Blind Pig Brewery

An ideal place for the beer and pigs lovers :)! The Blind Pig Brewery is a pleasant bar situated in the town of Champaign (Illinois). They have got very large beer selection and they are brewing their very own beer as well. The origin of brewery's name comes from the period of Prohibition, when “pig” was the slang term for a mason jar and “blind pig” was an unmarked mason jar. Many legal saloons served bootlegged booze, which was always served in blind pigs. So if you wanted the good stuff, you asked the bartender for a blind pig.
Luckily Prohibition is finished and we can legally sip our beer in the bar. I wish I could try one, made in the Bling Big Brewery. In the view of many barflies it's probably one of the best bars in the U.S.

a Very Unusual Pig

Unce upon a time, in one chinese farm was born very unusual animal. A pig without back legs.
When the farmer Wang Xihai saw that one of his new born piglets doesn't have legs, he ran to say it to his wife. The woman was very scared, she thought it might be a bad sign, and she wanted Wang Xihai to kill lillte animal imediatelly. The farmer did not agree and he decided to keep the unusual pig. He named it Zhu. The piglet grown and very quickly learnt to walk and even to run with only two front legs.
Un usual animal became a local star. People were comming to see it and some of them wanted to buy it. Even a circus offered a high price for Zhu, but the farmer refused to sell. 'She proved to us that no matter what form life is it should continue to live on,' he said. 'I won't sell her no matter how much the offer is.' 

 

Cool Tram

The tram car that looks like a pig. What a nice idea! This pink tram named « Säulianhänger »  sponsored by Kantonalbank was circulating in the city of Basel in Switzerland. Very fun way to travel :)!

Pig-Sculpture

A wonderful sculpture of Leo Sewell, titled "NO FEEDING REQUIRED", created from  found materials,  assembled with nails, bolts and screws. 
Sewell's art follows naturalistic themes, and animals feature in his creations. He uses recycled materials and "found objects" in his work. During his career, artist has produced over 4,000 works, which are included in over 40 museums worldwide and in private collections.

"When Pigs Fly"

An expression, a way of saying that something is unlikely to happen :)...

Vintage Chinese Stamp

Lovely green vintage stamp , a part of the Pig Breeding set, designed by Liu Shuoren. Issued in China on June 1960. My favourite from the series.
Here, the rest of piggy collection, unfortunately only the miniatures:

 

Super Hero of the week

 probably somewhere in Poland...

Pig Dictionary :)

свіння  - Belarusian       Porc - Catalan                Prase - Czech                
Varken - Dutch                Gris - Danish                 Siga - Estonian          
Sika - Finnish                  Cochon - French           Schwein - German      
χοίρος - Greek                Disznó - Hungarian       Svín - Icelandic           
Maiale - Italian                 豚 - Japaneese             Porcus - Latin
Cūka - Latvian                 Kiaulė - Lithuanian        Gris - Norvegian
świnia - Polish                 Porco - Portugese        Porc - Romanian
свинья - Russian            Prasa - Slovak              Cerdo - Spanish
Gris - Swedish                Domuz - Turkish            свиня - Ukrainian

Sir Winston Churchill's quote

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"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

British politician and Nobel Prize Laureate Winston Churchill