys! > \*\* “Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humour, and like enough to consent” –As You Like It, Act 4, Scene i 😃 \*\* > [@](#): > > I’ll give you a cookie!! [/vamp voice] > > 🙂 \*\* “Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.” 🙂 –A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene i ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817/80 "2000-11-07T08:12:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mrblue92 \* > \*\*T’would thou rather speakest only words from another man’s lips? \*\* “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit” 😛 –Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene v \*\* > [@](#): > > The choice, dear Kate, doth be thy heart’s alone; mayst thou never see such earthly cares hinder thy true love, or should thee fill thy arms for hate’s sake? > > Yet still I know thy heart doth not be filled with me… > > Wherefore art thou, Rosebud? 😉 > \*\* :rolleyes: “O! he’s as tedious As a tired horse, a railing wife; Worse than a smoky house. I had rather live With cheese and garlick in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates and have him talk to me In any summer-house in Christendom.” –Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, Scene i [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-pigs-can-fly/38817.md?page=5)