There's a $10,000 reward for its safe return:
A reward has been offered for a giant inflatable pig which floated into the Californian desert during a concert by ex-Pink Floyd star Roger Waters.Given Obama's bad day yesterday, it seems like the perfect metaphor.Organisers of the Coachella Festival have put up a $10,000 (£5,090) bounty, plus tickets for life, for its return.
The pig, which is the width of two buses, has a checked ballot box for US presidential hopeful Barack Obama painted on its underbelly.
Waters said "that's my pig" as it drifted away during Sunday's gig.
The animal's flanks bear the slogans "fear builds walls" and "don't be led to the slaughter", with a cartoon of Uncle Sam holding two meat cleavers.
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Funny story. On Countdown last night comedian Christian Finnegan commented "Scoff if you will, Keith, but this is going to cost him with that key aging stoner and laser show enthusiast demographic."
The same segment featured another funny story about the Faux News Network putting up a visual of freed slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglas as Lincoln's opponent in the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates instead of the incumbent Stephen Douglas. (Oops.) Finnegan comments that at least they got somebody from the same era--they might have put up a pix of Michael Douglas or Buster Douglas. He went on to say that the mistake probably arose from the assumption of folks at Fox that no good Republican could ever argue on BEHALF of black people. ;)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24376946#24376946
Last time I saw Floyd's pig was in the movie Children of Men.
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