jackalope

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Shuttleworth concedes that the goofy names - a jackalope, after all is a mythical creature

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  • Yankees think the jackalope was the invention of a guy who wanted to sell big brag postcards -- here's one of our oranges, it says, and it's a painting of a watermelon-sized Navel -- the crossing of a jack rabbit with an antelope. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
  • "It looked like a jackalope," he reportedly griped, referring to the fictitious creature that's a cross between a jack rabbit and an antelope. —  Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com
  • The idea attracted New York agents and publishers, and for a while there I was tempted to write a book-length description of this marvelous new liberaltarian jackalope. —  Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
  • You've got more important concerns, anyway, like what to do with that stuffed jackalope you've been storing away in the basement for so long.
  • I knew I had to make a lovely girl to live on it, thus this little jackalope. —  (Inside A Black Apple)
 

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