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cookie monster n.
[from the children's TV program "Sesame Street">[ Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on [TOPS-10], [ITS], [Multics], and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the [console] (on a batch [mainframe]), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. Folklorist Jan Brunvand (see [FOAF]) has described these programs as urban legends (implying they probably never existed) but they existed, all right, in several different versions. See also [wabbit]. Interestingly, the term `cookie monster' appears to be a [retcon]; the original term was [cookie bear].
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