Pig Flu: Et Tu, Pooh?

Be on the lookout for jokes that start with "Something something when pigs fly..." followed by some expository material and ending with the explanation being "Swine flew."

I expect to see it on Leno by Tuesday.

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#4 posted by JIMWICh, May 1, 2009 2:39 PM

Too late...

@JIMWICh, Wed 29 Apr 08:39 via TweetDeck

'Member when you told someone you'd do something "when pigs fly"? A'ight, now's your chance. Swine Flu.

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#5 posted by Dapremonster, May 1, 2009 2:46 PM

Posted on my Facebook wall @ 7:17am 2 days ago

"hundreds of years ago, they said the only way a black man would be president would be if pigs flew, and look at that, one hundred days into his presidency and swine flu!"

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#6 posted by Gronk, May 1, 2009 3:15 PM

@3: Well, the expletive ain't so bad - consider it a vernacular variant employed for added punch - but the missing quotation mark at the end does spoil the effect a bit.

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#7 posted by philipb, May 1, 2009 3:39 PM

Pooh & Piglet are off-limits. Get that?

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#8 posted by Tdawwg, May 1, 2009 3:47 PM

Fail for no closing quotation marks. (Damn, you Photoshop wizards need to take a fucken writing class!) Win, however, for the terrific bear-vernacular "fucken."

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#9 posted by retchdog, May 1, 2009 4:39 PM

It's an excerpt. Pooh's paragraph might follow on the next page, hence no closing quote on this sentence.

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#10 posted by Teufelaffe, May 1, 2009 4:54 PM

Here...I took the liberty of "correcting" it:

http://www.teufelaffe.com/images/poohflu.jpg

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#11 posted by Anonymous, May 1, 2009 5:43 PM

With PHILIPB. You touch Pooh, you have to deal with me.

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#12 posted by Doujoux, May 1, 2009 6:31 PM

That particular spelling variant is not uncommon here in the Antipodes. If it helps, think of it as dialectal.

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#13 posted by Nelson.C, May 1, 2009 7:09 PM

Teufelaffe: Damn, you Photoshop wizards need to take a fuckin' lesson in kerning.

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#14 posted by eustace, May 1, 2009 9:29 PM

(Another thin coating of coffee sprayed across my keyboard dammit)

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#15 posted by Secret_Life_of_Plants, May 1, 2009 10:58 PM

My friend posted this the other day as
"WH1N1E the Pooh"

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#16 posted by collapsibletank, May 2, 2009 1:30 AM

Improved:

http://www.b3ta.com/board/9414001

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#17 posted by Teapunk, May 2, 2009 1:34 AM

Since Disney put Poo and Piglet already through their manger and drained everything original and fun out of the books, there's nothing left anyone could do to them anyway.
*sigh*
(interesting copyright case between A.A. Milne and Disney, btw)

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#18 posted by Anonymous, May 2, 2009 7:49 AM

The Telegraph did this joke in the UK at the start of the week:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5241572/Swine-flu-cartoons-by-Matt.html?image=2

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#19 posted by Phlip, May 2, 2009 7:24 PM

Oooookay.

Here's another Poo vs Piglet fable for y'all. It explains the Oil War in simple terms that even a grownup can understand.

(And it also cites "et tu Brute", from /Julius Caesar/ by Shakespeare!)

http://zeekland.zeroplayer.com/Pigleg_Too/1

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#20 posted by Anonymous, May 3, 2009 10:08 AM

www.okinreport.net/en/category/mexican_projects/swine-flu-mexico-city/