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Old Jul 25, 2004 | 05:22 AM
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Question--------Does anybody know what a Jub Jub bird and a furnious bandersnach is----------i have no #@$%& clue. i noticed it on another zo6 forum i am curious what the hell.
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And this has what to do with a Z06?
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Originally Posted by erikszr1
Question--------Does anybody know what a Jub Jub bird and a furnious bandersnach is----------i have no #@$%& clue. i noticed it on another zo6 forum i am curious what the hell.
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/litera...-georges4.html
It's called Google and the internet, amaizing what one can find with a cut and paste and two clicks.

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogroves,
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 borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe


Has nothing to do with cars even

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Old Jul 25, 2004 | 08:16 PM
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thanks man---where i found this saying/phrase was in another forum, i think the guy is refering to him & his car-puzzling to me--i dunno
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Maybe he thinks his car is the Jabberwok!
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Old Jul 26, 2004 | 08:40 AM
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Hmmm, sounds like it might be a metaphor or something.


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Originally Posted by GotMoJo
Hmmm, sounds like it might be a metaphor or something.


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very funny----what is it-lol
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ok i got-------its like dugeons & dragons stuff
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