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  "thread": {
    "id": 246,
    "subject": "Facts on: Bufes",
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    "first": "1997-03-26T20:32:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-26T20:32:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0284@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-26T20:32:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Facts on: Bufes",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #1625602 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET#\n\n(Q&D count: down to 25.)\n\nTechnically (and in response to no one in particular), I think that\n\"bufe\" is the cant term, \"god\" is the chem term.  OED reveals that\nbufe is old lost forgotten slang for dog, based upon an imitation\nof the bark, and of course dog is god backwards (making \"Goddamn mad\ndog\" a palindrome, fwiw).  (Did paladins use palindromes?  Hmm.  A\ncross between a palaquin and a dromedary, looking a little like Dr.\nDoolittle's Pushme-Pullyou?  No, no--the palindrome was the field\nwhere the paladin's jousted, running back again.)  Before viscacha's\npost I've read some speculation (maybe a note from AE&an Robert Borski)\nthat the bufes are hyenas, based on the laughing in the dark, rather\nthan dogs.  This is certainly possible--the text is slight, the\ntunnels are dark. (Tangent: THE LAUGHTER AT NIGHT was Wolfe's title\nfor OPERATION ARES.  And yes, it does feature wild dogs coursing the\nnightland.)  Hyenas are pretty weird critters, though, no question\nabout that.\n\nIn Urth terms, the bufes are in nearly the same ecological niche as\nthe white wolves that live within the walls of the House Absolute.\nAgain, fwiw.\n\nKieran Mullen,\n\nStill, you are right in the sense that the animosity between cat and\nbird are such that any time Tick refers to Oreb it might as well be a\nswear word. <g>\n\n=mantis=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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