"Charles Gifford" > wrote in message
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> "Wayne Lundberg" > wrote in message
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> > The other comment is that, as far as I know, chili contains beef and
> > although deer and antelope were here long before the conquest,
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> 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. As the scientific name suggests, they are sometimes placed in a
> group of animals called "goat antelopes" although they are neither. Other
> animals in this group: chamois, saiga, takin and muskox. Other than the
> muskox and takin none are actually related.
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> Charlie
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Oh yeah?? Well if that be true, tell me this-------------------- why would
"where the deer and the ANTELOPE play" be in the words of the
most popular song of the 20th Century !!!! ???? I'm talkin'
Home on the Range !

McDave

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