I spy a burdizzo in the news

[Dave (imported)]

Now don't discuss the circumstances but look at the device she's going to put on some wall (or like that picture of your mother-in-law you take out of the closet when mother-in-law comes to visit)

http://www.mediaite.com/online/lindsey- ... on-device/

Senator Joni Ernst rose to prominence with her infamous hog castration ad, so when she was sworn in today, Lindsey Graham presented her with a very special gift:

A bronzed and mounted burdizzo - - a hog castrator.

[GenChick (imported)]

I would prefer some cash in my pocket!

[billf82 (imported)]

Ummmm. Hogs aren't usually done with a burdizzo.

[Dave (imported)]

I've never been on a hog farm so I can't say.

[JesusA (imported)]

As a farm boy, though one with somewhat restricted animal experience, I've never heard of using a burdizzo on swine. In my experience, pigs and horses were always castrated with knives. Sheep and goats were castrated with elastrators (and I still help my daughter to do so with her small herd). Burdizzos were reserved for cattle, though every time that I helped, they were castrated with knives and when I needed a photograph of a burdizzo for an article that I've published, it was difficult to find a large animal vet who still had one. The vet who finally posed for the photograph said that he hadn't used one for years since he thought that surgery, without anesthesia, was less painful than a burdizzo.

On some of the liberal political blogs it's been claimed that Lindsey Graham presented Joni Ernst with a burdizzo that he already had lying around his house....

[Dave (imported)]

I "explained" the burdizzo on another blog and I could tell from the responses that men were covering their family jewels with both hands. I wonder if Joni Ernst going to mount it on the walls of her office or take it home and hang it in her family room.

I should own up to having only seen a live pig once in my life.

It was the few years I spent in a fraternity at college and one (or two) of the brothers thought it was "delightfully funny" to get one of the girlfriends of another brother a live piglet. The piglet was about 15/20 pounds and appeared at the last party before Christmas as a "gift". . . The thought was mean and nasty, obviously. I think it was a sow but I can't say for sure because I never looked back there. honest people, one does not look a piglet in the ass. . .

However, after a big deal of presenting it, they couldn't get the piglet back into the wooden crate. The girlfriend that they insulted was the one who knew how to handle the piglet and got it into the crate. For some ungodly reason, they left it in the dining room. Well about 10pm someone discovered that piglets poo and piddle and stink like shit. I mean to say that the "gag a maggot" diapers you find were like jasmine and roses compared to that stench. . . So they hauled the crate outside on the concrete porch.

Guess what happened - - - - Another fraternity opened the crate.

So now at 11:30 there are six or maybe ten brother running up and down the streets looking for a pig. (on a saturday night at a university in the middle of the city)

Well this matronly woman with gloves and a pillbox hat driving a huge Buick with fins (remember fins?) pulls up next to one of the brothers and points backward saying: "Young man, there's a pig in the road back there!" And the brother says "Thanks lady, we want that pig!" and runs away. We often wonder what that woman ever said if she got home.

The piglet went home with the girlfriend and in time became pork roast, ribs, and chops.

I guess that the joke was on the very rude people who thought they insulted her with a crude joke. Those guys had to scrub the dining room and the porch with bleach.

So that's my once-in-a-lifetime pig adventure.

[billf82 (imported)]

You didn't care for the smell? Can you imagine a building full of them? And the smell sticks to everything -- clothes, hair, ... By the way, just for accuracy, if she was a young-un, just a piglet, she would not be called a sow. The name sow is conferred on the mamas. She would be a gilt while awaiting her boar, as it were.

[Losethem (imported)]

Perhaps she can use it on her Republican male colleagues. That is unless they've already given their balls to their corporate masters. *shrugs*

OK, enough of political from me.

--LT

[billf82 (imported)]

Bite your tongue! Given? Hardly, those balls were purchased. Like everything else under the capital dome, they are for sale to whomever can afford them.

[Dave (imported)]

You didn't care for the smell? Can you imagine a building full of them? And the smell sticks to everything -- clothes, hair, ... By the way, just for accuracy, if she was a young-un, just a piglet, she would not be called a sow. The name sow is conferred on the mamas. She would be a gilt while awaiting her boar, as it were.

I stand corrected.

However, I think she became a roast before she lost her virginity.