These are some interesting playing card, the second with Charlie riding a hog, this is a play on the fact that when Charlie was touring the U.S. (circa 1910/1911) with Karno Troupe he and another fellow had actually toyed with the idea of being hog farmers:
“In five years we could make $100,000” “We ate, slept, and dreamed hogs. But for buying a book on scientific hog-raising I might have given up show business and become a hog-farmer, but that book, which graphically described the technique of castrating hogs, cooled my ardour and I soon forgot the enterprise” - Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography - 1964
F.Y.I. - Hogs have to be castrated right before being slaughtered as the surge of testerone would toughen the meat. I’m a strange one on trivia:)
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betsihepsibah said:
No ur not strange! Good to know! I didn’t know that the hormone would affect the meat’s texture.
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