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ELEMENTS

What are the "elements" that go together to make up a spreadsheet (word processor, presentation manager, desktop manager, database manager, or operating system)?

Think of the old, paper accounting worksheets - rows of 3-, 5-, 7-, 11-, 13-, etc., columns for making financial entries.

Yes, take a little time to actually go ahead and make a list of as many "elements" of a "spreadsheet" as you can think of (or visualize)!

OK, time for a break! Let's read "The Jabberwocky"

JABBERWOCKY

Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There , 1872)

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

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.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Now, you're asking "What has this poem got to do with an accounting worksheet?"

Well, your "homework" assignment for the next workshop is to take the "nonsense" words - nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs - of Lewis Carroll's "The Jabberwocky" and use them to name the "elements" from the compilation of spreadsheet elements that you listed above.

That's it!

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