Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo...

I learned something random last night while watching Dr. Who with my friend Stuart. It's not uncommon for weird things to come up with Dr. Who - I will forever have moving mannequins, a plastic-faced Noel Clarke, and a theater of some of the most bizarre aliens I've ever seen (Lady Cassandra, anyone?) gathered to witness the rather surreal death of Earth - and Stuart busting out the most random tidbits of knowledge ever is pretty standard, so while neither of us particularly enjoy show per se, it may turn out to be a useful springboard for my continuing world education in its own strange way. 

This particular...um..."life lesson", if you will, came in the form of some world-saving password being "Buffalo" on last night's episode. When Mickey (Noel Clarke back in non-plastic form) asks the doctor for a password again, the doctor tells him to just repeat it every time. This made Stuart - an English as a Second Language teacher - chime in with, "Did you know that "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence? 

What?

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