This fowl character was convinced the sky was falling after being hit on the head with an acorn
Chicken Little
Frogs belong to the order Anura, meaning without this body part, something they had only as tadpoles
tails
The rapid inflation & collapse of the dot-com sector was a classic one of these boom & bust cycles, like the South Sea one
bubble
This store is one of the largest employers in the U.S. & Canada & is the largest in Mexico
Wal-Mart
North of this line, each year has a day without sunrise & a day without sunset
the Arctic Circle
To hit something; in baseball, it's when you miss hitting something
a strike
This Republican Party slogan from 1928 also mentioned "a car in every backyard"
"A chicken in every pot"
In song, Jeremiah was one of these frogs seen here
a bullfrog
In January 2000 17 dot-coms each paid $2 million to run 30-second ads during this event; the following year, only 3 did
the Super Bowl
The trendy Brass Plum section has now been shortened to BP in this Seattle-based department store
Nordstrom
Snow appears white because of the large number of surfaces that do this to light
reflect it
A written order to a bank to pay a sum of money, or a bill showing the amount owed
a check
There are no water or electric utilities in the town of Chicken in this state, but mail comes by plane twice a week
Alaska
Like ducks, true frogs, which also spend a lot of time in water, have this type of feet
webbed
The dot-com boom was busting by 2000, when 240 were delisted from this giant securities exchange
NASDAQ
This electronics store wants to be female-friendly & now has Magnolia Stores, which have a living room feel
Best Buy
The first day of the year when ice in rivers & harbors loosens is called this, also a term for an easing of hostility
thaw
It's to put to death legally, or to start, as in a computer program
execute
Ben Vereen's role in "Roots"
Chicken George
In 2008 this California county held its 80th annual Frog Jumping Contest
Calaveras
The release of adverse findings of fact in the case U.S. v. this company helped spur the dot-com bust
Microsoft
One of California's first surf shops in a mall, this "sunny" company sells Bullhead & Tilt brands
Pacific Sunwear
The shape of a snowflake is determined by 2 things in the cloud it's formed in: the moisture content & this
the temperature
This word means tied up, or on your way to a place
bound
It's a series of lunches or dinners that politicians feel compelled to attend
the rubber chicken circuit
A frog's hind legs have a humanlike femur, but unlike humans, their single shin bone is these two bones fused together
the tibia & the fibula
Failed dot-coms are humorously referred to both as "dotbombs" & "dot" this, like a mound of fertilize
dot-composts
Whether you're at Ruehl, Hollister or Gilly Hicks, you're shopping at this century-old company
Abercrombie & Fitch
11-letter process in which ice turns to vapor without melting
sublimation
A fastener to secure something; or it could be to bend, warp & give way suddenly with heat or pressure
buckle