eerie

[Jonathan Lighter]

The current film, "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" includes the following rhyme which
is critically described by one character (no friend of B & B & B) as "an
eerie little" ditty:

"Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One short, one fat, one lean. These horrible
crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean."

Here it seems to mean something like "quaint or notable."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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