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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 Lewis Carroll THE JUMBLIES 1 They went to sea in a sieve, they did In a sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day In a sieve they went to sea.

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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe / All mimsy were the borogoves / And the mome raths outgrabe. — Jabberwock
'Twas brillig and the slythy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe ... — Latest Articles
The three-dollar bill; the nun with a beard; the sentence, to borrow from the Lewis Carroll poem, that gyres and gimbles in the wabe. — Prometheus 6 - All respect and no restraint
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 Lewis Carroll THE JUMBLIES 1 They went to sea in a sieve, they did In a sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day In a sieve they went to sea. — The Best Nonsense Verses
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimbel in the wabe, — Least I Could Do