# When pigs fly **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184 "2012-08-30T19:53:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/1 "2012-08-30T19:53:57Z")
Why pigs? ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/2 "2012-08-30T20:14:32Z")
'Cause we’re glad that cows don’t fly. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/3 "2012-08-30T20:26:32Z")
If you didn’t care . . . . Bacon is going up. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/4 "2012-08-30T20:26:47Z")
Pigs Fly and Cows Jump (over the Moon). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/5 "2012-08-30T20:42:13Z")
Probably because they are way, way too fat to fly. You could probably put wings on a shorn sheep and it would glide for a bit if you tossed it off a cliff, and there is Pegasus, but a big old fat pig? No way. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/6 "2012-08-30T20:57:10Z")
It occurs to me that a pig shares the aerodynamic characteristics of a wingless bumblebee. If one could somehow crossbreed pigs with bumblebees, thus producing a winged pig, perhaps the result would be self-delivering bacon… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/7 "2012-08-30T21:02:32Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > It occurs to me that a pig shares the aerodynamic characteristics of a wingless bumblebee. If one could somehow crossbreed pigs with bumblebees, thus producing a winged pig, perhaps the result would be self-delivering bacon… With honey…but there is a mass-size ratio problem here. I mean, pigs are pretty dense, too. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/8 "2012-08-30T21:12:01Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > If you didn’t care . . . . You know that I care… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/9 "2012-08-30T22:51:24Z")
Pigasus ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/10 "2012-08-30T23:30:29Z")
Hm. Should [these](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYjbkRktqIE)be considered pigs that fly? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/11 "2012-08-31T00:18:07Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Hm. Should [these](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYjbkRktqIE)be considered pigs that fly? Of course. That just doesn’t go to the etymological question you posed. I’m working on it… ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/12 "2012-08-31T00:25:56Z")
because we already have horseflys, houseflys and dragonflys. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/13 "2012-08-31T01:26:10Z")
Ever try to book a pig a first-class ticket to London? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/14 "2012-08-31T02:07:00Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Ever try to book a pig a first-class ticket to London? Flyin’ into London from over the Pole, Flyin’ in a big airliner… -Arlo Guthrie. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/15 "2012-08-31T10:49:16Z")
“This is what it sounds like When pigs fly” Just doesn’t sound right! ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/16 "2012-09-01T02:44:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You could probably put wings on a shorn sheep and it would glide for a bit if you tossed it off a cliff Harold 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/17 "2012-09-01T02:48:03Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Harold 😉 Could you be more [specific?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/18 "2012-09-01T03:29:41Z")
Pigs will fly when hell freezes over. Of course, this hasn’t quite been tested since Jesus cast out Legion 2000 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pigs-fly/633184/19 "2012-09-01T04:55:48Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Could you be more [specific?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald) [Lovely day, isn’t it?](http://www.montypython.net/scripts/flysheep.php)