A Wii?

I have just figured out that I need to get married!

A wedding shower for a dude? . Then again, a Wii? Well then you can make me wear a funny hat, put me in a dress and ... (wait for it) .... (wait for it) ... smack my ass and call me Martha! Woo hoo.

Sam looks to be about 6 years old in that photo, yes?

Sam looks to be about 6 years old in that photo, yes?

~╥╥☺ #@$%@^

Translation: Meow

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Delicious Miss Porchetta, here's my lame attempt at a thing-a-ma-bob for you:

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Happy pig with party hat? I don't know any symbols for yum. Doesn't porchetta imply yum anyway? Gotta go take terrier daughter to her father's for the weekend. Happy weather accident, Jesus is helping me plant my garden tomorrow.

Hey Sam, how often do you get carded when you go out?

Have to agree, Sam does look like a 6 y.o. in this pic!

Sam is so freakin' CUTE!--hope he's not prettier than the bride.

Hey, lay off of Sam.

Oh I haves you now Sessa! You can now not be hiding from me now in yuor aluminium chapeau!!

Hey, it was meant as a compliment-- he looks so gleeful and cute!

Terriermom, I LOVE it! Grazie mille!!! (You are oh so correct that yum is implied re: porchetta.)

Yay!

Watch out ◄:o)╥╥~ swine flu panic is being fomented. It's a bad week to be a pig, even a delicious one. Maybe some pork voodoo is needed.

Terriermom, by the way, it's not just a party hat-- it's my stolen TIARA! You even included (subconsciously, but it's there nonetheless) my much longed-for tiara!

thanks for the kind and funny words everybody! you should see the the wedding present elizabeth got amie and me. thanks again for that, elizabeth!

Thank you for the warning Terriermom. Bad juju. Maybe it will fade away, just like the bird flu panic of a few years ago.

Didn't a bunch of folks just die in Mexico of bird flu? Or was that swine flu?

Congratulations Sam!
I wish you and Amie many happy years together. But only if you take that stupid thing off your head. :-)

What is that, anyway?

Quite lovely to hear that you found your tiara Lady Yummington. I dispatched my loyal manservant Griffin Tong to seek it out but no luck. I see that the American press is whipping up a tempest in a frying pan over the swine flu, so I suppose the Porcine Ball may be postponed. Too bad. Lady Marmalade wears her tiara about the grounds when she is exercising the corgis. I'm sure you will find a proper occasion to show it off. Here's a gift. Ta.

Lissa, they seem to think the new flu is one part avian flu, two strains of swine flu, and one part human. Does Not Sound Good.

Hey, Lord Marmalade, I have a copy write on your wife's name. Cough up some royalties dude!

That swine flu thing sounds pretty scary. I think I'll stay away from the Cuban sandwiches for awhile.

Ms. LaBelle, you may contact my barrister if you seek a good legal spanking. Lady Marmalade is my mother and has been Lady Marmalade since 1938. We are the aggrieved party here with your licentious, poorly constructed French and off-key warbling. Indeed.

I really don't think you can get swine flu from eating a Cuban sandwich. I think you'd have to exchange bodily fluids with Miss Piggy or something.

No, Dahlink, it doesn't look good. Flu is serious.

Swine flu? I wouldn't worry about it. It looks like a cohort immunity thing. And by that I'm saying that I personally am not worried. We've been due for this pandemic for decades. It was always going to happen.

Lord M, so kind of you to attempt to find my tiara. I appreciate your good wishes as well as the lovely and thoughtful gift. How could that not brighten anyone's day?

Please give my best wishes to Lady M. I heard there was quite a dust-up during the Annual Canasta Banquet a few evenings ago. I hope her bruises won't show. How is Lady Stilton-on-Rye's nose?

Thank you for your kind regards Lady YumYum. Lady M was in fact quite unnerved by the improper jostling of the carriage-master of the Earl of Sandwich and the erstwhile Duke of Yorrick's improper bowing at the Sturgeon-on-Crouton gala. Well,I never! England just is not the jewel that it twas in yore. I would certainly be most honored if you would escort me to the Queen's Gala at the Buxom-on-Blote esplanade. Sadly it has been indefinitely postponed due to terrorist acitivities in Scanque-on-Kent. Such a sad state Lady Yummington. Ta.

I've been convinced ever since I read The Stand by Stephen King that the end of the world would be the result of an airborne virus for which there is no vaccine.

If you start being called to Nebraska in your dreams, alert the rest of the Sandbox, would you?

I am a little jealous of the clammering for attention for shiny new bauble YumPorchetta. Really. I'm jealous. I thought that I had cornered the pig face market. Curses! Oh well, I welcome another member of the porcine combine. I hate to admit it but your deluxe cartouche is fantastic. Not like when my beloved other half made one for me of bacon frying. Ouch. Welcome YumP. You've raised the bar for us pork dorks.

P.S. I gave a porkpie hat.

Oh dear, Lord M, must have been quite an evening. More excitement than the peers have seen in a fortnight.

I would be honored to accompany you to the Gala should it be rescheduled during a time convenient, and if I am able to find an appropriate frock. Although leather would be frowned upon, I'm afraid.

"Shiny new bauble"? Oh no, no! Any shine is just the reflection off my brand new tiara (thank you, Terriermom!).

VoodooPork, don't be jealous. I asked the others for help in creating an appropriate cartouche for me since I am not as clever as they are (and frankly, yours was so good and already claimed). You'll note Terriermom borrowed your perfect porky face but added the tiara instead of the porkpie hat -- I added the "sparkle". I think ours look terrific together, yes?

Thank you for your welcome. We pork dorks have to stick together, especially during these uncertain times-- if swine flu hysteria spreads, we can slip underground. (I have my backup identities and cartouches ready -- thank you OMG, LEC and Dahlink.)

Lady Yummington, I found a lovely accessory for your tiara:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21290506

Perfect Lord M! Absolutely charming! Lady Pheasant-under-Glass will be so envious.