Xander ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bt made me chortle.
btw speaking of "chortle," Franny is busy memorizing "Jabberwocky" and I get the fun of helping her rehearse.
These dreams feel anxious when I'm in them, but they tend to end happily.
Even in your nightmares you remain optimistic. I want to be Scrappy when I grow up.
Oh frabjous day, Burrell!
See what I mean? So much fun!
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
I used to be able to do all of Jabberwocky. "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!" "He left it dead, and with its head he went galumphing back."
My workplace's web site has a rotating ad about a program to come in for help applying for housing vouchers from the Metropolitan Housing Authority. The wizards in marketing chose to illustrate with an image of a perfectly gorgeous two-story Craftsman house. In reality of course the program is for very low income people who will be in tiny box-like apartments built in 1978.
Twas brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogroves, and the momraths outgrabe.
I'm not sure why that has stuck in my head so well, but it's fun to trot that out on unsuspecting people.
Never did read it or Kubla Khan which was the other thing my classmates memorized.
Mm, I like that one, too. I'm still not sure what area of fertile ground you get if you girdle round twice five miles, though.
Twas brillig, and the slithey toves
Did gyre and gimbel in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Beware the jub-jub bird, and shun the frumious bandersnatch!
It's like Benedict Cumberbatch was named out of this poem.
I can still recite "A Helene" by Pierre de Ronsard, which I memorized in 1986.