> Politically Correct Three Little Pigs > > Once there were 3 little pigs who lived together in mutual respect and > in harmony with their environment. Using materials that were > indigenous to the area they each built a beautiful house. One pig > built a house of straw, one a house of sticks, and one a house of > dung, clay and creeper vines shaped into bricks and baked in a small > kiln. When they were finished, the pigs were satisfied with their work > and settled back to live in peace and self-determination. > > But their idyll was soon shattered. One day, along came a big, bad > wolf with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry in > both a physical and ideological sense. When the pigs saw the wolf, > they ran into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and > banged on the door, shouting, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!" > The pigs shouted back, "Your gunboat tactics hold no fear for pigs > defending their homes and culture." But the wolf wasn't to be denied > what he thought was his manifest destiny. > > So he huffed and puffed and blew down the house of straw. The > frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in hot > pursuit. Where the straw house had stood, other wolves bought up the land > and started a banana plantation. > > At the house of sticks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, > "Little, pigs, little pigs, let me in!" The pigs shouted back, "Go to > hell, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!" At this the wolf > huffed and puffed and blew down the house of sticks. The pigs ran to > the house of bricks, with the wolf close at their heels. Where the > house of sticks had stood, other wolves built a time-share condo > resort complex for vacationing wolves, with each unit a fibreglass > reconstruction of the house of sticks, as well as native curio shops, > snorkelling and dolphin shows. > > At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, > "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!" This time in response, the pigs > sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters of protest to the United > Nations. By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs' refusal to see > the situation from the carnivore's point of view. So he huffed and > puffed, and huffed and puffed, then grabbed his chest and fell over > dead from a massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty > foods. > > The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a > little dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to > liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs > who had been forced off their lands. This new brigade of porcinistas > attacked the resort complex with machine-guns and rocket launchers and > slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the > rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their internal affairs. Then > the pigs set up a model socialist democracy with free education, > universal health care and affordable housing for everyone. > > Please note: The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construct. No > actual wolves were harmed in the writing of the story.