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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cookie bear</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cookie.html" title="cookie"/><link rel="next" href="cookie-file.html" title="cookie file"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cookie bear</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cookie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cookie-file.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cookie-bear"/><dt xmlns="" id="cookie-bear"><b>cookie bear</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n. obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Original term, pre-Sesame-Street, for what is now universally called
a <a href="cookie-monster.html"><i class="glossterm">cookie monster</i></a>. A correspondent observes &#8220;<span class="quote">In
those days, hackers were actually getting their yucks from...sit
down now...Andy Williams. Yes, <span class="emphasis"><em>that</em></span> 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
&#8216;cookie bear&#8217; 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),
&#8216;No cookies! Not now, not ever...NEVER!!!&#8217; And the bear
would fall down. Great stuff.</span>&#8221;</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cookie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cookie-file.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cookie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> cookie file</td></tr></table></div></body></html>