"Jack Schidt®" > wrote in message
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> "Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
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> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:57:11 GMT, "Charles Gifford"
> > > wrote:
> >
> > >"Wayne Lundberg" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > >>
> > >> The other comment is that, as far as I know, chili contains beef and
> > >> although deer and antelope were here long before the conquest,
> > >
> > >Just a gentle correction for anyone who cares. There have never been
> > >antelope in the Americas. You are probably refering to the pronghorn -
> > >"Antelocapra americana". It is not related to antelopes nor to any
living
> > >animal....
> >
> > Sombody should have pointed this out to Brewster Higley before they
> > made "Home on the Range" the State Song of Kansas... ;-)
> >
> > http://www.50states.com/songs/kansas.htm
> >
> > Don't get me started on their use of the word "buffalo" either -
> > supposedly there are no buffalo in the Americas, either.
> >
> > -sw
>
> For there not being any, I sure have been 'buffalo'd' more times than I
care
> to remember!
>
> Jack
>
I'd bet you've been buffalo'd bison of the best buffaloers around.
Jack