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13 Jun 07 - 08:30 AM (#2075663) Subject: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell Like most folks, I experience an occasional desire to do a bit of gyring and gimbling. But when the urge to gyre and gimble strikes, I have to get in the car and drive for an hour to the nearest wabe. Then, when I finally get there, it's usually so crowded with slithy toves that I wonder why I bothered. It's a small wabe, and pretty trashed out by all the gyrers and gimblers who can't be bothered to clean up after themselves. There's a big pile of rusty vorpal swords under the Tumtum tree. It's so depressing that even the borogoves aren't usually very mimsy. Heck, the last time I was there I didn't even see a mome rath, much less one that was actually outgrabing. Is this just a local phenomenon, or are wabes on the decline everywhere? How far do you have to go when you get the urge to gyre and gimble? I hear that wabes are so common in some areas that unsuspected people fall into them and are unable to start gyring and gimbling quickly enough to get out. What's it like where you live? |
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13 Jun 07 - 08:36 AM (#2075671) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: SINSULL yes |
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13 Jun 07 - 08:39 AM (#2075677) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: John MacKenzie I find comfort in food, and find you can't beat a quick snicker snack, washed down with a glass of Beamish. Giok |
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13 Jun 07 - 08:44 AM (#2075683) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: GUEST,Guest Alice I have my very own personal wabe. You could always do the same! |
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13 Jun 07 - 08:46 AM (#2075686) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: John MacKenzie Try sliding a gong on the chest of a wabe. |
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13 Jun 07 - 08:55 AM (#2075689) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: skipy portmanteau Skipy |
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13 Jun 07 - 08:59 AM (#2075694) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Mrrzy But once you get there, is your day frubjous? |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:07 AM (#2075703) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee There are quite a few unspoiled wabes here, but there are also bandersnatch. So if you want some wild g&g it's wise to set a guard, preferably someone you can do without. Of course, if you're afraid you can use one of the municipal wabes or one of the ones that have been commercially developed. But you won't shout "Callou! Callay!" and chortle very much. |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:11 AM (#2075710) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell Actually, I was well on the way to establishing a wabe on the vacant property adjoining my own a few years back. (It's easier to not actually have the wabe on one's own property. Permits, licenses and all that, you know.) Then one of those pesky hurricanes we have around here blew down all the Tumtum trees on that acreage. They're starting to grow back, but it'll be years before one of them is big enough to use in a wabe. |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:15 AM (#2075714) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell Yeah, Rapaire, I hear wabes are as common in Idaho as are underage wives in Utah. |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:18 AM (#2075719) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: kendall Sounds pretty savagrus to me. |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:27 AM (#2075729) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: mack/misophist I know the whereabouts of several prime wabes, all within easy reach of public transportation. The exact locations, of course, must remain confidential. |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:27 AM (#2075730) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: skipy cut & paste:- Message from the WABE President Peter Gillespie October is approaching fast! The WABE 2007 Convention is slated for Edmonton this year at the West Edmonton Mall Fantasyland Hotel. We have a great committee in place who is working diligently to put together an outstanding show for you. Please mark the dates in your calendar now: October 14, 15 & 16, 2007. Skipy |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:30 AM (#2075737) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee Hey, I'm going to a convention at the Delta South in Edmonton in August! Think there'll be any around then? |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:59 AM (#2075766) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: JennyO We're just cleaning up after a large storm which had high whiffling winds and very large wabes. The boats had to do a lot of gyre and gimbling, and some of them were not quite successful - beached tanker. Gives you food for uffish thought! A lot of the tum tum trees were blown down and the flooded creeks and rivers are still doing a lot of burbling. The jabberwocks and jub jub birds are hiding in the borogroves, which are still very manxome and not very mimsy, but the mome raths are becoming outgrabe again. I am chortling in my joy now because it's over. It's a brillig frabjous day. Calloo Callay! |
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13 Jun 07 - 10:54 AM (#2075821) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bill D Snickersnack (Those old ones had to be cut with a vorpal blade.) |
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13 Jun 07 - 11:49 AM (#2075889) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: wysiwyg Wabyface-- you've got the cutest little wabyface. ~S~ |
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13 Jun 07 - 11:56 AM (#2075898) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee It's so lovely here in the evening, watching the wabes wave bye-bye. |
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13 Jun 07 - 11:58 AM (#2075902) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell Ya know, Mr. Carroll didn't exactly tell us what the plural for "wabe" might be. I guessed it would be "wabes", but it could be "wabia" for all I know. |
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13 Jun 07 - 12:03 PM (#2075910) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee "Wabia" is the name of their homeland, their auld sod, their Vaterland. This should not be confused with "Swabia" which is the home country of sailors. |
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13 Jun 07 - 12:40 PM (#2075936) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: RangerSteve BWL = Those are some pretty uffish thoughts you posted. With the tum-tum tress all blown down, could you establish your wabe in some tulgy woods? I've found them to be a great place for whiffling. Sometimes I go there to burble, too. And galumphing. |
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13 Jun 07 - 01:14 PM (#2075972) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: JennyO If the woods are very tulgy, it's good to have some galumphs to go galumphing in. Keeps your feet dry. |
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13 Jun 07 - 01:22 PM (#2075980) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell Or I guess I could move to Baja California and establish a wabe among the boojum trees. |
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13 Jun 07 - 01:37 PM (#2075985) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Metchosin We've had some manxome ones about here recently. They've been crushing garbage cans and generally being a nuisance. The berries on the Tum Tum trees are late ripening and they are hungry. Hoping they will be trapped and moved and not snicker snacked. |
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13 Jun 07 - 05:09 PM (#2076159) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: terrier I suppose the plural for Wabe could be Wabii or that could be their race. "Wish me luck as you wabe me goodbye" |
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13 Jun 07 - 05:20 PM (#2076174) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Joe Offer You people seem so smug and secure with your wabes and gyres and gimbles. Well, the day of recokoning is coming. Always remember,
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! -Joe Offer- |
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13 Jun 07 - 06:02 PM (#2076201) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee Yeah, that's part of the problem out here: bandersnatches hang around the "wild" wabes, and even worse are the boojums. We had a bellman softly and silently vanish away just yesterday at the wabe upon Kinport Peak. |
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13 Jun 07 - 06:59 PM (#2076241) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bill D Der Jammerwoch Es brillig war. Die schlichte Toven Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben; Und aller-mümsige Burggoven Die mohmen Räth' ausgraben Bewahre doc vor Jammerwoch! Die Zähne knirschen, Krallen kratzen! Bewahr' vor Jubjub--Vogel, vor Frumiösen Banderschnätzchen! Er griff sein vorpals Schwertchen zu, Er suchte lang das manscham' Ding; Dann, stehend unten Tumtum Baum, Er an-zu-denken-fing. Als stand er tief in Andacht auf, Des Jammerwochen's Augen-feuer Durch tulgen Wald mit wiffek kam Ein burbelnd uhgeheuer! Eins, Zwei! Eins, Zwei! Und durch und durch Sein vorpals Schwert zerschnifer-schnück, Da blieb es todt! Er, Kopf in Hand, Geläumfig zog zurück. Und schlugst Du ja den Jammerwoch? Umarme mich, mien Böhm' sches Kind! O Freuden-Tag! O Halloo-Schlag! Er chortelt froh-gesinnt. Es brillig war, &c. |
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13 Jun 07 - 06:59 PM (#2076242) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bill D Jabberwocheux Henri Parisot Il était reveneure; les slictueux toves Sur l'allouinde gyraient et vriblaient; Tout flivoreux vaguaient les borogoves; Les verchons fourgus bourniflaient. «Au Jabberwoc prends bien garde, mon fils! A sa griffe qui mord, à sa gueule qui happe! Gare l'oiseau JeubJeub, et laisse En paix le frumieux, le fatal Bandersnatch!» Le jeune homme, ayant ceint sa vorpaline épée, Longtemps cherchait le monstre manxiquais, Puis, arrivé près de l'arbre Tépé, Pour réfléchir un instant s'arrêtait. Or, tandis qu'il lourmait de suffèches pensées, Le Jabberwoc, l'oeil flamboyant, Ruginiflant par le bois touffeté, Arrivait en barigoulant! Une, deux! une, deux! Fulgurant, d'outre en outre, Le glaive vorpalin perce et tranche : flac-vlan! Il terrasse la bête et, brandissant sa tête, Il s'en retourne, galomphant. «Tu as tué le Jabberwoc! Dans mes bras, mon fils rayonnois! O jour frableux! callouh! calloc!» Le vieux glouffait de joie. Il était reveneure; les slictueux toves Sur l'allouinde gyraient et vriblaient; Tout flivoreux vaguaient les borogoves; Les verchons fourgus bourniflaient. |
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13 Jun 07 - 07:00 PM (#2076245) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bill D Il Ciarlestrone Adriana Crespi Era brillosto, e gli alacridi tossi succhiellavano scabbi nel pantúle: Méstili eran tutti i paparossi, e strombavan musando i tartarocchi. «Attento al Ciarlestrone, figlio mio! Fauci che azzannano, fauci che ti artigliano, attento all'uccel Giuggio e attento ancora Al fumibondo chiappabana! yes...it goes on & on... EVERYONE gotta have a wabe! Afferò quello la sua vorpi da lama a lungo il manson nemico cercò... Cosí sostò presso l'albero Touton e riflettendo alquanto dimorò. E mentre il bellico pensier si trattenea, il Ciarlestrone con occhiali brage venne sifflando nella fulgida selva, sbollentando nella sua avanzata. Un, due! Un, due! E dentro e dentro scattò saettante la vorpida lama! Ei lo lasciò cadavere, e col capo Se ne venne al ritorno galumpando. «E hai tu ucciso il Ciarlestrone? Fra le mie braccia, o raggioso fanciullo! O giorno fragoroso, Callò, Callài!» stripetò quello dala gioia. Era brillosto, e gli alacridi tossi succhiellavano scabbi nel pantúle: Méstili eran tutti i paparossi, e strombavan musando i tartarocchi. |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:13 PM (#2076330) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: The Fooles Troupe Wish me luck as you wabe me goodbye! |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:37 PM (#2076345) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Joe_F That's outgribing, not outgrabing. Outgribe, outgrabe, outgribben. |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:43 PM (#2076349) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell I dare anyone to start a thread called "How fast do you outgribe?" |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:54 PM (#2076355) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee Mae'n brydgell ac mae'r brochgim stwd Yn gimblo a gyrian yn y mhello: Pob cólomrws yn féddabwd, A'r hoch oma'n chwibruo. 'Gwylia'r hen Siaberwoc, fy mab! Y brathiad llym a'r crafanc tynn! A rhed pan weli'r Gwbigab A'r ofnynllyd Barllyn!' Cym'rodd ei gleddyf yn ei law I geisio ei fanawaidd brae-- A gorffwys ger y goeden Taw, I feddwl--fel pe tae. A thra pendronai ymhlith y coed Y Siaberwoc a'i lygaid fflam A ddaeth, mor wallgof ag erioed Gan ffrwtian gam a cham! Un, dau! Un, dau! drwy'r awyr oer Aeth min y cledd ysgiw, ysgôl! Fe'i lladdodd, a chan gludo'i ben Hwblamodd yn ei ôl. 'A lleddaist ti y Siaberwoc? Tyrd yma, hapllon fachgen! O jiwblus ddydd! Hwrê! Hwroc!' Gan wenu arno'n llawen. Mae'n brydgell ac mae'r brochgim stwd Yn gimblo a gyrian yn y mhello: Pob cólomrws yn féddabwd, A'r hoch oma'n chwibruo. |
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13 Jun 07 - 09:57 PM (#2076358) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo; Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique formae, Momiferique omnes exgrabure Rathi. "Cave, Gaberbocchum moneo tibi, nate cavendum (Unguibus ille rapit. Dentibus ille necat.) Et fuge Jubbubum, quo non infestior ales, Et Bandersnatcham, quae fremit usque, cave." Ille autem gladium vorpalem cepit, et hostem Manxonium long sedulitate petit; Tum sub tumtummi requiescens arboris umbr Stabat tranquillus, multa animo meditans. Dum requiescebat meditans uffishia, monstrum Praesens ecce! oculis cui fera flamma micat, Ipse Gaberbocchus dumeta per horrida sifflans Ibat, et horrendum burbuliabat iens! Ter, quater, atque iterum cito vorpalissimus ensis Snicsnaccans penitus viscera dissecuit. Exanimum corpus linquens caput abstulit heros Quocum galumphat multa, domumque redit. "Tune Gaberbocchum potuisti, nate, necare? Bemiscens puer! ad brachia nostra veni. Oh! frabiusce dies! iterumque caloque calque Laetus eo" ut chortlet chortla superba senex. Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo; Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique formae, Momiferique omnes exgrabure Rathi. |
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13 Jun 07 - 10:08 PM (#2076366) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell Okay, really impress me. Let's hear it in Tibetan. Or maybe classical Greek. Hebrew? And why are the Google ads pitching "Praise Ringtones" and "Worship Music"? Do they thing gyring and gimbling are things people do in church? |
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13 Jun 07 - 11:04 PM (#2076396) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Alice "curiouser and curiouser", said.....Alice! |
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14 Jun 07 - 12:07 AM (#2076430) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: JennyO Years ago, an Australian group called Tursacan SANG Jabberwocky - to a tune they made up. It was kinda - unusual. I've got it on a CD somewhere but can't find a link to it. However I did find a suggestion by Dick Greenhaus in another thread that you could sing it to Beethoven's Ode To Joy. Pretty mimsy, eh! |
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14 Jun 07 - 12:26 AM (#2076436) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Alice There is actually an investment company here called Bandersnatch. I applied for a job there, but they would not give me an interview. Alice |
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14 Jun 07 - 12:33 AM (#2076443) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell You can sing Jabberwocky to "Temperance Reel" and "Soldier's Joy", just to name a couple. Fortunately, you can't sing it to "Louie, Louie" or "Mustang Sally". |
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14 Jun 07 - 04:00 AM (#2076534) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: John MacKenzie Twis brillig, an' thon slithy toves Did gyre an' gimball in yon wabe A' mimsy wir yon borogroves An' they momeraths ootgrabe. Bewaur thon Jabberwock wee man Ra jaws whit bite, they claws whit catch Bewaur ra JubJub burd, An' shun ra frumious Bandersnatch He took his vorpal shiv in haun' Lang time ra manky foe he socht Sae lowsed he, by yon TumTum tre An' stood a wee in thocht An' as in uffish thocht he stood Ra Jabberwock wi een o' flame Cam whifflin' through yon tulgy wood An' burbled as it cam. Wan twa wan twa, an' through an' through His vorpal shiv went snicker snack He left it deid an' wi' it's heid He went galumphin' back. An' hiv ye slain yon Jabberwock Och cam tae ma airms ya gallus boy Colloo callay o' frabjous day He chortled in his joy Twis brillig an' they slithy toves Did gyre an' gimball in yon wabe A' mimsy wir ra borogroves, An' they momeraths ootgrabe. Thought I'd try to render it in my native tongue. Giok |
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14 Jun 07 - 04:12 AM (#2076538) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: The Fooles Troupe They also serf who only stand on wabes. |
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14 Jun 07 - 04:31 AM (#2076547) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Dave the Gnome Bandersnatch. Need I say more? Dave |
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14 Jun 07 - 08:19 AM (#2076677) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: GUEST,Darowyn Does not Lewis Carroll go on to explain that a wabe is the lawn around a sundial and that brillig is 4.00 in the afternoon, or teatime? Or did I make that up? Anyway, if it's right, I really do have a wabe of my own. So there! Nyah! Cheers Dave |
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14 Jun 07 - 08:28 AM (#2076684) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee Hebrew, Bee-Dub? Okay, here it is, transliterated: Ba'et bashak ushlay pachzar Be'afsay-chak savsu, makdo: au az chilcain haya nimzar umtay-aran kairdu. "Gura bnee, min hapiton mai 'chod-shino, chil-ziparno! mayof-girgir tanoos, za'on maychetesh bim'gono!" Vehu shalaf saypho hachaz: nad, cheepace et pechik-tzarav -- veko amad betzel zamzam, tapoos beheerhoorav. Odo omed shefa hagoot vehapiton, einav dolkot veesh'vesh beya'ar hamanood, ho'e'ah venakot! Bim'chi chazooz - habas! habas! - ticktaich hasayif benimhar natal et rosh pigro hazed ve'el beito tzahar "Af ketalto, et hapiton? achabkecha, yaldi hatzach! ho yom-tzilha! yabah! yabah! bechedvato patzach. Ba'et bashak ushlay pachzar Be'afsay-chak savsu, makdo: au az chilcain haya nimzar umtay-aran kairdu. Or would rather it was in Hungarian? Volt egy brilló´s, a csuszbugó Gimbelt és gált távlengibe, Minden mimicre purrogó, Mómája ingibe. "Vigyázz, jön Szajkóhukk, fiam! Foga maró, karma furó! Ügyelj, Csapcsip madár zuhan S a brunkós Bromboló!" Markában nyüsztó´ penge reng, Elrágdos minden manxomot. A tamtam-fánál megpihent, Mély gondjába rogyott. Állt fergetó´ eszmék körén, S jött Szajkóhukk, nézése láng, Nagy káka-törzsek erdején Bugyborékolva ráng. Bal, jobb! Bal, jobb! És át meg át Nyüsztó´ penge nyekdes, nyikol, Fejét veszi, máris viszi, S eldiadalogol. "Szajkóhukk már nem él, fiam? Karomba, lándzsás pöszöröm! Dicsdús nap, ó! Jahé! Jahó!" Csuklorkant az öröm. Volt egy brilló´s, a csuszbugó Gimbelt és gált távlengibe, Minden mimicre purrogó, Mómája ingibe. |
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14 Jun 07 - 09:07 AM (#2076720) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: GUEST,leeneia I'm back in River City after a hellish two weeks in Italy. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, the airport has intelligent signage. 'Tis brillig. In two days, friends will come over, bearing instruments. Should be frabjous. |
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14 Jun 07 - 09:21 AM (#2076748) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell I don't get it. How can a translation of a work in which the original author used made-up words, words which really have no meaning, not include those words pretty verbatim? Sure, some alterations are necessary due to structural elements and rules of grammar. "Toves" translates to "Toven" in German because that's what the plural form would be if "Tove" was a real German word. But what the hell's a "tove"? Who knows? One can tell from the context that it's a noun, probably a life-form of some sort, but the reader must use his imagination to decide what it means. So, since it's an imaginary conceit with no established meaning, how can it be "translated" into another word all together? Some of the "translations" above don't use any of the words Carroll coined. If those words are eliminated, how can the translation even be said to be the same poem? |
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14 Jun 07 - 09:31 AM (#2076761) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: ranger1 Well, I just got back from the beach where Bandit and I bumped into SINSULL ans Seamus. Seamus was galumphing in the wabes, no mere gyring or gimbling for him! |
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14 Jun 07 - 10:16 AM (#2076817) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: JennyO Well this one in Portuguese should please you, Bee-dubya-ell! Carroll's coined words are all still intact. JABBERWOCKY o brillig de Twas do `, e os toves slithy fizeram o gyre e gimble no wabe: Toda mimsy eram os borogoves, e o outgrabe dos raths do mome. "beware o Jabberwock, meu filho! As maxilas que mordem, as garras que travam! Beware o pássaro de Jubjub, e shun o Bandersnatch frumious!" Fêz exame de sua espada vorpal à disposicão: Tempo longo o foe que do manxome procurou -- assim que descansado ele pela árvore de Tumtum, e estado por algum tempo no pensamento. E, como no uffish pensou que estêve, o Jabberwock, com os olhos da flama, veio whiffling através da madeira do tulgey, e burbled enquanto veio! Uns, dois! Uns, dois! E através e da lâmina vorpal atravessou o snicker-snicker-snack! Deixou-o inoperante, e com sua cabeça foi galumphing para trás. "e, mil slain o Jabberwock? Vindo a meus braços, meu menino do beamish! Dia frabjous de O! Callooh! Callay!" Chortled em sua alegria. o brillig de Twas do `, e os toves slithy fizeram o gyre e gimble no wabe; Toda mimsy eram os borogoves, e o outgrabe dos raths do mome. |
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14 Jun 07 - 12:14 PM (#2076962) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee Slithy = lithe and slimey (according the Dodgson himself) Gyre = See Yeats, "...the widening gyre..." Gimbel = a mounting for compasses, etc. which keeps them level Dottle = the unburned tobacco left in a pipe Raths = old bronze age fortified farms(from the Irish) Momey = variant of "Mommy," a child's term for mother Vorpal = a type of steel, similar to damascus, formerly used in fencing foils and seaxs. Mimsy or Mimsey = a delicate silken fabric; hence, anything similar Toves = var. of British 19th Century slang word "Cove": e.g. "flash cove" |
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14 Jun 07 - 01:34 PM (#2077055) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell And Tolkien adapted a pre-existing word, "orc", a variant of "orca", as a name for his race of evil creatures in The Lord of the Rings. That doesn't mean a translator should insert his language's term for "killer whale" every time the English text says "orc". He should call them "orcs" because, though the word may not be new, the meaning is. I sincerely doubt Mr. Carroll intended for us to interpret "mome rath" as " the mother of a fortified farm". |
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14 Jun 07 - 09:24 PM (#2077417) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Joe_F We had all the songs from the Alice books sung on a 78 when I was little. I still remember the tunes. The one for "Jabberwocky" (in solfa, drmfsltD) went s.m.r.d.m.s.D.s.. sf.f.l.l.s.f.m.. sm.r.d.m.s.D.s.. sl.l.t.s.D..... It should be noted that most of the words are explained by a more authoritative source than either Rapaire or Carroll, viz. Humpty Dumpty himself. A mome rath, IIRC, is a green pig that has lost its way. |
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14 Jun 07 - 09:35 PM (#2077422) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee Good Lord, you mean you don't believe me? I am crushed beneath the iron heel of disbelief! Woe indeed is the world, when a font of knowledge such as myself is told...well, I just don't know what this world is coming to! I swan! |
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15 Jun 07 - 04:16 PM (#2078112) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: beardedbruce "'And "the wabe" is the grass-plot round a sundial, I suppose?' said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity. 'Of course it is. It's called "wabe," you know, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it-----' 'And a long way beyond it on each side,' Alice added. " |
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15 Jun 07 - 04:18 PM (#2078113) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: beardedbruce "'And what does "outgrabe" mean?' 'Well, "outgrabing" is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle; however you'll hear it done, maybe - down in the wood yonder - and, when you've once heard it, you'll be quite content." |
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15 Jun 07 - 04:19 PM (#2078114) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: beardedbruce Of course, to be precise... http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/~kyamazak/myth/alice/jabglossary-e.htm |
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15 Jun 07 - 04:25 PM (#2078119) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee Utter and complete NONSENSE, sirrah! |
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15 Jun 07 - 04:31 PM (#2078126) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: beardedbruce Was that an outgrabing librarian I just heard? |
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15 Jun 07 - 04:37 PM (#2078128) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: beardedbruce And are "raths" the source of the green ham in "Green Eggs and Ham"? |
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16 Jun 07 - 10:47 AM (#2078630) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: GUEST,A Wandering Minstrel Just to note that with care and grace notes, you can sing it to Sidhe Beg Sidhe Mor |
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16 Jun 07 - 11:25 AM (#2078657) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Bee-dubya-ell Gadzooks! GUEST A Wandering Minstrel is correct! If I ever lose my mind and decide to actually sing "Jabberwocky" in public, "Sidhe Beg Sidhe Mor" will definitely be the tune I will use! Then again, maybe not. |
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16 Jun 07 - 06:14 PM (#2078902) Subject: RE: BS: How are the wabes where you live? From: Rapparee I'm going to sing it to the tune of The Marine Corps Hymn. One makes as much sense as the other. |
