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Pretty sure its boing-boing-boing-ing.

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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.

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The second coming of u/poem_for_your_sprog?

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Alas, not original like Sprog, just an individual with quite refined tastes quoting from the excellent classic poem by Lewis Carroll https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky

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Lol, “One, two! One, two!” at the beginning had me thinking it’s Danny Brown or Quasimoto or something.

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Well if the physicists can steal “quark” from James Joyce, the sealologists can steal “galumph” from Lewis Carroll.

(“Quark” rhymes with “Mark” in the original, though; not with “dork”.)

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Do people actually pronounce it qork?

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Murray Gell-Mann did (the guy who named them for anyone unaware). The general opinion seems to have been similar to that of the guy who invented the gif however: just because he named it doesn’t mean he wasn’t wrong about how it is pronounced.

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Wellllll … I’ve never personally tried it myself (=P) but AFAIK it should not hurt. Seals have a very thick layer of fat under their skin (blubber) so it probably feels like bouncing on a gym mattress at worst. Plus, their natural habitat is full of uncomfortable looking rocks anyway (example) and it would be an evolutionary disadvantage if they were in pain all the time from just moving around. Flat pavement without sharp edges probably feels less uncomfortable than those rocks.

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The one bucking the curve riding side saddle is way ahead of the game.

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It looks like he’s missing a flipper. I bet that really wreaks havoc on his balance / equilibrium.

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