From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-06-01T09:30:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] "Tollkit" vs. "Toolkit" (Was: [ANN] Ruby-VTK-0.2.0 was released)

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Mark Probert wrote:
> 
>> Hi ..
>>
>>> What is a "vovel"?
>>>
>>
>> I think that it is a little creature, much like a shrew, that spends 
>> much of its time seaching for food, its favourite being worms, that 
>> spend much of their lives a little underground.  The vovel hunts for 
>> its prey by placing its long flat nose nose in into the ground and 
>> then flicking back strongly with its head.
>>
>> HTH,
> 
> 
> Ok, I'm beginning to appreciate the lore of the "vovel", but what is a 
> "nose nose"?

Two identical noses in a row typically indicate a single long nose.

> Oh, well, as long as it "flicks like a vovel", it doesn't really matter 
> how the nose is implemented, does it?

I have the feeling I've stumbled onto the lost stanza of "Jabberwocky"...


Hal