BS: new Dr. Seuss Story

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: Bernard
Date: 05 Oct 01 - 03:53 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: GUEST,=)
Date: 05 Oct 01 - 06:03 AM

I like it.

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: twister
Date: 05 Oct 01 - 02:08 AM

Amusing. Someone once told me that he really didn't like kids, who all his books are aimed at. My favorite ones would have to be The Lorax and the 500 Hats of Bartholamew Cubbins.

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: Bernard
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 04:53 PM

Well, well, well...

It would seem that the widely beloved children's book author needed a quick name change because of some illicit booze he was caught with during Prohibition!

He was at Dartmouth and editor of the school's humour magazine when a room check turned up a bottle of gin in his quarters. The Grinch in charge of the place decreed that he should be booted from the magazine as punishment for imbibing.

Outwitting the authorities, the young man took his middle name, Seuss, as his last name and stayed on the publication.

In later life he promoted himself to 'Dr.', a title that Dartmouth subsequently conferred upon him officially with an honorary doctorate in 1957. Wonder if they returned his gin?!

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: twister
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 01:23 AM

Dr. Seuss (real name Theodore Giessel) died a couple of years ago. MY uncle sent the Binch to me and it said that Sawdawg wrote it. Whoever that might be. I loved it though!!

-Twist

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: GUEST,53/g at work
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 09:52 AM

Thanks for the info Louie Roy. I don't get to read in the 'Cat every day, tho' lately I am trying. I had missed your entry. It is a good writing. I also think it is a "remake" of the Grinch that Stole Christmas" story. But I like reading Dr. Seuss' style so.....

Glenda

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From:
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 11:55 PM

Didn't Dr. Seuss die a few years ago?

mg

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: Louie Roy
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 10:40 PM

Guest 53 I posted that same item on mudcat on September 21 at 618 PM.At the time of the posting I didn't know who wrote it ,but I found out later it was by DR Suess Ilisted it as U.S.Of A. and Binch Louie Roy

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: 53
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 06:31 PM

Merci!

G

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 06:01 PM

I did see that-- sure hope it comes to light.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: 53
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 05:57 PM

Thanks Susan. If you haven't looked - check out our plea for help in the "another stolen guitar" thread. Maybe if we all keep sharing the word with those we know, something will turn up.

Glenda

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 04:27 PM

Hi Bob and Glenda!

(Bob and Glenda, in case you have not *met* them, are a pair who share a membership as "53." It works for them, and it seems to have worked for everyone else too.)

Good to see youse around these parts again!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: 53
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 04:22 PM

very good 53 very good. bob

Subject: new Dr. Seuss Story
From: GUEST,53/Glenda at work
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 04:02 PM

To my Friends at Mudcat, and all pro-America folks:

I don't know who to credit. This was received by a coworker. I cleaned up the typing/spacing to share...

Dr. Seuss and the Binch

Every U down in Uville liked U.S. a lot, But the Binch, who lived Far East of Uville, did not.

The Binch hated U.S! The whole U.S. way! Now don't ask me why, for nobody can say.

It could be his turban was screwed on too tight. Or the sun from the desert had beaten too bright.

But I think that the most likely reason of all may have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

But, Whatever the reason, his heart or his turban, He stood facing Uville, the part that was urban.

"They're doing their business,he snarled from his perch. "They're raising their families! They're going to church!

They're leading the world, and their empire is thriving, I MUST keep the S's and U's from surviving!"

Tomorrow, he knew, all the U's and the S's, Would put on their pants and their shirts & their dresses.

They'd go to their offices, playgrounds and schools, And abide by their U and S values and rules,

And then they'd do something he liked least of all, Every U down in U-ville, the tall and the small.

Would stand all united, each U and each S, & they'd sing Uville's anthem,God bless us! God bless!

All around their Twin Towers of Uville, they'd stand, And their voices would drown every sound in the land.

"I must stop that singing," Binch said with a smirk, And he had an idea-an idea that might work!

The Binch stole some U airplanes in U morning hours, And crashed them right into the Uville Twin Towers.

"They'll wake to disaster!" he snickered, so sour, "And how can they sing when they can't find a tower?"

The Binch cocked his ear as they woke from their sleeping, All set to enjoy their U-wailing and weeping.

Instead he heard something that started quite low, And it built up quite slow, but it started to grow-

And the Binch heard the most unpredictable thing... And he couldn't believe it-they started to sing!

He stared down at U-ville, not trusting his eyes, What he saw was a shocking, disgusting surprise!

Every U down in U-ville, the tall and the small, Was singing! Without any towers at all!

He HADN'T stopped U-Ville from singing! It sung! For down deep in the hearts of the old and the young,

Those Twin Towers were standing, called Hope and called Pride, And you can't smash the towers we hold deep inside.

So we circle the sites where our heroes did fall, With a hand in each hand of the tall and the small,

And we mourn for our losses while knowing we'll cope, For we still have inside that U-Pride and U-Hope.

For America means a bit more than tall towers, It means more than wealth or political powers,

It's more than our enemies ever could guess, So may God bless America! Bless us! God bless!