Less Impressive in Real Life
"`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. "
Ah, the randomness of the opening and closing verse of Lewis Carroll's poem, The Jabberwocky.
Ever wonder what it all really means?
"It was evening, and the smooth active badgers
were scratching and boring holes in the hill-side,
all unhappy were the parrots
and the grave turtles squeaked out."
To be fair, even in plain English this is still pretty awesome. A "tove" was a type of badger that had smooth white hair, long back legs, short horns, and lived on cheese as the main source of its diet.
A borogrove is an extinct type of parrot that had no wings, an upturned beak, nested under sun dials, and ate veal.
A rath was a type of turtle. They had teeth like a shark, a smooth green body, and out-turned legs, so that it was basically walking on its knees. It ate oysters, and swallows.
For the rest of the translated poem, and other goodies: http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net
...because I'm too lazy to draw anything else at the moment.
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. "
Ah, the randomness of the opening and closing verse of Lewis Carroll's poem, The Jabberwocky.
Ever wonder what it all really means?
"It was evening, and the smooth active badgers
were scratching and boring holes in the hill-side,
all unhappy were the parrots
and the grave turtles squeaked out."
To be fair, even in plain English this is still pretty awesome. A "tove" was a type of badger that had smooth white hair, long back legs, short horns, and lived on cheese as the main source of its diet.
A borogrove is an extinct type of parrot that had no wings, an upturned beak, nested under sun dials, and ate veal.
A rath was a type of turtle. They had teeth like a shark, a smooth green body, and out-turned legs, so that it was basically walking on its knees. It ate oysters, and swallows.
For the rest of the translated poem, and other goodies: http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net
...because I'm too lazy to draw anything else at the moment.