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A comment on Pigging.

Re:Pigging by LeonB on Saturday October 21, 2023 @04:29AM (#37965085)
I joined an oil and gas company and I had a few questions when I noticed “pigLauncher” in an enum.
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Re:Pigging by bluescrn on Saturday October 21, 2023 @04:35AM (#37965113)
Sounds like they're trying to fight back against the Angry Birds
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Re:Pigging by ben_w on Saturday October 21, 2023 @05:19AM (#37965293)
For a while, learning German, I kept misreading "Scheinwerfer" (light thrower, headlight) as "Schweinwerfer" (pig-thrower).
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Re:Pigging by userbinator on Saturday October 21, 2023 @05:51AM (#37965436)
As an image search for the latter term shows, that seems to be a common occurrence, or perhaps it's even deliberate.
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Re:Pigging by otteromkram on Saturday October 21, 2023 @07:41AM (#37965983)
If there's one thing Germans know, it's how to have a good time.
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Re:Pigging by PierreProstata on Saturday October 21, 2023 @08:43AM (#37966353)
The first google hit is from an Austrian site selling a Schweinwerfer; a Scheinwerfer designed for forestry... to look at wild pigs

Genius

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Re:Pigging by mschuster91 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:03PM (#37969593)
And for those who enjoy playing LEGO videogames... LEGO City Undercover has legit pig cannons [1].

[1] https://www.ign.com/wikis/lego-city-undercover/Return_Pigs

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Re:Pigging by davb on Saturday October 21, 2023 @06:26AM (#37965591)
Similar experience here - I was making changes to the internal phone directory program and seen an entry for the “Pig Launcher” on a platform. As someone new to oil and gas, I thought it was quick funny.
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