Big Bad Wolf

1. The wicked but ineffectual enemy of the three pigs, who threatens each of them in turn by saying, “I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down!” In some versions of the story, the wolf eats two of the pigs.

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Still, as in many politically divided households across the land, Jones needs answers: “When it comes to my parents,” she writes, “I want to ask them this question: Who exactly is the big bad wolf, or is it a mythical creature created in their own heads based on” what Tucker Carlson once told them on Fox?

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"This is not a colossus, this is not the big bad wolf, this is not a vigorous and incredibly deft political communicator. This is an old man in decline who's been doing the same schtick for a very long time and it's really wearing thin."

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“Don’t tell me you’re afraid of the big bad wolf, Jack.”

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No, they were just going to have to hide beneath the bed and hope that May’s big, bad wolf protector would come in and save them all from the Red Hood.

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Who saved the three little pigs from the big bad wolf?

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