First up for the second round on stage was Pig again. Remember last week? Pig froze on stage and had a very poor performance. Now Devil had just made himself comfortable with his stack of question cards, when Professor and Pig appeared on stage together. Professor walked up to Devil and whispered something in his ear. Devil shook his head a few times and finally Professor left the stage leaving Pig behind. Devil told me later, that Professor had asked whether he could sit there with Pig as a bit of support for his mate. Pig was still very, very nervous. Devil’s answer of course was a resounding no. However, he promised to keep the questions simple today.
Pig sat down and immediately started staring at a tiny piece of floor right in front of him.
“Are you ready?” Devil asked.
“As ready as I’ll ever will be” said Pig without looking up, but astoundingly confident. Professor must have coached him all last week.
Devil shuffled the question cards and read out three questions for today’s candidate:
1. What are your aspirations in life?
2. What would you consider bliss?
3. What is your biggest fear?
“Can you start from the beginning again, please?” Pig asked. “What do you mean by apparition?”
“Aspiration I said, not apparition. Just tell me what you want to be!”
“I only know what I don’t want to be… I don’t want to become pork chops like any other pig. That’s certainly not how I want to end up. Or as bacon. Professor tells me I have to be careful, particularly now that it is Christmas time. He says it is a dangerous time for a juicy little pig like me and he doesn’t want me to go out by myself with all the barbeques going on.” When he started to talk about Professor he all of a sudden could speak clearly and fluently, but he moved away from answering the question.
“It is certainly a good start, knowing what you don’t want. Isn’t it? Everything else will come with time” Devil said to indicate he deemed the question sufficiently answered. But Pig just looked at him blankly.
“So what would you consider bliss or heaven, then?” Devil repeated the second question as Pig seemed to be lost again.
“A fridge full of cold beer!” Pig answered instantly without consideration.
“That’s it? That is your answer?”
“Yes, I’ll stick to that!”
“Okay and what is your biggest fear?” Devil asked the last question again.
“Ending up as pork chops…” Pig said again, after staring at the floor for a while. Then he looked up. He must have seen Professor standing behind the curtains looking very disappointed, so he quickly added: “And that Professor leaves me. Yes, that is my biggest fear, Professor leaving me. Yes, Professor keeps me safe. So I hope he won’t leave me. This would be disastrous. I might as well become pork chops then…”
“Thank you Pig, that was all very revealing!”
“Was it?” Pig asked, obviously surprised that it was all over so quickly.
What do you think of Pig’s performance this week?
dedepuppets 
…A fridge full of cold beer!…
As crisp as possible
Loved this answer; better than I expected
I hope pig hasn’t read yesterday’s comment from Whichwillitbe, otherwise he will be joining Deutsch Fraulein soon. :)
I felt Pig’s answers were honest and won me over.
I am not too sure about him… When he saw Professor in the curtains… could it be and indication for co-dependency??? But I agree, he certainly is very afraid of ending up as pork chops and he was honest about this.
Perhaps you are right…he did change his answer quickly didn’t he?
I guess I have to watch that :)