The following threads have received some snicker-snack and came back better for it. If you find your posts missing from them, you can find them in the Tinfoilhat Tearooms (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/board,30.0.html).
http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,7363.0.html
http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,7361.0.html
http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,7370.0.html
Can you define "snicker-snacked", please?
Yes, I'm being serious. Wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snicker-snack) wasn't much help.
EDIT: I said "please".
Snicker-snacked: Cut, severed, chopped, etc.
It's from the C.S. Lewis poem "Jabberwocky". Snicer-Snack is the onomatopoeia of the Vorpal sword chopping stuff up.
Quote from: Scarydragon on May 07, 2010, 01:04:54 AM
Snicker-snacked: Cut, severed, chopped, etc.
Ah. Good to know. Thanks.
His vorpal blade went snicker snack
He left it dead,
And with its head,
He came galumphing back....
That poem added more than one word to the English language. :)
The Auld Grump
Quote from: Corgatha Taldorthar on May 07, 2010, 01:19:15 AM
It's from the C.S. Lewis poem "Jabberwocky". Snicer-Snack is the onomatopoeia of the Vorpal sword chopping stuff up.
You mean Lewis Carroll, right? ;)
Quote from: Mao Laoren on May 07, 2010, 07:03:25 AM
Quote from: Corgatha Taldorthar on May 07, 2010, 01:19:15 AM
It's from the C.S. Lewis poem "Jabberwocky". Snicer-Snack is the onomatopoeia of the Vorpal sword chopping stuff up.
You mean Lewis Carroll, right? ;)
Beautiful!
CS Lewis' style, tied to Lewis Carroll's tale...
Unimaginable!
But were it possible, we would all know EXACTLY what the words meant.
Quote from: Attic Rat on May 07, 2010, 06:57:06 PM
Quote from: Mao Laoren on May 07, 2010, 07:03:25 AM
Quote from: Corgatha Taldorthar on May 07, 2010, 01:19:15 AM
It's from the C.S. Lewis poem "Jabberwocky". Snicer-Snack is the onomatopoeia of the Vorpal sword chopping stuff up.
You mean Lewis Carroll, right? ;)
Beautiful!
CS Lewis' style, tied to Lewis Carroll's tale...
Unimaginable!
But were it possible, we would all know EXACTLY what the words meant.
Isn't that what Tim Burton did? :P
No, Burton went to Carroll's grave and took a wizz....
The really sad thing is that if you had asked me a few years ago who would do the best job of doing an Alice sequel onscreen Burton would have been my number two choice. (Number one was Terry Gilliam. :) )
Period - wrong
Alice's freakin' name - wrong (It was Alice Liddell, Burton, Liddell, not Kingsley!)
The quotation from Jabberwocky - wrong! (How the heck do you manage to misquote one of the easiest to remember poems in the English language, and do so on a movie about Alice for the love of squishy brown mud?!!!)
And Disney does not seem to have any idea of how to handle 3D. Hurling things at the hapless audience was a trick that was lame when they did it in the fifties, Dreamworks figured it out, why can't Disney?
Why no, I did not much like the new Alice, how can you tell? :P
The Auld Grump, who is a fan of Carroll's Alice....
Quote from: TheAuldGrump on May 07, 2010, 07:53:49 PM
No, Burton went to Carroll's grave and took a wizz....
The really sad thing is that if you had asked me a few years ago who would do the best job of doing an Alice sequel onscreen Burton would have been my number two choice. (Number one was Terry Gilliam. :) )
Period - wrong
Alice's freakin' name - wrong (It was Alice Liddell, Burton, Liddell, not Kingsley!)
The quotation from Jabberwocky - wrong! (How the heck do you manage to misquote one of the easiest to remember poems in the English language, and do so on a movie about Alice for the love of squishy brown mud?!!!)
And Disney does not seem to have any idea of how to handle 3D. Hurling things at the hapless audience was a trick that was lame when they did it in the fifties, Dreamworks figured it out, why can't Disney?
Why no, I did not much like the new Alice, how can you tell? :P
The Auld Grump, who is a fan of Carroll's Alice....
My above question was a sarcastic comment on how they lifted the now-cliched plotline from
The Chronicles of Narnia, specifically
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Oh, no, wicked villain has taken over magicland! Who will save us? Only a human from Earth! Please, human, save our world, since no one NATIVE can do it, according to prophecy!
Yeesh, ask an innocent question... At this rate, even THIS thread will be doomed to the Tinfoil Hat Tearoom...
Such is the fate of all things.
Quote from: Drathorin on May 07, 2010, 11:58:48 PM
Such is the fate of all things.
hopefully not because of the sheer amount of fail some threads have had in the past, i swear that's what happened to my PC the other day, it tried to commit seppuku. >:3
Quote from: Turnsky on May 08, 2010, 12:00:15 AMQuote from: Drathorin on May 07, 2010, 11:58:48 PMSuch is the fate of all things.
hopefully not because of the sheer amount of fail some threads have had in the past, i swear that's what happened to my PC the other day, it tried to commit seppuku. >:3
Your computer
failed to commit seppuku ?
Dang.
:erk
Seriously guys? I make a topic to explain that some threads have been edited and you guys start nitpicking over retarded stuff?
This surprises you, Mao?
Thread, I am dissapoint.
Quote from: Anker Steadfast on May 08, 2010, 02:52:56 AM
Quote from: Turnsky on May 08, 2010, 12:00:15 AMQuote from: Drathorin on May 07, 2010, 11:58:48 PMSuch is the fate of all things.
hopefully not because of the sheer amount of fail some threads have had in the past, i swear that's what happened to my PC the other day, it tried to commit seppuku. >:3
Your computer failed to commit seppuku ?
Dang.
:erk
well, only the power supply was toasted... that lovely odor of ozone and melted plastic - nummy.
By the way, the term snicker-snack has been used previously in the strip (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_699.php). However, that strip involved a vorpal dagger rather than a vorpal sword.
Quote from: Attic Rat on May 07, 2010, 06:57:06 PM
CS Lewis' style, tied to Lewis Carroll's tale...
You mean
The Lion, the Witch and the Bandersnatch?
Quote from: hartree on May 08, 2010, 11:24:16 PM
Quote from: Attic Rat on May 07, 2010, 06:57:06 PM
CS Lewis' style, tied to Lewis Carroll's tale...
You mean The Lion, the Witch and the Bandersnatch?
How is a raven like a writing-desk?
Much as a Bandersnatch is like unto a Wardrobe.
So, will aluminum foil do? I have no tinfoil at hand.
... Curses!
Quote from: Attic Rat on May 08, 2010, 11:51:47 PM
How is a raven like a writing-desk?
Much as a Bandersnatch is like unto a Wardrobe.
Oh, so THAT explains Schmendrick's riddle in 'The Last Unicorn'... I'd been wondering about that one for
years... (Gimmie a break, I was about 5 or so when I first saw it and it came out two years before I was born, okay?)
Quote from: Mao Laoren on May 08, 2010, 05:58:32 AM
Seriously guys? I make a topic to explain that some threads have been edited and you guys start nitpicking over retarded stuff?
I share your disappointment.
Quote from: Mao Laoren on May 08, 2010, 06:04:58 AM
Thread, I am dissapoint.
Thread; Yes, Yes I will; Now, Tomorrow, and Forever.
Poetry commonly disappoints...
Quote from: TheAuldGrump on May 07, 2010, 04:28:39 AM
His vorpal blade went snicker snack
He left it dead,
And with its head,
He came galumphing back....
That poem added more than one word to the English language. :)
The Auld Grump
Every time Lewis Carrol picks up a pen, 20 new words are added to the dictionary.
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