[extropy-chat] Re: peak oil debate framed from a game theorystandpoint ?

[BillK]

On 9/2/05, Robert Lindauer wrote
> 
> People have been using refuse from sugar cane for fertilizer and feed
> for centuries.  If you process the whole plant instead of refined sugar,
> you get high grade protein feed and fertilizer suitable for replanting
> and/or pig-feed which is useful out here where Lau Lau rules.  Ever hear
> the expression "happy as a pig" - comes from the pigs eating the
> still-slightly-alcohol-infused mash-waste from a distillation process.
> 

You just made that up!  :)
Or, at least, if it is a true story in your locality it has nothing to
do with the common idiom "happy as a pig in mud", (in polite company),
or army-style "happy as a pig in sh*t".
Sometimes shortened to just  "happy as a pig" in conversation to avoid
possible offence.

This saying just means being blissfully happy, like when a pig is in
it's ideal environment.

The French version is "être heureux comme un poisson dans l'eau".
Literally translated is "be happy as a fish in water".

BillK