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To: Darksheare

I know I’m walking into a minefield, but I’ll bite.

What’s a Vorpal Chipmunk?

I’ll have you know I looked up vorpal and there ain’t no sucha word, Darks. Is that Klingon? :P


1,751 posted on 06/18/2010 6:10:45 PM PDT by derllak
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To: derllak
`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 hast 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.

1,752 posted on 06/18/2010 8:51:12 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 512 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: derllak; Lakeshark; null and void

I admit that I stole the word from one Lewis Carroll, specifically his work “Jabberwocky”.


1,759 posted on 06/19/2010 9:58:23 AM PDT by Darksheare (Proudly buzzkilling the illusion of confidence in the progress of humanity for 35 years.)
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To: derllak

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1,808 posted on 08/08/2018 2:57:46 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Freedom or Liberty? Which would you choose?)
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