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> It sounds as if you've had an extremely interesting life! Um, excuse my ignorance, but what s a 'pig pourer'?

Hm. I happen to work at a metallurgical manufacturing company stuck between a (winterized) cornfield and a soya bean field, so I think I'll take a stab at pig-pourer. I imagine that Howard once worked as either:

1) a farmhand tending the trough, pouring slops for hogs. OR, as

2) a blast-furnace operator pouring molten iron into pigs.

Wolf "I'm guessing #2. No, 1.... aaaaaahhh!" spirit