Date: 	Wed, 17 Nov 1993 13:35:18 -0500
From: msb@sq.com
Subject: Tablespoons, or, handwriting recognition may be hazardous to your poem

[This poem was generated by entering Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky",
from "Through The Looking Glass" into an Apple Newton.  Nonsense words in
the original were each written three times to get the most consistent match.]

                TABLESPOONS

        Teas Willis, and the sticky tours
        Did gym and Gibbs in the wake.
        All mimes were the borrowers,
        And the moderate Belgrade.
        "Beware the tablespoon my son,
        The teeth that bite, the Claus that catch.
        Beware the Subjects bird, and shred
        The serious Bandwidth!"
        He took his Verbal sword in hand:
        Long time the monitors fog he sought,
        So rested he by the Tumbled tree,
        And stood a while in thought.
        And as in selfish thought he stood,
        The tablespoon, with eyes of Flame,
        Came stifling through the trigger wood,
        And troubled as it came!
        One, two! One, two! And through and though,
        The Verbal blade went thicker shade.
        He left it dead, and with its head,
        He went gambling back.
        "And host Thai slash the tablespoon?
        Come to my arms my bearish boy.
        Oh various day! Cartoon! Cathay!"
        He charted in his joy.
        Teas Willis, and the sticky tours
        Did gym and Gibbs in the wake.
        All mimes were the borrowers,
        And the moderate Belgrade.

Lewis Carrol's JABBERWOCKY as "recognized" by the Apple Newton,
(c) 1993 Robert McNally. Permission is granted to reproduce this
if the copyright remains intact.

["It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's
rather hard to understand!" (You see she didn't like to confess even to
herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) --Lewis Carroll]

Forwarded to rec.humor.funny and comp.risks by Mark Brader