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diggthiscrap, on 10/12/2007, -108/+7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg
- karmatic, on 10/12/2007, -67/+9Tigger is a freaking Tiger! Why does he have to bounce on his tail?! We all know what tigger rhymes with
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigger!
- isemism, on 10/12/2007, -67/+4I had a lame comment. Bury my lame comment so that it never sees the light of day.
  
  Thank you for putting this comment out of its misery.
  /ism
- karmatic, on 10/12/2007, -54/+2Bonerfied treason! What is Sam Hill is going on here? Asswiping ignoramous. I am cocaine, blow me.
  
  Gee willickers - these toad stompin' barnacles are no beacons of truth - you can bet your bottom dollar that. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw! I smite vile toads for breakfast.
  
  My perspective is in the light of Swedish ancestory. I drink beverages of Orcish blood and Troll sweat for the energy it provides my glowing veins. Giddily saddletick swapping swashbucklers beware of the hair on my back. Bark at the moon.
- twtmc, on 10/12/2007, -14/+71This article can be summed up in one word; Awsome.
- SLP1111, on 10/12/2007, -37/+13Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg Digg.
  
  ^Hah! Try and complain about that sentence you grammar Nazis!
- mrFREEZE, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13For the record, when you're high, it's a lot easier to come up with sentences like that for some reason. Weird, but true.
- Sippi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+80THE BUFFALO THEORY
  (In one episode of ‘Cheers’, Cliff is seated at the bar describing the Buffalo Theory to his buddy, Norm. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the concept explained any better than this…)
  
  “Well you see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
  In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”
- AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1"Digg is a news website with an emphasis on technology and science articles. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ. Its got a webs show hosted by the cutest boi named Kevin Rose."
  
  Fan girls annoy the hell out of me. I'm tempted to delete that sentence to return this article to it's legit state, but it's amusing at 3am in the morning.
diggthiscrap, on 10/12/2007, -56/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg
D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -51/+4Stupid... Keep this off Digg and on your blog where it belongs
Flare, on 10/12/2007, -74/+428 Diggs and the story is on the frontpage... Hmmm, ok so the API is still broken I see.

Alright, I'm out of here!
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24see ya bye party favor's out back
spiffyfitz, on 10/12/2007, -31/+12I'm from Buffalo, NY. How neat.
LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+50"If the homophones would be replaced with other words, it would look like

Buffalo bison, Buffalo bison intimidate, intimidate Buffalo bison."

I must be dumb because I still don't understand the 'translated' version.
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -15/+7i think a better one would be to use an example that doesn't use the word buffalo. like Philidelphia instead of Buffalo(NY).
  
  It's not terribly interesting, so if you don't get it, then you're not missing much.
- bitt3n, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49basically:
  
  Buffalo from buffalo who are intimidated by other buffalo from buffalo themselves intimidate other buffalo from Buffalo.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6It took me a while to figure out, but I think it's like this:
  
  original: Buffalo bison, Buffalo bison intimidate, intimidate Buffalo bison.
  Take out the middle words and put them in front
  
  Buffalo bison intimidate Buffalo bison (who) intimidate Buffalo bison."
- Wolf0416, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2That's tricky...
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Bison from NY, which are intimidated by other bison from NY, also intimidate Bison from NY.
  
  Basically they're all intimidated by one another.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's much easier if you can hear the tones of someone saying. Try saying it out loud a few times. Get someone else to read it.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19It's a strange thing cause once you "get" it, it feels normal... and you want to explain it to people by saying "buffallo buffallo, buffallo buffallo buffallo, buffallo buffallo" of course...
  
  It's like those magic eye pictures
- catfive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Don't make the explanation harder than the concept! ;)
  
  Try this if you're still stuck:
  New York bison, [that other] New York bison annoy, [also] bother New York bison.
  
  It still holds it's meaning without the additives:
  NY bison, NY bison annoy, bother NY bison.
  
  We now have a sentence in which EVERY word can be replaced with "b/Buffalo." You may be able to find it somewhere on this page...
  
  Granted, it's not saying much; but as a proof-of-concept it's marvelous!
- catfive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Added the above to the article, hope someone finds it helpful.
- benger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21 Buffalo.
  "Engage in bamboozlement."
  
  Buffalo buffalo.
  "American bison are characteristically given to engaging in bambloozlement."
  
  Buffalo buffalo buffalo.
  "American bison are characteristically given to bamboozling other members of their species."
  
  Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
  "American bison habitually bamboozled by members of their own species (that is, buffalo whom other buffalo regularly buffalo) characteristically engage in bamboozlement."
  
  Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
  "American bison habitually bamboozled by members of their own species (that is, buffalo whom other buffalo regularly buffalo) tend to return the compliment by bamboozling in turn yet other members of the species."
  
  Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
  "American bison habitually bamboozled by members of their own species that have themselves been bamboozled by others of their ilk (that is, buffalo whom other buffalo who have themselves been buffaloed by buffalo regularly buffalo) tend to engage in bamboozlement."
  
  Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
  ...
  
  from http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001817.html
- Xeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This reminds me of the famous Chinese poem which is composed of 92 characters which all have the same pronouciation. (there's an audio clip of someone reading it on the page):
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+76Who polices the police?

The police police.

So, who polices the police police?

Police police police police police police.
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
  
  definitely a +digg for the creativity some people have.
- sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4Frak, I wish I could quadruple digg digg digg digg that comment. I am dying here!
- AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Here's another good one.
  
  In Japanese, niwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu is a well-known sentence that has, due to the high number of homophones, as many as ninety-two possible interpretations.
  
  That kicks all ours in the ass
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43Can you digg digg?
  Who diggs digg's diggs?
  Digg diggs digg's diggs!
  Can digg diggers digg digg diggers diggs?
  I digg digg diggers digging digg diggers diggs!
  (It's all gramatically correct)
- chewy5000, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Yes, lets all repeat everything from that (amusing) page here on digg.
  
  Comments are for commenting, not repeating whats in the main article
- omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Wouldn't it just be "police police police the police"?
- lazarith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10One of these days we will finally be able to rid ourselves of all words and just quack like ducks, a la Newspeak in 1984 :-P
- StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"In Japanese, niwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu is a well-known sentence that has, due to the high number of homophones, as many as ninety-two possible interpretations."
  
  Someone needs to make an article on niwaniwaniwaniwatorigairu and go through each and every interpretation.
  
  Aaaaaand....go.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2ahaha oh lazarith... thats the funniest ***** I've heard on digg...
  
  I'd love to hear some people discussing buffalo buffalo being buffalloed in front of some ducks...bizarre
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I don't understand digging down comments that are conversational. Comments aren't just about validating egos. I often see comments buried which I can't fathom why anyone would possibly want to bury.
  
  It would be nice to hear conversation and discussion on these forums rather than just having people post these cute soundbytes which are guaranteed diggs, so ease up on the arbitrary burying of conversational comments.
- dadiggdog, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1so true!!
airstrike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15also, in portuguese: 'como como como'. much shorter, but still cool.. it means 'i eat how i eat', or something like that
- Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It would be the same in spanish too spiffy :). In Spanish the literal translation would be eat how i eat (I added)
- mrFREEZE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12You can stretch it in Spanish, actually.
  
  Como como como como, como como como.
  
  Translation: Because I eat how I eat, I eat how I eat.
- crash999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Como como como, como chameleon...you come and go... you come and goooo...
pdonline, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8interesting and dugg
Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -46/+1Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo

:-)
shredomatic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47I approve of this headline.
- kigabit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Meh. I would've preferred it if the poster had capitalized properly and used the correct number of iterations of "buffalo." (8, instead of 9)
- DNABeast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah, It looks like spam but it's not.
riddlebox, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2no. "Como Como Como" means...you love penis! j/p these sentences are messing with my head really bad. I am pretty sure in English my teacher would have thought I was on some sort of hallucinogen
- booc0mtaco, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3well, if she know what you thought, and you thought she thought what you said she though, what does she think?
- night141, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6You said penis.
DesolataX, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Woah... That is interesting...
AntzNZ, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1That's cool.
Canadiens1160, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4'Buffalo bison' is the subject of the senternce;
'Buffalo bison intimidate,' is a phrase in commas, explaining the subject (Buffalo bison), think that's called an aposotive
zweben, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Great title, but trying to understand it gave me a headache...

To digg or not to digg?

Eh, why not.
- KingBelly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Why publically debate with yourself about whether to dig an article. No one cares what you do.
stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Aw crap! I thought it was going to be like the badger thing.
- darkyoshi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison
  ORANGE ORANGE
  bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison
  ORANGE ORANGE
  bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison bison
  AHH ITS A PILLOW!
gabeN, on 10/16/2007, -1/+28wings wings wings wings wings wings wings wings wings

and ranch, lots of ranch.
- synae, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10bleu cheese!
dayquil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Outstanding.

Agree, this is precisely what makes wikipedia better than a more formal encyclopedia.
- JackHererUK, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1No this is what demonstrates why wikipedia should be renamed "Jimbos big bag o trivia"
gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4This is quite cool, sucks that the -Digg down bots have taken over the comments here.
- sinfree, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13They haven't... some of the comments are just that stupid.
diafel, on 10/12/2007, -21/+1Wow, this clearly has a lot to do with Wikipedia. Marked as lame.
chess007, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6 This is silly. Everyone knows a homophone is someone who fears gays.
dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27 The post title is wrong.
The first ,third and seventh words should be capitalized. It's just not a random bunch of "buffalo" words strung together.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
skoobisnaxs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3i remember reading about this in one of my college books, I remember the word they used was "that". As in,

"please give me that that, that that that is sitting on."

It takes some explaining to get it. You can make some money by betting people at a bar though....
BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23I put it into MS word and it said it was incorrect lol
- Shruthi99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Lol. I read the article. Interesting.
  
  Buffaloes ftw.
- sanza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20@Blackcow
  
  MS Word tells me that most of my sentences are incorrect anyway....
AhmedF, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Somewhere digg has shifted from 'news' to 'cool' (which is covered well by sites like Fark).
Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5He said that that 'that' that that man had used was wrong.
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Holy crap that actually works, then I couldn't stop saying it. Stupid neural networks. :
- dadiggdog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1so true
NobleArc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Some buffalo from Buffalo, who are intimidated by other buffalo from Buffalo, also intimidate other, different, buffalo from Buffalo." Very clever.
cuby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12there's a famous chinese poem that takes this to the extreme limit ... it's an entire story written using only "shi".

http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML

has recordings too, it's wild.
RareSaturn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2No matter which way you twist it, it still makes no sense. especially the middle part.
- jay314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Think of it this way....
  
  Take the sentence "Many things that many people say confuse many people." Rewrite it as "Many things many people say confuse many people." That's the grammatical structure that the buffalo sentence is using.
  
  Replace the verbs "say" and "confuse" with "intimidate"
  Replace the nouns "things" and "people" with "bison".
  Replace the adjective "many" with "from Buffalo (the city)".
  
  Expanded out, we get:
  Bison from Buffalo, that bison from Buffalo intimidate, intimidate bison from Buffalo.
  
  Now... the phrase "bison from Buffalo" can be shortened to "Buffalo bison". Similar to the way we would write "people from Japan" as "Japanese people".
  
  We get:
  Buffalo bison, that Buffalo bison intimidate, intimidate Buffalo bison.
  
  Finally, we can drop the commas and the word "that".
  
  Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
- SeBsZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Thanks for your explanation, but I still don't get it.
  
  I get this:
  
  Buffalo bison, that Buffalo bison intimidate, intimidate Buffalo bison.
  
  but not this:
  
  Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
  
  How does "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" make sense, NY buffalo (the mammal) NY buffalo (the mammal)
  
  That just doesn't make sense. I didn't even go further than that.
expertninja, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger....etc.
- elpepe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8actually....
  
  Badgers badgers badger badger badgers badgers badger.
  
  makes sense:
  
  Badgers annoyed by badgers annoy badgers annoyed by badgers.
*blu*, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Is it just me or does the word "buffalo" seem really weird after reading this digg?
- jivemasta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Haha, it does.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2absolutely...
  
  "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" buffalo's bitcloud
nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4"Damn buffalo are easy to kill"
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2simpsons reference..... connie appleseed.....
- punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You're getting buried because that quote could be from anywhere and isn't specific. Not to mention it's a pretty dumb quote anyways.
tomi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Ow, my brain.
elpepe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Dogs dogs dog dog dogs.
VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Grammar rules.
- elpepe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Grammar rules rule grammar.
GnuTzu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dig Digg.
arrenlex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That is THE COOLEST SENTENCE.

EVER.
lamestory, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1dumbest ***** ever - par for the course, faggs
Qtip42, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!
- 76ers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11hahahaha!!! That's a classic!!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hadxBZWxNrs
  
  Which by the way, I guess HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA too would be correct
vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Rocco: F***ing... What the f***. Who the f*** f***ed this f***ing... How did you two f***ing f***s... F***.
Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.
steveabb1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This...this is amazing. I'm completely enthralled by this. And no, I'm not being sarcastic.
omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think this translation communicates the meaning of the sentence best: "Buffalo buffalo, which are themselves buffaloed by other Buffalo buffalo, also buffalo other Buffalo buffalo."

It's a horribly twisted sentence. I would argue that the version of the sentence that leaves out a relative pronoun ("that" or "which") is grammatically incorrect. Leaving out the relative pronoun when it is followed by a verb leads to confusion about whether the verb is being carried out by the subject.

So, to correct the original sentence while maintaining its essential structure: "Buffalo buffalo, which Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo." The sentence is a good example of how important punctuation and capitalization can be in conveying meaning.
omaryak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It may also help to untangle the phrase "Buffalo buffalo," e.g. "Buffalo buffalo, which are themselves buffaloed by other buffalo from Buffalo, also buffalo other buffalo from Buffalo." I cannot use "buffalo from Buffalo" at the beginning of the sentence because it would cause a dangling modifier. Oh, grammar is fun!
anewname, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With things like this it helps to say it out loud, but I can't stop laughing!
tybris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1English is buggy.
LMAOzedong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That just melted my brain.

I wonder if there's any other language that could pull this sorta thing off...
Got me thinking that I'm glad I grew up learning English, so many idioms would be tough to wrap my head around, much less something this bizarre.
- iLEZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As you can see a bit down in the wikipedia entry, there are lots of examples from different languages. My fave is the Finnish: "Kokoa kokko. Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko."
cappslite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is the reason why English is the most difficult of languages to learn.
iLEZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Someone needs to tell those Buffalo buffalo to chill out.
iLEZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A known Swedish buggy sentence in the Dalarna-dialect:
I åa ä e e ö, å på öa ä e e å
Roughly: In the river there is an island, and on the island there is a river.
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