Original term, pre-Sesame-Street, for what is now universally called
a cookie monster. A correspondent observes In
those days, hackers were actually getting their yucks from...sit
down now...Andy Williams. Yes, that Andy
Williams. Seems he had a rather hip (by the standards of the day) TV
variety show. One of the best parts of the show was the recurring
‘cookie bear’ sketch. In these sketches, a guy in a bear suit
tried all sorts of tricks to get a cookie out of Williams. The sketches
would always end with Williams shrieking (and I don't mean figuratively),
‘No cookies! Not now, not ever...NEVER!!!’ And the bear
would fall down. Great stuff.