Re: Why a "pig"?

[Jeff Eichorst <myself@lanl.gov>]

Pigs are short and stout.


At 04:56 PM 10/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I was recently asked by a lab tech why we call lead storage containers "pigs"? 
>I honestly didn't know. Does anyone know, as Paul Harvey says "the rest of the
>story?"
>
>Thanks in advance for the insight.
>
>Al Castellane
>Oregon Health Sciences University
>Portland, Or
>castella@ohsu.edu
>
>
Jeff Eichorst
Occurrence Investigator
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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