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- Sippi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+80THE BUFFALO THEORY
(In one episode of ‘Cheers’, Cliff is seated at the bar describing the Buffalo Theory to his buddy, Norm. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the concept explained any better than this…)
“Well you see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers.” - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+76Who polices the police?
The police police.
So, who polices the police police?
Police police police police police police. - twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -14/+71This article can be summed up in one word; Awsome.
- bitt3n, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49basically:
Buffalo from buffalo who are intimidated by other buffalo from buffalo themselves intimidate other buffalo from Buffalo. - shredomatic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47I approve of this headline.
- LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+50"If the homophones would be replaced with other words, it would look like
Buffalo bison, Buffalo bison intimidate, intimidate Buffalo bison."
I must be dumb because I still don't understand the 'translated' version. - shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
definitely a +digg for the creativity some people have. - bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44Can you digg digg?
Who diggs digg's diggs?
Digg diggs digg's diggs!
Can digg diggers digg digg diggers diggs?
I digg digg diggers digging digg diggers diggs!
(It's all gramatically correct) - AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Here's another good one.
In Japanese, niwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu is a well-known sentence that has, due to the high number of homophones, as many as ninety-two possible interpretations.
That kicks all ours in the ass - dayquil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Outstanding.
Agree, this is precisely what makes wikipedia better than a more formal encyclopedia. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!
- gabeN, on 10/16/2007, -1/+28wings wings wings wings wings wings wings wings wings
and ranch, lots of ranch. - dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27 The post title is wrong.
The first ,third and seventh words should be capitalized. It's just not a random bunch of "buffalo" words strung together.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - *blu*, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Is it just me or does the word "buffalo" seem really weird after reading this digg?
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Bison from NY, which are intimidated by other bison from NY, also intimidate Bison from NY.
Basically they're all intimidated by one another. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21 Buffalo.
"Engage in bamboozlement."
Buffalo buffalo.
"American bison are characteristically given to engaging in bambloozlement."
Buffalo buffalo buffalo.
"American bison are characteristically given to bamboozling other members of their species."
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
"American bison habitually bamboozled by members of their own species (that is, buffalo whom other buffalo regularly buffalo) characteristically engage in bamboozlement."
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
"American bison habitually bamboozled by members of their own species (that is, buffalo whom other buffalo regularly buffalo) tend to return the compliment by bamboozling in turn yet other members of the species."
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
"American bison habitually bamboozled by members of their own species that have themselves been bamboozled by others of their ilk (that is, buffalo whom other buffalo who have themselves been buffaloed by buffalo regularly buffalo) tend to engage in bamboozlement."
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
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from http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001817.html - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Aw crap! I thought it was going to be like the badger thing.
- sanza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20@Blackcow
MS Word tells me that most of my sentences are incorrect anyway.... - BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23I put it into MS word and it said it was incorrect lol
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19It's a strange thing cause once you "get" it, it feels normal... and you want to explain it to people by saying "buffallo buffallo, buffallo buffallo buffallo, buffallo buffallo" of course...
It's like those magic eye pictures - darkyoshi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison
ORANGE ORANGE
bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison
ORANGE ORANGE
bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison
AHH ITS A PILLOW! - crash999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Como como como, como chameleon...you come and go... you come and goooo...
- airstrike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15also, in portuguese: 'como como como'. much shorter, but still cool.. it means 'i eat how i eat', or something like that
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24see ya bye party favor's out back
- StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"In Japanese, niwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu is a well-known sentence that has, due to the high number of homophones, as many as ninety-two possible interpretations."
Someone needs to make an article on niwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu and go through each and every interpretation.
Aaaaaand....go. - kigabit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Meh. I would've preferred it if the poster had capitalized properly and used the correct number of iterations of "buffalo." (8, instead of 9)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12You can stretch it in Spanish, actually.
Como como como como, como como como.
Translation: Because I eat how I eat, I eat how I eat. - sinfree, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13They haven't... some of the comments are just that stupid.
- NobleArc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Some buffalo from Buffalo, who are intimidated by other buffalo from Buffalo, also intimidate other, different, buffalo from Buffalo." Very clever.
- cuby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12there's a famous chinese poem that takes this to the extreme limit ... it's an entire story written using only "shi".
http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML
has recordings too, it's wild. - elpepe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Grammar rules rule grammar.
- tomi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Ow, my brain.
- Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It would be the same in spanish too spiffy :). In Spanish the literal translation would be eat how i eat (I added)
- 76ers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11hahahaha!!! That's a classic!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hadxBZWxNrs
Which by the way, I guess HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA too would be correct - lazarith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10One of these days we will finally be able to rid ourselves of all words and just quack like ducks, a la Newspeak in 1984 :-P
- synae, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10bleu cheese!
- elpepe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8actually....
Badgers badgers badger badger badgers badgers badger.
makes sense:
Badgers annoyed by badgers annoy badgers annoyed by badgers. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13For the record, when you're high, it's a lot easier to come up with sentences like that for some reason. Weird, but true.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8interesting and dugg
- jay314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Think of it this way....
Take the sentence "Many things that many people say confuse many people." Rewrite it as "Many things many people say confuse many people." That's the grammatical structure that the buffalo sentence is using.
Replace the verbs "say" and "confuse" with "intimidate"
Replace the nouns "things" and "people" with "bison".
Replace the adjective "many" with "from Buffalo (the city)".
Expanded out, we get:
Bison from Buffalo, that bison from Buffalo intimidate, intimidate bison from Buffalo.
Now... the phrase "bison from Buffalo" can be shortened to "Buffalo bison". Similar to the way we would write "people from Japan" as "Japanese people".
We get:
Buffalo bison, that Buffalo bison intimidate, intimidate Buffalo bison.
Finally, we can drop the commas and the word "that".
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. - catfive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Don't make the explanation harder than the concept! ;)
Try this if you're still stuck:
New York bison, [that other] New York bison annoy, [also] bother New York bison.
It still holds it's meaning without the additives:
NY bison, NY bison annoy, bother NY bison.
We now have a sentence in which EVERY word can be replaced with "b/Buffalo." You may be able to find it somewhere on this page...
Granted, it's not saying much; but as a proof-of-concept it's marvelous! - punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You're getting buried because that quote could be from anywhere and isn't specific. Not to mention it's a pretty dumb quote anyways.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I don't understand digging down comments that are conversational. Comments aren't just about validating egos. I often see comments buried which I can't fathom why anyone would possibly want to bury.
It would be nice to hear conversation and discussion on these forums rather than just having people post these cute soundbytes which are guaranteed diggs, so ease up on the arbitrary burying of conversational comments. - GnuTzu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dig Digg.
- Shruthi99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Lol. I read the article. Interesting.
Buffaloes ftw. - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's much easier if you can hear the tones of someone saying. Try saying it out loud a few times. Get someone else to read it.
- Canadiens1160, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4'Buffalo bison' is the subject of the senternce;
'Buffalo bison intimidate,' is a phrase in commas, explaining the subject (Buffalo bison), think that's called an aposotive - mcaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Kyle: Marklar, these marklars want to change your marklar. They don't want Marklar or any of these marklars to live here because it's bad for their marklar. They use Marklar to try and force marklars to believe they're marklar. If you let them stay here, they will build marklars and marklars. They will take all your marklars and replace them with Marklar. These marklar have no good marklar to live on Marklar, so they must come here to Marklar. Please, let these marklars stay where they can grow and prosper without any marklars, marklars, eh or marklars.
Marklar: Young marklar, your marklars are wise and true. - cappslite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is the reason why English is the most difficult of languages to learn.
- Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5He said that that 'that' that that man had used was wrong.
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