In various Sci Fi works* by Larry Niven, a "frumious
bandersnatch" is an enormous, genetically engineered, highly
intelligent, psychic** food animal (with no useful limbs)
that's virtually immune to radiation-induced mutation due to
it's chromosomes being "the size of your finger". There's
more, but I'd be digressing :-)
I wish I could remember useful stuff.
* the ones featuring humans, Kzinti, puppeteers, etc.
** incidental JLF bait. Does he read tripe like this?
<homer> Mmmm, chocolate kibo. </homer>
William Lindley wrote:
>
> > what's a bandersnatch then?
>
> The monster in Lewis Carroll's poem, "Jabberwocky," which Alice sees in
> mirrored type in Chapter One of "Through the Looking-Glass (and What Alice
> Found There)."
>
> See also http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/
>
> \\/
> http://www.wlindley.com
>
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