Comments on: Seussian politics

Seussian politics

Perigee — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:03:08 -0800

Bush and Chirac debate Iraq
"I will bomb him in his car; I will bomb him from afar.
I will bomb him in his house; I do not like him, he's a louse.
I'm going to bomb him here and there.
I'm going to bomb him everywhere."

By: greengrl

greengrl — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:13:38 -0800

Thank you, I needed that.

By: starvingartist

starvingartist — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:16:45 -0800

Cute idea. However, the scansion is really off in some places. I don't think the author spent much time working on it.

By: gsalad

gsalad — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:27:04 -0800

...freedom fries slathered in Idiot Cheese (N E body see SNL?)....mmmmmmm, politilicalicious.......

By: picopebbles

picopebbles — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:31:31 -0800

Exactly what I thought, starvingartist. Sort of cute idea, really weak execution. Seuss did think (and write, and draw) about war (see Dr. Seuss Goes To War, a great big book of cartoons about WWII), but I doubt he would be too impressed with this effort.

By: byort

byort — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:31:23 -0800

What an original idea .

By: quirked

quirked — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:43:53 -0800

Tough crowd. It's just my weekly column and a light diversion. Some people even find it mildly amusing.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:55:15 -0800

Hey Mr. quirked - Congrats on getting a column and all. Your fine sense of humor shines through as usual. However, there are far too many people (and you, sadly, seem to be one of them) who think of poetry parodies only in terms of rhyme, and not meter. With Dr. Seuss especially, the scrupulous scansion of his rhymes was one of the key things that made them dance off the page and stick in our heads. It's especially unfortunate here, where I mentally "corrected" lines while reading to make them scan without altering the point. I think a couple more drafts could have made this really good. Still, a worthy effort. Keep up the good work! Only make it better.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:00:44 -0800

... and byort, come on. You don't even link to another Green Eggs and Ham parody. It's supposed to be news that other people have done Seuss parodies? This is a little like looking at a painting and saying, "Wow, applying paint to canvas, how innovative."

By: byort

byort — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:24:19 -0800

My apologies , soyjoy .

By: i_cola

i_cola — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:12:12 -0800

I can't wait for someone to do the ultimate warblog/The Song of Hiawatha parody...

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:15:18 -0800

My apologies, soyjoy. All righty then. That's more like it.

By: timyang

timyang — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 01:32:17 -0800

Like quirked said, tough crowd. I for one did find it amusing.