"The enemy is like a gopher: you don't see him, but you know he's there," says Khorvat.
The Book of Genesis gives all kinds of architectural details of the ark, a many-roomed structure made of gopher wood; the Koranic version, made of nails and planks, sounds more like a simple raft, though it is capable of navigating waves as big as mountains.
True-bred LaManchas must have one of only two distinct ear types: "gopher ears," which may be up to 1 inch (2.5 cm) in length but preferably are nonexistent; or "elf ears," which have a maximum length of 2 inches (5 cm).
For example, both the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) and the Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) live in the southern United States and are equally terrestrial, but they are not usually found together, as the box turtle prefers moist forest and the gopher tortoise open woodlands on sand ridges.
To the former class the Dutch contributed cruller, cold-slaw, cockey, scow, boss, smearcase and Santa Claus, and the French contributed gopher, prairie, chowder, carry-all and bureau (a chest of drawers).
Only bucks with gopher ears are accepted for breeding, as bucks with elf ears may sire "throwback" kids with standard longer ears.
Among the common grassland mammals are Richardson's ground squirrel and the pocket gopher, both of which damage young grain crops.
Deer and wild pigs roam the woods; elk inhabit the coniferous forests of the northeast; and steppe rodents, such as the brindled gopher, live in the south.
At the first possible opportunity, he took the road to Dublin to work in a show band office where he was the office gopher – making tea, collecting the dry cleaning, answering the phone and posting letters.
The quips addressing Trump's hair included: "Number 10: That thing on his head was the gopher in Caddyshack"; "He wants to build a wall?
