Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 06, 2014

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    Dtroutma  about 10 years ago

    Bison bison, much worse than a bull in a china shop!

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    watmiwori  about 10 years ago

    Good one — wish I’d thought of it!

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    watmiwori  about 10 years ago

    But the nice green lawn means the skies are probably cloudyall day

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    jnik23260  about 10 years ago

    And the skies are not cloudy all day!

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    Superfrog  about 10 years ago

    I don’t think it’s in their range but I could be completely buffaloed.

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   about 10 years ago

    They look more like they’re clustering rather than roaming.

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    Ida No  about 10 years ago

    Aww, they’re so—— cute!I want Wiley buffalo in my yard!

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    albertonencioni  about 10 years ago

    Help from a foreigner: I think there is a joke in the phrase, but I do not get it. Help, please?

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    artybee  about 10 years ago

    Google “Kansas state song”?

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    Pithy (yeah, right)  about 10 years ago

    “Nary is heard a discouraging word” and “home where the buffalo roam” are both phrases from the song “Home on Range”. This couple like the first part, but could do without the buffalo.

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    Toonerific  about 10 years ago

    You’re missing an opportunity here, you could open a sandwich shop selling perfectly ordinary meat sandwiches.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member about 10 years ago

    Bison herds roam at will. Even fences will prove to be meaningless during their migratory phases. The song expresses a desire to be where there are no roads or fences and few if any people, whose company only serves to discourage one’s enjoyment of life, being tied to agriculture and industry as people have become, where nature is not the infrastructure, but an impediment to it.

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    SeanT  about 10 years ago

    I think every Kansas knows how seldom our state song is heard these days, but we will nary agree with misquotation.

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    Olfarto  about 10 years ago

    Sorry, but telling a realtor you want a different home IS a “discouraging word”.

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    WCLamb  about 10 years ago

    Being from the east, I never knew there was more than one verse. But then, I never cared to look beyond.

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    GROG Premium Member about 10 years ago

    I’d put up with the buffalo for cloud-free skies.

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    Defective Premium Member about 10 years ago

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    cdward  about 10 years ago

    If you build your home on the range, where’re you going cook?

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    sottwell  about 10 years ago

    A song that children learned at an early age in the USA – many jokes are based on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJJGikSD9ho

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    ladykat  about 10 years ago

    Works for me! I’ll probably leave out the celery, I don’t like the texture when it’s cooked.

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    ladykat  about 10 years ago

    My first thought was: “Look at all the dinners and fur coats!” Wouldn’t have to shop for meat for years and years if freezer is big enough!

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    puddlesplatt  about 10 years ago

    ~and knee deep in buffalo poo!

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    strictures  about 10 years ago

    But think of all the free, lean & tasty buffalo steaks & burgers you’ll have.Just learn how to slaughter & butcher them.

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    Rogers George Premium Member about 10 years ago

    You know what the deer and the antelope played, don’t you? They played herd and go seek! Yuk yuk.

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    jdkingbear  about 10 years ago

    Buffaloes on your lawn? Chips Ahoy !!

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    dabugger  about 10 years ago

    OK, but what about the deer and antelope play?

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    WaitingMan  about 10 years ago

    Home on derange?

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    sarah413 Premium Member about 10 years ago

    Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam, and I’ll show you a house full of dirt.

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    KEA  about 10 years ago

    picky, picky, picky

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    Packratjohn Premium Member about 10 years ago

    My daughter lived in Yellowstone for several years. The bison and elk in the yard were incredible. Magnificent animals. It severely limited what you could do; no garden, couldn’t let dogs run loose, etc, but they were fascinating to watch. They’d move on after a few hours, and people could venture outdoors again.

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    Seed_drill  about 10 years ago

    Larsonesque, and I mean that in a good way.

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    Fenshaw  about 10 years ago

    Sounds about right, thanks for the correction. I’ll just get a growler of something stout.

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    ctaylornlv Premium Member about 10 years ago

    Give me a Home where the Buffalo roam and I’ll give you a dirty house.

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    Habogee  about 10 years ago

    I call it “Tinkle Down”.

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    jbarnes  about 10 years ago

    Buffalo (American Buffalo, if you prefer) has been a common name for the bison for a very long time. It’s pretty normal for two very different animals to share a common name. For instance, at one point the US national parks tried to rename American elk to wapiti in all of their literature. I think the idea was to use a Native American name for elk to distinguish it from the totally different European animal also known as elk. The attempt failed. Common names are not easily changed.

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    wynot  about 10 years ago

    Is one of the bison on the veranda frowning?

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    watmiwori  about 10 years ago

    I wouldn’t want to mess with a bison, either,without I was some distance away and with afully loaded 30-30.

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    jahoody  about 10 years ago

    @Alberto: look up the song “Home on the Range” for the explanation.

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    hippogriff  about 10 years ago

    Bruno Zeigerts: Walt Kelly claimed the opening lyrics were:“Oh give me a home, ’tween Buffalo and Rome,Where the beer and the cantaloupe lay.”

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    Dtroutma  about 10 years ago

    Buffalo in Asia, Africa, and even Australia; bison in the Americas, and Europe.

    btw: Buffalo in Asia can be nasty, but I also saw a tourist gored and killed years ago in Yellowstone by a bison he was going to take a “closeup” picture of. Those pointy things on their heads are dangerous!

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    Hunter7  about 10 years ago

    but the cute woolys will keep away the door to door every ones. Especially during election campaigns.

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    albertonencioni  about 10 years ago

    Thanks for explanation. The state song of Kansas is not “top of the pop” in Northern Italy..

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