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Jabberwocky In ActionScript

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the lighter-side dept.

VeryVito writes "You can tell Flash programming is beginning to grow up: It's not just for designers anymore, but for real, honest-to-goodness tech geeks. As evidence, I present The ActionScript Jabberwocky. Enjoy!" It's almost as good as reading it in the original Klingon.

21 of 156 comments (clear)

  1. Ugh by DrMrLordX · · Score: 2, Funny

    No more Romulan Ale at diplomatic functions! Jeez.

  2. Oh My by MikeDX · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jabberwocky in actionscript.. What's next may I ask? Shakespeare in perl?

    1. Re:Oh My by ESqVIP · · Score: 5, Funny
      Ohh, that's old. At least in regular expressions:
      /bb|[^b]{2}/
      I remember seeing that in a ThinkGeek t-shirt.
    2. Re:Oh My by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      huh... I really can't tell which is more frightening; the fact that I got the joke or that I found it funny..

    3. Re:Oh My by WebMasterP · · Score: 3, Funny

      To add a little geek to this, my friends and I have long discussed that isn't actually correct.

      To be or not to be implies an exlcusive or (known to some as XOR). That regular expression matches both 2-b's or not 2 b's.

      I know, we have to much time on our hands.

  3. bug? by osmethnee · · Score: 3, Funny

    surely 'brillig' should be set to true?

  4. Re:Uhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    No, you are supposed to stick it up your ass and enjoy it.. just like Cowboy Neil does.

  5. turdhead.com??? by winkydink · · Score: 1, Funny

    How appropriate

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  6. free time... by zxflash · · Score: 2, Funny

    ah the benefits of having lots of free time on your hands :)

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  7. Jabberwocky? Klingon? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Sure sounds grown up. ;-D

  8. Naw - I'd rather see ActionScript Wumpus by Zawash · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd rather see a nice, fancy Hunt the Wumpus ActionScript - but I'm not sure a graphical interface would do the game justice..
    It would have to be the Doom III engine, then. :)

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  9. Bragging about Flash on Slashdot? by DeComposer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't that like bragging about your Packard Bell 486SX-25 running Windows 95 on a 14" grayscale monitor? With no mouse?

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    1. Re:Bragging about Flash on Slashdot? by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 2, Funny

      Isn't that like bragging about your Packard Bell 486SX-25 running Windows 95 on a 14" grayscale monitor? With no mouse?

      Why is everyone so jealous of my PC!

  10. Re:Uhh by essreenim · · Score: 2, Funny

    Flash. An archaic 21st century tool designed to cripple the speed of the most powerful machine

  11. WTF? by jonr · · Score: 3, Funny

    What idiot greenlighted this? Oh...

  12. Flash is good by Jeppe+Salvesen · · Score: 2, Funny

    to some degree. The player is widely distributed, so if you have the creativity and talent to make something richer than plain ole web pages - why not?

    Just make a really plain html version - those people who have either disabilities or an anti-flash bias will appreciate the simplicity as their browsers or minds respectively will not be able to process all that pretty design anyhow.

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    Stop the brainwash

    1. Re:Flash is good by edremy · · Score: 4, Funny

      The player may be widely distributed but it won't run on Linux on my AMD64 machine (or a Mac, or a number of other architectures)

      That's funny- my (OSX) Mac runs Flash just fine. It also runs Flash fine in Classic emulation mode Not only that, I've got the MX development kit for it, which is indistinguishable from the PC version.

      Or do you mean Flash isn't available for Linux running on a Mac? I'm sure all 3 of you must be very unhappy. If you're using odd combinations of hardware, don't expect to get much commercial support.

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  13. Can't be worse than Vogon! by tod_miller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Computing magazine (UK) has a back-bytes page which showcased some funny computer language based lyrics and poems.

    Jabberwocky is a fantastic piece of work, it is the picasso of text, the lurid incandecent imagination of profound insanity.

    I think it should be in Python, Perl and php (sic) now.

    Lets not forget JavaWocky...

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  14. Re:Uhh by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course they can be The Onion, at least in C:

    #define they The Onion

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  15. Re:The original by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here is an old parody of the poem, i remember reading both this and the original in high school.

    Jabberwacky

    Twas Brillo and G.E. Stoves
    Did Proctor-Gamble in the Glade
    All Pillsbury were the Tasty Loaves
    And in a Minute Maid

    "Beware the Station Break, my son,
    The voice that lulls, the ads that vex,
    Beware the Doctor's Claim and shun
    That horror called Brand-X!"

    He took his Q-Tip swab in hand,
    Long time the Tension Headache fought,
    So Dristan he by a Mercury,
    And Bayer break'd in thought.

    And as in Bufferin Gulf he stood,
    The Station Break, with Rise of Tame,
    Came Whisking through the Pride-hazed wood,
    And Cream-Rinsed as it came!

    "Buy one, buy two, we're almost through!"
    The Q-Tip Dash went Spic-and-Span,
    He Tide Airwick, and with Bisquick,
    Went Aero-Waxing Ban.

    "And hast thou Dreft the Station Break?
    Ajax the Breck, Excedrin boy,
    Oh Fab wash day! Cashmere Bouquet!"
    He Handi-wrapped with Joy.

    Twas Brillo and G.E. Stoves
    Did Proctor-Gamble in the Glade
    All Pillsbury were the Tasty-Loaves
    And in a Minute Maid.

    Mad Magazine, circa 1961

  16. barely brillig ... by jabberwock · · Score: 3, Funny

    BeWARE, dammit. Time for a new username.