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Pig catches politicians' 'flu


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The patient after receiving his caviar and champagne medication

A pig in Shropshire, England, today became the first animal to catch the human illness of politicians' flu. The pandemic of politicians' 'flu has spread across the world in recent months, and scientists feared it was only a matter of time before a mutant strain of it affected animals.

'The symptoms shown by the pig are similar to the human ones', Professor Scratching said, from Glamorgan Universisty. 'Compulsive eating everything it can out of its trough, making loud grunting noises whenever a television camera appears, and of course compulsively stealing anything it can, denying stealing everything it can, and then resigning for not stealing anything it can after being being caught doing it.'

'Also, the 'flu has made the pig become slimy and brown and bloated, though that may be due to wallowing in dirty money for the last six years, rather than any illness.'