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> "Jack Sloan" > wrote in message
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> > "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...
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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,
> > > >>
> > > >> 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
> > > >
> > I don't know much about these animals except nobody I know has eaten one
> > after shooting it for a wall mount. I also know they really like Oreo
> > cookies. I stopped somewhere on a fenceline around Post , Texas and fed
> > Oreos to a herd of these antelopes who stopped to look at me. Really
> ****ed
> > my 2 little girls off bad...they wanted the cookies for themselves.
> > Jack
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> If they scarfed up on those Oreos, they were no doubt Melanesian MuskOxes.
> Texans don't know any better. Most can't tell an antelope from an
> anecdote.
> They think MuskOx is a brand of perfume manufactured up in Oklahoma !!
>
> McDave

OK, I guess they couldda been takins 'cause they were sure takin' those
oreos.
Jack