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	BBC - h2g2 - Squonks - Mythical Animals
		The Squonk (Lacrimacorpus dissolvens) is a legendary creature from the Hemlock forests of north-central and north-western Pennsylvania.
		Squonks will apparently dissolve completely into tears anytime they are cornered or threatened; this is the source of their scientific name, Lacrimacorpus dissolvens, from the Latin words for 'tear', 'body', and 'dissolve'.
		Squonks are really unusual in the realms mythical beasts but they are far from alone...
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A865983 (1046 words)

	Squonk: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Squonk
		The Squonk is a mythical beast reputed to live in the Hemlock forests of northern Pennsylvania.
		Legends of squonks probably originated in the late 19th century, at the height of Pennsylvania's importance in the timber industry.
		Hunters who have attemped to catch squonks have found that the creature is capable of evading capture by dissolving completely into a pool of tears and bubbles when cornered.
	www.encyclopedian.com /sq/Squonk.html (331 words)

	Squonks - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		The Squonk (Lacrimacorpus dissolvens) is a legendary creature from the Hemlock forests of north-central and north-western Pennsylvania.
		The earliest stories about the squonk are lost to history, but the legend probably dates back at least to the late 19th Century, when Pennsylvania's importance in the lumber industry was at its peak, relying heavily on hemlock trees1.
		Squonks will apparently dissolve completely into tears anytime they are cornered or threatened; this is the source of their scientific name, Lacrimacorpus dissolvens, from the Latin words for 'tear', 'body', and 'dissolve';.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=16127 (1540 words)

	Encyclopedia: Squonk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Squonk is a legendary creature reputed to live in the Hemlock forests of northern Pennsylvania.
		Hunters who have attempted to catch squonks have found that the creature is capable of evading capture by dissolving completely into a pool of tears and bubbles when cornered.
		Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Squonk (964 words)

	Squonk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its skin is ill-fitting, and covered with warts and other blemishes, therefore the squonk hides from being seen, and spends much of its time weeping sorrowfully over its own ugliness.
		Two years later, on their 1976 LP, A Trick of the Tail, Genesis included the song "Squonk", written by Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks and sung by their frontman Phil Collins.
		In more recent years, the name of the squonk has been used in various contexts, including Squonk Opera, a performing arts group in the Pittsburgh area, and by the Dutch jazzrockband "The Mighty Squonk".
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squonk (343 words)

	[ELFWOOD] Stories / Adam Danial B. Ragg, or 'AdZ von Raggamuffin', or 'Adam Wragg, The Well-Known Typing Error' / 'The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The falterers often tried to avoid the territory of the Squonk altogether, sometimes not coming out of their burrows for days, just to make sure the Squonk and his excruciating dirge were not close by.
		The two would sit under a tree and talk, listen to the other talking and, in the periods when the Squonk’s eyes were not quite so full of tears, laugh and smile and venture what they considered jests to one another, though neither truly understood any that were said by themselves or by their companion.
		And because the Squonk cried almost constantly, not only did they leave trails of silver everywhere he went, but his eyelids were lined with a circle of silver that made him very conspicuous and easy prey to woodland predators.
	elfwood.lysator.liu.se /libr/a/d/adz/the_squonk.htm.html (3358 words)

	Michigan Tech News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Squonk is an amazing company of extraordinarily inventive, entertaining, and multi-talented people appearing on the Rozsa stage on Saturday, April 20, at 8:00 p.m.
		Squonk gives us accessible performance art, NOT the kind that is so off-the-wall that it's incomprehensible, but music, dance, theater, much humor, and weird, wonderful and extraordinary props that the Monty Python crew would covet.
		Squonk's visit to the Rozsa is presented by the MTU Memorial Union Board for Tech Arts Festival and is funded by student activity fees, the MTU Committee for Campus Enrichment, and the James and Margaret Black Endowment.
	www.admin.mtu.edu /urel/breaking/2002/squonk.html (428 words)

	Squonk
		Legendary in Pennsylvania, the Squonk is small, shy beast, with loose skin that has many warts and moles on it.
		Squonks are very unhappy and cry all the time.
		If cornered, the Squonk's tears might dissolve it (hence the pseudo-Latin name Lachrimacorpus dissolvens.) Supposedly, one person caught a Squonk in a sack one time, but when the sack was opened later, there were only tears and bubbles in it.
	www.eaudrey.com /myth/squonk.htm (119 words)

	Performance Steelmaking
		Boasting a direct bloodline from steelworkers, members of Squonk were looking for an interesting story to stage and decided to look no further than the smokestacks of the abandoned steel mills visible through their apartment windows in Pittsburgh.
		Squonk Opera is primarily a musical ensemble (composed of Steve O'Hearn, Jana Losey, Casi Pacilio, Jackie Dempsey, Kevin Kornicki, and Brian Berkheiser), and the show does contain nine original songs, many of which are included on the group's newest compact disc Ha Ha Tali.
		This is not Squonk Opera's first show; since 1995, the group has received 11 performance grants, fellowships, and commissions, including "Night of the Living Dead: The Opera," for a full month's run in Pittsburgh.
	www.tms.org /pubs/journals/JOM/9610/Beazley-9610.html (1570 words)

	Music Preview: Squonk Opera lights 'Inferno'
		Theater audiences think Squonk Opera is either a groundbreaking performance art troupe or a bunch of clunky amateurs who got booted off Broadway.
		Squonk Opera brings it back to the bars this weekend for a CD release party at The Rex, which was recently awarded a liquor license.
		Ultimately, Squonk is probably an informal reincarnation of a 17th-century English court masque, which combined elaborate sets, speech, music, singing, dancing, audience interaction and costumed revelry.
	www.pittsburgpost-gazette.com /ae/20030314squonk4.asp (875 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Beck's Maps, Rex Barks, and Grokking the Squonk \| September 8, 2006
		A map of the mind, anyway my mind, I told her, would be based in part on nonsemantic metrics like "ends in K (or sometimes X)," and I wondered why that would be, what subtle value there is in such seemingly frivolous cognitive connectivity.
		The squonk, which appears in Steely Dan's "Any Major Dude Will Tell You," is one of a class of literary creations appropriated by scientists (and sometimes writers of rock).
		In chemistry, a squonk is a substance that is stable in solution but that cannot be isolated without catalyzing its own decomposition; i.e., dissolving in its own tears.
	www.ddj.com /dept/global/192700272 (731 words)

	Encyclopaedia Morningtonia: Squonk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Squonk reduces a players LV to zero, and locks their wheels thus preventing movement.
		The exact calculation being a second order divination of the number of podumes a player possesses, the LV they actually possessed at the time they declared Squonk and the Quadrant they are in.
		It is very important to note however that "Squonking" is risky as it can lead to an unpleasant inversion i.e.
	kevan.org /morningtonia?Squonk (220 words)

	squonk: have a seat + read a post
		Squonk ha iniziato 364 giorni fa, Ã¨ stato visitato da un numero di persone che, agli occhi e rispetto alle aspettative del suo tenutario, Ã¨ assolutamente inspiegabile, si trova inserito in una rete di conoscenze, rapporti, amicizie, idee che continuano a dare un senso alla sua esistenza.
		Squonk Ã¨ un filo piÃ¹ povero (e chissÃ se Ã¨ vero, poi), ma non importa, davvero.
		On air, domani, tra le 15.24 e le 16.18, in streaming audio/video chez www.facoltadifrequenza.it: tutti i colpi di tosse del blog-manager di Squonk.
	squonk.splinder.com /1057831954 (2754 words)

	The Broadway in Blue Cafe: Performance Reviews
		We chose Squonk because we were looking for something a little bit “offbeat,” despite the fact that we were briefly tempted by 50% off Jesus Christ Superstar tickets at the TKTS booth.
		About the most interesting thing in all of Squonk’s 80 minute running time was the eerie, beautiful voice of its “star,” Jana Losey, who looks like a cross between Natalie Imbruglia and the lead singer of the Cranberries (and she sounds a lot like the latter singer, too).
		The only other thing of note was the set, which consisted of several wildly inconsistent contraptions, ranging from a gigantic Cornucopia to a massive iron furnace which one member of the cast used to cook what appeared to be raw hot-dogs at one point.
	users.rcn.com /ayarrows/stagereviews.html (666 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Squonk
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		"Squonk" aims to provide a feast of imagery to tickle the eye, ear and occasionally funny bone --- a giant cornucopia figures prominently --- but the buffet on offer looks pretty sparse when it's housed in a proscenium theater and priced at up to $ 65 a ticket.
		"Squonk" is an entertainment in the tradition of such plotless, visceral shows as "Stomp," "De La Guarda" and "Blue Man Group." The producers were presumably hoping that by moving it uptown, to a larger theater, profits could be maximized.
	www.variety.com /article/VE1117915305 (847 words)

	Squonk sets off in new direction with 'Burn' - PittsburghLIVE.com
		With "Burn," Squonk strives to expand from its firm footing as an eccentric and quirky but distinctive, visual and musical entertainment to a more text-based performance.
		Squonk's flame burns brightest when it's irreverent and somewhat irrelevant.
		Squonk's future as a dramatic entity is like Centralia's mine fire, still smoldering beneath the surface, threatening to flame forth.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_6081.html (458 words)

	Squonk Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Squonk weaves a surreal experience through the use of light and shadow, hypnotic music, puppetry, humor, dance, and stirring visual effects.
		Called "a place to seek refuge from the too solid world," audiences of all ages are transported into a world of dreams where each person's interpertation is as personal as his or her subconscious thoughts.
		With that indulgence comes the ability for the Squonk actors to mutate into everything from a mechanical horse to a pair of rolling eyes sitting over a giant mouth.
	www.greatevents.mtu.edu /gevents/gep23-mi.html (393 words)

	Squonk Opera returns to Pittsburgh action - PittsburghLIVE.com
		O'Hearn is artistic director of Squonk Opera, an imaginative and intrepid Pittsburgh-based troupe of stage performers whose work has traveled from the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern to Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre and back again.
		This allows Squonk to expand its cast of performers beyond its traditional five musicians to include upward of 75 performers, all from the Pittsburgh area.
		For the first time, Squonk will incorporate sounds of an electric guitar, and Dempsey finally gets to retire her electric keyboard and move up to a grand piano.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_5048.html (1152 words)

	Stage Review: Squonk's 'Burn' is playful, imaginative journey into the underworld
		After a sojourn in New York, Pittsburgh's own Squonk Opera -- the funny, smart performance band of your brightly fevered dreams -- is back on stage at City Theatre, unveiling "Burn," their most coherent artistic journey yet.
		In Squonk mythology, the ninth circle must represent their experience a year and a half ago on Broadway.
		Off-Broadway, they'd been greeted with the praise heaped on primitivist-sophisticates, but when they moved uptown (which in this cosmography means deeper into the belly of the beast) they met ignorance, perfidy and abuse, not to mention the sudden shriveling up of their savings.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20011130squonk1130fnp5.asp (958 words)

	Stage Review: Squonk kicks heels in 'Smackdown' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		And if you have seen Squonk, you sympathize with my difficulty in describing what its members do, because Squonk is a tumbling pop/art festival all by itself.
		But you don't need to know the old story to enjoy Squonk's squonking, nor do you have to credit the vaguely implied parallels to the Bush family of Texas.
		Squonk is often klunky, but its range of feeling is broad.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04280/390983.stm (658 words)

	Squonk Opera takes audiences on rollicking 'Rodeo' ride - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Squonk Opera's "Rodeo Smackdown" is far more fun to watch than to write about.
		Squonk Opera productions are the local stage equivalent of an amusement park ride put together by imaginative, talented, edgy, eccentric and enigmatic engineers.
		But often the effect is haunting and lush, especially when Christina Marie Acosta, a recent addition to the Squonk lineup, contributes her vocal talent.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_258304.html (511 words)

	News & Information - resource - March 2003 - Pa. DCNR
		The song relays the plight of a squonk and its role in a brief hunt which ends badly for the woebegone creature.
		The answer perhaps lies among the dark hemlocks of southcentral Pennsylvania, from whence the little-known legend of the squonk comes.
		He made a clever capture by mimicking the squonk and inducing it to hop into a sack, in which he was carrying it home, when suddenly the burden lightened and the weeping ceased.
	www.dcnr.state.pa.us /news/resource/res2003/naturenotes0303.htm (352 words)

	GENESIS A Trick Of The Tail reviews and MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Finally, the magnificent "Los Endos" is an instrumental tour de force which reprises "Squonk" as well as quoting "Supper's Ready" in the brief vocal section, as a sort of tribute and response to Gabriel's departure.
		'Squonk' is slightly more commercial, but still great, as Phil delivers another powerful vocal, and he is the driving force on this song, there not being any solos.
		"Squonk" has very good drums by Collins, and it seems that this is the first song Phil sang in rehearsals, and with this song he convinced his mates in GENESIS to become the lead singer.
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=5 (12719 words)

	Squonk, a CurtainUp review
		Squonk's only theatrical rhyme or reason is that it exerts the same sort of weird fascination that has grade school youngsters everywhere obsessing over Pokemon characters.
		If I had to define it, I'd say Squonk is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland done up as a music video.
		Squonk also has much in common with the annual New Music Festival at Tanglewood in the Berkshires which attracts flocks of enthusiasts but tends to send traditionalists scurrying for the hills.
	www.curtainup.com /squonk.html (945 words)

	Playbill Features: It Came From Pittsburgh: Downtown Devoured, Squonk Puts The Bite On Broadway
		New Yorkers first saw this Squonk show at lower Manhattan's P.S. 122, where it played last summer and attracted what proved to be a crucial rave review from The New York Times.
		Appetite is a natural subject for a Squonk show, as O'Hearn demolishes three eggs, two big sausages and more at a 5:00 dinner at a Times Square diner on a snowy February evening.
		With the support of its director, George A. Romero, Squonk interacted with screenings of the film as it unspooled, "cutting it up, interfering with it, interrupting it, enacting the characters onstage.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/64970.html (1791 words)

	Moonglow Council Minutes 07-11-2002
		Squonk: Basically there is no change up or down in our coffers since last time we met...
		Squonk: but alas it was not to be...
		Squonk: first of all he had other business to attend to...
	moonglow.lemming.org /MGCouncil/minutes071102.htm (1630 words)

	Prehistoric.org.uk - In Search of the Squonk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The third track on side one was entitled "Squonk" and has widely been translated by Genesis fans as an allegory for the departure of the band's former lead vocalist Peter Gabriel.
		His grief seems mainly to be caused by the ugliness of his skin, which is said to be ill-fitting and covered with warts and moles.
		This is particularly successful on very frosty nights when the tears freeze and sparkle in the moonlight and the squonk can't move around too quickly.
	www.prehistoric.org.uk /general/squonk.html (1080 words)

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