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It's from a song. I don't know if that's the origin. I just rented the video "42nd Street" the other day and was amazed to hear Dick Powell sing about his panties.Shuffle Off to BuffaloWritten by Al...
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The best known use of this is in Hamlet III, i :"When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,...."Guess one could shuffle off to any number of places. Of course, there was also the 'soft-shoe shuffle'...
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My mom had a friend who went to Buffalo because she thought there would be something special about it, because of the song. Boy, was she disappointed. Buffalo is now close to a ghost town (Niagara...
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<Buffalo is now close to a ghost town Now there you go..... old Shakespeare (CQ) got it right on two counts:1. Aren't ghosts just people who have shuffled off this mortal coil? (like Banquo) and,2....
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> My mom had a friend who went to Buffalo because she thought there would be something special about itThat's nothing; I ordered "buffalo wings", and they turned out to be CHICKEN!
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As previously discussed, I am a vegetarian. I ate lunch with a friend today and she had a buffalo burger. And it really was buffalo -- darker meat than cow. I said, "What are you trying to do. Make me...
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The Buffalo Shuffle is a specific step in tap dancing (compare ShimmySham, Cramp Roll, etc.). Good thing we're not using webcams or I'd be tempted to demonstrate. "...and away we'll go" is pretty much...
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> Mm, off were going to shuffle,> Shuffle off to BuffaloOK, I'm confused. These lyrics don't match the song I know, which involves getting stuck on the last line:Shuffle off to Buffal...Shuffle...
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I think in my family this got misheard or something. My dad always said "shuffle off the buffalo," for some reason.
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Here's a site with the whole song. I had copied the "panties and scanties" part a few days ago (after seeing the movie) because I was concerned about why a guy was singing about panties. Then someone...
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