WHAT IS THE FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH?

Bandersnatch FAQ

WHAT IS A BANDERSNATCH?The name Frumious Bandersnatch comes from the poem...JABBERWOCKY By Lewis Carroll

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogroves,
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 whiffling throuygh 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 buyt!
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 borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

SO WHY THAT NAME FOR YOUR PAPER? Because no one really knows what a Bandersnatch is.

WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF TFB? The paper started as an off-campus (underground) rag at the University of Arizona in 1965. We have an FBI file to prove it. We always wanted to go national, but couldn't afford it. Then along came the World Wide Web. TFB no longer has a print edition, as it is totally a creature of the Web. If you wanta hard copy, you supply the paper, ink and printer. Much cheaper for us.

HOW OFTEN DOES THIS SITE GET UPDATED? More or less weekly (usually by Sunday night) on the front page, other stuff less often. It depends on whether we have something real to do.

WE'VE NOTICED YOUR OLDER EDITIONS ARE YELLOW? Right. Our pages age just like print publications. And we're yellow journalists.
WHO WRITES THIS STUFF? The content of TFB is contributed from writers and artists all over the world. We have regular contributers in Canada, Hong Kong, New Mexico, Oregon, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Ohio, Utah, and of course Tucson and Baja Arizona. TFB is one of the only virtual ezines as hardly anyone on our staff has ever actually met each other--communicating solely through the web.

CAN I WRITE FOR TFB? Sure. Send us something funny. We don't pay (no money yet). We don't publish obscene words. And we prefer news style writing. Send your funnier stuff to WRITERS. Writers keep their copyrights, we just want the right to publish on our website. We will provide a link to the writer's homepage or email address.

WE NOTICED YOU FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET YOUR FRONT PAGE TO DOWNLOAD FASTER? HOW'D YOU DO IT? It only took us 34 months, so we'll keep that a secret.
There might be hardly any facts here--but occasionally some truth.

Upon entering the Frumious Bandersnatch website, you are passing into another world, like Alice falling down the rabbit hole, or passing through the Looking-Glass.

"Judge your accomplishments not by the praise of your friends, but by the names of your enemies."--Joe Sam,

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