Why is it called a "beaver"?
O. Hendersen
O.
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Robert Lieblich
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> I don't get the connection.
Because "Beaver" rhymes with "Cleaver."
I assume that answers your question.
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Or maybe the answer is "because they're both hairy"
Default User
> I don't get the connection.
According to Merriam-Webster on-line:
Etymology: Middle English bever, from Old English beofor; akin to Old
High German bibar beaver, and probably to Old English brun brown --
more at BROWN
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Brian
FRAN
O. Hendersen wrote:
> I don't get the connection.
>
> O.
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> --
> O. Hendersen
That's something Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun 2 1/2 struggled with too.
Ms Presley's charms, and that stuffed critter were apparently quite
similar to him from the bottom of that ladder.
Fran
Tony Cooper
<robert....@verizon.net> wrote:
>"O. Hendersen" wrote:
>>
>> I don't get the connection.
>
>Because "Beaver" rhymes with "Cleaver."
>
>I assume that answers your question.
I thought it was because it is a fur piece down there.
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Michael DeBusk
> I don't get the connection.
I think it was because he had buck teeth, but I'm not sure. The show
never really made it clear.
I think Ward, June, and Wally should've called him "Theodore"
regardless. "Beaver" is a rotten nick for a kid.
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Aaron Davies
> I don't get the connection.
>
> O.
Read more Vonnegut.
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Steve Hayes
wrote:
>I don't get the connection.
With what?
Are you referring to
1) a large amphibious rodent
2) the fur of this auimal
3) a burrowing rodent of North America
4) a tall hat of beaver fur (cf the Quangle Wangle Quee)
5) a woollen napped cloth resembling beaver fur
6) greyish- or yellowish brown
7) a full beard
8) a bearded man
9) (mod) having the colour of beaver fur
10) (intr) usu foll by away, to work industriously or steadily
?
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R H Draney
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>O. Hendersen <ohend...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't get the connection.
>>
>> O.
>
>Read more Vonnegut.
And trust me on the sunscreen....r
Jim Lawton
What was a stuffed critter doing up a ladder?
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Daniel James
Hendersen wrote:
> Subject: Why is it called a "beaver"?
[snip]
> I don't get the connection.
Is it not rhyming slang?
Cheers,
Daniel.
Ross Howard
<waste...@nospam.aaisp.org> wrought:
Yep. From beaver's dam = clam.
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FRAN
Jim Lawton wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2005 18:16:55 -0700, "FRAN" <fran...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >O. Hendersen wrote:
> >> I don't get the connection.
> >>
> >> O.
> >>
> >> --
> >> O. Hendersen
> >
> >
> >
> >That's something Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun 2 1/2 struggled with too.
> >Ms Presley's charms, and that stuffed critter were apparently quite
> >similar to him from the bottom of that ladder.
>
> What was a stuffed critter doing up a ladder?
Sight gag and pun ...
Presley's character climbs the ladder to a set of shelves with a file
at the top. Nielsen looks upward and out of shot, ostensibly, one
assumes, up Presley's skirt and says:
"Nice Beaver!"
Presley responds:
"Oh thanks, I just had it stuffed." and passes down a presumably
stuffed beaver.
Boom bom.
Fran
Charles Riggs
Not bad, Coop. Original?
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Charles Riggs
wrote:
And from beaver's front = cunt, and from beaver's back = crack, and
from beaver's tail = quail, and from beaver's watery flips =
mouth-watering lips, and from beaver's shoal = hole, and from beaver's
cocks = box, and from beaver's pals = genitals.
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Charles Riggs (chr...@eircom.net) was heard to remark...
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:05:51 +0200, Ross Howard <ggu...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:39:21 +0100, Daniel James
> ><waste...@nospam.aaisp.org> wrought:
> >
> >Yep. From beaver's dam = clam.
>
> And from beaver's front = cunt, and from beaver's back = crack, and
> from beaver's tail = quail, and from beaver's watery flips =
> mouth-watering lips, and from beaver's shoal = hole, and from beaver's
> cocks = box, and from beaver's pals = genitals.
Charlie! I'm impressed.
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Charles Riggs
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Apparently not. I shoulda guessed that.
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> Jim Lawton wrote:
>> On 3 Aug 2005 18:16:55 -0700, "FRAN" <fran...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >O. Hendersen wrote:
>> >> I don't get the connection.
>> >>
>> >> O.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> O. Hendersen
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >That's something Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun 2 1/2 struggled with too.
>> >Ms Presley's charms, and that stuffed critter were apparently quite
>> >similar to him from the bottom of that ladder.
>>
>> What was a stuffed critter doing up a ladder?
>
> Sight gag and pun ...
>
> Presley's character climbs the ladder to a set of shelves with a file
> at the top. Nielsen looks upward and out of shot, ostensibly, one
> assumes, up Presley's skirt and says:
>
> "Nice Beaver!"
>
> Presley responds:
>
> "Oh thanks, I just had it stuffed." and passes down a presumably
> stuffed beaver.
>
> Boom bom.
Class ... in a way.
Raymond S. Wise
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:32:39 -0700, O. Hendersen <ohend...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't get the connection.
>
> I think it was because he had buck teeth, but I'm not sure. The show
> never really made it clear.
>
> I think Ward, June, and Wally should've called him "Theodore"
> regardless. "Beaver" is a rotten nick for a kid.
The show *did* make it clear, in the very last episode. Theodore
Cleaver was called "Beaver" because when he was a baby the closest his
brother Wally could get to the pronunciation of "Theodore" was
"Beaver," and that pronunciation became the nickname.
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FRAN wrote:
> Jim Lawton wrote:
> > On 3 Aug 2005 18:16:55 -0700, "FRAN" <fran...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >O. Hendersen wrote:
> > >> I don't get the connection.
> > >>
> > >> O.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> O. Hendersen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >That's something Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun 2 1/2 struggled with too.
> > >Ms Presley's charms, and that stuffed critter were apparently quite
> > >similar to him from the bottom of that ladder.
> >
> > What was a stuffed critter doing up a ladder?
>
> Sight gag and pun ...
>
> Presley's character climbs the ladder to a set of shelves with a file
> at the top. Nielsen looks upward and out of shot, ostensibly, one
> assumes, up Presley's skirt and says:
>
> "Nice Beaver!"
>
> Presley responds:
>
> "Oh thanks, I just had it stuffed." and passes down a presumably
> stuffed beaver.
>
> Boom bom.
>
Phil Donahue?? You're more embarassing to the United States than Tonya
Harding!
Michael DeBusk
> The show *did* make it clear, in the very last episode. Theodore
> Cleaver was called "Beaver" because when he was a baby the closest
> his brother Wally could get to the pronunciation of "Theodore" was
> "Beaver," and that pronunciation became the nickname.
I (it's obvious) never saw the last episode. I am exceeding grateful to
you for sharing this with me. Now I can sleep at night. ;)
(And it's all the more reason for them to have called him "Ted".)