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Topic: Fruity Pebble Massacre
Don't make me blog this!
Oh, glorious day to you and yours! I am going to catch you up on the answers to past quizes right here, right now.
- Regarding EHISSTW: WETTISH and WHITEST are the only common English words 90% of Mensans could find.
...As defined by Humpty Dumpty in "Through The Looking Glass"
- Brillig means four o'clock in the afternoon -- the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.
- Slithy means "lithe and slimy."
- Toves are something like badgers -- they're something like lizards -- and they're something like corkscrews. They are very curious looking creatures which make their nests under sun-dials -- also they live on cheese.
- To gyre is to go round and round like a gyroscope -- Gyre is an actual word, circa 1566 a circular or spiral motion or form; especially a giant circular oceanic surface current.
- To gimble is to make holes like a gimlet.
- The wabe is the grass-plot round a sun-dial. It's called "wabe" -- because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it -- and a long way beyond it on each side.
- Mimsy is "flimsy and miserable".
- Borogove is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round--something like a live mop. Rath is a sort of green pig.
- Mome is (possibly) short for "from home" -- meaning that the raths had lost their way.
- Outgribing is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle.
Fact: From 1958 to 1961, Egypt and Syria were one country called the United Arab Republic.
Fact: We get the abbreviation 'lb.' from the Latin word for pound: "libra."
Fact: Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji, but never noticed Australia.
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Thursday, 23 September 2004 - 7:26 AM CDT
Name: jfkhaos
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The blind patrons at this restaurant were dining, unbeknownst to them, on roasted rath and stuffed borogoves.
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Friday, 24 September 2004 - 11:09 AM CDT
Name: christonaspike
Home Page: http://groups.msn.com/TheNeedleInMyEye
E-Mail: torirocks@msn.com
brillig should mean cheap glasses, billig - cheap brille - glasses
if billy was slimmed he would be slithy and mimsy, hehe
The toves always gyre around my room making gimbles in my floor.
Posted by punksoup
at 5:42 AM CDT
Updated: Saturday, 25 September 2004 9:52 AM CDT
