On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:49:36 GMT, Baz
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Missing footnote alert! What on earth is a Skoocum? We know that one
can win it though, so we have a slight start... Google wasn't a huge
help, by the way, definitions varied from "Excellent" to "Big-Foot" to
the name of a lumber firm.

According to my spies Ben Newsam of (Micro Services) writes

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=skoocum&gwp=13

Skookum is a Chinook jargon word that has come into general use in
British Columbia and Yukon Territory in Canada, and in the U.S. Pacific
Northwest.

The word skookum has three meanings:

1. a word in regional English that has a variety of positive
connotations;
2. a monster;
3. a souvenir doll once common in the Mountain States

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:09:40 +0100, Ben Newsam
ukonline.co.uk> wrote:

<1> Skoocum...Westcoast Indian word for big , cool, awesome...or maybe
I'm making this sh*t up