Saturday, November 27, 2004

Maybe Buffalo should change its name to "Vanillaville".

The Tensor was a but curious about the old saying, oft-permuted to reflect different places, "What happens in X, stays in X". He used Google to generate a pretty amusing table of various place-names and the number of hits their "What happens here, stays here" formulation results. Buffalo, sadly, has no hits at all, which as I see it yields two possibilities:

1. Nothing happens in Buffalo, so there's no necessity for it to stay in Buffalo.

2. What happens in Buffalo is, in fact, so amazingly cool that it can't possibly be allowed to stay in Buffalo. So, what happens in Buffalo, gets sung from the rooftops.

I'm going to endorse Number Two here, obviously. I can't really be a Buffalo booster by saying things like "Come to Buffalo -- we're more boring than Columbus, OH!"

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