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

[Robert Lindauer]

Okay, but until you've seen pigs wallowing in fresh warm mash, you 
haven't lived!


BillK wrote:

>On 9/2/05, Robert Lindauer wrote
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>>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.
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>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.
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>This saying just means being blissfully happy, like when a pig is in
>it's ideal environment.
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>The French version is "être heureux comme un poisson dans l'eau".
>Literally translated is "be happy as a fish in water".
>
>BillK
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