Subject: Re: 12/1 - SPOILERS AHOY! From: lecl@quads.uchicago.edu (elizabeth e. leclair) Date: 1990-12-08, 16:05 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <17965@shlump.nac.dec.com> boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy) writes: > >In article , halcyon!hikaru@sumax.seattleu.edu (Richard Barrett) writes... > > > >} I have yet to understand what all the confusion is about where BOB is > >} - he told us where he was goin, remember? "Soon, I will pull that ripcord > >} - and then it'll be time to shove off to Buffalo!" > > > >It was "Shuffle off to Buffalo", which is the title of an old song. I > >think he was just making an allusion to the song, and we aren't supposed > >to take him literally. > > Um, tacky little point here, but isn't "shuffle off to Buffalo" a euphemism for death, as in "shuffle off this mortal coil" or (more prosaically) "kick the bucket"? I don't know WHY it has this meaning, but I don't think BOB was telling us about his destination. He obviously meant that Leland was going to have a big headache real soon. Elizabeth LeClair