The smelly pig

Subject: RE: The smelly pig
From: The Pooka
Date: 01 Sep 02 - 04:27 PM

From the heading, it looks like it came from that prolific songwriter, ould Turlough Anon. From the style, I'd trace it to the County Offaly. / Jus' kidding Guest Taffy. Dunno.

But it's the selfsame principle as in that sad tale of the 3 travelers, an Israeli, an Indian, and an Irishman, who come up to a farmer's house seeking lodging for the night. The hospitable farmer invites them in, saying "I can put up two of you but haven't the room for 3, so one will have to sleep in the barn." Drawing lots, the Tel Avivian loses, so it's off to the barn with him. 1 in the morning comes a knocking on the farmer's door: yer man. Says "I'm sorry to disturb you but there's a pig -- treif! -- sharing my bed of hay out there and it is against my Jewish religion to repose in proximity to an unclean beast." So the humble Indian fellow volunteers to take his place. 2 a.m., knockin' on the door. Says the sleepless subcontinental feller: "I'm very sorry indeed, but there is a cow in the barn and a Hindu must not recline near to a sacred ancestor." "Arrah th' Pope, Gawd bless 'im, has no such regulations at all, at all," says Paddy, "an' d'ye know what I'm goin' t' tell yez, it's the barn fer me an' a good night to all." 2:15, a mighty battering and roaring at the door. Yes: the cow and the pig. :)

Subject: RE: The smelly pig
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Sep 02 - 04:25 PM

"You can tell a man who boozes,
By the company he chooses
And the pig got up and slowly walked away!"

Subject: RE: The smelly pig
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 01 Sep 02 - 04:14 PM

um, Bosnia? Rwanda? I give up.

Subject: The smelly pig
From: GUEST,Guest Taffy
Date: 01 Sep 02 - 03:44 PM

Tune: Mrs McGrath Words: Anon.

In a country town, four men did meet,
To attempt an almost impossible feat,
A Scotchman, an Englishman, a man from Wales.
And a great big Paddy as hard as nails,
with a too ri ay, fol di riddle ay,
Too ri oo ri oo ri ay.

There lived a pig in this little town,
Whose stink was famous the whole world round,
And these four brave men had come to try,
To stay for an hour in that (sniff) pig sty!
with a too ...

The scotchman he was first to try,
he was four feet broad and three feet high.
But after five minutes we heard a yell:
" Get me oot o' here Ah cannae stand the smell!"
with a too ...

The Welshman and the Irishman both had a go,
But they only lasted ten minutes or so.
The Welshman's face was the colour of a leek,
While the Paddy said "Sure me knees are weak!"
with a too ...

Then the Englishman he was next to go in,
Saying "I am sure that I will win"
But after an hour no sound was heard,
And we thought that the Englishman was dead!
with a too ..

Then we heard a shout and a shape jumped out,
'Twas the dirty old pig holding tight its snout.
"For the love of Christ ", the pig did say,
"Will you take that Eglishman away?"
with a too ..

Where did this come from?