Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss

[filkertom]

On this date in 1904.

Just start quoting. You know you want to.

Comments

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

I do not like green eggs and ham
I do not like them sam I am

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Completely at random -- it happens that I went to a new (to me) restaurant yesterday (The Friendly Toast), and they had Green Eggs And Ham. I had, of course, to order it.

(It was sort of eggs benny with herb sauce, and it was actually quite tasty. I do like green eggs and ham!)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

My daughter sang "500 Hats" in class today while wearing a "Cat in the Hat" hat and a home-made "Cat in the Hat" shirt.

I do not like green eggs and ham,
They are not kosher, Sam I am.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

They are not kosher, Sam I am.

LOL

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

The way I would have loved to hear that line delivered is:

I do not like green eggs and ham,
Because I'm Jewish, Sam I am!

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

"I am the Lorax
"I speak for the trees."

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

Oh the places you'll go! :-)

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I still remember you singing your Seuss song for me and my Dino when he was a wee lad still being dragged to conventions. It was very happy-making.

I sang "I DO. NOT. LIKE. GREEN EGGS and HAM, I DO. NOT. LIKE. THEM, SAM-I-AM, I WILL. NOT. EAT. THEM. HERE OR THERE, I WILL. NOT. EAT. THEM. ANYWHERE..." from that song quite a bit at work today, as well as randomly yelling "YERTLE TURTLE!" at folks to wake them up.

The youth leaders came into my room five times this afternoon, just to check on me and my boisterousness.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Except that what I want to quote isn't Dr. Seuss.

[jenrose]

Look what we found, in the park, in the dark! We will take him home, we will call him Clark.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Yay, you picked the same one I did!

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Look what we found in the park in the dark!
We will take it home. We will call it Clark.
It will live in our house. It will grow and grow!
Will our mother like this? We don't know.

My daughter's school had a Dr. Seuss read-a-thon for most of the school day today. :)

[elektra-h.livejournal.com]

So on and beyond Z, it’s high time you were shown
That you really don’t know all there is to be known

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

My favorite from when my kid was young, bouncy, and decidedly shorter than me (he's taller than me now):

STOP

You must not hop on Pop.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Will you eat them in a box?
Will you eat them with a fox?
Will you eat them in a house?
Will you eat them with a mouse?


I ADORE Green Eggs And Ham. It was probably my second-favorite book in first grade (after Where The Wild Things Are).

Did you know

[capplor.livejournal.com]

that "The Cat in the Hat" scans to "She moves through the fair"?

I started noticing at the line, "Your mother will not mind at all if I do"

Re: Did you know

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

oh, nooooo... I knew CitH was looooooong (long cat is loooooooooooooong) but I did not know it was Ose. Now it all makes sense.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Dress me, dress me, dress me in my Peek-a-Boo blouse!

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

Okay, combining that quote with that icon made my head hurt.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

"UNLESS"

So much meaning packed into that one word.

That, and the NOISE, NOISE, NOISE, NOISE!, and they'll SING, SING, SING, SING!

Thurl Ravenscroft. Because poor Boris couldn't sing a note.

"I wouldn't touch you with a.... thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole!!!!"

[allisona.livejournal.com]

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish!

[capt-video.livejournal.com]

"I meant what I said and I said what I meant, an elephant's faithful one hundred percent."

My Mom quoted this to us children when we were growing up... one of the most important lessons she ever taught me.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

From there to here,
From here to there,
Funny things
Are everywhere.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

And to think that we found him on Mulberry Street.

[joshbrown.livejournal.com]

Marvin K. Mooney, will you please leave now!

[ladymer.livejournal.com]

'Cause you never can tell
what goes on down below!

This pool might be bigger
Than you or I know!

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

One of my friends' Facebook status had been turned into a Seuss-like place last night, so I linked her to "500 Hats." :)

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Moxy Fruvous take on Green Eggs and Ham (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJG_ynKMOD4) via an amateur video.

In college, miriyami, batyatoon and I used to have speed reading contests with Fox in Socks. Out of this evolved the very menacing Fox, who would say thing like "Let's a have a little talk about .. *sound of ammunition slotting into large caliber chamber* tweetle beetles."

Yay- Seuss day

[figmentatious.livejournal.com]

I can't blab such blibber blubber.
My tongue isn't made of rubber
===

That line makes me smile every time I read it.

[tcgtrf.livejournal.com]

Is Moxy still together? They used to come through town at least once a year, but I haven't heard anything from them lately.....

Tom Trumpinski

[tcgtrf.livejournal.com]

Nope, they're gone, per Wikipedia.

If y'all have never heard them, you *seriously* need to get to youtube and listen.

Tom T.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

They pretty much broke up in 2000. Jian wanted a solo career. Later, Murray joined Great Big Sea when Darrell left.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Your soul is an appalling dumpheap, overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable, mangled up -- IN TANGLED UP KNOTS!

You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich -- with arsenic sauce!

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

<naughty-voice>Would you, could you...on a boat?
Would you, could you...with a goat?</naughty-voice>

[tandw.livejournal.com]

I would not, could not with a goat!

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Would you, could you, in Japan? With Godzilla, and Rodan?

... No, sorry, that's Animaniacs...

[fmh.livejournal.com]

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing's going to get better. It's not.

[thealien.livejournal.com]

They only could say it just “happened to happen”
and was not very likely to happen again.

[debber5.livejournal.com]

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I am.

(But Dr. Seuss is a different matter altogether.)