Happy as a dead pig in the sunshine (1868)

[Orin Hargraves]

>DEAD PIG IN SUNSHINE--17 Google hits, 4 Google Groups hits
>DEAD PIG IN THE SUNSHINE--240 Google hits, 76  Google Groups hits
>
>   The CASSELL DICTIONARY OF SLANG has "happy as a clam" and "happy as a
>boxing kangaroo in fog time" and "happy as pigs in shit," but is sorely
lacking a >happy dead pig.
>   Beats me how a dead pig can be either happy or sad.

This one reminds me of a saying of my late grandfather (b. KY 1895, d. KY
1981): "I haven't been so happy since the pigs ate my little brother."

Orin Hargraves