{"id":921,"date":"2023-11-14T23:53:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertandrews.org\/LIFE\/?p=921"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:15:48","slug":"pc-three-little-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robertandrews.org\/LIFE\/pc-three-little-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"~ RT: PC: A TRIO OF DIMINUTIVE PORCINES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kgdbwnjpzwc\"><strong>VIEW OUR FINISHED PRODUCTION<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea2c9be4c205048745362' value='69ea2c9be4c205048745362'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea2c9be4c205048745362' value='S C R I P T'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea2c9be4c205048745362' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea2c9be4c205048745362' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">S C R I P T<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea2c9be4c205048745362' ><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Hi.\u00a0 My name is XXXXXXX.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Once there were 3 little pigs who lived together in mutual respect and in harmony with their environment. Using materials that were indigenous to the area they each built a beautiful house. One pig built a house of straw, one a house of sticks, and one a house of dung, clay and creeper vines shaped into bricks and baked in a small kiln. When they were finished, the pigs were satisfied with their work and settled back to live in peace and self-determination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">But their peace was soon shattered. One day, along came a big, bad wolf with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry in both a physical and ideological sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">When the pigs saw the wolf, they ran into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and banged on the door, shouting, &#8220;Diminutive porcines, Diminutive porcines, let me in!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">The pigs shouted back, &#8220;Your gunboat tactics hold no fear for pigs defending their homes and culture, and the hairs on our chin shall remain afixed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">But the wolf wasn&#8217;t to be denied what he thought was his manifest destiny. So he huffed and puffed and blew down the house of straw. The frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in hot pursuit. Where the house had stood, other wolves bought up the land and started a banana plantation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">At the house of sticks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, &#8220;Diminutive porcines, Diminutive porcines!\u00a0 Again, I beseech thee &#8211; allow me entry.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">The pigs shouted back, &#8220;Go to hell, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!\u00a0 Our chin hair remain intact.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">At this the wolf huffed and puffed and blew down the house of sticks. The pigs ran to the house of bricks, with the wolf close at their heels. Where the house of sticks had stood, other wolves built a time-share condo resort complex for vacationing wolves, with each unit a fiberglass reconstruction of the house of sticks, as well as native curio shops, snorkeling and dolphin shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, &#8220;Diminutive porcines, Diminutive porcines, let me in!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">This time in response, the pigs sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters of protest to the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs&#8217; refusal to see the situation from the carnivore&#8217;s point of view. So he huffed and puffed, and huffed and puffed, then grabbed his chest and fell over dead from a massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty foods and pigs whenever the opportunity availed itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who had been forced off their lands. This new brigade of porcinistas attacked the resort complex with machine-guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their internal affairs. Then the pigs set up a model socialist democracy with free education, universal health care and affordable housing for everyone. {My note: well it is a fairy tale after all.}<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Please note: The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construct. No actual wolves were harmed in the writing of the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Thanks for listening to Readers Theater. 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