A very merry un-birthday to you...

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Now statistics prove, prove that you've one birthday.
'magine, just one birthday ev'ry year.
Ahh, but there are 3 hundred and sixty four un-birthdays.
Precisly why we're gathered here to cheer.
Why then today's my un-birthday too.
It is?.
What a small world this is.
In that case,
A very merry un-birthday to you,
To me?
To you,
A very merry un-birthday-
For me,
For you
Now blow the candle out my dear, and make your wish come true..

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Twinkle twinkle little bat
How I wonder what your at.
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea tray in the sky.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

It was all about the Dormouse.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Fiddle.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

CLEAN CUP
MOVE DOWN

― Total Fucking Darkness (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Fiddle.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), June 21st, 2006 2:58 PM. (Ned) (link)

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/fiddle

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

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― Half loaf, half pompadour (noodle vague), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

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― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

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"SAID THE WHITE RABBIT"

― Total Fucking Dorkness (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Happy un-birthday, John Justen.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

And to you...

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

And a quick and painless un-birthday to Ned.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

No way would Alice's story get published now..... a little girl who "chases a rabbit" while on a picnic with her sister... falls down a "hole", takes some "substances" (labelled with EAT ME and DRINK ME, showing how goddam gullible she is) which cause her to meet several talking (dangerous, unfriendly) animals, bitchy flowers, a murdering queen (who murders several characters and nearly her during the course of the story), an opiate smoking caterpillar, and almost everything in it relates to either death, danger or drugs. She gets tougher from her experience, bitch-kicks the queen into shape and gets the hell out of there!!!!

This is why it's one of the best childrens' books in existance, streets ahead of whiney old "Dorothy" and her "slippers". Society has a lot to thank this book for.

― JTS (JTS), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

And incidentally, it's my un-birthday today as well......

― JTS (JTS), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

appreciating alice does not require deprecating dorothy.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 22 June 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

anyway...

`Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.'

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 22 June 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

You are old, Father William
The young man said
And your hair has grown very white
And yet you continue to stand on your head
Do you think at your age it is right?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 22 June 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hell yeah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to remember "How doth the little crocodile" but I can't. :(

― Jessie the Jabberwock (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 22 June 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

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Why are people so quick to point out the "adult" subtext of Alice? As far as a history of juvenile fiction goes, it's hardly as sinister as the Grimm ouvre. It just seems too clever by half to pose such reductionist gloss over a book full of wordplay, logical paradoxes, and fantastic imaginiation.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 22 June 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

BECAUSE THEY ARE JEALOUS THEY NEVER HAD THE IMAGINATION FOR SOMETHING AS WONDERFUL.

Those people were the children everyone knew by age 10 were destined for the fanciful and imaginative career of accounting.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 22 June 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

curiouser and curiouser...

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

discovering "alice" as a kid was one of the biggest events of my life. i read the damn thing so many times so many times i knew entire chunks of dialogue by heart. it just seemed like the biggest, funniest, most complicated and gorgeous book ever. the poems are even funnier once you read the original versions (in the "annotated alice") that he was parodying.

alice herself is still one of the best characters in literature - utterly smart and sensible yet somehow a little clueless.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

i read it so many times i had to repeat the phrase for emphasis!

some scholar actually disproved the "lewis carroll = pedophile" story a few years ago after examining his uncensored diaries, concluding that carroll used his "harmless old geezer who adores children" image to cover up his many affairs with (adult) women (him being a respectable minister and all), only to have it posthumously backfire when everyone decided (on virtually no evidence) that little alice liddell was the "true love" of his life.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

the walrus and the carpenter
were walking close at hand
they wept bitterly to see
such an expanse of sand
"if only this were cleared away," they said,
"it (surely?) would be grand"

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

.. to me?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 June 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 22 June 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

To you.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

And a long and arduous un-birthday to Dan Perry, with pockets of comic relief, and a slap-dash caper at the end that leads to fame and fortune, and then you dance a jig of existential joy.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

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