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Post number 15182

Brilliantcrank — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:22:25 -0800

Tomorrow, March 2, is the 98th birthday of Dr. Suess, and Kristian (the author of the link) suggested to me that we through him a party on the web. If you have a website or blog please dedicate your posts today or tomorrow to honor this most remarkable man, his legacy of stories and what impact they have had on your life. Happy Birthday Dr. Suess!

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:38:18 -0800

Would you, could you, do you think Could you find a better link ? One not from the corporate man One that's from a silly fan? You could search here or there The Doctor is found everywhere!

By: Brilliantcrank

Brilliantcrank — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:45:58 -0800

I would, I could, link I think Seem they are everywhere, a kitchen sink.

Give credit where credit due Not fill a post with six links or two.

By: bob bisquick

bob bisquick — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:58:35 -0800

Best Suess Link Ever!

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:01:40 -0800

'Throw' not 'through', To me it looks, Like our friend Akula Did not read his books.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:04:48 -0800

There's more to Seuss than Cats Hats Green Eggs and Ham.

By: rschram

rschram — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:05:57 -0800

March, month of finals and large hats outside the Geisel Library.

By: liam

liam — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:12:13 -0800

When using Bisquick's wedding vows First check the history of wheres and hows.

By: Brilliantcrank

Brilliantcrank — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:16:54 -0800

Doh! you're right, I, AkulaIX, cannot write. I always hated tests of vocabulary They always bursted many a capillary. But do not excuse this birthday bash Or Hulk I will bring to go smash.

By: bingo

bingo — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:21:03 -0800

Could you, would you, with a goat?

By: Brilliantcrank

Brilliantcrank — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:21:38 -0800

Not with a goat, but on a boat.

By: rschram

rschram — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:28:01 -0800

I happen to go to UCSD. There's an excellent collection of the original sketches stored at Geisel Library (named after Dr. Seuss.) Pretty neat stuff.

By: aznblader

aznblader — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:28:40 -0800

Whoa... that was SO trippy. I just logged in with my own user name... and I posted as rschram??? wtf...

By: TiggleTaggleTiger

TiggleTaggleTiger — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:34:29 -0800

Dr Seuss is dead, his corpse now paste a birthday party seems a waste.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:47:39 -0800

Apart from him, only Benjamin Spock equally deserved the Doctor title. the Star Trek authors who make one have to add "Benjamin" to the guy who's responsible for so many happy childhoods have a lot to answer for. Thanks, Akula IX. P.S. I bet no one has a pristine copy of a Dr Seuss book in his home. Biggest sign of appreciation ever.

By: macadamiaranch

macadamiaranch — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:48:01 -0800

aznblader i think you will see that you and rschram are close in IP but if that's not the case, then I suggest MeTa bugs and to akula for the seuss tip, i send you hugs!

By: wfrgms

wfrgms — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:19:58 -0800

Incidentally tomorrow is also the 20th anniversary of the death of Phillip K. Dick. Not that this has anything to do with anything else in this thread... sorry... I'll go now.

By: Faze

Faze — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:34:24 -0800

I never understood Dr. Seuss. A dreary, second-rate cartoonist and not particularly inspired rhymester. To whom would I unfavorably compare him? Edward Lear, for one. George Herriman, for another. On the other hand, as one can see from the postings here, he is beloved by many, and contributed to the happiness of their childhoods. Who can argue with that?

By: Brilliantcrank

Brilliantcrank — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:35:10 -0800

Tiggle Taggle Tiger you sound so bitter Could it be you had to watch Glitter?

By: prolific

prolific — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:35:29 -0800

"Then something goes CRASH!!! We yell, "What was that?" We look and we see him, The Edge-in-a-Hat!"

By: nwduffer

nwduffer — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:39:31 -0800

I hesitate to ask, but..... I overhead (yes, trouble is just around the corner from 'overheard') someone talking about Suess having problems with drugs at some point during his life. I did an intensive search last night but couldn't find ANY such info on the web, and am now wondering if it wasn't just the words of a confused parent. (It was Dr. Suess night at the kids' school.) Anyway, if anyone actually knows anything about this, a link is appreciated.

By: mariko

mariko — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:41:29 -0800

Has anyone ever seen some of Giesel's political cartoons from WWII? Some of them are quite fierce in their attacks on the Germans and Japanese... on a completely different note, I love the book, "The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss." It's mostly paintings--some are scary, some are erotic, but all are beautiful. Definitely not aimed at kids.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:13:26 -0800

I *heart* Prolific. That poem will make me smile through the weekend.

By: bingo

bingo — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:20:56 -0800

Miguel: P.S. I bet no one has a pristine copy of a Dr Seuss book in his home. Biggest sign of appreciation ever. "Six By Seuss." I can see it from here. And about Spock and Star Trek. You don't have to add "Benjamin" to the doctor's name, just add "Dr." The guy on Star Trek is MISTER Spock.

By: prolific

prolific — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:33:01 -0800

ColdChef: I saw a fully illustrated version of that, yonks ago on Compuserve. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it again.

By: mzanatta

mzanatta — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:15:11 -0800

By the way, what exactly is the connection between UCSD and Dr. Seuss? Did he donate a bunch of money for the library or something? And yet Dartmouth has no public building named for him. I think we're going to have to work on that.

By: tankboy

tankboy — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:32:14 -0800

You can't trust guys named Kristian.

By: rschram

rschram — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:34:23 -0800

By the way, what exactly is the connection between UCSD and Dr. Seuss? He donated both money and sketches. Seuss money allows us to get stuff held here, as well as show off the war cartoons. Reason #78 for me not to login to public computers on campus. metafilter.com http requests must get cached in some central Net connection. Often rschram's cookies travel inexplicably between computers and labs. The server is, I think, named Horton.

By: anapestic

anapestic — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:43:29 -0800

I have long argued that Dr. Suess is the only author in the English language with a legitimate claim to superiority over Shakespeare. While Shakespeare was undeniably brilliant, his writing is limited to a single meter, iambic pentameter. Dr. Suess, by contrast, writes equally brilliantly in two meters. Consider his two seminal works. Green Eggs and Ham is written in iambic tetrameter: I will not eat green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I Am! By contrast, The Cat in the Hat is written in anapestic (hurrah!) tetrameter: But our fish said, no! no! Make that cat go away Tell that cat in the hat you do not wish to play. (Also, there are no crackpots running around claiming that Ted Geisel wasn't really Dr. Suess, the way there are with those Devere idiots.)

By: mdn

mdn — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 13:01:04 -0800

Those "political cartoons" seem to be simply ads for buying US savings bonds. The depiction of japan is a little unsettling, but then the "chinese" neighbor in Breakfast at Tiffany's wasn't considered racist in the early '60's, so I guess it's just a social era thing.