The "Big Bad Wolf" and chickens?

[Jonathan Lighter]

 Chickens are funnier.

JL

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> In his review of the movie "Last Lions" in the Boston Globe, Ty Burr
> note that Jeremy Irons, its  narrator, once played "the villainous
> uncle" in "The Lion King".  Burr writes, "this is a little like
> hiring the Big Bad Wolf for a documentary about chicken farming."
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> Shouldn't that be "about hog farming"?  Or perhaps "pig housing"?
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> (And the analogy feels a bit off anyway, but I can't articulate why.)
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> Joel
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