The Learned Pig: Nurses Uniforms Place

03 April 2007

Nurses Uniforms Place

Part 4 of my ongoing series of pictures of ruined English:

That's not even ungrammatical. That's agrammatical. It's like three random nouns collided in a train wreck of nonsense.

Is that really the name of their business? Do they actually print that nonsensical combination of words on their tax forms?

I wonder what their company motto is. The Nurses Uniforms Place: you're one stop solution four nurses uniforms!

Picture taken in Philly PA. Thanks to KW and KAO for the image.

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Why the learned pig?

In early 19th-century America, a certain traveling show featured a remarkable pig that, on command, could spell out letters to form words. This "pig of knowledge", or "learned pig", baffled superstitious mobs, and excited frenzied accusations of witchcraft. In response, the pig's trainer published a pamphlet that sought to dispel the rumors by detailing his methods of instruction, and demonstrating that this apparent miracle could be accounted for through reason and observation alone.

Tacitus once wrote, "everything unknown passes for something splendid." Humans by nature desire to know, and when they encounter something seemingly inexplicable, they tend to fill in the holes with religion, superstition, or inane anti-intellectualism that dismisses the need for knowledge altogether. But these are cowardly subsitutes for reason and observation. The learned pig reminds us that if we wish to be wise, "observe; for observation is the source of wisdom."