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cookie monster

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(recreation)cookie monster - (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.

See also wabbit.


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If your kids are old enough to navigate on their own, they can play games with Bert, Ernie, the Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Elmo, or the other Sesame Street characters; learn the alphabet; "watch an animated story or read by themselves, plus much more.
Sesame street online. (Just For Kids) by Thomas, Michele D. / Black Issues Book Review
Fields' new cookies is that they're half the size of the cookie monsters in her stores.
OUT IN LEFT FIELD by Nutrition Action Healthletter
I picture the enemy as an ugly green Cookie Monster with sixteen fingers.
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