porcinality

[Joel S. Berson]

LOL.  "Well done," as farmer Hogget said to Babe.  And Miss Piggy
certainly thought she had porcinality.

Joel

At 2/16/2009 10:48 AM, Bill Palmer wrote:
>So do swine have "porcinality"
>
>Bill Palmer
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>Subject: caninality, felinality, murality
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>>Not the motto of the French Revolution.
>>
>>This evening, on a PBS show about cats and dogs, a Humane Society
>>volunteer
>>explained that they try to determine a dog's "caninality" before they
>>match
>>it with an owner.
>>
>>That means "personality," but for dogs.  I didn't hear "felinality," but
>>Google tells me it exists.
>>
>>No "murality," AFAICT, for mice, but thousands of Raw Googlits in the
>>sense
>>of "murals."
>>
>>
>>JL
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