Word: pigged
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...much. Tongans are lazy, quarrelsome and mean to their children. Samoans are greedy, hostile and obese, perhaps because their junk-food diet consists mostly of "Cheez Balls" and corned beef saturated with hippo fat. (Did their liking for the latter, Theroux wonders, derive from their ancestors' enjoyment of "long pig" -- that is, human flesh?) And almost everywhere he found God-swanking missionaries, usually Mormons or Methodists, who seemed mesmerized by the thought of preaching the gospel to islanders who were once notorious for practicing cannibalism. "Missionaries and cannibals," Theroux muses, "make perfect couples...
Thomas' father Kerby (a former minister for the Church of the Brethren who quit to become a gardener) and mother Linda (a hospital unit secretary who grew up on an Ohio pig farm) are white. His brother and sister are Black. His other brother is Iranian. And in 1980--about the same time Mount St. Helens erupted, Thomas says with a grin--Kerby ran away with a gay lover. Today, Kerby and Linda are best friends, living a few blocks apart in Portland, Ore. Every now and then, they tell their story on a TV talk show...
Born in India into a British army family from Northern Ireland, Ashdown acquired his generic Irishman's nickname at a boarding school in England. When his father failed as a pig farmer in retirement, Ashdown enlisted in the Royal Marines, took officer training and satisfied his thirst for adventure by joining the highly respected Special Boat Service commandos. After a decade of frontline service, he spent two years learning fluent Chinese and soaking up Chinese history -- prompting suspicions that he engaged in intelligence. In 1971 he resigned with the rank of captain, entered the foreign service and was posted...
...pig sty is gross, filled with slop. Our mess is not slimy. It's whimsical. It's creative. It's the kind of mess we remember from childhood. We have no gnawed pizza crusts from three weeks ago, no half-filled cans of warm Coke. These are only toys; they don't smell and they don't spoil. Perhaps the Play-Doh could dry out and get stale, but we're careful to close the lids tightly. We are very sanitary with our mess...
...that Clinton's down home, he's rolling out the kind of colorful sayings that Dan Rather usually saves up for election night. The other day he complained that some folks were squealing like a pig caught under a gate. Well, you probably had to be there -- and that's the point...