"Douglas S. Ladden" > wrote in message
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> Nixon, D on 19 Oct 2003 suggested:
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> >
> > "Charles Gifford" > wrote in message
> > ink.net...
> >>
> >> "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. 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.
> >>
> >> 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 !
>
> Because songwriters (a) are ignorant, (b) take artistic license,
> (c) couldn't get "goat antelopes" to fit into the rhythm and meter of
> the song, or (d) didn't like the way "muskox" rolled off the tongue.
> *grin*
>
> --Douglas
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Willie Nelson wrote the song----------------- Crazy.