I had intially thought of it as the year of the Bufallo. But one knows there is a fine difference between the Ox and the Buffalo.
The word “buffalo,” by the way, comes to English from the Romance languages; the Spanish word is búfalo, and the Italian is bufalo. The word is a distant cousin of our word “beef.” The word “bison” comes from Latin, where it referred to an ox, and it may originally have been a Germanic term meaning “stinking animal.” (courtesy Quezi).
So for now, I am willing to be the stinky Ox in the china shop.
Talk like an Ox, Walk like an Ox, theeeenk like an Ox...plough like an Ox... have a hump or two. Paint my horns red,wear bells on my feet....SNORT.....
nO mOrE bEiNg ThE nAmBy PaMbY cAt...and her, with all her hair fallen out.
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