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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

213.0. "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." by RAJA::EPSTEIN (Bruce Epstein) Thu Jun 26 1986 13:04

There was an item on the radio this morning about
creating a sentence using solely the word "buffalo" 
five times. The answer had the meaning:
"A group of bison from western New York confused
another group from the same place."

Anyone know any other words which can create
similar sentences? (i.e. exclusively using that word)

Bruce
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213.1My three punsDELNI::CANTORDave CantorFri Jun 27 1986 02:1224
      Nhu knew new NU gnu Nu, noo?
      
      It means that Madame Nhu (you remember her, don't you) was
      acquainted with an animal at Northeastern University named
      for a letter of the Greek alphabet, and the speaker of the
      sentence is questioning the listener for acknowledgement with
      a common Yiddish expression, noo.
      
      Well, it's not the same, but at least they're almost homonyms.
      
      
      
      Aye, I eye ai.
      
      Yes, Skipper, this sailor is watching the 3-toed sloth.

      
      Wun won one.
      
      The Chinese fellow was successful this time, though he may
      have lost before.
      
      
      Dave C.
213.2This is a recording...RAJA::EPSTEINBruce EpsteinFri Jun 27 1986 13:0211
How about:

Records Records records records records.

A company with a "generic" name which puts music on vinyl,
has just set new marks in the production of such disks.

(The words are the same even if the pronunciation differs!)

Bruce
213.3OBLIO::SHUSTERRoB ShUsTeRFri Jun 27 1986 14:284
Can Can can cancan?

Will Dennis Oil Can Boyd (the Red Sox pitcher) get rid of the woman's 
dance?
213.4RAJA::EPSTEINBruce EpsteinFri Jun 27 1986 20:265
Will will will Will will.

George (ABC commentator, Newsweek columnist) is going to force 
his family to produce their statement of "sound mind, etc.".
213.5Well, well4GL::LASHERFri Jun 27 1986 23:274
    Re: previous.  I'm glad you wrote that, because I was just going
    to ask:
    
    Will Will will Will will?
213.6MARVIN::HARPERSun Jun 29 1986 23:0410
    I used to live in Andover, Mass, where the conservation society
    is called the Andover Village Improvement Society. Unfortunately,
    there never was a trip round the Andover conservation lands organised
    by a rental car company for French Canadians, with an advisory pamphlet
    headed:
    
    	Avis AVIS avis
    
    	John
    
213.7had had BUCKY::MPALMERMon Jun 30 1986 20:1410
    well, if you bend a few rules you can get a long string in the middle..
    (wasn't this in here before?)
    
    HAD had had "had"; Had had had "had had"; "had had" had had the
    instructor's approval.
    
    Henry A Davis wrote "had" on his paper and Hadley wrote "had had"
    since "had had" was correct.
    
    MP
213.8PAUPER::EPSTEINBruce EpsteinMon Jul 07 1986 19:345
Junk, junk junk junk junk.

Mr. J, will you please dispose of useless material
associated with a decrepit Chinese ship.
213.9Refuse Refuse refuse; refuseTOPDOC::SLOANENotable notes from -bs- Mon Jul 07 1986 21:107
    Refuse Refuse refuse; refuse.
    
    The garbage from the Refuse Company did not burn up as expected;
    the city did not accept it, and told the Refuse Company to put
    additional fuses in the garbage to burn it up.
    
    -bs
213.10getting silly...JON::MORONEYMadmanTue Jul 08 1986 20:018
re .4:  How about:

Will Will will will Will Will Will will.

George the columnist's long-lost brother Bill is going to bequeathe one of his
family heirloom documents to his son Billy Jr.

-Mike
213.11Have you helped a moron today?VOGON::GOODENOUGHJeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UKWed Jul 09 1986 14:055
    I can't get a synonym for the verb "confused" out of "buffalo"
    - not nohow.
    
    Jeff
    
213.12BEING::POSTPISCHILAlways mount a scratch monkey.Wed Jul 09 1986 15:278
    Re .11:
    
    This is from Merriam-Webster's _Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary_:
    
    	buffalo	vt : BEWILDER, BAFFLE
    
    
    				-- edp
213.13Odd Aud awed odd AudHOLST::KOCHKevin Koch LTN1-2/B17 DTN226-6274Wed Sep 03 1986 20:422
     Peculiar Audrey dazzled another peculiar Audrey.

213.14Reign Rain. Rain, rain rain!REGENT::MERRILLWin one for the Glypher.Fri Sep 05 1986 23:016
    Director of play giving instructions to two brothers, one of whom
    is playing the King and the other is in charge of the spceial effects.
    
    	Rick
    	Merrill
    
213.15Wee wee wee Wee; we wee wee!REGENT::MERRILLGlyph it up!Sun Sep 07 1986 21:064
    [ no offense, i hope! ]
    
    Chinese lad shy when there are no trees.
    
213.16CatastropheIOSG::DUTTThu Mar 19 1987 16:205
     Visited my old father the other day to console him about his cat's 
     infected foot, which he'd wrongly been treating by tipping orange 
     juice over it. So I said ....
     
     "Poor paw pore, pour paw-paw, Paw!" 
213.17Now for a true one!TKOV52::DIAMONDMon Feb 19 1990 05:4518
    There is a classic poem in Japanese, some number of centuries or
    millenia old, which contains just one Chinese character repeated
    twelve times.  The meaning is "A lion's child is a cub; a cat's
    child is a kitten."  (I might have that backwards.  No, that only
    SOUNDS funny; it's really true.)

    Just a couple of hundred years ago, a famous artist produced a famous
    woodcut depicting an old man teaching this poem to a young boy.
    
    Anyway, for all of you *****s who put accented vowels and cedilla-c's
    and other funny characters in your postings ... those things which
    make my terminal eat the funny character, eat the following good
    character, decide that the two do not form a valid Kanji, wait five
    seconds (elapsed real irritating time) and then put out a square box
    with an X through it ... for all you people who keep me waiting to
    get such nonsense and try to figure out what you wrote, I ought'a
    put the real Kanji for that poem in this message, and see what it
    does to YOUR terminal.
213.18then boil your headHERON::BUCHANANcombinatorial bomb squadMon Oct 08 1990 22:2914
	One I came across recently o'er the net (sorry if this has already
appeared.)   

Bulldogs bulldogs bulldogs fight fight fight.

	Assuming this is a statement, and not a sporting chant, what can
you say about the bulldogs.   And what logical implication (if any) exists
between the above statement, and:

Bulldogs bulldogs bulldogs bulldogs fight fight fight fight.

?
Regards,
Andrew