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Thread #59418   Message #1182717
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
10-May-04 - 11:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Usually if you stick a word or two from another language into Google it will come up with pages in that language with that word. Nada with this stuff.

I like this kind of jabberwock better:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
--Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
--And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
--The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
--The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
--Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
--And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
--The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
--And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
--The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
--He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
--Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
--He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
--Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
--And the mome raths outgrabe.