Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was reading over minionly comments this morning and found one that he really wanted to share with you.

Our new minion, Tikipundit, wrote a comment concerning yesterday’s post and the blurb on wild pigs in and around Berlin. Tiki wrote:

As readers of the Cambridge Guide to Hawaiian Gods will know (or at least, the “Big Dummies Guide to Deities”), your friendly local Hawaiian god TikiPundit was long resident in Germany. I had an apple tree in my back yard, and it was a fine addition to a typical German yard — a good complement to the yodeling, beer drinking and plans for ruling Europe that routinely took place there. I trimmed the tree. I nursed the tree. I pruned it, fed it — and hugged it every night, despite my carniverous nature.

The tree produced. It produced massive amounts of apples. I ate some. I baked some. I gave some to the neighbors. One day, a neighbor appeared, asking for [some]. I gave them. The neighbor cheerfully informed me they were for a relative — to feed wild pigs in the forest. I was ambivalent about this until she said he was going out every few days and feeding them at the same spot, until they got so used to his presence that they didn’t flinch when he turned up with a rifle and a hunting permit and shot the filthy little buggers, and served them up for dinner. Yummy!

So you see, TikiPundit helps the environment in many, many ways, all
over the world.

Ah Tiki… It is good to hear how you help the environment in many ways. Yum indeed. Your Maximum Leader is all in favour of hunting, and hunting wild pigs is no exception to that belief. Your Maximum Leader can only hope that Tiki got some of the pork from the hunted pigs….

Carry on.