Eddie Redmayne

As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

English Actor

Padgett Powell

Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

American Novelist

Jeff Baena

My first job after graduating was working with Robert Zemeckis. I got a job a week after graduating and moving to L.A. So I got to work on 'What Lies Beneath' and 'Castaway' as a PA, which is basically like a gopher.

American Director

John Terry

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

English Athlete

Gophers are rodents, similar to mice, but often confused with moles—another tunneling animal.

Rodent Species

The tunnels gophers dig can damage plants' roots, hence they're often seen as pests.

Tunnel Impact

Gophers feature in North American culture, often portrayed as cute but destructive pests.

Cultural Depiction

The gopher protocol predates the modern web and isn't widely used today.

Internet History

Gopher in the computing sense is technical jargon, unfamiliar outside of IT contexts.

Technical Term

An office gopher is usually a low-level employee or intern sent to do basic tasks.

Workplace Errand Runner

Describing someone as a gopher in the workplace is informal and may sound derogatory.

Informal Usage

 her about the Earthship she said man there's just no curb appeal and I've overheard them at bars saying oh yeah the earthships those gopher people oh yeah those people they live in gopher

Earthships: A House Made...

 it a gopher snake is calling towards the Burrow it might find its way inside it had better be seen off