Buffum

Bess, called Buffum, was helping Cook pick berries from some distant bushes, while Mary Berrybender, their sinister and uncompromising sister, was helping her Dutch friend, Piet Van Wely chip with a small hammer at some rocks that, Tasmin supposed, might contain interesting fossils.

The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

Bess, called Buffum by the family, insisted that she had heard a buffalo cough, while Bobbety claimed to have seen a great fish leap at dusk, some great fish of the Missouri.

The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

“Wasn’t it me afucking with her in the stables?” he reminded Milly “I guess I can call her Buffum if I please.”

The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

I always thought to myself we ought to go out and have a look and just see if there's anything left, Buffum said.

Divers: Wreck of Perry's ship discovered off Rhode Island 2011

Jude Buffum just cross-stitched her way into my heart, pitting Rainbow Brite against Strawberry Shortcake and Teddy Ruxpin against a Care Bear – all Mortal Kombat-style – in her latest pieces.

Inspired Ideas of the Day: “Rainbow Bloodbath” and “Care Bear Carnage” 2010

Buffum and Harger say the items fit into the time period that the Revenge sank, the anchor appears to be the main one that is known to have been cut loose from the ship, and that no other military ships with cannons have been recorded as sinking in the area.

Divers: Wreck of Perry's ship discovered off Rhode Island 2011

Elsewhere, we see artist Jude Buffum reflect on the financial crisis also through Mario's lens (and made an open plea for more financial system gaming), saw how Shigeru Miyamoto lifted ancient Japanese legend when creating Super Mario, and wolf-whistled at PopCap's Plants Vs. Zombies doing an absolutely phenomenal job of parodying the ubiquitous bosomy banner ads for free-to-play game Evony (above).

Boing Boing 2009

While Harger and Buffum say Perry was effectively demoted by being sent to the Great Lakes rather than getting another high-seas command, Skaggs said the Great Lakes commission still gave Perry great prestige.

Divers: Wreck of Perry's ship discovered off Rhode Island 2011

Buffum said he's been interested in finding the remains of the Revenge ever since his mother several years ago gave him the book Shipwrecks on the Shores of Westerly.

Divers: Wreck of Perry's ship discovered off Rhode Island 2011

“In one of the Jewish sections an eighteen year old boy was hurled from a three story window to land with both legs broken on a street littered with burning beds and other household furniture,” Buffum said.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008