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This saying has been bugging me!
Hi, can someone please tell me what this saying means:
"When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty" Has been bugging me for quite awhile! 
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07-02-08, 09:57 PM
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The Bull is out of ****...
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07-02-08, 10:06 PM
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"John has a long mustache"
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07-02-08, 10:14 PM
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Come on guys, serious!
 Unless you mean it is totally meaningless dribble!
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"The chips are down" is an old poker term meaning that one is in danger of loosing. The buffalo part seems to be added on recently but has no poker or card connotation that i know of.
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07-02-08, 10:54 PM
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Ok here's my idea of what this sentence could mean.
When the chips are down= as August wrote the buffalo is empty= perhaps it's refering to the skin of the wallet Markus |
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Did you try Google? A dictionary? I'm honored that you came here first, but nobody knows everything. That said, August's version sounds correct to me. "When the chips are down, you need all the friends you can get." That's one of many uses of the phrase. Usually in connotates being in a very bad position, and judges the subject by how he reacts in that situation. It sounds to me like someone took the phrase and added something related but irrelevant just for the humor. It's an old fun game, taking the first half of a famous phrase and adding an unexpected second half just for a laugh. I was just telling a friend about an old comedy country song called 'Cow Patty', about a girl who seeks revenge for her father's murder. When she finds the killer, he's faster on the draw than she is, but steps in a cow pie at the critical moment, so she gets him. Since cow patties/pies are also called cow chips, the whole song is a setup for the moral of the story: "When the chips are down...watch your step." The timing on this was perfect.
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WTF!:rotfl:I see what you mean Steve! Funny it showed up in a fortune cookie! I think Confucius was stoned at the time! Quote:
Come on Skybird, how about some words of wisdom here!
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When the chips are "down", as in on the ground- the Buffalo is uh, empty. And I thought you guys knew everything.
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@ JoeCorrado, See #13 & #17!
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And to think this started purely out of simple quriousity!
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