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Piggy (other)
Piggy, piggie or piggies may refer to: As a nickname *Denis D'Amour (1959–2005), guitarist for the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod *Fan Chun Yip (born 1976), Hong Kong retired football goalkeeper *Piggy French (born 1980), British equestrienne *Ward Lambert (1888–1958), American college men's basketball coach *Robert Muldoon (1921–1992), 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand *David Powell (rugby union) (born 1942), former England international rugby union player *Edwin Simandl, owner of the Orange Tornadoes and Newark Tornadoes of the National Football League *Piggy Ward (1867–1912), American professional baseball player * Roscoe Word (American football guard) (1882–1942), American college football player and coach *Mark Riddell (born 1980), Australian former rugby league player, commentator Slang *Domestic pig *Guinea pig *Toe Fictional characters * Miss Piggy, a Muppets character * Piggy (''Merrie Melodies''), from the ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons * Piggy (Power Range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis D'Amour
Denis "Piggy" D'Amour (September 24, 1959 – August 26, 2005) was a Canadian guitarist. He was a member of the heavy metal band Voivod from its inception in 1982 until his death in 2005. D'Amour's approach to music was anarchic and experimental rather than strict and theoretical. He was trained in classical violin as a child. He was influenced by progressive rock artists such as King Crimson, Pink Floyd and Rush. Death In the summer of 2005, D'Amour was diagnosed with colon cancer. Subsequently, a routine operation was scheduled though several complications led doctors to suspect further problems. The cancer had extensively progressed, rendering any operation non-viable. D'Amour slipped into a coma in the palliative care unit of a Montreal hospital on August 25, 2005, surrounded in his final hours by family and friends. The guitarist died the next day at approximately 11:45pm. The documentary '' Metal: A Headbanger's Journey'', featuring an interview with D'Amour, was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Of The Flies
''Lord of the Flies'' is a 1954 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. The novel, which was Golding's debut, was generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor's list, and 25 on the reader's list. In 2003, it was listed at number 70 on the BBC's The Big Read poll, and in 2005 ''Time'' magazine named it as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005, and included it in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Popular reading in schools, especially in the English-speaking world, ''Lord of the Flies'' was ranked third in the nation's favourite books from school in a 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggybacking (other)
Piggyback, piggy-back, or piggybacking may mean: Transport * Piggyback (transportation), something that is riding on the back of something else Art, entertainment, and media * Splash cymbal piggybacking, mounting a cymbal on top of an already stand-mounted cymbal * "Piggyback" (song), 2017 song by Melanie Martinez * Chapter Nine: The Piggyback, 2022 episode of ''Stranger Things''. Business, finance, and law * Piggy-back (law), shareholder selling rights * Piggybacking, a practice in which a person with bad credit uses the seasoned tradeline of credit of someone else Electronics * Piggyback board, a daughterboard Healthcare * Piggybacking, a second infusion set onto the same intravenous line using a Y-Set (intravenous therapy) * " Piggy-back technique", is a technique in liver transplantation in which the recipient inferior vena cava is preserved. * Vision Correction: The wearing of zero- or very-low-strength soft (daily disposable) contact lenses behind hard lenses if th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Little Piggy
"This Little Piggy" or "This Little Pig" is an English-language nursery rhyme and fingerplay. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19297. Lyrics One popular version is: Fingerplay The rhyme is usually counted out on an infant or toddler's toes, each line corresponding to a different toe, usually starting with the big toe and ending with the little toe. A foot tickle is added during the "Wee...all the way home" section of the last line. The rhyme can also be seen as a counting rhyme, although the number of each toe (from one for the big toe to five for the little toe) is never stated. Origins In 1728, the first line of the rhyme appeared in a medley called "The Nurses Song". The first known full version was recorded in ''The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-Book'', published in London about 1760. In this book, the rhyme goes: This pig went to market, That pig stayed home; This pig had roast meat, That pig had none; This pig went to the barn's door, And cried we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tip-cat
Tip-cat (also called cat, cat and dog, one-a-cat, pussy, or piggy) is a pastime which consists of tapping a short billet of wood (usually no more than ) with a larger stick (similar to a baseball bat or broom handle); the shorter piece is tapered or sharpened on both ends so that it can be "tipped up" into the air when struck by the larger, at which point the player attempts to swing or hit it a distance with the larger stick while it is still in the air (similar to swinging at a pitch in baseball or cricket, etc.). There are many varieties of the game, but in the most common, the batter, having placed the billet, or "cat", in a small circle on the ground, tips it into the air and hits it to a distance. His opponent then offers him a certain number of points, based upon his estimate of the number of hops or jumps necessary to cover the distance. If the batter thinks the distance underestimated he is at liberty to decline the offer and measure the distance in jumps, and score the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggy (2012 Film)
''Piggy'' is a 2012 British horror crime film. It is written and directed by Kieron Hawkes, produced by Fulwell 73 and DP Film Productions and starring Martin Compston, Paul Anderson, Ed Skrein and Neil Maskell. Synopsis In London, Joe (Compston) enters a depression after his brother is murdered on his way home after a night out, and the police think it looks like an open-and-shut case. However, a man called Piggy (Anderson) arrives claiming to be a mate of the brother and he wants revenge, but is Piggy real or a figment of Joe’s imagination? Cast *Martin Compston as Joe *Rachel Dylan as Claire *Roland Manookian as Craig *Neil Maskell as John * Paul Anderson as Piggy *Ed Skrein as Jamie Production The film was produced by Danny Potts and Leo Pearlman for Fulwell 73 and DP Film Productions with Creativity Media, and directed by Kieron Hawkes. Executive Producer’s on the project were Gabe Turner, Joe Moore and Patrick Fischer. Release The film had a limited UK cinema rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggy (2022 Film)
''Piggy'' ( es, Cerdita, links=no) is a 2022 horror thriller film written and directed by Carlota Pereda, based on her 2019 short film of the same name. The cast, led by Laura Galán (who reprises her role from the short film), also features Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi, Claudia Salas, Irene Ferreiro, Camille Aguilar and Pilar Castro. Plot Sara, labelled Cerdita by bully Maca and her friends Roci and Claudia, is an overweight teenage girl living in a small town in Extremadura. During the summer, Sara decides to visit the local swimming pool, only to be discovered by the three bullies, who steal her backpack and clothes. While walking home, she is harassed by a group of men and escapes onto a side road, where she sees a parked van which, initially unbeknownst to her, an unnamed man is using to kidnap her bullies. Claudia appears through the window, begging Sara to save her but Sara stands by in fear as the kidnapper locks gazes with her and silently leaves her towel before dri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggy (Roblox Game)
The online video game and game creation system ''Roblox'' has numerous games (officially referred to as "experiences") created by users of their creation tool, ''Roblox Studio''. Due to ''Roblox''s popularity, various games created on the site have grown increasing attention in popularity and received media coverage as the result; some of the games have millions of active players monthly, about 5,000 games having over a million visits and a few having over a billion. Original games ''Adopt Me!'' ''Adopt Me!'' is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game where the nominal focus is players pretending to be either parents adopting a child, or children getting adopted, though the de facto focus is around adopting and caring for many different pets, who can be traded with other players. As of October 2022, the game had been played upwards of thirty billion times. ''Adopt Me!'' was averaging 600,000 concurrent players as of June 2020, making it the most popular game on ''Robl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
