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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: MrsNose who wrote (13628)2/28/2000 10:10:00 PM
From: Barney   of 62554
 
Miss Piggy asks: Why are coin banks often in the shape of pigs?

Long ago, dishes and cookware where made of a dense, orange clay called "pygg". When housewives began saving coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as "pygg banks".

In the nineteenth century, and English potter misunderstood the meaning of the term pygg and took it to mean pig. So when someone asked him to make a pygg bank, he made one shaped like a pig. The idea caught on and soon everyone wanted a piggy bank.
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