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CoasterMatt 09-16-2007 10:09 PM

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
 
Come hurt your mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...uffalo_buffalo

Gemini Cricket 09-16-2007 10:19 PM

My brain hurts!
:D

alphabassettgrrl 09-16-2007 11:29 PM

My favorite bit is how it's a "garden path sentence". I just like the term. It sounds neat. In reality it seems to be shorthand for pain in the patoot.

flippyshark 09-16-2007 11:32 PM

I find it helpful to think of it this way: The Buffalo-born buffalo whom other Buffalo-born buffalo do ocassionally buffalo sometimes buffalo other Buffalo-born buffalo.

Of course, it can be expanded: The Buffalo-born buffalo whom other Buffalo-born buffalo do ocassionally buffalo sometimes buffalo other Buffalo-born buffalo that other Buffalo-born Buffalo do buffalo. To wit -

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo!

I think I first heard this in AP English class way back when.

Kevy Baby 09-16-2007 11:37 PM

Moo

NickO'Time 09-17-2007 12:28 AM

Kicking Bird says TuTonka!

Prudence 09-17-2007 12:34 AM

I had that as my signature for awhile...

flippyshark 09-17-2007 12:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prudence (Post 162001)
I had that as my signature for awhile...

I remember that.

Tref 09-17-2007 01:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt (Post 161987)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo



Yes?

Morrigoon 09-17-2007 02:30 AM

Okay, that was seriously geek cool.

That's better than "that that is is that that is not is not is it it is" (which is not grammatically correct, and adding the correct grammar explains too much, "That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is it? It is.")

Cadaverous Pallor 09-17-2007 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prudence (Post 162001)
I had that as my signature for awhile...

Yeah, and I had no idea why. Craziness.

mousepod 09-17-2007 08:49 AM

It reminds me of one I heard in school:

Matt where Jesse had had had had had had had had had had had Jennies approval

Insert proper punctuation.

Tref 09-17-2007 11:28 AM

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

JWBear 09-17-2007 12:32 PM

If you spell out the word "socks" in English, you're saying "it is what it is" in Spanish (or so I'm told).

Morrigoon 09-17-2007 12:41 PM

Es o si que es?

Ghoulish Delight 09-17-2007 01:15 PM

"Eso, sí que es!" = "That one, yeah that's it!"

RStar 09-17-2007 02:39 PM

Oh, Buffalo socks!

Tref 09-17-2007 02:59 PM

I have heard but can not confirm that buffalo girls go round the outside.

Alex 09-17-2007 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by JWBear (Post 162034)
If you spell out the word "socks" in English, you're saying "it is what it is" in Spanish (or so I'm told).

Is you're source of that knowledge the same as mine? Namely a very frequently played radio commercial back in the mid-90s that said something like:

"Learnign Spanish is easy. Spell socks. S-O-C-K-S. See, isn't it easy!"

That's not even close to the exact wording but that was the spirit of what they said. I imagined them teaching the whole language by memorizing what English word to spell in key situations.

Kevy Baby 09-17-2007 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tref (Post 162044)
I have heard but can not confirm that buffalo girls go round the outside.

Round the outside, round the outside

sleepyjeff 09-17-2007 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby (Post 161996)
Moo

The point is moo.......it's like a cow's opinion, it just doesn't matter:


It's moo:)


Courtesy of Joey from Friends

BarTopDancer 09-17-2007 06:02 PM

Ouch.

JWBear 09-17-2007 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 162062)
Is you're source of that knowledge the same as mine? Namely a very frequently played radio commercial back in the mid-90s that said something like:

"Learnign Spanish is easy. Spell socks. S-O-C-K-S. See, isn't it easy!"

That's not even close to the exact wording but that was the spirit of what they said. I imagined them teaching the whole language by memorizing what English word to spell in key situations.

No. Never heard that commercial. I was told this by a Spanish speaking co-worker.

Tref 09-17-2007 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepyjeff (Post 162082)
The point is moo.......it's like a cow's opinion, it just doesn't matter: It's moo:)


Or, in other words ...

To Err is human,
To Moo,
Bovine.


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