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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.

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If only pig makeovers were always that easy...

Category: Misc.
Posted on: September 13, 2008 8:10 PM, by Tara C. Smith

Via Bora comes some of the week's most important journalism: video of a Chicago Tribune reporter trying to put lipstick on a pig. He gets it much too easy with the first one; the squealing and running around when he tries to go for the second one is more familiar to me (after the jump).

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#2 reminded me of a small boy at bath time. Did they check gender when they selected the two?

Posted by: Alan Kellogg | September 13, 2008 8:37 PM

http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/09/lipstick-on-pig.html

Posted by: Cuttlefish | September 13, 2008 9:20 PM

Is this what makes you "...a veritable expert on tawdry cosmetic procedures gone horribly awry..."?

Posted by: Joe | September 14, 2008 3:31 PM

Yes, but isn't your experience more likely to be with a swab for poking into one orifice or another and not a lipstick? Looking at it from the pig's perspective, I know which I'd prefer.

Posted by: idlemind | September 16, 2008 4:19 AM