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acheron	November 16, 2004 00:32
First comment: 1 June, 2004	63 comments written
Excellent! Now if only there wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day. [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. a Snark in nethack, we could hunt for it.
Dav	November 16, 2004 00:37
First comment: 26 June, 2004	147 comments written
Is Dudley a ranger"Lonely men are we, Rangers of the wild, hunters -- but hunters ever of the servants of the Enemy; for they are found in many places, not in Mordor only. If Gondor, Boromir, has been a stalwart tower, we have played another part. Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay. You know little of the lands beyond your bounds. Peace and freedom, do you say? The North would have known them little but for us. Fear would have destroyed them. But when dark things come from the houseless hills, or creep from sunless woods, they fly from us. What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the Dunedain were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?" [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. now?
nothingxs	November 16, 2004 01:38
First comment: 21 July, 2004	13 comments written
haha, what the hell.
Coffee Zombie	November 16, 2004 07:26
First comment: 11 June, 2004	18 comments written
This is funny :-)
Eskoala	November 16, 2004 11:59
First comment: 16 November, 2004	1 comments written
That made me laugh out loud; I'm in a room full of geeks, and still no-one else understood. I feel special...
Matt M P	November 16, 2004 15:32
First comment: 13 October, 2004	23 comments written
I think that's the point with the Snark though. You can hunt them all you want in net hack... or anywhere else in the world, very elusive prey they are.
Schnee	November 16, 2004 20:50
First comment: 10 November, 2004	76 comments written
Nice. ^^ Too bad there's not actually a frumious bandersnatch in Nethack, like there is in ZAngband...
freshme@	January 4, 2005 11:52
First comment: 4 January, 2005	67 comments written
REST IN PEACE Dudley killed by a boojum * * *
ihope	June 7, 2005 18:28
First comment: 20 April, 2005	67 comments written
Frumious bandersnatch? You got it! ihope, killed by C
Fathead	April 13, 2006 00:14
First comment: 1 April, 2006	1136 comments written
Nice. "Catch" rhymes with "sasquatchThe name _Sasquatch_ doesn't really become important in Canada until the 1930s, when it appeared in the works of J. W. Burns, a British Columbian writer who used a great deal of Indian lore in his stories. Burn's Sasquatch was a giant Indian who lived in the wilderness. He was hairy only in the sense that he had long hair on his head, and while this Sasquatch lived a wild and primitive life, he was fully human. Burns's character proved to be quite popular. There was a Sasquatch Inn near the town of Harrison, British Columbia, and Harrison even had a local celebration called "Sasquatch Days." The celebration which had been dormant for years was revived as part of British Columbia's centennial, and one of the events was to be a Sasquatch hunt. The hunt never took place, perhaps it was never supposed to, but the publicity about it did bring out a number of people who said they had encountered a Sasquatch -- not Burns's giant Indian, but the hairy apelike creature that we have all come to know. [ The Encyclopedia of Monsters, by Daniel Cohen ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details."? Hey, how do you do that coloring-and-captioning thing?
Grognor	April 7, 2007 05:16
First comment: 4 April, 2007	1161 comments written
Jabberwockyyyyyyyyyyy!
Toby Bartels	August 31, 2007 21:38
First comment: 11 August, 2007	83 comments written
It seems from other comments that this once had (as in the original) "The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!", which nicely rhymes with "the growling big sasquatchThe name _Sasquatch_ doesn't really become important in Canada until the 1930s, when it appeared in the works of J. W. Burns, a British Columbian writer who used a great deal of Indian lore in his stories. Burn's Sasquatch was a giant Indian who lived in the wilderness. He was hairy only in the sense that he had long hair on his head, and while this Sasquatch lived a wild and primitive life, he was fully human. Burns's character proved to be quite popular. There was a Sasquatch Inn near the town of Harrison, British Columbia, and Harrison even had a local celebration called "Sasquatch Days." The celebration which had been dormant for years was revived as part of British Columbia's centennial, and one of the events was to be a Sasquatch hunt. The hunt never took place, perhaps it was never supposed to, but the publicity about it did bring out a number of people who said they had encountered a Sasquatch -- not Burns's giant Indian, but the hairy apelike creature that we have all come to know. [ The Encyclopedia of Monsters, by Daniel Cohen ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.!". However, now that it has (quite appropriately) the "(The Jabberwock"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 whiffling 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. [ Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. bites! The Jabberwock"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 whiffling 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. [ Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. hits!)", the rhyme needs to be fixed as well.
Kohkelxon	December 7, 2008 13:30
First comment: 8 January, 2008	52 comments written
I've never understood poetry anyway.

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