Julius Squeezer; was: Re: Is Elmo (Sesame Street) a "Friend of Dorothy"

[Charles Doyle]

A friend of mine used to have a pet snake named Lefty.

--Charlie
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>Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:19:37 -0500
>From: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
>Subject: Julius Squeezer; was:  Re: Is Elmo (Sesame Street) a "Friend of Dorothy"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>Re: reptiles.  Some 20 years ago I read about a 4th-grade class that adopted a boa constrictor and named it Julius Squeezer.
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>Gerald Cohen
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>From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Seán Fitzpatrick
>Sent: Sun 7/16/2006 12:10 AM
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>Subject: Re: Is Elmo (Sesame Street) a "Friend of Dorothy"
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>As an historical note, I don't recall that we ever gave names to the various
>fish, amphibians, and reptiles that came under our care and control back in
>the notional '50s.  For one thing, they escaped, died, or ate each other too
>fast to make naming worthwhile.  My sisters did insist on calling a grass
>snake "Snavely", but we actually played with him.                                                                                                                               <snip>
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