Which board avatars do you like?

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@mordecaiB

@Slithy_Tove would have scored higher but, if I remember correctly, toves are white and have horns, so I suspect that is not a real tove depicted in the avatar.

Lewis Carroll himself gave conflicting descriptions of toves, raths, and perhaps other critters. Before writing Looking Glass, he wrote a periodical called Mischmasch, in which he may have given the description you mention. But in Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty gives some different descriptions. Slithy_Tove’s avatar follows Humpty Dumpty’s definition and agrees with Tenniel’s illustration:

To be sure, the Wikipedia page for Jabberwocky seems garbled: At one point, it says:

For example, following the poem, a “rath” is described by Humpty as “a sort of green pig”.[18] Carroll’s notes for the original in Mischmasch suggest a “rath” is “a species of Badger” that “lived chiefly on cheese” and had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag.[19]

Later, the same page says:

Tove: Humpty Dumpty says “‘Toves’ are something like badgers, they’re something like lizards, and they’re something like corkscrews. … Also they make their nests under sun-dials, also they live on cheese.”[18] Pronounced so as to rhyme with groves .[21] They “gyre and gimble”, i.e., rotate and bore. Toves are described slightly differently in Mischmasch : “a species of Badger [which] had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag [and] lived chiefly on cheese”.[19]

(ETA: Emphasis added by me.)