A BBC article regarding candidates for the papacy here.
In a recent conversation with a friend, the term 'to buffalo someone' came up. It means to trick someone about something. i speculated as to the origin of the term (likening it to a wolf in sheep's clothing) but i was totally wrong: according to this article, " As white settlers moved west, they began to hunt the animal for skins to sell in eastern markets.
The
American buffalo could run at the speed of almost seventy-five kilometers an
hour. It was not easy to get close
enough to them to shoot.
Sometimes
the hunters were completely unsuccessful in killing any of the animals. They were "buffaloed" by these powerful,
speedy creatures who were so hard to control.
The expression "to buffalo" soon became part of the speech of the
American west. It meant to make someone
helpless, to trick them. In the early nineteen
hundreds, a story about attacks on white settlers moving into Indian territory
explained, "The Sioux had the wagon-train surrounded and the soldiers
buffaloed." "
The search for the origin also kicked up this rather amazing wikipedia article: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
The Sartorialist posted this picture today, of a man in a cape. i linked it to Holly, who immediately returned this Seinfeld clip. We attempted to come up with captions:
me: "Despite retirement, the super villain still retained vestiges of his former wardrobe."
Holly: though he could not fly, David liked the public to believe he could
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