"Ohhhhh, give me a home where the buffalo roam"(ed). . .
Every now and then, it hits me that I have been hanging around TOTV almost since the beginning. I try to break up with it, but it's like trying to break up with Graeter's ice cream. I eventually succumb.
Anyway, there was great consternation among TOTVers -- in 2008 -- when the buffalo went the way of who knows where.
If you are using the old version of TOTV, you can go to 'search' and put buffalo questions into the keyword line. It might take you a while because at first the search will want to give you only 300 posts with a hit on the word 'buffalo.' Eventually though, you can dig into the archives that go way back.
I always thought there probably was a tax advantage to temporarily pasturing the buffalo on vacant land and that their future was intended to be elsewhere. I had no problem with that.
I never thought the buffalo were put there smack dab in plain sight to entertain me.
I sort of remember that there was talk of irresponsible adults who were feeding them and letting kids get too close. (Never saw that, but it is not a big leap to believe it happened.)
Boomer of the Archives
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