This cartoon is reproduced by kind permission of the artist and illustrator Tom Gauld - www.tomgauld.com

And his wife saw farmer Paddy leaning against the tractor staring into the middle distance. And she said
"What are you thinking about, Paddy?"
And he replied
"Just thinking its gonna be our Golden Wedding in a few weeks".
"We could throw a party", said his wife on the spur of the moment, "and you could kill a pig!"
And Paddy Thought About This for a while and and finally said slowly
"No, Mary, I don't see why a pig should suffer for something that happened 50 years ago...."