Coin Collector Humor

A pet peeve in that I am sad, as a former teacher, to see the internet making us more lazy and uneducated b/c we just accept what is said online vs. fact checking.

Another thing I hate about it is I see some modern people thinking b/c we have iPhones and people before us did not, we need to go back and "correct" all those uneducated people who came before us, yet the ones before us were correct and had a better education . Asn an unrelated example, in my Dad's day anyone could make change for a dollar as being simple, yet modern cashiers are totally incapable of doing so (let alone people used to have enough reasoning ability to do fractions easily).


And yet those same cahsiers of nowadays think, becuase the internet tells them so, are "smart enough" to say something like "it's a bison, not a buffalo." The implication the people were uninformed and named things like...oh...I don't know...a huge major city in NY after the animal but ("how foolish!") named it Buffalo (as well as other cities/towns in the US) is ridiculous and, IMO, a bit snob-like by the uninformed of the hi-tech-&-therefore-"smarter" internet "fed."

Sorry about off topic...

In the spirit of Buffalo nickel humor:

1937-D Three legged Buffalo:


@kbbpll
Oh my...good memories. One of the things I used to play with/share with students (we were somewhat near Buffalo, NY).

The way the website has it:

(Use NY to stand for Buffalo NY):
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
NY.......#129452; (that)..NY .....#129452;.....fool (will) fool.....NY....#129452;

A, fooled by B, fools C

But it can also be:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo
which is:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo
NY..........#129452;.......fool.......NY.......#129452;..(other)NY..#129452;......fool

A fools B which is also fooled by C

Now that that one is out of the way, care to try to interpret this one?
Because Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo, and Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo.


Originally I saw a Mensa puzzle using the term "had" and it inspired me (I am not a Mensa!) to make the above. Funny thing is once you spend enough time digging into things like this, they actually can be read and make sense the first time

Black Diamond is smiling.

What do you say to a sad English teacher?

Their, There, They're.

Hmmm...Sorry, I thought citing an example using blue for an example of what a "name," and red for what a classification term is would do the job, which is why I made the following post:



OK...a level of classification in taxonomy is simply a category into which organisms are filed for identification. A term used for classification is the Latin word used in that taxonomy level to identify the organism.

Think of it like all animals are filed in a filing cabinet drawer. The main envelope in the drawer has within it another file folder having yet more folders (1 less than the one containing it), etc. down to 7 levels of nested folders.

Each folder is a different category (classification level).

Each level of classification has a Latin word associated with it.

Here are all the levels of classification in order from the broadest to the specific (left column). In the right column are the corresponding classifications (classification terms) used at each level for the common house cat.
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder:Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily:Felinae
Genus: Felis
Species: F. catus

Note in the above lists you do not see, for example, the Spanish word "gato," nor any the other 7000+ different names that exist in all the world's laguages.to describe what you and I call a cat.

The system is for categorizing/classification, not naming.

The worldwide scientific community understands the above classification chart, yet they have their own language's name used in daily conversation for what you and I call a cat.


Added notes for the above:
You will note a cat is given a suborder classification also. Other sublevels of classification can occur depending on the organism.

F.catus is listed for species b/c the rule is when a list is given, the classification term used for a species has to be preceded by the capitalized letter of the term used in the genus classification.

When l worked at a travel agency we used to hear all kinds of funny stories. One was about a woman who walked into a travel agent's and asked for a flight to Hippopotamus, USA. The agent checked her computer but couldn't find any American city with that name. Eventually she had a flash of inspiration and asked "Are you sure you don't mean Buffalo, New York State?"
The customer replied "Oh, yes, that's it. I knew it was some kind of big animal!"

Numista says that it's a buffalo.