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  • Yes. 1) "Colonel Angus was a comedy skit featured on the television show Saturday Night Live that gained notoriety due to its use of ribald word play. The skit, which aired live on February 222003 in SNL 's 28th season, featured the show's guest host Christopher Walken as the namesake Civil War hero Colonel Ennol Angus." Source and further information: http://upto11.net/generic_wiki.php?q=colonel_angus 2) "In the United States, the pejorative term carpetbagger was used to refer to a Northerner (Yankees) who traveled to the South after the American Civil War, through the late 1860s and the 1870s, during Reconstruction. They went south to exploit the power vacuum created by the end of the American Civil War when the Confederate States (see: Confederate States of America, U.S. Southern states) were placed under martial law. Since many Southern business and political leaders had been ousted from their positions as a result of the war, there was much personal gain to be found by travelling South, and many of these carpetbaggers became mayors, governors, and business leaders. Carpetbaggers were so named after the habit of carrying belongings in a carpet bag. The carpet-bagging was commonly perceived by white Southerners as a threat to the status quo, and it was." Source and further information: http://upto11.net/generic_wiki.php?q=carpetbagger 3) "Miss Anabelle: Break out some fresh linens, Bedilia! We're gonna have Colonel Angus here tonight! Bedelia: Colonel Angus? I don't know nothin' about no Colonel Angus! Daddy: Well, get ready, Bedelia. If I remember correctly, Colonel Angus can be very messy! [ at last, Colonel Angus steps onto the porch ] Daddy: As I live and breath! Colonel Angus! Miss Anabelle: Oh, Colonel Angus! You old Carpetbagger!" Source: Saturday Night Live Transcripts http://snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02mangus.phtml 4) However, I am not sure if he was an Answerbagger, too.

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