squatch

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Nov 29 18:59:16 UTC 2012


At 11/29/2012 10:17 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>A Bigfoot tracker on an Animal Planet show intones for the minicam, "I do
>believe there's a squatch in these woods."

Is the "sasquatch" the squatch from Saskatchewan?  Are there other
squatches from other Pacific Northwest places?

Or is Saskatchewan really "Sasquatchewan", the ewan (place?) of the sasquatch?

Joel


>And not only he: 89,000 raw Googlits for the statement, plus another
>116,000 without "do."
>
>And T-shirts and buttons for both.
>
>JL
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