I didn't come up with this, I'm reposting from this page because it's just too good to leave alone.
Possibly the weirdest sentence in the English language is: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
It takes a bit to understand this, so let's build up from simple stuff. First, suppose that dogs chase cats, who then chase mice. Another way of saying this is:
"Cats that dogs chase, chase mice"
But the comma and the word "that" aren't technically needed, so we can say:
"Cats dogs chase chase mice."
But cats also chase other cats, so we could say:
"Cats dogs chase chase cats."
And they can be chased by other cats too:
"Cats cats chase chase cats."
Step back and look at this sentence for a moment. This is the basic structure of the buffalo sentence. Let's think about buffalo chasing other buffalo:
"Buffalo buffalo chase chase buffalo."
Now there's a lesser-known English verb "to buffalo" meaning "to push around." So instead of chasing, let's make these buffalo push each other around:
"Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo."
Remember that this means:
"Buffalo that buffalo push around, push buffalo around."
For the final step, let's just talk about a particular kind of buffalo - the kind that live in the zoo in Buffalo, New York. These, of course, are Buffalo buffalo - just as the lions are Buffalo lions.
"Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo Buffalo push around, push Buffalo buffalo around"
or more properly:
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
For extra credit, here's a sentence with "and" five times together:
"When you drew that Fish-And-Chips sign, you should have put a hyphen between Fish and And and And and Chips."
I saw my car exhaust yesterday, heralding the cool weather. This event is the climatological opposite of seeing the first firefly of the year. I am a great naturalist.
a=b
a^2=ab
a^2-b^2=ab-b^2
(a+b)(a-b)=b(a-b)
(a+b)(a-b)/(a-b)=b(a-b)/(a-b)
a+b=b
Therefore, if a=1, then 1=2
I carry this equasion in my back pocket. Which is odd, admittedly. It's more odd for someone who considers math an absolute.
Let me tell all the children a bedtime story.
Once upon a time there was no Internet, and those who had computers were isolated without access to new software and all the things we now take for granted.
At first I was sure the only use for plugging the phone into my computer was to send faxes, but without someone to fax it was shortlived. My friend Gene Deel told me that I could connect with other computers via a phone line!
Using ProComm Plus (which incidentally looks nothing like what it does today) I connected with Cole's Kingdom (which appears to be down now so I'm linking a cached page) and began a bold new journey.
More BBSs appeared in Sparta, including one I ran for a while. It was unsatisfactory though, digital inbreeding. It was a closed system.
I then found a file that had 1-800 BBSs on it, and the world opened up. I found some kids who turned me on to war dialing and soon I had access to new people, new files, new worlds.
SysOps would tend to lock out access to the kids we let in on our new discovery. BBSs were accessible only briefly, then we moved on, digital nomads.
I made a few friends that I still have today. But the Internet came to town, and soon people stopped BBSsing all together.
I post this bit of history, because I wonder where so many of those friends I made on 800 BBSs went to. All the kids who used to use Bark BBS, where did you go? It's my hope that if anyone finds my mention of Bark BBS then they will leave a comment on here so that I'm not the only fool who reminisces about it.
The only way to resolve a conflict over resources is with violence or economics.
More photos of Fall Creek Falls in Van Buren county, Tennessee.
    
World Foods web page is officially up. If you like it let me know, if not, let me know what I can do better.
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