what the hell?

[Sephiroth]

ok i have seen many people with the screen name "jaberwock" i know it is a reference of something but what? what the hell is a jaberwock, is it slang for drugs, or a combination of a few words or could it be someone's last name. I have only seen this word in the last few years and see it alot when i play quake2

[deadnail]

The Jabberwockey is a piece of literature about a monster, the jabberwockey, and the guy who's vorpal blade went snicker snack and took it out. =)

[fodders]

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

[deadnail]

Yeah that was it. I haven't read that thing since 9th grade... fuck, that was almost a decade ago. =P

[Vorpal]

;)

[elbryan42]

Ah... Alice is an awesome game.

[NiGHTMARE]

As the other said, it's a piece of literature. What they didn't mention is that it was written by Lewis Caroll (I think that's the correct spelling), the same guy who wrote Alice In Wonderland and Alice Through The Looking Glass.

It's thought that he was on drugs (Opium probably) when he wrote most of his stuff :)

There's probably some Quake clan called Jabberwock, which would explain why you keep seeing it mentioned.

[Sephiroth]

oh ok now i see, never read alice but i saw the cartoon when i was a kid, like 12 some years ago. I also just got that alice game yesturday and i think it kicks ass, best 3rd person game i have seen yet in recent years