In an ongoing effort to explain the frequent obscure references to weird stuff around here, and for
me_pirateship, because she asked, I thought it might be useful to refresh ourselves on
the origin of constant squirrel references The original conversation referenced is gone, but you'll get the general idea if you followo the various links in the post (except the first one, which doesn't exist). I still can't believe that I actually and completely seriously thought that the Berlinale Film Festival pulled down all of the Snow Cake press images because they discovered my
squirrel manipulation. I also can't believe that we still haven't succeeded in getting him to say it (despite
snokat's brilliant effort).
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