A man passes past a farm, where he notices a pig with a wooden leg.
He’s never seen anything like it before; the pig is simply roaming around the farm but with a well-made wooden leg. His curiosity gets the best of him, and he waves the farmer over.
“Sorry to bug you,” the man responds; “but I just have to ask, how did that pig end up with a wooden leg?”
The farmer laughs. “That pig… it is quite special. In the middle of the night, our oven’s pilot light failed, causing the entire kitchen to catch fire. But the pig raced to the back door, kicked it in, ran through the fire and up the stairs, kicked open my wife’s and my door, and oinked fiercely till we woke up. And before we could react, the pig dashed into our infant daughter’s room, snatched her out of her cot, and safely carried her on his back until all of us were well away from the home. That pig saved my whole family’s lives.”
The man is astonished. “That is incredible!” “But how does that explain the wooden leg?”
The farmer shakes his head and says. “Well, a pig that special, you don’t eat all at once.”
Explanation: The joke is a play on the idea of a pig being so special that the farmer doesn’t want to eat it all at once. The story leads you to believe that the wooden leg is due to some heroic act, but the punchline reveals that the pig is still being used for food, just very slowly. The humor comes from the unexpected twist—the pig is kept alive despite its heroics, but it’s still being eaten bit by bit. The farmer values the pig, but not in the way you might think, creating a surprising and funny ending.
