After the Daily Mail published a story that claimed British Prime Minister David Cameron had put "a private part of his anatomy" into a dead pig's mouth during a student initiation ceremony at the University of Oxford, the Twitter world exploded.

Not since Kermit the Frog dumped Miss Piggy for a younger pork chop named Denise has social media been so preoccupied with amorous activity involving a porcine being.

The article, which is really all about the prime minister just being the kind of kid that smokes out in his dorm room with pals and listens to Supertramp, describes a young Cameron who was familiar with cannabis and even got into trouble for it. The future world leader had once been caught with weed and “narrowly avoided being expelled just a few weeks before he was due to sit his O-levels.”

But that's not the worst of it.

According to the article, Cameron was involved in an Oxford dining society called the Bullingdon Club, notorious for strange rituals and sexual excess. An unnamed "distinguished Oxford contemporary" suggests that the future prime minister once took part in an initiation ceremony wherein he inserted a private part of his anatomy into a dead pig’s mouth.

Hashtags such as #piggate started trending on the social media right after the article appeared.

The now notorious bit of gossip is actually part of some very public revenge executed by a former Conservative party donor named Lord Ashcroft, who not only alleges that the prime minister has engaged in odd dinner club behavior but he has pulled off some shady offshore tax dealing as well.

According to the Guardian, Ashcroft says he remains personally mad at Cameron because the Prime Minister did not give him a role in the coalition after Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, blocked him from joining.

Cameron did eventually offer Ashcroft a place as a junior whip in the Foreign Office. “It would have been better had Cameron offered me nothing at all,” wrote Ashcroft.

According to Time, a spokesperson for the prime minister would not dignify the allegations made in Lord Ashcroft's book with a response.