Via Fark, in “Writer finds that a fight in the NHL is more than just a fight“:
“Typically, enforcers are big, lumbering snuffleupaguses.”
Wait. What? Which team in the NHL has a giant, imaginary four-legged mammoth creature? Or, do they all have one … and I just haven’t ever seen them? Hmm …
And, when does the exposé on backstage violence on the set of Sesame Street come out? Just who is Snuffleupagus checking into the boards and beating up to enforce …
Wait. Is Snuffleupagus a metaphor for gangs on Sesame Street? Does Snuffleupagus represents the underground economic producers in the Sesame Street ecosystem? Or, does Snuffleupagus represent a kind of extra-official policing of the neighborhood? That means Big Bird is a made-man, right? Big Bird is clearly the capo to whom Snuffleupagus reports. And all those times that Big Bird mentioned seeing Snuffleupagus was actually a veiled threat that the enforcer was coming to lean on someone that was behind on their kick-back or protection money?!