Oh Bother

"TURKEY'S public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the popular Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the Turkish press reported today.

Several other cartoons featuring pigs also failed to win the green light from TRT management, according to the left-wing Cumhuriyet daily.

The station initially considered scissoring the scenes showing Piglet, but abandoned the idea because the small pink-skinned character, one of Winnie the Pooh's closest friends, appeared too often, Cumhuriyet and the mass-circulation Sabah newspaper said.

TRT officials were not immediately available for comment.

Pigs are regarded as unclean by Muslims and Islam prohibits the consumption of pork."

I've asked this of both moslems and Jews, and have received pretty much the same answer. Pigs are unclean. What precisely IS unclean?

Pigs means unclean, unclean means Pigs.

As is the case with shellfish, one can readily understand that prior to the Greeks and Romans discovering that well cooked foodsuffs were both palitable and safe to consume, less science-oriented cultures decided not to tempt fate and banned certain animals from the dinner table.

And to digress into something as absurd, when first moving to Florida I was somewhat puzzled as to the definition of "Concealed" with relation to concealed-carry, and emailed the licensing office for clarification.

"Concealed," the nice lady said, "means to conceal from view."

My further query as to how using a word to define itself made any sense fell upon deaf ears, but they remained pleasant to do business with and I chalked it up to Box O'Truth or Unclean Pig Syndrome and went about my merry way.

Concealed means concealed. Pigs means unclean. I'm outta here...check please...