The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
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.
Ginger - Dec 15, 2014 6:19:35 am PST #12599 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
flea - Dec 15, 2014 6:26:15 am PST #12600 of 30000
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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.
Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2014 6:27:05 am PST #12601 of 30000
brillig
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.
msbelle - Dec 15, 2014 6:31:51 am PST #12602 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Never did read it or Kubla Khan which was the other thing my classmates memorized.
-t - Dec 15, 2014 6:35:08 am PST #12603 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
flea - Dec 15, 2014 6:35:52 am PST #12604 of 30000
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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.
flea - Dec 15, 2014 6:40:21 am PST #12605 of 30000
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I can still recite "A Helene" by Pierre de Ronsard, which I memorized in 1986.
Jesse - Dec 15, 2014 6:47:20 am PST #12606 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm pretty sure "Now We Are Six" is the only poem I've ever memorized (when I was six, as a party trick), and I've still pretty much got it.
-t - Dec 15, 2014 6:47:27 am PST #12607 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I can get through the first speech of Schneewittchen that my German class performed in 1984. Less useful than "donde esta la biblioteca", probably.
sumi - Dec 15, 2014 6:53:59 am PST #12608 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
When I was an undergrad at the U of I - bluebooks were provided but in grad school we had to purchase them.
ION - 3d printed spindle!. Nice combination of new and old tech.