Schwarzenegger: "We had a pig and pony year"

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

From California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State
address, Jan. 6, 2010:

"I want to begin with a true story from which we can draw a worthwhile
lesson. As you might guess, the Schwarzenegger household is something
of a menagerie: an Austrian bodybuilder, a TV journalist, four
children, a dog, the normal goldfish and hamsters and so forth. And in
recent years we added a miniature pony and a pot-bellied pig. It's not
unusual for me to look up from working on the budget or something to
find the pig and the pony standing right there in front of me and
staring at me.

"Now, the dog's food, which we keep in a canister with a screwed-on
lid, sits on the top of the dog's kennel. And the pony has now learned
how to knock the canister off the top of the kennel and then he and
the pig wedge it into the corner. Now, there's this ridge on the lid
of the canister and the pig with his snout pushes this ridge around
and around until it loosens up and then they roll the canister around
on the floor until the food spills all out. And then, of course, they
go to town and they eat it. Now, I have no idea how they ever figured
all of this out, to tell you the truth. I mean, it's like humans
figuring out how to create fire. But it is the greatest example of
teamwork and I love it.

"So one lesson to draw from the pig and the pony story is what we can
accomplish when we work together. And last year we here in this room
did some great, great work together.

"We had a pig and pony year."

Your pal,
Biffy the Elephant Shrew

[Dave Wilcher]

Biffy the Elephant Shrew wrote:
>
> "We had a pig and pony year."

That's very distraughtening.

dave
--
The only weapons of mass destruction the Bush administration ever found
were my bongs. - Tommy Chong

[Antal Adriaanse]

"Biffy the Elephant Shrew" schreef ...

> "We had a pig and pony year."

"Gebt's ihm ein Pony, gebt's ihm doch ein Pony..."

--
Antal
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[Les Cargill]

Biffy the Elephant Shrew wrote:

Oh, thanks for that. I needed that.

--
Les Cargill

[progea]

On Jan 7, 10:22 am, Biffy the Elephant Shrew <biffysh...@aol.com>
quoted the Governor of California:

> "Now, the dog's food, which we keep in a canister with a screwed-on
> lid, sits on the top of the dog's kennel. And the pony has now learned
> how to knock the canister off the top of the kennel and then he and
> the pig wedge it into the corner. Now, there's this ridge on the lid
> of the canister and the pig with his snout pushes this ridge around
> and around until it loosens up and then they roll the canister around
> on the floor until the food spills all out. And then, of course, they
> go to town and they eat it. Now, I have no idea how they ever figured
> all of this out, to tell you the truth. I mean, it's like humans
> figuring out how to create fire. But it is the greatest example of
> teamwork and I love it.
>
> "So one lesson to draw from the pig and the pony story is what we can
> accomplish when we work together. And last year we here in this room
> did some great, great work together.
>
> "We had a pig and pony year."

So basically his staff stole from the people last year, and when they
were done with one round of doing that they were staring at him asking
for more to steal from.