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Well, that was an interesting trip! I've never been to Winchester before.

The trip there was interesting too. I saw the buffalo with the hands. There were buffalo in my world too, although they didn't have hands. Of course the proper name for them wasn't buffalo at all! Not for that species. Properly, they should be called American Bison or Bison Bison. And even that isn't quite accurate! There are two subspecies, the plains bison and the wood bison.The plains bison is slightly smaller, while the wood bison is one of the largest species of bovid in the world. Only the Asian Gaur and the Wild Water Buffalo are larger.

The term buffalo was used first for the animal. It was first recorded in 1625. Buffalo comes from the french word boeufs, meaning ox or bullock. Buffalo is still commonly used. However bison, coming from a greek word meaning ox-like animal, is more scientifically correct. Properly speaking, the only two true buffalo are the Asian Water Buffalo and the African Buffalo.

[Conan suddenly realizes that he had rambled on and shared much more of his knowledge than he had intended. Why had he done that? Hastily he adds on an explanation.]

I saw a program on television about it once!

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Thank you, Encyclopedia Brat-tannica.

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My name is Conan.

[Oh great, one of those.]

Cool story, kiddo.

[Yuuuuuuup.]

What does that even mean?

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A television! That's one of the big boxes with buttons, right?

Technically.

A television is a device used for transmitting and receiving moving images.
These days most televisions are flat panel devices that use technologies like LCD. The earliest televisions, which became commercially available in the late 1920s, used cathode ray tubes.

Ooooh...

[A long pause.]

I've never heard about any of that before.

It isn't very difficult to figure out.

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Uh huh.

Sounds like you were on the edge of your seat the entire time.

What are you talking about?

...Just seems that you retained a lot of information from that show.

I like learning things.

[The heck?]

Conan. I know this is not the usual context for it, but T.M.I.

Its just information. [Granted, much more information than he had meant to share.]

Too much information. You sound like a walking wiki page.

What kind of a comment is that?

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...I see the Animal channel has been earning its keep these days.

It has some interesting documentaries.

[Not that Conan ever watched TV much. But it made for a convenient excuse for his knowledge.]

Clearly.

You never told me you were a sponge for information on top of being a "Detective".

[There's a little mirth behind the word detective. As if to say "I'll keep calling you that it if only to play along".]

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So you're back, huh?

Did anything else useful come from the trip other than your new found fascination with Buffalo? ...Or Bison or whatever.

Some information. Most of the situation was over before we got there.

So, you're pretty much saying it was mostly a wasted trip.

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Are you quite finished?

I could keep going!

[Conan may not know why he'd suddenly spilled some of his knowledge, but he was perfectly willing to take advantage of the moment to be irritating.]

That depends...do you wish to bore us all to death?

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