05.14.09
Invisible Pigs and the swine flu
Ii is funny, in the interesting way, not the ha-ha way, how sometimes no matter how much work and planning is put into a project outside forces can come along and either change or destroy completely everything thing done up to that point. A case in point is our promotion plan for the 2009 Monroe County Fair involving chloe, the invisible pig. We had story lines created, art work done (apparently an invisible pig is much harder to draw than a visible pig), locatins secured for video work, and the prestory up on our sister site: www.mcfair.com.
Everything is going along fine and the adventures of Chloe promises to be one of our best and most fun events in quite a while. then along comes the swine flu (now known as H1N1) and suddenly every thing pig is taboo. Even though swine flu is a bit of a misnomer and there really is no connection between it and the cloven animal, people do not want any thing to do with anything pig. Egyptians are slaughtering hundreds of thousands of the animals and people the world over are anti-hog.
So ends the adventures of Chloe, the invisible pig. She is lost no more. She has returned home to her family to enjoy a quiet, peaceful existence full of mud and slop and all other things boar-ish. She is still a fun-loving, adventurous swine, but for now she remains close to home, family, and fair. She still gets a bit nervous when people talk of pork chops or bacon, but in general she is a happy, contented hog.
The marketing committee mean while is talking of things such as “Ag in the City” and Buying Giggles. Well I guess it could be considered job security and life goes on. Unless, of course, you are an Egyptian pig.
