squatch

[Laurence Horn]

On Nov 29, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> 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

The province is actually named for the Sasquatch played by Ewan McGregor, with heavy makeup.  ("Sasquatchmcgregor" didn't fit on the license plates.) And don't get me started on "Regina".

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