Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1905 — Makes Him Tired. [ARTICLE]

Makes Him Tired.

At the Eutaw house is Mr. James F. Stanley, of Buffalo. He has a grievance. “If you want to ask me if Buffalo Is the place where they put people off at, don't,” he said. “Some years ago a song writer took it into hfti head to write that piece about ‘Put Me Off at Buffalo,’ and wo Buffalox lans thought we were the biggest people on earth because the song went like “Annie Looney’ and the ‘Two Little Pearls in Glue.’ In less than no time, or sooner than that, the song began to whistle and sing itself from one end of the country to the other. Every time anything to the way of a convention hit towx, the delegates had to come in wearing Put-Me-Off badges and singing Put-Me-Off parodies. A lot of commercial organizations adopted the catch phrase and began to advertise it. Everybody who ever had angr idea of being put off anywhere demanded to have it done at Buffalo. After a while the thing got to be a nuisance. My personal experience has been that everywhere I go, even at this late day, some fellow from the institute for the feeble minded is sure to grab me by the lapel, ask me if I’m from the place they put 'em off at, and then swallow his sac mean open his mouth so wide to laugh that you can’t see his face until he comes together again. It’s awful to know that you are certain to be tackled on the perpetual question, but it’s worse to realize that each fellow honestly believes the joke to be original with him and nearly dislocates himself enjoying it. I—-” “But you are from the place they put people off at aren’t you?” But Mr. Stanley only glared at the speaker In majestic silence. —Baltimore News.