So, he was gettin’ piggy wit it?

In a follow-up, after this article was published, BBC Wales did a spot on Sooty, and the publicity meant that within half an hour of the original broadcast, most of the offspring had been found homes. The year following the featurette, 206 cards were sent to Sooty on Valentine’s Day — the most ever received by a guinea pig according to the Guiness Book of World Records.

References: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/justthejob/takeitfromme/star_sooty.shtml and http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=56224

This is old, but still a goodie… A Guinea Pig version of Kevin Federline… LOL…

I never laughed so hard at anything. Speak of a player.

He’s a guinea pimp.
*ba-da-bump*

bang her and leave her, it happens, just leave her with the dang kids

Sooty!!!What a guy!, too bad most of our human boys will never compare! Ya wanna see something really interesting…my guinea pig and my rabbit together I’ve never seen anything “have fun” faster than them…thank goodness they’re both males or God only knows what we’d end up with!!

ElfOwl, what you’re saying makes perfect sense. (I love words/word origins, too.)

Mm, isn’t that called a folk etymology? Like ‘tawdry’ or the non-word ‘Chester drawers’?

I remember when I was little I used to call eyebrows ‘eyebrowns.’ Makes sense to me!

E.C. and Cat, language has a funny way of capitalizing it’s own “mistakes”. Likely the parti-colored explanation was part of the original term, but people like to give words their own interpretations, and party-colored for Halloween might also have developed as a new definition as people became less familiar with the other. Both are apt.

I *LOVE* words and their origins, almost as much as I love PUPPIES!!! I would like to know the actual history of that usage . . .