Thursday, September 13, 2012

Riddle Me This

WHY IS THIS NOT A PIG?

5 comments:

  1. Because it's a calf! This is the excellent Market Day sculpture in Ballyhaunis which I know about as you have featured it in your equally excellent Blog before!

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  2. @Dáithaí C

    Thanks for the compliment Dáithaí C, but why is it not a pig?

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  3. @#2 (we know who you are!)

    You got it in one word. Halal. Congratulations.

    Halal meat factory and Halal meat packers in late 1970s boosted the previously non-existent Muslim population of Ballyhaunis enormously. While they closed in 1992 a lot of the people had become settled and so there is a strong Muslim presence there today, including a Mosque.

    As the town has more or less adopted that sculpture as its online logo a pig would have been most inappropriate.

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  4. Heh ... seems like a well read Anonymous ...

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