Ten Thousand

[GarethB]

Dipesh,

You're correct and it is a phrase I first cam across as a kid when visiting my grand parents in Suffolk.

[Andrew MacLean]

Sorry for being a pedant, but Jabberwocky is from Lewis Carroll's Alice through the looking glass

Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`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, has 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.

You see there really is such a thing as too much scholarship.

Andrew

[Andrew MacLean]

PS

this post script nudges my nose ahead of John.

And, hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

Andrew

[GarethB]

Been on the car club site 5 years and only have 600 posts.

18 months here and I've beaten that

[Sweet]

Hehe were they welsh then?? Or to top it a pink welsh fairies?!!!! LMAO!!!!

Hehehe can i win the abbrevaitions prize as well then!??!!!!!!!!!! Awwww pleaseeeeeeee! It would make me happy to move and i might well be persuaded to venture back!! LMAO!!! As if i'd leave you without a pink fairy, GEE!

Sweet X x X

[Andrew MacLean]

Welsh fairies may not be so unfortunate in life as the Jumblies, whose sad story was told by Edward Lear ..

I
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,...

It goes on, rather!

[Sweet]

Hehehe welsh fairies are nicer than nice and they wouldn't get eaten by nasty men! LMAO!!!

Sweet X x X

[John Smith]

Of course. But I think Jay will be rewarded quite soon now