4/2/2004: Beauty the diving pig

This is the same diving act that started our Friday animal happiness, I think; and IotD has already repeated it once, but it appears to be an annual event. So here she is; her name is Beauty, and she's about 1 and a half years old. She prepares for her leap...



...and she flies through the air... off the three-meter platform...



...and she's made her big splash, and she's done her job at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. Happy Friday.

this is one of jinx's favorite paintings. I wonder if there's a connection?

Anything to get out of that cage at the top.

I love that poster btw.

I'll believe it when pigs fly...

oh wait...

nevermind

a tough group for style points:
:(

Why is she foaming at the mouth?

That's not foam. She's storing oxygen for the dive.

maybe i'm anthropomorphizing a bit, but man does that ever look like one HAPPY pig... ;D

such a great look of satisfaction as she climbs out of the water..

Did someone mention flying pigs?

Originally posted by e unibus plurum
a tough group for style points :(

Rennies are notoriously tough judges. They'll run you out of the Festival for wearing non-period shoes...

Here yah go...

I went to the Easter Show on Friday it was fantastic !

i bet on the number 4 pig (in the pig races) and came out with an extra $10 dollars in my pocket!!

I saw two diving pigs that day, Beauty, and the bigger older, miss piggy (who wore a skirt round her hind 1/4s!! cute!! .

its the cutest thing to see and they were very well trained!!


oink!!

I'm such a moron. I've been reading this thread all along as Beauty the Divine Pig.

I think I have trouble with bolding :blush:

Dsylexics of the world untie!:D

did anyone notice that my "superpig" is actually "beauty" in disguise?

would you like your medal in brass or burnished tin?!

What, no "chest to pin it on" choice?

if you're going to be a smart ass, could you at least be original about it?

It took a long time to get rid of that cage.....I was learning a new graphics program, and wanted to see if I could do it.

...sniff snifff.....

mean old funky

I'm sort of sorry. I felt mean after posting it...well done on the graphic thingy (you big baby:D )

BTW my insults are rushed- i don't have time to ponder luxurious put downs!

Nice form. If there was a 3M Diving competition at the Olympics for pigs, she would be in the race for the medals. It appears like she enjoys it to me. A pig with a future that does not include being a side of bacon at a diner. She is a contender.

She is a pig. She is a young pig.

When she graduates to sow, she may still end up bacon.

Cute now, huge, smelly, and mean tempered within a year or two.

Ah but tasting *great*.

Almost barbecue season. Looks like pork-but and ribs for the smoker to me.

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Why is she foaming at the mouth?

Maybe she landed on the elusive muff.:yum:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by wolf
[B]She is a pig. She is a young pig.

I prefer the term "Horizontally Accessible Adolescent" to young pig!:)

Originally posted by dar512
Almost barbecue season. Looks like pork-but and ribs for the smoker to me.

I was hoping this thread would move over to food. mmmmmmbbq.