taking sides: mome raths vs mimsy borogoves

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I say RATHS MAN!!!!! ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE K-MOME!!!! YEAH!!!!BOROGOVES R RUB!!!!!! THEY R WAY TOO MIMSY!!!!!! THEY R GAY!!!!!

― dodgy son, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

d: the frumious bandersnatch

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

what are all the words he invented in this poem? is "chortle" one of them?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

There is nothing more erotic than the sight of a handsome young mome rath outgrabing. Mimsiness is dud.

― single phial, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Chortle, yes. Mimsy is a word too, though I don't know what it used to mean in the days before Belle & Sebastian.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

mimsy doesn't appear in dictionary.com

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Mimsy Borogoves is the name of our Swiss chalet. Mome Raths, rather embarassedly, is Uncle Matthew's Italian Trig and Caluculus cram school. Naturally, I prefer the Alpine calm, though that one summer, when Mumsy sent me to visit, was bedecked with a bevy of beautiful ragazze. Parenthetically, there's a really quite good pastel of our mother at Mimsy Borogoves that Arabella and I always bow and curtsy to. Mumsy at Mimsy. MAM. Ma'am. Rather silly isn't it?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Our philosophy-logic professor would use mimsy borogoves in his lame examples all the time.

My how I grew to loathe mimsy borogroves.

― grumblegrumble, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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