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- adjective
Sharp ordeadly . - adjective role-playing games, of a blade Having a special power making decapitation likely.
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The nonsense-word vorpal used by Lewis Carroll in his poem “Jabberwocky”, which from context in the poem probably means ‘deadly, keen’, through transference to the general term ‘vorpal weapon’ in D&D, has come to acquire the sense ‘capable of beheading’ (cf. this article).
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Here's one of the early, funny lines: He reached his sparsely furnished cell in the law offices of MakoProphet, a D.C. appellate boutique, and turned on his +6 vorpal laptop.
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And through and through/The vorpal scissors went snicker-snack!
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Most of the weapons are more familiar – flaming, dancing, vorpal …
4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 7: Equipment « Geek Related 2008
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Furthermore, the complex nuances that form the vorpal meridian between the Old Faith and the New Faith that meet in the film lies far beyond the dull, empty-headed bong fog of most music video directors.
Guy Ritchie Attached to Direct Warren Ellis' Excalibur Movie? « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Say it once, say it clearly, and if that fails, bring out the vorpal sword that goes snicker-snack!
When to Walk Away zornhau 2010
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Geeky toys and decorations can be hard to explain to kids plush vorpal bunny languished atop a tall bookcase, waiting for the day when my kids are old enough not to be scared by its huge bloody fangs.
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Put your vorpal blade away, snicker-snack, your wit is too cutting by half.
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Put your vorpal blade away, snicker-snack, your wit is too cutting by half. stellaa wrote on January 20, 2008 12: 21 AM: duckduckduckduck wrote on January 19, 2008 11: 54 PM: Big story in the paper .....
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Campaign: No, We Won The Nevada Caucuses 2009
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Geeky toys and decorations can be hard to explain to kids plush vorpal bunny languished atop a tall bookcase, waiting for the day when my kids are old enough not to be scared by its huge bloody fangs.
Wired Top Stories 2009
victoriapl commented on the word vorpal
coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky: "the vorpal blade went snicker-snack."
December 1, 2007
toonacious_d commented on the word vorpal
Twas brilling...
December 1, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word vorpal
ooh, I think you might mean "brillig."
So glad to see there are many other fans of "Jabberwocky"!
December 1, 2007
asativum commented on the word vorpal
I just think it's alsome that the right Rev. Louis Dodgson wasn't afraid to admit he was a Dungeons & Dragons fan and use a reference to a vorpal blade.
October 8, 2008
plethora commented on the word vorpal
Charles Dodgson :)
October 8, 2008
asativum commented on the word vorpal
Sure. Next you'll be telling me that he died before D&D was invented.
October 9, 2008
plethora commented on the word vorpal
No way. He totally invented D&D.
October 9, 2008