cookie bear

n. obs.

Original term, pre-Sesame-Street, for what is now universally called a cookie monster. A correspondent observes “In those days, hackers were actually getting their yucks from…sit down now…Andy Williams. Yes, that Andy Williams. Seems he had a rather hip (by the standards of the day) TV variety show. One of the best parts of the show was the recurring ‘cookie bear’ sketch. In these sketches, a guy in a bear suit tried all sorts of tricks to get a cookie out of Williams. The sketches would always end with Williams shrieking (and I don’t mean figuratively), ‘No cookies! Not now, not ever…NEVER!! !’ And the bear would fall down. Great stuff.”