Banoffee Pie; Tuatara ("living fossil")

[Benjamin Fortson]

The tuatara is called a living fossil because it is the last of the
rhynchocephalians, an ancient order or reptiles that arose well over 200
million years ago and had its heyday in the Triassic Period, if I remember
correctly. All the other rhynchocephalians have been extinct for over 100
million years.
        Yes, I know this doesn't pertain to dialects, but since it came
up...

Ben

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> TUATARA--an animal that looks like an iguana.  Twice, I've read that this animal is called a "living fossil."
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> ELSIES FINGER--seen just once for a biscuit.
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> STICKY DATE PUDDING--seen several times here.
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> HOKEY POKEY BISCUITS--the biscuits were seen just once or twice, unlike "hokey pokey" ice cream.
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> CHOCOLATE CHARLIE--Chocolate ice cream.  Another ice cream flavor is Banana Berry.  Why add "Charlie" to this?  The ice cream guy didn't know--that's just the company's name.  I didn't yet check Google.
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> HELI-HIKES--seen once, by the glacier.  A word?
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> BANOFFEE PIE--In the FOOD FOR FLATTERS (2001) cookbook, by the Edmonds Baking Company of New Zealand.  The Banoffee web site appears to be www.banoffee.co.uk/banoffee/.  It supposed started as "Banoffi" at the Hungry Monk in East Sussex, England, in 1971.  It's now at least in two continents.  Are there enough hits to enter it in a dictionary?
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