Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 06, 2014

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

Good one — wish I’d thought of it!

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

And the skies are not cloudy all day!

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

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

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

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

Google “Kansas state song”?

“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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

~and knee deep in buffalo poo!

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

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

Buffaloes on your lawn? Chips Ahoy !!

OK, but what about the deer and antelope play?

Home on derange?

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

picky, picky, picky

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.

Larsonesque, and I mean that in a good way.

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

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

I call it “Tinkle Down”.

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.

Is one of the bison on the veranda frowning?

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

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

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.”

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!

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

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