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| 952.1 | cookery book needed? | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Mon Mar 23 1992 23:03 | 3 |
| My Oxford dictionary agrees with "coloured mixture of shellac,
rosin and turpentine...". Translating into French and checking in
Larousse confirms the composition, but still does not give proportions.
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| 952.2 | | KURTAN::WESTERBACK | After all, who is John Galt? | Tue Mar 24 1992 11:34 | 3 |
| A good place to ask would be MEIS::ASKENET.
Hans
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| 952.3 | Thanks, the sluthing goes on... | MEO78B::MANDERSON | Amiga + '030 == MicroCRAY | Tue Mar 24 1992 14:00 | 0 |
| 952.4 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Wed Mar 25 1992 03:02 | 3 |
| I am fairly sure I have seen both yellow and green in stationers in
the U.K.. Maybe someone there could volunteer to check and post you
some?
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| 952.5 | | IEDUX::jon | My Vote - Liberal Democrat | Wed Mar 25 1992 05:54 | 4 |
| I bought some silver coloured sealing wax in the UK once. Maybe the UK
is the sealing wax capital of the world?
Jon
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| 952.6 | ships and shoes and | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Wed Mar 25 1992 09:00 | 1 |
| ... and cabbages and kings.
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| 952.7 | (-: ax Wroth for the answer :-) | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Buddy, can youse paradigm? | Wed Mar 25 1992 10:07 | 1 |
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| 952.8 | Continuing .6 | VMSMKT::KENAH | And became willing... | Wed Mar 25 1992 14:26 | 2 |
| ...and why the sea is boiling hot,
and whether pigs have wings.
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| 952.9 | | VALKYR::RUST | | Thu Mar 26 1992 06:44 | 12 |
| Hey, I read somewhere recently that there's a (TV show? movie? book?)
character named "Mimsy Borogroves". I sure wish I could remember where
I saw it.
-Deft Seque
p.s. To .0: I have some spare sealing wax lying around. What color(s)
does your friend want? 'course, you'd have to convince him that it's
_supposed_ to come with the wick already scorched...
p.p.s. I think that really, truly sealing wax doesn't have a wick, but
it makes it a teensy bit easier to use for us dexterously-challenged.
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| 952.10 | Borogroves? | KURTAN::WESTERBACK | After all, who is John Galt? | Thu Mar 26 1992 12:07 | 6 |
| I have no idea how Mimsy Borogroves entered this string, but the
name sounds familiar.... Where does it come from? I remember some
oldish pop song with the line " mimsy were the Borogroves".
Anyone remembers what song and by whom?
Hans
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| 952.11 | Plus or minus some spelling ... | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Thu Mar 26 1992 13:09 | 9 |
| Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the momraths outgrabe.
from the Jabberwocky, by Charles Dodgson, a Cambridge (Oxford?)
mathematician. He's the same guy who wrote "of ships and shoes and
sealing wax and cabbages and kings", which is from the Walrus and the
Carpenter.
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| 952.12 | Great answer at Meis::askenet note 3437.5 | MEO78B::MANDERSON | Amiga + '030 == MicroCRAY | Thu Mar 26 1992 19:24 | 1 |
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| 952.13 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Thu Mar 26 1992 23:37 | 2 |
| As further trivia, the pop song that used the words was published in
1968, and was by "Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup".
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| 952.14 | Spelling corrections included | VMSMKT::KENAH | And became willing... | Fri Mar 27 1992 06:14 | 14 |
| T'was brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Here's the first verse of "Jabberwocky" (no "The") -- it was written,
as was previously mentioned, by Charles Dodgson. Of course, it was
published using his pseudonym: Lewis Carroll. It's from the second
"Alice" book, commonly called "Through the Looking Glass."
"The Walrus and the Carpenter" is from the first "Alice" book, commonly
called "Alice in Wonderland."
andrew
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| 952.15 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Fri Mar 27 1992 08:39 | 1 |
| Thank you. Now we can go on to soup, soup, beautiful soup.
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| 952.16 | | VMSMKT::KENAH | And became willing... | Fri Mar 27 1992 10:41 | 4 |
| That one I'd have to look up! The only line I remember is:
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
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| 952.17 | enough, already | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Fri Mar 27 1992 11:37 | 29 |
| My Complete Works of Lewis Carroll has it in Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland:
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began in a voice chocked with sobs,
to sing this:--
"Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,
Game, or any other dish?
Who would not give all else for two p
ennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Pennyworth only of beautiful soup?
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!"
"Chorus again!" cried the Gryphon, and the MOck Turtle had just begun
to repeat it, when a cry of "The trial's beginning!" was heard in the
distance.
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| 952.18 | Mama Frog | KURTAN::WESTERBACK | After all, who is John Galt? | Sun Mar 29 1992 14:19 | 12 |
| I don't know if .13 is serious or not, I mean with the names pop
groups used to have you never know.......
But after a thorough search of my record collection I found the one
I was thinking of: Ambrosia's first album, called "Ambrosia", and the
track is "Mama Frog". From 1974. Used to one of my favorite groups
15 years ago. They use several verses from Jabberwocky.
(Hmm... I guess I could make this into something for the current topic
"You know you're old when..." in the HUMOR conference :-)
Hans
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| 952.19 | record was easier to find than book | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Sun Mar 29 1992 23:09 | 4 |
| .13 was serious. I checked the label on the single to make sure I had
the spelling of the group name right. The "A" side is Jabberwocky and
the "B" side is Which Dreamed It. I think that is in the epilogue in
the book, but I don't have the book handy.
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