This just in: Piglympics

by Meg on April 18, 2006

Leave it to the Russians to come up with ANOTHER DELICIOUS way to enjoy piglets. The Pig Olympics.

From the full story on BBC: "Each pig, dressed in a numbered bib, was carried squealing into the arena for each event." Hee!

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Check this out: about to snorgle a WHOLE LOT of water:

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Amazing! Spah-see-bah, Richard, Ellie, and Melissa L.

{ 50 comments }

1 Jan Spencer 04.18.06 at 9:37 pm

Awww!! too cute!!!

2 Jan Spencer 04.18.06 at 9:37 pm

OH MY GOD…FIRST POST! LOL AFTER ALL THIS TIME, I GOT THE FIRST POST! I even played lotto too…lol

3 Lucy 04.18.06 at 9:47 pm

awwwwh the cute little piggles!

4 Theo 04.18.06 at 9:53 pm

Jan? Honey?
I slap you.

5 Juan 04.18.06 at 9:57 pm

He wins by a snout!!!

6 kagomechan21 04.18.06 at 10:01 pm

now all the little piggie needs is a smear of zinc oxide on the top of his little nose and one of those red lifeguard floatie things

7 Theo 04.18.06 at 10:12 pm

OK, crap, I’m stumped. SOMEwhere in this impossible-to-search blog is another pic of a swimming pig, coupled (oddly enough) with some kind of rodent in a Weight Watchers portion scale. But there’s a pig, did I mention? Swimming? Needs to be linked to.

Meg? Help? I even remember that this was a post that was mis-categorized, or at least it used to be…

8 Theo 04.18.06 at 10:20 pm

(just to be clear… I’m not blaming Meg for TypePad’s lack of a search feature, I’m just grumpy that I can’t find a link I wanted. Me!!)

9 cakeyvoice 04.18.06 at 10:22 pm

go olympigs!

10 Jan Spencer 04.18.06 at 10:24 pm

LOL @ Theo…thanks for the slap to bring me to my senses. LOL

11 Aly 04.18.06 at 10:52 pm

Theo. Theo. You might need a slap too.

All of us! Deep breaths. Deeeep…. breaths… inhale…exhale.

Okay. PIGLETS! <3

12 DLT 04.18.06 at 11:00 pm

piggeh! piggeh! piggeh!

13 demonstar 04.18.06 at 11:01 pm

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! PIGGIES! CANT STAND THE CUTENESS OF THE LITTLE PIGLETS!!!!! HELP ME!!!!

*******THUMP*******
TOO LATE

14 Theo 04.18.06 at 11:07 pm

“Thump”???
[wonders how in the heck DS was able to collapse & miss the piggie pool]

15 p 04.18.06 at 11:12 pm

That’s so peaceful :) Did you read the story?

16 little miao 04.18.06 at 11:21 pm

What furry little champion piglets!

17 Hammy 04.18.06 at 11:49 pm

#5!!!! Go cute lil’piglett!!!!!

18 jaypo 04.18.06 at 11:51 pm

Theo, there’s the two piggies in a pool in the Unusual Animals link…not lookin’ too porky though.

19 JessJess 04.18.06 at 11:59 pm

HEHEHEHEHHEHEHEH!!!! PIGGIES!!! This site makes me want to run a zoo just to be around cute little animals all day =D

20 Courtney 04.19.06 at 12:19 am

Three furry swimming piggies!!! This is my favorite picture today.

21 afinlarc 04.19.06 at 12:42 am

that’s not cute. Pigs are mean and they bite. Not cute at all.

22 Theo 04.19.06 at 12:57 am

Jaypo — I did find this one:
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/03/mudliiiiiiiciou.html
…and it’s close, but it’s not the one I meant. Where’s my swimming piglets, double-posted with a guinea pig in a portion scale?

Also can be found here:
http://imreallysad.com/481

23 Becci 04.19.06 at 1:01 am

Come on, afinlarc. There are tons of different kinds of pigs. They aren’t all mean and biting, and like dogs and many other animals, their temperament is determined in part by their upbringing.

They ARE cute.

24 Theo 04.19.06 at 1:10 am

[snicker] …yeah, I think afin’s thinking of Pig Bulls.

25 E. Collison 04.19.06 at 1:16 am

Theo, the swimming piglets are here: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/images/pigolympic3.jpg

The “rodent” on the scale is a chinchilla – check the Ja. 06 archives.

BTW, I *loooove* these piglets.

26 Theo 04.19.06 at 1:23 am
27 Meg 04.19.06 at 1:26 am
28 Theo 04.19.06 at 1:30 am

Tsk… Meg, you gotta keep up with us, girl.

29 ElfOwl 04.19.06 at 2:20 am

SUUUUEEEEEY-EEEET. I love the little noises they make!

30 k 04.19.06 at 3:29 am

The second one! OMG!

What is it about animals swimming or sleeping that is so DAMN CUTE?!

31 Meg 04.19.06 at 4:58 am

Theo, I just attempted to install Rollyo, a search engine JUST for you to search C.O. content… Can’t get it working yet, tho… I’m certain I will prevail!

32 Subhangi 04.19.06 at 5:48 am

EEEEE! Swimming pigglies! Oink! Oink! Glubglubglub.

33 faye 04.19.06 at 11:45 am

Lets make a new section- swimming animals!

34 A thinker 04.19.06 at 12:23 pm

Yes, me’ve been thinking for some time that CO needs a search feature. Yay Meg!!

And yay swimming pigs. I sent this in too but looks like I was a little too late (or my emails aren’t being delivered!)

35 Norty 04.19.06 at 12:33 pm

that second pic does me in! I looooooove you piggy!

36 ariel 04.19.06 at 1:23 pm

i’m with faye!
i’m with faye!
i’m with faye!

37 Theo 04.19.06 at 2:55 pm

Meg — oooh, a new search option??? Here’s hoping! Happy indexing…

38 Theo 04.19.06 at 2:56 pm

PS — Ariel — LOL.

39 M- 04.19.06 at 3:35 pm

Aww.. piggyness… love it and they are SOOOO cute too. These incredible animals actually have my awe, they are second in intelligence only to primates (yup, equal to dolphins) contibute LITERALLY all of themselves to mankind for ALL types of uses. I have much respect for any creature who can do so much and ask for so little in return.

Now I want to go read Charlotte’s Web again… noble little pigs… just lurv them.

40 ... 04.19.06 at 4:01 pm

Not to be mean, I respect everything pigs do for us as well, but it’s not like they have a choice…humans will have their way regardless, reallu.

41 A thinker 04.19.06 at 4:05 pm

Good call, …

42 RavishingRoberta 04.19.06 at 6:09 pm

Splish Splash I Was Taking A Bath

43 DanBenZvi 04.20.06 at 12:47 am

In lane 5, representing the United States Of Hamerica…

44 afinlarc 04.20.06 at 12:52 am

Lighten up Becci.

45 Laura 04.20.06 at 1:27 am

Whoa, little Number 5 looks like he’s totally in the zone. (and I love how this event was run by a group named the “Sport-Pig Federation.”)

46 M- 04.20.06 at 3:07 pm

“humans will have their way regardless” … Oh its not that they could protest, I get that… its their biology that astounds me. They are like the duct tape of the animal kingdom, then again the uses people find for duct tape astounds me as well… so…. :)

47 Gary Fixler 05.03.06 at 8:30 am

Sorry if the link is buried somewhere above, but I just randomly ran into way more porklympics pics, and a video, and thought I’d add it here for posterity.

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/060417pig/

I love this pic of the girl, the boy whose head she’s planted her hand on, and their chubby Harry Potter:

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/060417pig/11.html

48 Pomster 06.04.06 at 10:20 am

I have to say I’m going to have to go with number 5. I don’t know he just seems to be a bit more determined. That’s right son. You oink! You oink’em good!

49 rubber duck 04.10.07 at 11:44 pm

The pig in the second pic is just TOO CUTE!! :O Look at his BIG EARS! and his snout! TOO CUTE! Just too cute!

50 animalrights 05.26.07 at 6:06 pm

OMG this is just animal abbuse.
poor pigs forced to wear a silly headband and swim fore their lives.
OMG…….this is just awfull

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