[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Squirrels in genealogical research (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of George Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 11:09 AM
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> Subject: Squirrels in genealogical research
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> "A squirrel![1]
> < http://vita-brevis.org/2016/03/chasing-a-
> squirrel/?utm_source=twgnewsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=twg786#_ftn1>
> I
> find a lot of them while researching and I am sure all other researchers find them, too: those pieces of information that have nothing to do
> with what you are researching. You come across them by accident and they pull your attention away from what you are trying to find
> because they are equally or sometimes more interesting.  Sometimes it is a quick tangent – and sometimes squirrels can lead to an entirely
> new path of research that sticks with you for a long time.
> "[1]  < http://vita-brevis.org/2016/03/chasing-a-
> squirrel/?utm_source=twgnewsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=twg786#_ftnref1>
> See  the Disney/Pixar film *Up* (2009)."
> 
> Meaghan E.H. Siekman, writing in Vita Brevis, a blog of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, entry of March 28, 2016 
> < http://vita-brevis.org/2016/03/chasing-a-squirrel/>
> 
> I have not seen the Disney/Pixar film *Up* (2009), and so the allusion is lost upon me.  The word -- not the animal -- is new to me.
> 
> GAT

There are scenes in *Up* where some dogs are having a very serious conversation, and one of them hears something and says "Squirrel!" and they all are diverted for a few seconds to the direction of the noise, just in case there really is a squirrel there.  It happens several times as a running gag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrAIGLkSMls


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