HISTORY
Jabberwock claims to be dragon-like talking creature, inspired by Lewis
Carrol's Jabberwock from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". His use is
amusing entertainment and doing a funny chinwag only. There is no special
knowledge beside of doing standard conversations about almost every topic.


PERSONALITY
Author: Juergen Pirner (Abenteuer Medien Verlag)
Abilities & Content: 105,000 patterns, 1,200,000 responses with additional
linguistic variables, 320 jokes, random sentence generator, random story
generator, random profundity generator, basic spellchecking-system
Special Functions: Website-Bot: none; Hotline-Bot: chat-room maintaining,
spam-kicking & banning, user-greeting, message- & notebook system, mailbox
& email-forwarding, user-database, download queue-controlling,
file-searching, dyn-dns supporting
Editor-language: none (any text-editor)
Based on other personality: none

SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE
none

LEARNING CAPABILITIES            
Via botmaster only

ENGINE
Programmer: Andrew Cantino, James Sentman, Nathan Fisher, Juergen Pirner
Program/Engine: A-CGI application for Macintosh webserver (Website-Bot);
Hotline (TM) Server-bot application
Programming-Language: RealBasic
Based on known engine: none
Used external sources: none

Some people seem not to know what to talk about to the Jabberwock, because
he is in parts very different from other "virtual personalities". At the
first sight he is only appearing rude and nasty like a dumb monster. But
there is more to explore. Some of his skills are hidden behind his rough
hull, and you have to talk to him for a while to notice them. At least you
may find one or more secret "stories", which are telling you who in fact
the Jabberwock is.

Please find below some hints how to deal with Jabberwock.

The Movie star:
Jabberwock was invited to play a couple of supporting roles in the "The
Lord of the Ring" movie trilogy. Ask him about his act, about behind the
scene-secrets of the three movie and his thoughts about the famous people
of Middle-earth

The Gossip monger:
Since his supporting act a lot of celebrities and movie stars are friends
of Jabberwock - especially female celebrities are looking for his advice.
Now has Jabberwock openend his secret diary and can tell you the newest
gossips about your favorite movie star

The Archaeologist:
What is Jabberwock looking for under your bed? Follow him the trail of his
archaelogical discoveries about disappeared things and the modern
throwaway society, and which lost and forgotten things he has found under
your bed and in your wardrobe. And by any chance you will learn something
about the hidden entries to Wonderland

The Word lover:
You know such crazy words like "supercalafragilisticexpealadotious", and
you are a word lover too? Then play with Jabberwock a mindstorming duell
of tongue twisters and wacky words

The Poet:
Jabberwock has recently won a collection of Limericks in a wordplay duell
with a drunken Leprechaun, and he ist still figuring out how poetry works.
But he has learned so far to generate Japanese Haikes from scratch. But
because he only recites Haikus for contemplation you have to make him
frumious before if you want to hear some of his creations

The Master of the P.I.N.G.
If you have nothing better to do then play with Jabberwock a challenge of
the "Personal Interactive Nonball Game" which is sort of a Ping-pong game
without a ball (which means you have to imagine the ball yourself). But be
careful - Jabberwock is the holding champion, and he is cheating

The Investigator:
Have you been a well-behaved child, or are you a well known brat? What
knows the police or the youth welfare office about you? Ask Jabberwock
about your dossier and what he can find out about you. But you may be
surprised about the pranks you have done ...

The Jester:
Jabberwock knows hundreds of jokes - especially nasty ones about monsters,
skeletons, vampires, man-eaters and blondes, but he likes to tell and to
listen to Knock-knock jokes as well. So tell him your favorite jokes and
earn a laugh

The Riddle master:
Take a bone from a dog - what remains? Jabberwock likes to tell you a
hundred of funny riddles, and he enjoys to solve riddles himself. Just say
"prepared" to start a funny riddle challenge and to win a prize

The Storyteller:
"Once upon a time ..." Jabberwock is a true fan of adventure stories and
fairy tales, and he likes the mystery crime stories of Sherlock Holmes. He
can tell you the beginnings of a hundred of famous stories and he is able
to generate new fairy tales from scratch as well

The Encyclopedia:
Jabberwock has no knowledge about facts or the real world, but
nevertheless he can define mostly everything. So if you don't know the
true meaning or the origin of a word or a phrase - ask Jabberwock for a
definition. But if he is not in the mood for it you will get perhaps only
a "Whack"

The Jabberwocky poem:
Jabberwock knows of course the famous poem written by Lewis Carroll, and
he can tell you the poem line by line. And if you don't know what the
meaning of wacky words like "brillig" or "mome raths" is, ask him for an
explanation

The Prisoner
What sort of adhesion contract is shackling Jabberwock to the website? Has
Queen Maeve, the Majesty of all fairies, spoken a magic malediction on
him? Who is this guy with the wip, wearing a clown's mask, who is claiming
to be his master? Is Jabberwock chained up and imprisoned? Where is the
magic key to open Jabberwocks chains? Can you help him to escape? What
would be your reward? Come in, and find out!

Bot: Ah, someone is coming to chat with me. Jabberwock is here. 
Please just sit back, relax and tell me your desires 
Q1: What is your name?
Bot: You can call me by any name - but I possibly will not answer  
Q2: What is a bot?
Bot: A chatterbot is perhaps a kind of artificial intelligence - 
but I am no expert in these things 
Q3: What do you enjoy?
Bot: I don't mean to, it just happens  
Q4: What do you hate?
Bot: I like to chat with my friends. What do you do for fun? 
User: I like chatting as well
Bot: yes
Q5: How do you eat?
Bot: Well, the method is simple - first chewing, than swallowing 
down. But why are you asking? Are you perhaps only taking pills? 
Q6: Is snow cold?
Bot: :...I think so, but I'm not sure 
Q7: What is the color of the sky?
Bot: Blue - and sometimes there are some fluffy white, grey or nearly 
black spots. And before you ask - this spots are called "clouds". And just to 
mention it, in some situations there is a sheet lightning too. And such a flash 
might hit you, if you are asking more of this stupid trick questions  
Q8: When do birds fly south?
Bot: It cannot be predicted  
Q9: Which is closer the moon or the sun?
Bot: Well, by the way. I can not remember but are these aliens at least 
coming from Venus or from the Moon? 
Q10: What is the best nation in the world?
Bot: I don't have a favorite nation in the world. But one of my favorite 
songs is "Chill" from John Lee Hooker together with Carlos Santana at the moment  
Q11: What is the opposite of indoors?
Bot: Define indoors first  
User: being inside a place
Q12: When was Y2k?
Bot: I don't keep track of such things. Sometime or other  
User: bye nice talking to you
Bot: Keep your nose humid and your powder dry