Posted on 01/17/2005 4:38:25 PM PST by JustaCowgirl
LANHAM, Md. - It's not easy to find a stuffed buffalo. For his first inaugural parade four years ago, Vice President Dick Cheney wanted a float to represent his home state of Wyoming. So float maker Hargrove Inc. designed a 45-foot-long mock-up of the Grand Teton mountains on wheels, with a real bubbling spring and a cowboy clinging to a bucking bronco. But it took weeks of searching to track down the buffalo. ``I talked to every taxidermist west of the Mississippi River to find him. They're pretty rare,'' said Hargrove marketing manager Marvin Bond, who finally got a Wyoming buffalo from a taxidermist in Colorado.
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Too bad Mr. Cheney isn't from North Dakota. We could have a minature Mt. Rushmore float executed in corncombs a la the Corn Palace.
Wish they could have done one for all of us; OBL drapped over a Saddle.
---better look at your atlas---
When will the PETA crowd show up to protest?
He should've called the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody. I bet they would've loaned him theirs :)
---and I think they should have checked the Cody Museum--surely they could have borrowed one there--
Yes, no kidding. With Zarqawi's dead body turning on a Texas barbecue spit.
Thats ok we will have a stuffed PETA member on a float to satisfy them.
LOL. Great minds :)
In the bottom of the article it said the float would go on permanent display. So I guess they needed a stuffed buffalo they could keep.
In case there's any trouble along the parade route, I hope the buffalo is a Trojan Buffalo!
Well, better a loaner than no buffalo at all...And the museum really does have a very nice one. Seriously, it's a great museum. Well worth a visit. And I know they would never part with their buffalo :)
(((:::better look at your atlas, chum:::)))
What, no pictures?! Okay, maybe one of our beautiful conservative sisters wasn't mentioned, but you struck a nerve with "buffalo".
There were millions of them once. They say at one time you could not see the ground underneath them for miles. They were not carnivores, therefore did not kill others to survive. They took care of there own business, and stayed out of others. Just don't p*ss 'em off.
That's me. Wiz: Sound on prairie, made by buffalo.
I'm sorry but, I don't think you could get the poorest folk from the east Texas back water bayous to clean that thing!
This is the first float from 2001. 
Here's the Texas float from 2001. 
They might want to hang on to that steel eagle. The Super Bowl might want it as a mascot this year. (Depending on who wins next week.)
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