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THE HE PODCAST HAS MOVED!!!
UPDATE YOUR BOOKSMARKS AND FEEDS!
IT’S RIGHT HERE: podcast.hijinksensue.com
iTunes Listeners should probably unsubscribe then resubscribe
Have you heard about this swine flu? It’s like the regular flu but with the added 
power of PIGS! Depending on who you ask, we are either all doomed to die a paranoid, hammy death (which sounds delicious), or we are just as fine and hammy as ever and every one is freaking the pork out over nothing.
This comic is dedicated to all of the pigs that died in Josh’s pursuit of the perfect strip of crispy deliciousness:
Sir Francis Bacon
AbraHAM Lincoln
Simon and River Ham
Porkins
Sparkling White Swine (an albino pig)
Alien pig visitor Pork from Ork
Vince with Ham-Wow!
and finally, Icelandic Pig Singer Pjork
HE COMMENT CHALLENGE: What was Josh doing to make the hybrid bacon so potent, so addictive and so delicious? Was it hydroponically grown? What was it a hybrid of? My guess is he fed the pigs nothing but bacon… THERE OWN BACON! DUH DUH DUHNNNNN!
- 4 Surprising Swine Flu Facts and Theories
- ‘Willow’ predicted the swine flu 20 years ago!
- Pandemic of panic – Should we actually be scared this time?
- Swine flu and hype – a media illness
- Swine Flu: Don’t Blame the Pig
- Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu
UPDATE: FB Wendell picked up the pig naming meme. You can see his efforts HERE. I am partial to “Amy Swinehouse.”
Tags: bacon, swine flu
May 1st, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Is Josh fisting the pig in that last panel?
May 1st, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Haha, I saw the biosuit and though Josh was swineflu patient zero.
I'm gonna guess he was trying to finally realize his dream of caffeinated bacon.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:25 pm
I bet it was tofu.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:35 pm
He was obviously looking to oust the BaconSalt guys from the lead of the bacon industry. By way of some strange gypsy magics, I wager.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:58 pm
I think the three little pigs are his children, Josh's own DNA would be the only way.
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:33 am
Somehow I see this winding up on some Christian site as a way to show that gays can't raise children. They'll completely miss the humor and absurdity.
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:48 am
Josh in a pig suit makes me think of Ned Beatty for some reason….
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:30 am
I'm surprised no one has mentioned "manbearpig" yet. Seems apropos.
Love the pigs' names in panel 2. I LOLed.
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:24 am
Not Kevin Bacon!!!
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 am
Simon and River Ham! Must have been a bear indeed.
Caught bit of the live inking, nice work there.
-D
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
tobacco. Nothing is more addictive than tobacon!
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:56 am
Genetic manipulation to change the pig's bloodstream into pure maple syrup. Kinda like a pork-maple Alien from planet LV-PORK26
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
he's clearly working to deal with the cloven hoof/chew-its-own-cud issues mentioned in the Bible. duh.
also, i have been freaked out by pigs for some time because they are so content to eat dead humans:
think of the canadian pig farmer who killed prostitutes and fed them to pigs.
think of al swearengen on hbo's deadwood series, whose lackeys fed all the camp's victims to the chinese guy's pigs.
i'm sure there are more, but the point is, pigs *want* to eat you! agh!
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:57 pm
honestly I kind of love me with the pig-snout surgical mask.
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
given the makeup of the H1N1 virus, I would have thought that would have been among the first jokes made!
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
My god…I think you have just breached one of the seven seals…surely mention of this product must be a sign of an impending apocalypse, as the tobacco manufacturers go forth into their fields, setting loose the sea of swine, and yea, verily, the anointed geneticists with their sorcery create the one substance mankind loves more than gold…and hence the Gilded Tobacon Lord was borne into the world…
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Josh: "Sup dawg. I heard you like pork, so I put a pig inside your pig, so you can eat bacon while you eat bacon!"
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Me too. It's creepy and friendly at the same time.
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
My guess is motor oil. He fed the pigs motor oil via baby bottle every day since birth. It makes the pigs' coats shiny, and their flesh juicy and tender.
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:55 am
Kinda looks like he's using that pig like a puppet.
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 am
I makes me think of Hannibal Lecter.
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 am
So thats where the swine flu came from!! Josh has been playing god! A pork loving god who perhaps loved pork too much….some lines should not be crossed….
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 am
Oh speaking of lines being crossed…
http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/product/bacon_exot...
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 am
Oh speaking of lines being crossed…
http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/product/bacon_exot...
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 am
Oh speaking of lines being crossed…
http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/product/bacon_exot...
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 am
I think he was probably trying to hybridize them with hops to make a better Bacon Beer, the breakfast of champions.
http://www.royalbaconsociety.com/blog/bacon-revie...
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1275/43888
May 3rd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Porkins ftw. Stay on target. Stay on target.
May 3rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
or perhaps Hammibal Lecter?
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 pm
omg. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellorhigh_water/349...
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
OMG Where's Al Gore and why isn't he saving us?!?
May 4th, 2009 at 1:05 am
Ultimate bacon it's happened before and it shall happen again.
May 4th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
That is amazing! Frightening in a way, but still amazing. Helps that it's on a cute model (well at least what I can see around the bubblegum pink knitwear
May 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
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