(Tom Buckham…Buffalo News)
In the interest of promoting Buffalo as the “Dyngus Day Capital of the World,” if not the entire universe, Marty Biniasz has seized on the Edward M. Cotter as further proof of his claim.
It cannot be mere coincidence the world’s oldest working fireboat is red and white, same as the Polish flag, Biniasz said Tuesday before a ceremony christening the Cotter as the “world’s largest squirt gun.”
For the uninitiated, squirt guns are an essential ingredient of Dyngus Day, a post-Lenten Polish-American tradition Biniasz and fellow enthusiasts have stretched into a weeklong celebration in Western New York. As part of the fun, young girls chase boys with pussy willow switches, and the boys squirt them back.