On 01/15 15:58, Greywolf wrote:
> Thus spake Johan A.van Zanten ("JAZ> ") sometime Today...
> 
> JAZ> Randy Beaudreault <maccult@pacbell.net> wrote:
> JAZ> > I say we plagirize the last lines of Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"
> JAZ> > with Beastie as the Statue of Liberty:
> JAZ>
> JAZ> Wow! I really like this idea! Great image, and great original copy.  Of
> JAZ> course, the potential to offend even more people (cross-dressing, defiling
> JAZ> a national icon, etc.) is pretty large, but the mental image of a pair of
> JAZ> chucks peeking out from under the Daemon Statue's robes delights me.
> 
> "chucks"?  [daemon is theoretically nameless, is certainly not named
> "chuck".  Quoth McKusick: "If you have to give it a name, call it 'beastie'."]

"chucks" means "Chuck Taylors" (the shoes made by Converse) in this case.  

http://www.converse.com/zproductmatrix.asp?zcatid=2&zsubcatid=4