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Encyclopedia > Pigs is Pigs
'Pigs is Pigs' cover when originally published in 1905.
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'Pigs is Pigs' cover when originally published in 1905.

Pigs is Pigs is a noted story written by Ellis Parker Butler. Image File history File links Pigs_is_pigs_1905. ... Image File history File links Pigs_is_pigs_1905. ... Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869–September 13, 1937) was an American author. ...


First published as a short story in The American Magazine in September 1905, "Pigs is Pigs" went on to dozens of printings as a book and in anthologies over the next several decades. The story was made into movie form several times, including the Walt Disney cartoon in 1954 that won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966), was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, and philanthropist. ... This class was known as Short Subjects, cartoons from 1932 until 1970, and as Short Subjects, animated films from 1971 to 1973. ...


The story is credited by Robert A. Heinlein as possibly the origin of the Flatcats in his novel The Rolling Stones, since he may have read it or heard it as a child, but due to the intervening time he could not be sure. The concept obviously had some currency because it also shows up in the famous Star Trek episode The Trouble with Tribbles. This article is becoming very long. ... In Robert Heinleins science fiction novel The Rolling Stones, flatcats are a species of emotional symbiotes native to Mars, with very adaptive metabolisms. ... The Rolling Stones (also published under the name Space Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein June 1, 1952, Atheneum, library binding, ISBN 0684923033 June 13, 1985, Del Rey, paperback reissue edition, 256 pages, ISBN 034532451X May 12, 1977, Del Rey, paperback... Star Trek is an American science-fiction franchise spanning six television series, ten feature films, hundreds of novels, computer and video games, and other fan stories. ... The Trouble With Tribbles is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast on December 29, 1967 and repeated June 21, 1968. ...

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Synopsis: Railway agent Mike Flannery wants to charge the livestock rate for a shipment of two guinea pigs and refuses to accept the lower pet rate saying "Pigs is Pigs." The customer's complaint is routed bureaucratically throughout the railway company while the guinea pigs reproduce geometrically in Flannery's stationhouse. Species Cavia porcellus Cavia aperea Cavia tschudii Cavia guianae Cavia anolaimae Cavia nana Cavia fulgida Cavia magna Guinea pigs (also called cavies) are rodents belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia. ...


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  • Pigs is Pigs, available freely at Project Gutenberg
  • Free audiobook of Pigs is Pigs from LibriVox
Official website for Ellis Parker Butler
  • Publication history
  • Pigs is Pigs online
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